Checkmarx One vs GitGuardian
Feature checklists rarely decide anything. What decides it is the pricing metric, who has to write the tests, and which limitation you can live with.
Entry price
Quote on request
Quote onlyFree tier available
Free tierWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
Enterprise annual licensing, typically by developer count or lines of code. Six figures at scale.
Free tier covers small teams entirely; business pricing is quote-based per developer.
Free tier
Free trial.
Free for individuals and teams up to 25 developers.
Open source
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Widely used
Checkmarx · since 2006
Widely used
GitGuardian · since 2017
Strengths
- Very deep SAST analysis with wide language coverage including legacy enterprise languages.
- One platform and one risk view across every scan type.
- Strong compliance and audit reporting.
- Validity checking distinguishes a live credential from a revoked one, which transforms triage priority.
- Scans full commit history, where most leaked secrets actually live.
- Free for teams up to 25 developers.
Limitations
- Expensive, with a long procurement and deployment cycle.
- High false-positive volume typical of deep SAST; tuning is a project.
- Scans are slow relative to developer-first tools.
- Secrets scanning only — not a general security platform.
- Historical scans on old repositories produce a large initial backlog.
- Requires repository access, which needs a security review of its own.
Best for
Large enterprises with a security function and regulatory obligations.
Any organisation with more than a handful of repositories and no secrets scanning today.
All of these integrate with: GitHub, GitLab, Jira.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.