Checkmarx One vs Invicti
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.
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The metric that actually scales your invoice.
Enterprise annual licensing, typically by developer count or lines of code. Six figures at scale.
Enterprise licensing by number of target sites or applications.
Free tier
Free trial.
Demo and trial on request.
Open source
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Widely used
Checkmarx · since 2006
Established
Invicti Security · since 2009
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.
- Proof-based scanning eliminates most false-positive triage, which is the main cost of DAST.
- Handles authenticated scanning of modern JavaScript applications well.
- Good asset discovery for organisations that do not know all their own sites.
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.
- Expensive relative to free DAST alternatives.
- Scans take time and are not suited to per-commit feedback.
- Dynamic testing alone cannot find everything a code review would.
Best for
Large enterprises with a security function and regulatory obligations.
Organisations with many web applications and no capacity to triage scanner noise.
All of these integrate with: GitHub, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Jira, ServiceNow.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.