Checkmarx One vs Veracode
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
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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 annual subscriptions priced by application count and scan types.
Free tier
Free trial.
No free tier.
Open source
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Widely used
Checkmarx · since 2006
Widely used
Veracode · since 2006
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.
- Binary scanning works on third-party and supplier software where source is unavailable.
- Policy engine and attestation reports satisfy regulated procurement directly.
- Managed service model suits organisations without a security engineering team.
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.
- Slow feedback compared with developer-first tools — poor fit for per-commit scanning.
- Expensive per application.
- Developer experience lags Snyk and Semgrep considerably.
Best for
Large enterprises with a security function and regulatory obligations.
Regulated enterprises needing formal security attestation, including for supplier software.
All of these integrate with: GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Jira, ServiceNow.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.