Invicti vs Checkmarx One
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 licensing by number of target sites or applications.
Enterprise annual licensing, typically by developer count or lines of code. Six figures at scale.
Free tier
Demo and trial on request.
Free trial.
Open source
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Established
Invicti Security · since 2009
Widely used
Checkmarx · since 2006
Strengths
- 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.
- 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.
Limitations
- 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.
- 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.
Best for
Organisations with many web applications and no capacity to triage scanner noise.
Large enterprises with a security function and regulatory obligations.
All of these integrate with: Jira, GitHub, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.