Apiiro vs Contrast Security Assess comparison

Apiiro and Contrast Security are both solutions in the Static Application Security Testing (SAST) category. Apiiro is ranked #20 with an average rating of 8.0, while Contrast Security is ranked #27 with an average rating of 8.0. Apiiro holds a 0.8% mindshare in SAST, compared to Contrast Security’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Apiiro users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Contrast Security users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 8, 2024

Contrast Security Assess and Apiiro are key players in the IT security domain. Contrast Security Assess is often favored for its pricing and customer service, while Apiiro stands out for its advanced features.

Features: Contrast Security Assess is known for its seamless integration capabilities, precise detection accuracy, and granular security assessment tools. Apiiro offers comprehensive risk management features, exceptional visibility across the software development lifecycle, and actionable insights that provide a competitive advantage.

Room for Improvement: Contrast Security Assess could benefit from enhanced reporting functionalities, more frequent updates, and improvements in its user interface. Apiiro is often critiqued for its complexity, steep learning curve, and need for simplification of its user interface to ease navigation.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Contrast Security Assess provides a straightforward deployment process paired with responsive customer support, facilitating an easier setup. Apiiro's deployment is more complex, often requiring additional resources, but its customer service offers valuable guidance to help manage these challenges over time.

Pricing and ROI: Contrast Security Assess comes with competitive pricing, and users report excellent ROI due to its cost efficiency and effectiveness. Apiiro, with higher upfront costs, provides extensive features that justify the expenditure, resulting in significant ROI in the long term given its focus on innovation and comprehensive security improvements.

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Categories and Ranking

Apiiro

Ranking in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

20th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Software Composition Analysis (SCA) (10th), API Security (12th), Software Supply Chain Security (8th), Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (13th), Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) (6th)

Contrast Security Assess

Ranking in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

27th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Security Tools (26th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Static Application Security Testing (SAST) category, the mindshare of Apiiro is 0.8%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Contrast Security Assess is 0.6%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Apiiro	0.8%
Contrast Security Assess	0.6%
Other	98.6%

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

Featured Reviews

Kunal M

Capability Center Leader, ETRM Platforms at Shell

Comprehensive risk analysis helps identify key performance trends but report access needs improvement

My first feedback for Apiiro is that it is very slow, extremely slow. The moment I select from the entire list of repositories in my vertical, which is almost more than 400 repositories, it takes a lot of time for me to load the report. Sometimes it fails. I do not have Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). It's only given to the application security team, and Apiiro as a vendor does not have the rollback access control enabled for the clients, so that would have given me access to the reports tab, which would have made my life easier. Currently, I have to go to the risks tab to pull out all this information. I started exploring dashboards with Copilot. I need to reach out to the Apiiro teams to see if I can get an access token so that I can pull out a Power BI dashboard. I think Apiiro definitely has its own capabilities, but if there are access tokens that teams can use to build a custom dashboard, that would be great. This might already exist, but that is something which will ease the vulnerability management day-to-day activities.

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ToddMcAlister

Lead Application and Data Security Engineer at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees

It has an excellent API interface to pull APIs.

Assess has brought our development time down because it helps create code the first time. Instead of going through the Jenkins process to build an application, they can see right off the bat that if there are errors in the code and fix them before it even goes to build.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Apiiro's secrets detection feature has saved us several times, which we appreciate greatly."

"The workflow automation is likely the best aspect of the solution."

"No other tool does the runtime scanning like Contrast does. Other static analysis tools do static scanning, but Contrast is runtime analysis, when the routes are exercised. That's when the scan happens. This is a tool that has a very unique capability compared to other tools. That's what I like most about Contrast, that it's runtime."

"This has changed the way that developers are looking at usage of third-party libraries, upfront. It's changing our model of development and our culture of development to ensure that there is more thought being put into the usage of third-party libraries."

"The solution is very accurate in identifying vulnerabilities. In cases where we are performing application assessment using Contrast Assess, and also using legacy application security testing tools, Contrast successfully identifies the same vulnerabilities that the other tools have identified but it also identifies significantly more. In addition, it has visibility into application components that other testing methodologies are unaware of."

"In our most critical applications, we have a deep dive in the code evaluation, which was something we usually did with periodic vulnerability assessments, code reviews, etc. Now, we have real time access to it. It's something that has greatly enhanced our code's quality. We have actually embedded a KPI in regards to the improvement of our code shell. For example, Contrast provides a baseline where libraries and the usability of the code are evaluated, and they produce a score. We always aim to improve that score. On a quarterly basis, we have added this to our KPIs."

"By far, the thing that was able to provide value was the immediate response while testing ahead of release, in real-time."

"I am impressed with the product's identification of alerts and vulnerabilities."

"It is a stable solution...Contrast Security Assess is one of the first players in this market, so they have experience and customers, especially abroad. Overall, it's a good product."

"The most valuable feature is the continuous monitoring aspect: the fact that we don't have to wait for scans to complete for the tool to identify vulnerabilities. They're automatically identified through developers' business-as-usual processes."

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Cons

"User management is a little bit clunky."

"I would like support for our self-hosted Git server, other than GitHub, just regular Git."

"To instrument an agent, it has to be running on a type of application technology that the agent recognizes and understands. It's excellent when it works. If we're using an application that is using an unsupported technology, then we can't instrument it at all. We do use PHP and Contrast presently doesn't support that, although it's on their roadmap. My primary hurdle is that it doesn't support all of the technologies that we use."

"Contrast's ability to support upgrades on the actual agents that get deployed is limited. Our environment is pretty much entirely Java. There are no updates associated with that. You have to actually download a new version of the .jar file and push that out to your servers where your app is hosted. That can be quite cumbersome from a change-management perspective."

"The solution should provide more details in the section where it shows that third-party libraries have CVEs or some vulnerabilities."

"The product's retesting part needs improvement. The tool also needs improvement in the suggestions provided for fixing vulnerabilities. It relies more on documentation rather than on quick fixes."

"Personalization of the board and how to make it appealing to an organization is something that could be done on their end. The reports could be adaptable to the customer's preferences."

"The setup of the solution is different for each application. That's the one thing that has been a challenge for us. The deployment itself is simple, but it's tough to automate because each application is different, so each installation process for Contrast is different."

"The solution needs to improve flexibility...The scalability of the product is a problem in the solution, especially from a commercial perspective."

"The out-of-the-box reporting could be improved. We need to write our own APIs to make the reporting more robust."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The solution is expensive."

"I like the per-application licensing model... We just license the app and we look at different vulnerabilities on that app and we remediate within the app. It's simpler."

"The good news is that the agent itself comes in two different forms: the unlicensed form and the licensed form. Unlicensed gives use of that software composition analysis for free. Thereafter, if you apply a license to that same agent, that's when the instrumentation takes hold. So one of my suggestions is to do what we're doing: Deploy the agent to as many applications as possible, with just the SCA feature turned on with no license applied, and then you can be more choosy and pick which teams will get the license applied."

"You only get one license for an application. Ours are very big, monolithic applications with millions of lines of code. We were able to apply one license to one monolithic application, which is great. We are happy with the licensing. Pricing-wise, they are industry-standard, which is fine."

"It's a tiered licensing model. The more you buy, as you cross certain quantity thresholds, the pricing changes. If you have a smaller environment, your licensing costs are going to be different than a larger environment... The licensing is primarily per application. An application can be as many agents as you need. If you've got 10 development servers and 20 production servers and 50 QA servers, all of those agents can be reporting as a single application that utilizes one license."

"For what it offers, it's a very reasonable cost. The way that it is priced is extremely straightforward. It works on the number of applications that you use, and you license a server. It is something that is extremely fair, because it doesn't take into consideration the number of requests, etc. It is only priced based on the number of onboarded applications. It suits our model as well, because we have huge traffic. Our number of applications is not that large, so the pricing works great for us."

"The product's pricing is low. I would rate it a two out of ten."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Comms Service Provider

Outsourcing Company

Financial Services Firm

23%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	6

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Apiiro?

Apiiro's secrets detection feature has saved us several times, which we appreciate greatly.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Apiiro?

My understanding is the pricing is pretty competitive.

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What needs improvement with Apiiro?

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What do you like most about Contrast Security Assess?

When we access the application, it continuously monitors and detects vulnerabilities.

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What needs improvement with Contrast Security Assess?

Technical support for the solution should be faster. We have to further analyze what kind of CVEs are in the reported libraries and what part of the code is affected. That analysis can be added to ...

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What advice do you have for others considering Contrast Security Assess?

Contrast Security Assess is deployed on-cloud in our organization. I would recommend Contrast Security Assess to other users. It's a really good tool. It provides lots of details on web-based vulne...

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Also Known As

Apiiro Control Plane (ASOC), Apiiro API Security (SAST), Apiiro Open Source (SCA)

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Overview

Apiiro is the leader in application security posture management (ASPM), unifying risk visibility, prioritization, and remediation with deep code analysis and runtime context.

Companies like Morgan Stanley, SoFi, Rakuten, and Navan leverage Apiiro's ASPM to...

Get complete application and risk visibility: Apiiro takes a deep, code-based approach to ASPM. Its Cloud Application Security Platform analyzes source code and pulls in runtime context to build a continuous, graph-based inventory of application and software supply chain components.

Prioritize risks with code-to-runtime context: With its proprietary Risk Graph™️, Apiiro contextualizes security alerts from third-party tools and native security solutions based on the likelihood and impact of risk to uniquely minimize alert backlogs and triage time by 95%.

Fix and prevent risks that matter—faster: By tying risks to code owners, providing LLM-enriched remediation guidance, and embedding risk-based guardrails directly into developer tools and workflows, Apiiro improves remediation times (MTTR) by up to 85%.

Apiiro's native security solutions include API security testing in code, secrets detection and validation, software bill of materials (SBOM) generation, sensitive data exposure prevention, software composition analysis (SCA), and CI/CD and SCM security.

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Contrast Security is the world’s leading provider of security technology that enables software applications to protect themselves against cyberattacks, heralding the new era of self-protecting software. Contrast's patented deep security instrumentation is the breakthrough technology that enables highly accurate assessment and always-on protection of an entire application portfolio, without disruptive scanning or expensive security experts. Only Contrast has sensors that work actively inside applications to uncover vulnerabilities, prevent data breaches, and secure the entire enterprise from development, to operations, to production.

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Sample Customers

Morgan Stanley, Rakuten, Jack Henry, SoFi, Colgate, Navan

Williams-Sonoma, Autodesk, HUAWEI, Chromeriver, RingCentral, Demandware.

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