Apiiro vs Coverity Static comparison

Apiiro and Black Duck are both solutions in the Static Application Security Testing (SAST) category. Apiiro is ranked #20 with an average rating of 8.0, while Black Duck is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.0. Apiiro holds a 0.8% mindshare in SAST, compared to Black Duck’s 6.0% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Apiiro users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of Black Duck users who would recommend it.

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89% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 15, 2025

Coverity Static and Apiiro compete in software security enhancement. Apiiro has the upper hand due to its comprehensive risk management features, offering greater overall value.

Features: Coverity Static is known for its deep static code analysis, extensive language support, and rapid defect identification. Apiiro stands out with its contextual risk assessment, governance across development stages, and broad visibility into threats.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Coverity Static offers a straightforward deployment process with comprehensive documentation and accessible support channels, aiding integration with existing systems. Apiiro provides scalable deployment with detailed guidance and enhanced support services, facilitating management in complex environments.

Pricing and ROI: Coverity Static presents a lower initial setup cost, appealing to organizations targeting short-term expense reduction. However, Apiiro, despite its higher initial cost, potentially offers greater long-term ROI through its comprehensive security management solutions.

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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)

Coverity Static

Ranking in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

5th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

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 Coverity Static is 6.0%, down from 7.3% 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 (%)
Coverity Static	6.0%
Apiiro	0.8%
Other	93.2%

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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Jaile Sebes

Senior Software Architect at Siemens Industry

Resolving critical software issues demands faster implementation and better integration

We use Coverity primarily to find issues such as software bugs and memory leaks, especially in C++ and C# projects. It helps us identify deadlocks, synchronization issues, and product crashes Coverity has been instrumental in resolving product crashes by detecting various issues like deadlocks.…

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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."

"What I find most effective about Coverity is its low rate of false positives. I've seen other platforms with many false positives, but with Coverity, most vulnerabilities it identifies are genuine. This allows me to focus on real issues."

"It provides reports about a lot of potential defects."

"The interface of Coverity is quite good, and it is also easy to use."

"The solution has improved our code quality and security very well."

"One of the most valuable features is Contributing Events. That particular feature helps the developer understand the root cause of a defect. So you can locate the starting point of the defect and figure out exactly how it is being exploited."

"The reporting feature is up to the mark."

"The product has deeper scanning capabilities."

"Coverity provides excellent compliance and other features, which is a very good part."

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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."

"The solution's user interface and quality gate could be improved."

"The setup takes very long."

"Zero-day vulnerability identification can be an add-on feature that Coverity can provide."

"Coverity is far from perfection, and I'm not 100 percent sure it's helping me find what I need to find in my role. We need exactly what we are looking for, i.e. security errors and vulnerabilities. It doesn't seem to be reporting while we are changing our code."

"It should be easier to specify your own validation routines and sanitation routines."

"I had tried integrating the tool with Azure DevOps, but the report I got stated that my team faced many challenges."

"Right now, the Coverity executable is around 1.2GB to download. If they can reduce it to approximately 600 or 700MB, that would be great. If they decrease the executable, it will be much easier to work in an environment like Docker."

"We're currently facing a primary challenge with automation using Coverity. Each developer has a license and can perform manual checks, and we also have a nightly build that analyzes the entire software. The main issue is that the tool can't look behind submodules in our code base, so it doesn't see changes stored there."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"This is a pretty expensive solution. The overall value of the solution could be improved if the price was reduced. Licensing is done on an annual basis."

"The solution's pricing is comparable to other products."

"Offers varying prices for different companies"

"I would rate the tool's pricing a one out of ten."

"Coverity’s price is on the higher side. It should be lower."

"I would rate the pricing a six out of ten, where one is low, and ten is high price."

"Coverity is very expensive."

"The licensing fees are based on the number of lines of code."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Comms Service Provider

Outsourcing Company

Manufacturing Company

32%

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	31

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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How would you decide between Coverity and Sonarqube?

We researched Coverity, but in the end, we chose SonarQube. SonarQube is a tool for reviewing code quality and security. It helps to guide our development teams during code reviews by providing rem...

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What do you like most about Coverity?

The solution has improved our code quality and security very well.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Coverity?

I do not know about the pricing.

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Also Known As

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

Synopsys Static Analysis

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.

Apiiro

Coverity gives you the speed, ease of use, accuracy, industry standards compliance, and scalability that you need to develop high-quality, secure applications. Coverity identifies critical software quality defects and security vulnerabilities in code as it’s written, early in the development process, when it’s least costly and easiest to fix. With the Code Sight integrated development environment (IDE) plugin, developers get accurate analysis in seconds in their IDE as they code. Precise actionable remediation advice and context-specific eLearning help your developers understand how to fix their prioritized issues quickly, without having to become security experts.

Coverity seamlessly integrates automated security testing into your CI/CD pipelines and supports your existing development tools and workflows. Choose where and how to do your development: on-premises or in the cloud with the Polaris Software Integrity Platform (SaaS), a highly scalable, cloud-based application security platform. Coverity supports more than 20 languages and 200 frameworks and templates.

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Sample Customers

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

SAP, Mega International, Thales Alenia Space

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