Apiiro vs Klocwork comparison

Apiiro and Perforce are both solutions in the Static Application Security Testing (SAST) category. Apiiro is ranked #24 with an average rating of 7.0, while Perforce is ranked #14 with an average rating of 8.2. Apiiro holds a 0.8% mindshare in SAST, compared to Perforce’s 1.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Apiiro users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of Perforce users who would recommend it.

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93% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 8, 2024

Klocwork and Apiiro compete in the software security and developer tools space. Users prefer Apiiro's features and capabilities for its comprehensive risk management, despite Klocwork's competitive pricing and support.

Features: Klocwork provides static code analysis to identify security vulnerabilities early and integrates well with development environments. Apiiro offers comprehensive risk management features, seamless cross-functional integration, and proactive security controls.

Room for Improvement: Klocwork could enhance its reporting features and reduce false positives in code scanning. Apiiro could improve its integration processes with third-party tools to enhance user experience. Klocwork needs improved precision, while Apiiro focuses on smoother integration.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Klocwork offers straightforward deployment with detailed documentation, though some users find it complex initially. Apiiro provides a user-friendly deployment experience and strong support services for quicker adaptation.

Pricing and ROI: Klocwork's cost-effective pricing delivers significant value despite moderate setup costs. Apiiro's higher pricing is justified by advanced features and expansive risk management, resulting in a higher ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Apiiro

Ranking in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

24th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Software Composition Analysis (SCA) (14th), API Security (15th), Software Supply Chain Security (7th), Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (17th), Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) (6th)

Klocwork

Ranking in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

14th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Security Tools (17th), Static Code Analysis (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Static Application Security Testing (SAST) category, the mindshare of Apiiro is 0.8%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Klocwork is 1.4%, down from 1.8% 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 (%)
Klocwork	1.4%
Apiiro	0.8%
Other	97.8%

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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Krishna M Gopalakrishnan

Manager, Quality, Functional Safety, Cybersecurity Embedded Processing at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Experience with compliance improvements and efficiency boosts but static analysis engine shows a need for enhancement

One area for improvement is that when customers use different static analysis tools, they report more issues compared to Klocwork. The static analysis engine of Klocwork has areas that need improvement. Customers using different static analysis tools report more issues than with Klocwork, indicating that Klocwork's engine is not as superior. Klocwork should be able to analyze large codebases efficiently, supporting a desktop version for periodic small delta changes before pushing to the server.

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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 positive impact I have seen from working with Apiiro for my company includes the metrics that we get from Apiiro, which have been extremely helpful."

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

"The most valuable feature of Klocwork is finding defects while you're doing the coding. For example, if you have an IDE plug-in of Klocwork on Visual Studio or Eclipse, you can find the faults; similar to using spell check on Word, you can find out defects during the development phase, which means that you don't have to wait till the development is over to find the flaws and address the deficiencies. I also find language support in Klocwork good because it used to support only C, C++, C#, and Java, but now, it also supports Java scripts and Python."

"The best advantage of Klocwork is the reduced setup time."

"The most valuable feature of Klocwork is its reduced setup time."

"I like not having to dig through false positives. Chasing down a false positive can take anywhere from five minutes for a small easy one, then something that is complicated and goes through a whole bunch of different class cases, and it can take up to 45 minutes to an hour to find out if it is a false positive or not."

"One can increase the number of vendors, so the solution is scalable."

"The customer support team is very responsive, proactive, and engages in conversations to ensure our needs are met."

"Technical support is quite good."

"Overall I find Klocwork's features superior for our needs."

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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."

"Klocwork does have a problem with true positives. It only found 30% of true positives in the Juliet test case."

"Modern languages, such as Angular and .NET, should be included as a part of Klocwork. They have recently added Kotlin as a part of their project, but we would like to see more languages in Klocwork. That's the reason we are using Coverity as a backup for some of the other languages."

"There are too many warnings, and it requires expertise to determine the correct category for them."

"Under NIST cybersecurity standards, we must address vulnerabilities within a specified time after discovering them. When we try to propagate those updates and fixes through the system, it would be nice if the clients could reconnect to the existing server or have the server dynamically updated in some way. I know that isn't easy, but maybe processes could be enhanced to make that more streamlined from a DevOps perspective."

"What needs improvement in Klocwork, compared to other products in the market, is the dashboard or reporting mechanisms that need to be a bit more flexible. The Klocwork dashboard could be improved. Though it's good, it's not as good as some of the other products in the market, which is a problem. The reporting could be more detailed and easier to sort out because sorting in Klocwork could be a bit more time-consuming, mainly when sorting defects based on filters, compared to how it's done on other tools such as Coverity."

"We bought Klocwork, but it was limited to one little program, but the program is now sort of failing. So, we have a license for usage on a program that is sort of failing, and we really can't use the license on anything else."

"Now the only issue we have is that whenever we need to get the code we have to build it first. Then we can get the report."

"I hope that in each new release they add new features relating to the addition of checkers, improving their analysis engines etc."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Licensing fees are paid annually, but they also have a perpetual license."

"The limitation that we have is that Klocwork is licensed to certain programs, and if you want to license them to other programs, you have to pay more money."

"This solution offers competitive pricing."

"Klocwork should not to be quite so heavy handed on the licensing for very specific programs."

"Klocwork is still tight on their licensing. If Klocwork would loosen up on the licensing, and where the license could be used, and how many different programs could be run on it, then we have several development programs that I would love to be able to use it for going forward."

"When it comes to licensing, the solution has two packages, one for a fixed and the other for a floating server, with the former being more cost effective than the latter."

"The pricing for Klocwork is very competitive if you compare it from apple to apple. It has competitive pricing regarding the licensing model and the per-license cost. Klocwork isn't a high-end investment for anyone deploying it; even SMBs can afford it. The Klocwork cost per user would depend on the license type, so I'm unable to mention a ballpark figure because it would depend on the type of installation and how the deployment will be, and the nodes to give an accurate calculation or figure. The total price depends on the package, so my company could never publish pricing for Klocwork on the website. My team first collects information from potential clients on the deployment scenario, project environment, etc., before suggesting a package for Klocwork. My rating for Klocwork in terms of pricing is a five because of its flexible license models. There's a license model for every type of organization, whether small, midsize, or enterprise, so it's a five out of five for me."

"There are other solutions on the market such as Microsoft Visual Studio. They have been adding more static code analysis features that come for free. It is getting better all the time. That is one of the possibilities is that we've been considering that we may stop using the Klocwork because it doesn't give us any added value."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Outsourcing Company

University

Manufacturing Company

23%

Computer Software Company

10%

Transportation Company

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	12

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Apiiro?

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What is your primary use case for Apiiro?

My only use case is the reporting, which is correct. My role is limited because this is an additional role that I do on top of my day job, so it is only limited to pulling out reports and working w...

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What advice do you have for others considering Apiiro?

I haven't explored Apiiro's advanced risk analysis features. I have not used the compliance monitoring feature of Apiiro so far. I am learning about Apiiro's AI-driven analytics for real-time feedb...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Klocwork?

Klocwork's pricing seems attractive, as it uses a per-user license model that does not have a lot of overhead.

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What needs improvement with Klocwork?

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What is your primary use case for Klocwork?

I work on tools such as Klocwork, LDRA, as well as Jira and Confluence, focusing more on the software quality assurance aspect. We use Klocwork for coding and aggregate checks. We use it for static...

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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.

Apiiro

Klocwork detects security, safety, and reliability issues in real-time by using this static code analysis toolkit that works alongside developers, finding issues as early as possible, and integrates with teams, supporting continuous integration and actionable reporting.

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Sample Customers

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

ACCESS Co Ltd, Risk-AI, Winbond Electronics, Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, University of Southern California, Alebra Technologies, SIMULIA, Risk Management Solutions, Brigham Young University, SRD, HRL

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