CAST Application Intelligence Platform vs Checkmarx One vs OpenText Core Application Security comparison

The compared CAST and Checkmarx solutions aren't in the same category. CAST is ranked #3 in SDA , with an average rating of 7.0, and holds a 6.6% mindshare in the category. Checkmarx is ranked #2 in AS , with an average rating of 8.2, and holds a 9.9% mindshare. Additionally, 83% of CAST users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of Checkmarx users who would recommend it.

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Mindshare comparison

Software Development Analytics Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
CAST Application Intelligence Platform	6.6%
SonarQube	40.9%
Snyk	33.3%
Other	19.200000000000003%

Software Development Analytics

Application Security Tools Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Checkmarx One	9.9%
SonarQube	16.3%
Snyk	5.5%
Other	68.3%

Application Security Tools

Application Security Tools Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
OpenText Core Application Security	3.2%
SonarQube	16.3%
Checkmarx One	9.9%
Other	70.6%

Application Security Tools

Featured Reviews

Vishal-Goyal

Chief Architect at Peristent Systems

Has a security dashboard that's helpful because it gives compliance checks based on some of the leading frameworks in the industry

The overall coverage of rules could be improved in the CAST Application Intelligence Platform because it does not cater to or cover all. For example, 2022 CWE coverage is still not available in the CAST Application Intelligence Platform. The solution also covers some NIST rules, but it does not cater to all rules. An additional feature I'd like to see in the next update of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is for it to provide source code developer and contributor details, especially information on which areas of code were touched. This would be a good insight as the CAST Application Intelligence Platform looks into the source code.

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Shahzad Shahzad

Senior Solution Architect | L3+ Systems & Cloud Engineer | SRE Specialist at Canada Cloud Solution

Enable secure development workflows while identifying opportunities for faster scans and improved AI guidance

Checkmarx One is a very strong platform, but there are several areas where it can improve to support modern DevSecOps workflows even better. For example, better real-time developer guidance is needed. The IDE plugin should offer richer AI-powered auto-fixes similar to SNYK Code or GitHub Copilot Security, as current guidance is good but not deeply contextual for large-scale enterprise codebases. This matters because it reduces developer friction and accelerates shift-left adoption. More transparency control over the correlation engines is another need. The correlation engine is powerful but not fully transparent. Users want to understand why vulnerabilities were correlated or de-prioritized, which helps AppSec teams trust the prioritization logic. Faster SAST scan and more language coverage is needed since SAST scan can still be slow for very large mono-repos and there is limited deep support for new language frameworks like Rust and Go, along with advanced coverage for serverless-specific frameworks. This matters because large organizations want sub-minute scans in CI/CD as cloud-native ecosystems evolve fast. A strong API security module is another area for enhancement. API security scanning could be improved with active testing, API discovery, full Swagger, OpenAPI, drift detection, and schema-based fuzzing. This is important as API attacks are one of the biggest AppSec risks in 2025. Checkmarx One is strong, but I see a few areas for improvement including faster SAST scanning for large mono-repos, deeper language framework support, more transparent correlation logic, and stronger API security that includes discovery and runtime context. The IDE plugin could offer more AI-assisted fixes, and the SBOM lifecycle tracking can evolve further. Enhancing integration with SIEM and SOAR would also make enterprise adoption smoother, and these improvements would help developers and AppSec teams move faster with more accuracy.

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Himanshu_Tyagi

Lead Cybersecurity at TBO

Supports secure development pipelines and improves issue detection but limits internal visibility and needs broader dashboard integration

If you have an internal team and you want your internal team to validate false positives, basically to determine whether it's a valid issue or an invalid issue, then I wouldn't recommend it much. That was the only reason we migrated from Fortify on Demand to another solution. Fortify has another tool which is Fortify WebInspect. On Demand is the outsourcing solution, and WebInspect you can use with your in-house team, which is basically the product developed by the Fortify team. For automated scanning, Fortify helps a lot. Regarding the visibility for the internal team, everyone is moving toward the DevSecOps side, and Fortify team has made good progress that you can integrate into your CICD pipeline. One thing I would highlight is if Fortify can focus more on the centralized dashboard of the tools because nowadays, tools such as SentinelOne also exist for identifying security issues, but they have a centralized dashboard that merges their cloud solution and application security side solution together. If you have one tool that works for different solutions, it helps a lot. They are doing good, but they should invest more on the AI side as well because AI security is evolving these days. On the cloud side, they have already made good progress, but I believe they should explore the new area related to AI security as well.

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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

"The most valuable feature of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is its security dashboard which is a dedicated dashboard that's pretty helpful because it gives compliance checks based on some of the leading frameworks in the industry, such as ISO 5055, OWASP, CWE Top 25, and NIST security guidelines. I find the security dashboard of the solution and the information it provides pretty useful. The security dashboard of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is a feature that stands out."

"We've seen ROI from CAST Application Intelligence Platform because we've been able to leverage it for doing multiple customer engagements and we've been able to win more business for our organization by leveraging the product."

"Hourly, daily, and monthly static code analysis before making a project live, therefore controlling the technical debt and code quality."

"Used for controlling the technical debt and code quality."

"It supports most programming languages."

"CAST's risk and security flow detection capabilities are highly effective, particularly in identifying security vulnerabilities. It is one of the most important and valuable features of the platform."

"Our clients use CAST Highlight for cloud migration. This allows them to remove or remediate the blockers which are highlighted. This part of the solution shows improvement in quality and captures feedback for our clients."

"Our clients use CAST Highlight for cloud migration, which allows them to remove or remediate the blockers that are highlighted, shows improvement in quality, and captures feedback for our clients."

"Checkmarx is a nice, pleasant, and relatively easy company to work with."

"The best features Checkmarx One offers, in my opinion, are that it is easy to use, and there is not much deep diving into this."

"It allows for SAST scanning of uncompiled code. Further, it natively integrates with all key repos formats (Git, TFS, SVN, Perforce, etc)."

"It is very useful because it fits our requirements. It is also easy to use. It is not complex, and we are satisfied with the results."

"The solution allows us to create custom rules for code checks."

"It is very useful because it fits our requirements, it is also easy to use, it is not complex, and we are satisfied with the results."

"Checkmarx is probably one of the best static code analyzers available in the market at this point."

"The solution allows us to create custom rules for code checks."

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"Fortify is effective in identifying such oversights, making it a really helpful tool despite its problems."

"The solution saves us a lot of money, and we're trying to reduce exposure and costs related to remediation."

"I would definitely recommend Micro Focus Fortify any day for clients who are looking for a good security solution."

"Secure code is an important part of our day-to-day development activities, so having code out there gives us some reasonable assurance that it is not vulnerable or open to attack, and it certainly makes our overall risk posture better."

"The quality of application security testing reduces risk and gives very few false positives."

"The scanning capabilities, particularly for our repositories, have been invaluable."

"The most valuable feature is that it connects with your development platforms, such as Microsoft Information Server and Jira."

"Provides good depth of scanning and we get good results."

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Cons

"Areas for improvement in CAST AIP include enhancing support for implementation in complex environments and improving technical support to address organizational challenges alongside engineering issues."

"The integration of this solution could be improved."

"Implementation could be made more simpler as it is complex."

"The overall coverage of rules could be improved in the CAST Application Intelligence Platform because it does not cater to or cover all. For example, 2022 CWE coverage is still not available in the CAST Application Intelligence Platform. The solution also covers some NIST rules, but it does not cater to all rules. An additional feature I'd like to see in the next update of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is for it to provide source code developer and contributor details, especially information on which areas of code were touched. This would be a good insight as the CAST Application Intelligence Platform looks into the source code."

"Implementation could be made simpler as it is complex."

"The overall coverage of rules could be improved in the CAST Application Intelligence Platform because it does not cater to or cover all."

"It has very few plugins to access different code repositories, so source code has to be fed."

"The integration of this solution could be improved."

"They can support the remaining languages that are currently not supported. They can also create a different model that can identify zero-day attacks. They can work on different patterns to identify and detect zero-day vulnerability attacks."

"I would like to see the DAST solution in the future."

"We had to lock the number of CPUs used to not crash the Checkmarx Audit."

"I would like to see the rate of false positives reduced."

"The cost per user is high and should be reduced."

"Dynamic testing. If it had that feature I would have liked to see more consideration of framework validations that we don't have to duplicate. These flags are false positives."

"Integration into the SDLC (i.e. support for last version of SonarQube) could be added."

"There is nothing particular that I don't like in this solution. It can have more integrations, but the integrations that we would like are in the roadmap anyway, and they just need to deliver the roadmap. What I like about the roadmap is that it is going where it needs to go. If I were to look at the roadmap, there is nothing that is jumping out there that says to me, "Yeah. I'd like something else on the roadmap." What they're looking to deliver is what I would expect and forecast them to deliver."

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"I believe that HP’s FoD Clients could sell more services to clients if HP put more effort into delivering visually pleasing reporting capabilities."

"Temenos's (T-24) info basic is a separate programming interface, and such proprietary platforms and programming interfaces were not easily supported by the out-of-the-box versions of Fortify."

"With Rapid7 I utilized its reporting capabilities to deliver Client Reports within just a few minutes of checking the data. I believe that HP’s FoD Clients could sell more services to clients if HP put more effort into delivering visually pleasing reporting capabilities."

"We have some stability issues, but they are minimal."

"I would like the solution to add AI support."

"The products must provide better integration with build tools."

"It's still a little bit too complex for regular developers."

"Stability could use a little improvement as we've had some issues. It runs out of memory sometimes and uses a lot of resources."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I do know how the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is licensed, but I'm not able to give the cost because the price is not listed. My company works with individual vendors, so pricing is on a case-to-case basis, but the vendors give specialized pricing because of the enterprise deployment, though my team is aware of product pricing based on lines of code, based on the number of applications, etc., I'm unable to give the exact licensing costs of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform. My company doesn't have to pay extra for some features or services because all are included as part of the enterprise license. On a scale of one to five, with five being very cheap and one being very expensive, I would rate the CAST Application Intelligence Platform as three out of five."

"It is an expensive solution."

"The price of Checkmarx could be reduced to match their competitors, it is expensive."

"The solution's price is high and you pay based on the number of users."

"We have a subscription license that is on a yearly basis, and it's a pretty competitive solution."

"The tool's pricing is fine."

"It is not expensive, but sometimes, their pricing model or licensing model is not very clear. There are similar variables, such as projects or developers, and sometimes, it is a little bit confusing."

"The solution is costly."

"The license has a vague language around P1 issues and the associated support. Make sure to review these in order to align them with your organizational policies."

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"Buying a license would be feasible for regular use. For intermittent use, the cloud-based option can be used (Fortify on Demand)."

"We make an annual purchase of the licenses we need."

"I'd rate it an eight out of ten in terms of pricing."

"It's a yearly contract, but I don't remember the dollar amount."

"The subscription model, on a per-scan basis, is a bit expensive. That's another reason we are not using it for all the apps."

"Their subscriptions could use a little bit of a reworking, but I am very happy with what they're able to provide."

"Fortify on Demand is moderately priced, but its pricing could be more flexible."

"If I exceed one million lines of code, there might be an extra cost or a change in the pricing bracket."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

20%

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

17%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

13%

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Small Business	32
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	46

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Small Business	18
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	45

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about CAST Application Intelligence Platform?

CAST's risk and security flow detection capabilities are highly effective, particularly in identifying security vulne...

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What needs improvement with CAST Application Intelligence Platform?

Areas for improvement in CAST AIP include enhancing support for implementation in complex environments and improving ...

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What is your primary use case for CAST Application Intelligence Platform?

CAST AIP is a valuable solution for quality metrics and application security. It is beneficial for software architect...

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What alternatives are there for Fortify WebInspect and Fortify SCA?

I would like to recommend Checkmarx. With Checkmarx, you are able to have an all in one solution for SAST and SCA as ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Checkmarx?

Checkmarx One is a premium solution, so budget accordingly. Make sure you understand how licensing scales with additi...

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What needs improvement with Checkmarx?

One way Checkmarx One could be improved is if it could automatically run scans every month after implementation. If i...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Micro Focus Fortify on Demand?

In comparison with other tools, they're competitive. It is not more expensive than other solutions, but their pricing...

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What needs improvement with Micro Focus Fortify on Demand?

If you have an internal team and you want your internal team to validate false positives, basically to determine whet...

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What is your primary use case for Micro Focus Fortify on Demand?

I have been working with AWS cloud for the past six to seven years, and in my current role, I am working on AWS cloud...

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Comparisons

SonarQube vs CAST Application Intelligence Platform

Compared 37% of the time

Veracode vs CAST Application Intelligence Platform

Compared 9% of the time

Fortify Application Defender vs CAST Application Intelligence Platform

Compared 9% of the time

BlueOptima vs CAST Application Intelligence Platform

Compared 6% of the time

Seerene vs CAST Application Intelligence Platform

Compared 5% of the time

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SonarQube vs Checkmarx One

Compared 41% of the time

Veracode vs Checkmarx One

Compared 4% of the time

Checkmarx SAST vs Checkmarx One

Compared 3% of the time

Fortify Software Security Center vs Checkmarx One

Compared 2% of the time

OWASP Zap vs Checkmarx One

Compared 2% of the time

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SonarQube vs OpenText Core Application Security

Compared 19% of the time

Veracode vs OpenText Core Application Security

Compared 5% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

HCL AppScan vs OpenText Core Application Security

Compared 4% of the time

PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional vs OpenText Core Application Security

Compared 3% of the time

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March 2026

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Overview

CAST Application Intelligence Platform (AIP), a result of over $130M in R&D investment over two decades, is an enterprise-grade software measurement and quality analysis solution designed to analyze multi-tiered, multi-technology applications for technical vulnerabilities and adherence to architectural and coding standards and then provide business relevant information to the IT organization through various dashboards and products built with end users in mind.

Application Analytics Dashboard (CAST AAD): Provides IT executives with accurate business relevant analytics to drive their organization
Application Engineering Dashboard (CAST AED): Provides engineering and QA teams with powerful code and system level structural flaw insight and remediation guidance
Enlighten: Delivers to developers a powerful deep understanding of their application’s structure
Architecture Checker: Gives architects a reliable, automated solution to enforce architectures that deliver stability and performance of their critical applications

CAST’s underlying system-level analysis technology assesses both the health of an application, as measured through numerous health factors, as well as specific structural and system-level defects that drive performance and stability issues providing true system level analysis.

CAST

Checkmarx One is an enterprise cloud-native application security platform focused on providing cross-tool, correlated results to help AppSec and developer teams prioritize where to focus time and resources.

Checkmarx One offers comprehensive application scanning across the SDLC:

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
API security
Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
Container security
IaC security
Correlation, prioritization, and risk management
Codebashing secure code training
AI security
Tech partnerships extending AppSec into runtime analysis
Developer tool integrations including: CI/CD tools, development frameworks, feedback tools, IDEs, programming languages and SCMs

Checkmarx One provides everything you need to secure application development from the first line of code through deployment and runtime in the cloud. With an ever-evolving set of AppSec engines, correlation and prioritization features, and AI capabilities, Checkmarx One helps consolidate expanding lists of AppSec tools and make better sense of results. Its capabilities are designed to provide an improved developer experience to build trust with development teams and ensure the success of your AppSec program investment.

Checkmarx

OpenText Core Application Security offers robust features like static and dynamic scanning, real-time vulnerability tracking, and seamless integration with development platforms, designed to enhance code security and reduce operational costs.

OpenText Core Application Security is a cloud-based, on-demand service providing accurate and deep scanning capabilities with detailed reporting. Its integrations with development platforms ensure an enhanced security layer in the development lifecycle, benefiting users by lowering operational costs and facilitating efficient remediation. The platform addresses needs for intuitive interfaces, API support, and comprehensive vulnerability assessments, helping improve code security and accelerate time-to-market. Despite its strengths, challenges exist around false positives, report clarity, and language support, alongside confusing pricing and package options. Enhancements are sought in areas like CI/CD pipeline configuration, report visualization, scan times, and integration with third-party tools such as GitLab, container scanning, and software composition analysis.

What features define OpenText Core Application Security?

Static and Dynamic Scanning: Offers thorough analysis to identify vulnerabilities during development.
Real-time Vulnerability Tracking: Continuously updates and monitors potential security threats.
Seamless Development Platform Integration: Enhances security processes without disrupting workflows.
Cloud-Based Service: Provides flexible, on-demand security capabilities with accurate results.
API Support: Allows smooth integration and automation within existing systems.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Reduced Operational Costs: Optimizes resources by lowering costs associated with security management.
Efficient Remediation: Speeds up the process of identifying and resolving vulnerabilities.
Enhanced Code Security: Strengthens overall application security during the development lifecycle.
Accelerated Time-to-Market: Streamlines development stages by integrating essential security tools.

Industries like mobile applications, e-commerce, and banking leverage OpenText Core Application Security for its ability to identify vulnerabilities such as SQL injections. Integrating seamlessly with DevSecOps and security auditing processes, this tool supports developers in writing safer code, ensuring secure application deployment and enhancing software assurance.

OpenText

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