Cequence Security vs Coverity Static comparison

The compared Cequence Security and Black Duck solutions aren't in the same category. Cequence Security is ranked #24 in AS , with an average rating of 10.0, and holds a 0.6% mindshare in the category. Black Duck is ranked #8 in SAST , with an average rating of 7.7, and holds a 2.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Cequence Security users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of Black Duck users who would recommend it.

Cequence Security

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100% willing to recommend

Coverity Static

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89% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Cequence Security

Average Rating

10.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Security Tools (24th), Bot Management (9th), API Security (5th)

Coverity Static

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (8th)

Mindshare comparison

Cequence Security and Coverity Static aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Cequence Security is designed for Application Security Tools and holds a mindshare of 0.6%, up 0.1% compared to last year.
Coverity Static, on the other hand, focuses on Static Application Security Testing (SAST), holds 2.8% mindshare, down 8.0% since last year.

Application Security Tools Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Cequence Security	0.6%
SonarQube	12.7%
Checkmarx One	8.3%
Other	78.4%

Application Security Tools

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Coverity Static	2.8%
SonarQube	14.5%
Checkmarx One	9.2%
Other	73.5%

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

Featured Reviews

reviewer2395431

Technology Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Detect and mitigate attacks with API protection

Compliance with standards like those in Europe often requires ensuring that APIs adhere to OAuth and other security protocols. Many organizations need to verify that their APIs meet these compliance requirements. We can include information about where an API was first recorded and create a detailed chart. Some competitors already offer this feature. It is simple to integrate. Overall, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

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Benoît Labrique

Software Quality Expert at Endress+Hauser AG

Useful for extra checks but not recommended for C++

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. This limitation means it can't detect changes accurately, forcing us to analyze all files instead of just the modified ones. It struggles with repositories organized with different submodules. Although documentation suggests it's possible to configure Coverity to handle this, it requires effort. The solution's analysis tools are high-quality, but the web design could improve. For example, the data is organized into pages when there are many findings, such as ten thousand lines of information. Each page shows about a hundred items, and navigating through these pages (from items 100 to 200, 200 to 300, and so on) can be cumbersome. I've heard from a colleague about another Synopsys tool with a very good GUI. It might be a solution for us to include with Coverity. We invested in Coverity, but compared to SonarQube, it lacks a good interface. SonarQube has a responsive, intuitive GUI, but its analysis quality isn't as good as Coverity's. Coverity's interface isn't great, but its analysis is much better. We hope Synopsys will improve Coverity because it doesn't make a good impression when you first use it. We started with the command line and saw the results were very good. We moved from another tool with a slightly better GUI, but it crashed often, so Coverity was an improvement. When I used the solution earlier, I noticed some issues. It supports C++, which we use, but there's room for improvement. Coverity has two plug-ins. The newer one works well for languages like C# or Java and is very responsive. When we evaluated it with Synopsys, they presented it as easy to configure and install. However, C++ slows down significantly because it's analyzing in the background. It's not very responsive when typing, likely due to the many included files in C++ that need analysis. It's not as quick as with C# or other languages, where you get immediate feedback from Coverity. The classic plug-in is still supported but old-fashioned. It has a manual option, but I haven't checked it. The main problem for C++ users who prefer the old plug-in is responsiveness.

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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

"It uses machine learning algorithms to detect attacks and manage API inventory."

"The most valuable feature is the integration with Jenkins."

"The product is easy to use."

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

"The reporting feature is up to the mark."

"We were very comfortable with the initial setup."

"It's very stable."

"Coverity is helping us identify some of the critical defects at the early stages of the development life cycle, so overall, it is giving us a greater ROI and making our application more mature and robust."

"The most valuable feature of Coverity is that it shows examples of what is actually wrong with the code."

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Cons

"It is expensive."

"We use GitHub and Gitflow, and Coverity does not fit with Gitflow. I have to create a screen for our branches, and it's a pain for developers. It has been difficult to integrate Coverity with our system."

"SCM integration is very poor in Coverity."

"When I put my code into Coverity for scanning, the code information of the product is in the system. The solution could be improved by providing a SBOM, a software bill of material."

"It is an expensive solution. Their sales team is very arrogant."

"Coverity is too costly, which is why we are trying other tools."

"The reporting tool integration process is sometimes slow."

"There should be additional IDE support."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The solution is affordable."

"Coverity is very expensive."

"The pricing is on the expensive side, and we are paying for a couple of items."

"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."

"I rate Coverity's price a ten on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive."

"I would rate Coverity's pricing as a nine out of ten. It's already very expensive, and it's a problem for us to get more licenses due to the price. The pricing model has some good aspects - for example, a personal license gives access to all languages without code limitations, which is better than some competitors. However, it's still a lot of money for us to spend."

"Depending on the usage types, one has to opt for different types of licenses from Coverity, especially to be able to use areas like report viewing or report generation."

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

23%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

29%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

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 needs improvement with Cequence Security?

It is expensive.

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What is your primary use case for Cequence Security?

We use the solution to detect and mitigate attacks. It helps prevent them while also protecting APIs and effectively managing API inventory.

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What advice do you have for others considering Cequence Security?

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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 is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Coverity?

I do not know about the pricing.

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What needs improvement with Coverity?

The price is a concern, and there are a lot of false positives coming through. Support with Coverity is adequate, but they take a longer time to respond. The core support is not straightforward, an...

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Also Known As

Cequence ASP, Cequence Unified API Protection Platform

Synopsys Static Analysis

Overview

Cequence Security protects applications and data in the agentic era. With over a decade of experience in bot defense and API security, it delivers immediate value in securing AI workflows, trusted by top organizations to safeguard billions of API interactions and user accounts.

Cequence Security provides a unified platform combining AI Gateway, Bot Management, and API Security to ensure comprehensive application protection. AI Gateway secures agentic AI interactions, enabling innovation with AI. Bot Management prevents automated attacks without additional agents or SDKs. API Security manages API posture, helping uncover risks, ensuring compliance, and identifying vulnerabilities. The Unified Application Protection platform integrates these services, providing seamless discovery, compliance, and protection against cyber threats.

What are the key features of Cequence Security?

AI Gateway: Secures agentic AI interactions with features like rate-limiting and least privilege access.
Bot Management: Comprehensive solution against automated attacks using network-based, agentless detection.
API Security: Monitors and tests APIs, assessing risks and ensuring compliance.
Unified Application Protection: Brings together discovery, compliance, and protection in one platform.

What benefits and ROI should users expect?

Immediate Value: Quickly delivers protection and insights into user and agent behavior.
Scalability: Handles billions of API interactions, ensuring performance and security at scale.
Comprehensive Protection: Defends against a wide range of cyber threats and vulnerabilities.
Ease of Implementation: No-code approach allows faster deployment and reduced technical debt.

In financial services, Cequence Security enables secure AI-driven innovations by protecting sensitive customer data and mitigating fraud risks. In retail, it safeguards transactions and user data from automated bots and unauthorized access, ensuring compliance and enhancing customer trust.

Cequence Security

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

T-Mobile, Lbrands, Ulta Beauty

SAP, Mega International, Thales Alenia Space

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