Coverity vs Klocwork comparison

Black Duck and Perforce are both solutions in the Static Application Security Testing (SAST) category. Black Duck is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.0, while Perforce is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.4. Black Duck holds a 7.5% mindshare in SAST, compared to Perforce’s 1.6% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Black Duck users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Perforce users who would recommend it.

Coverity

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88% willing to recommend

Klocwork

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92% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 20, 2025

Klocwork and Coverity compete in the static code analysis category. Coverity has the upper hand due to its robust features justifying its higher cost, while Klocwork excels in pricing and customer support.

Features: Klocwork offers deep analysis capabilities, real-time feedback, and seamless integration with various development environments. Coverity provides extensive reporting tools, scaling across large codebases, and comprehensive defect identification across multiple languages.

Room for Improvement: Klocwork can improve by expanding its language support, reducing its false positive rate, and enhancing its user interface for easier navigation. Coverity could focus on reducing setup complexity, speeding up scanning processes, and providing more customization options for its reports.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Klocwork offers a streamlined deployment process with quick integration and responsive customer support. Coverity emphasizes thorough onboarding with detailed documentation and initial training to ensure effective use of its features.

Pricing and ROI: Klocwork is viewed as cost-effective, offering a clear ROI with minimal financial burden. Coverity entails higher initial costs, yet its investment is balanced by extensive analysis capabilities beneficial over time, appealing to organizations prioritizing in-depth analysis despite higher costs.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Coverity

Ranking in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

4th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Klocwork

Ranking in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

13th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Security Tools (16th), Static Code Analysis (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Static Application Security Testing (SAST) category, the mindshare of Coverity is 7.5%, up from 6.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Klocwork is 1.6%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

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Md. Shahriar Hussain

Information Security Analyst at Banglalink

Offers impressive reporting features with user-friendliness and high scalability

The solution can be easily setup but requires heavy integration due to the multiple types of port and programming languages involved. Comparing the resource requirements of the solution I would say it can be installed effortlessly. I would rate the initial setup an eight out of ten. A professional needs some pre-acquired knowledge to manage Coverity's deployment process, but the local solution partners provide support well enough for trouble-free deployment. The overall deployment process of Coverity took around two and a half hours in our organization. The deployment duration depends upon the operating system and resources including high-end RAM and CPU processors.

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AnirbanSarkar

Head - Solution Management Group at Meteonic Innovation Pvt. Ltd.

Lets you find defects during the development phase, so you don't have to wait till the development is over to find and address flaws

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. What I'd like added in the next release of Klocwork is the peer code review Cahoots which used to be a part of Klocwork, and the architecture analysis and both have been taken out of Klocwork. I found the two critical for specific deployments, so if those can be brought back to Klocwork, that would be very good.

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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 product is easy to use."

"It's pretty stable. I rate the stability of Coverity nine out of ten."

"We were very comfortable with the initial setup."

"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."

"Coverity is scalable."

"This solution is easy to use."

"The product has been beneficial in logging functionality, allowing me to categorize vulnerabilities based on severity. This aids in providing updated reports on subsequent scans."

"The app analysis is the most valuable feature as I know other solutions don't have that."

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

"We like using the static analysis and code refactoring, which are very valuable because of our requirements to meet safety critical levels and reliability."

"There's a feature in Klocwork called 'on-the-fly analysis', which helps developers to find and fix the defects at the time of development itself."

"There is a central Klocwork server at our headquarter in France so we connect the client directly to the server on-premises remotely."

"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."

"On-the-fly analysis and incremental analysis are the best parts of Klocwork. Currently, we are using both of these features very effectively."

"It's integrated into our CI, continuous integration."

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Cons

"We actually specified several checkers, but we found some checkers had a higher false positive rate. I think this is a problem. Because we have to waste some time is really the issue because the issue is not an issue. I mean, the tool pauses or an issue, but the same issue is the filter now.Some check checkers cannot find some issues, but sometimes they find issues that are not relevant, right, that are not really issues. Some customisation mechanism can be added in the next release so that we can define our Checker. The Modelling feature provided by Coverity helps in finding more information for potential issues but it is not mature enough, it should be mature. The fast testing feature for security testing campaign can be added as well. So if you correctly integrate it with the training team, maybe you can help us to find more potential issues."

"They could improve the usability. For example, how you set things up, even though it's straightforward, it could be still be easier."

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

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

"The tool needs to improve its reporting."

"The level of vulnerability that this solution covers could be improved compared to other open source tools."

"Ideally, it would have a user-based license that does not have a restriction in the number of lines of code."

"Sometimes, vulnerabilities remain unidentified even after setting up the rules."

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"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."

"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."

"Klocwork sometimes provides too many additional warnings which require expertise to manage."

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

"I believe it should support more languages, such as Python and JavaScript."

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

"Klocwork sometimes provides too many additional warnings which require expertise to manage."

"We'd like to see integration with Agile DevOps and Agile methodologies."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"The tool was fairly priced."

"The solution is affordable."

"It is expensive."

"Offers varying prices for different companies"

"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 pricing is very reasonable compared to other platforms. It is based on a three year license."

"Coverity is quite expensive."

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"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"This solution offers competitive pricing."

"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."

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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company

33%

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Educational Organization

32%

Manufacturing Company

21%

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Questions from the Community

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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What do you like most about Klocwork?

It's integrated into our CI, continuous integration.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Klocwork?

Klocwork was competitively priced, making it a cost-effective solution for us.

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What needs improvement with Klocwork?

We would like Klocwork to connect to Git and notify developers of issues tied to specific commits. Currently, this feature is absent, but we have suggested it to the team.

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Overview

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.

Black Duck

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

SAP, Mega International, Thales Alenia Space

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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