GitHub vs Polyspace Code Prover comparison

GitHub and MathWorks are both solutions in the Application Security Tools category. GitHub is ranked #4 with an average rating of 9.0, while MathWorks is ranked #26 with an average rating of 6.3. GitHub holds a 1.1% mindshare in AS, compared to MathWorks’s 1.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of GitHub users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 85% of MathWorks users who would recommend it.

GitHub

Read 97 GitHub reviews

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100% willing to recommend

Polyspace Code Prover

Read 7 Polyspace Code Prover reviews

2,329 Views
1,677 Comparison Views

85% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 19, 2025

GitHub and Polyspace Code Prover are contenders in the development tools space. GitHub holds the advantage with its community support and integration capabilities, appealing to a wider user base.

Features: GitHub provides robust collaboration tools like version control, branching, and pull requests, making it ideal for teams seeking flexibility and DevOps integration. Polyspace Code Prover focuses on precise error detection and compliance with safety standards, essential for critical software verification.

Room for Improvement: GitHub needs better integration with automation tools, improved project management, and enhanced handling of large files. Polyspace Code Prover could improve scalability and execution times, and ease of integration with CI tools.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: GitHub offers flexible deployment across cloud solutions with strong community support, although direct support reviews are mixed. Polyspace Code Prover is mainly on-premises with limited cloud deployment, providing technical support that users find knowledgeable.

Pricing and ROI: GitHub's pricing includes free and enterprise plans, leading to high adoption due to cost-effectiveness in code management. Polyspace Code Prover is considered expensive but offers a high ROI for safety-critical applications due to its stringent code verification.

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Categories and Ranking

GitHub

Ranking in Application Security Tools

4th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Version Control (3rd), Agile and DevOps Services (2nd)

Polyspace Code Prover

Ranking in Application Security Tools

26th

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

2.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Application Security Tools category, the mindshare of GitHub is 1.1%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Polyspace Code Prover is 1.4%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Security Tools Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
GitHub	1.1%
Polyspace Code Prover	1.4%
Other	97.5%

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Murathan OK

Software Development Manager at a media company with 10,001+ employees

CI/CD workflows have become streamlined and AI support has improved collaborative development

We are using GitHub because it is open-source software, which is the most valuable solution for us. The open source and community support are very good. We are always up-to-date with the community, and integration difficulty is very low. If you integrate any CI/CD solutions on GitHub, it's very easy. We started using GitHub about three months ago with AI integration. For our deployments, some developers can be very shy about asking for descriptions on their commits. We are using AI support for comments and deployment management, which is beautiful. We are not using the GitHub API for automating workflows in our projects. I give GitHub a five-star rating for the review capabilities. I also give GitHub five stars for integration with third-party applications. There is a lot of integration available on GitHub. If you want to integrate something, even if it could be integrated before GitHub, you can make your code and integrate your own in-house applications. It's a very easy and powerful aspect of GitHub.

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reviewer2760282

General Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Has struggled with performance and integration but supports critical safety verification

Execution speed of the tests and generally the integration into AWS-driven CI work chains or workflows represent how it can be improved in my opinion. Performance issues plus license costs are two main driving factors. The CI environments that we use employ up to around 40,000 virtual CPUs per day in peak, running at the same time. We always have problems distributing licenses accordingly with other products. I can talk to the experts doing the integration, but as far as I know, I was involved with Polyspace Code Prover and we had a lot of difficulties integrating it into our Bazel-driven CI toolchain, plus integrating it on the AWS environments in Linux that we use. It was much more straightforward using Code Sonar there. The reason is the execution speed, integration with Azure and stuff, and pricing. The CI integration and maybe a better-suited license model for CI-driven execution are other areas I recommend improving. That's something we discussed with all of the software companies whose products we use, such as compilers. We have a lot of parallel builds, and each call to a license server is actually problematic in the long run.

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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 solution provides good customization and support."

"The best feature is the ability to track the history of all code changes, and it's easy to use. Additionally, as it's open source, anyone can use that feature resulting in distributed development. This opens the door to collaboration with different code and developer, feature, and master branches of development."

"The solution has been stable for us."

"The Projects Tab, which shows you the todo list and the progress for projects, is very helpful."

"I use this solution to store my code in a repository so we can manage version control which is useful."

"The most important feature of GitHub is the maintainability of the versions of the code."

"The ease of use is valuable."

"GitHub is a very good tool, and people should use it more than any other, even Bitbucket."

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"The product detects memory corruptions."

"The outputs are very reliable."

"Efficiency and speed are the advantages I see in Code Sonar over Polyspace Code Prover."

"Polyspace Code Prover is a very user-friendly tool."

"When we work on safety modules, it is mandatory to fulfill ISO 26262 compliance. Using Prover helps fulfill the standard on top of many other quality checks, like division by zero, data type casts, and null pointer dereferences."

"Polyspace Code Prover has made me realize it differs from other static code analysis tools because it runs the code. So it's quite distinct in that aspect."

Cons

"When solving merge conflicts, it would be helpful to have tooltips within the actions to know what changes could happen next when resolving a conflict."

"There is a bit of a learning curve."

"There is nothing that I find that needs improvement in GitHub."

"Could be more user friendly."

"This solution could be improved if migration was fully automated to make it easy, for example, to migrate repositories into GitHub."

"The solution should have less integration with the AI part, but it needs to add features with other automation tools so that it can be easily integrated."

"This solution could be improved by offering crowd sourced support where we could ask questions to other users."

"Sometimes we do not get the exact solution, and the suggested solution does not work, so GitHub could improve in that area."

More GitHub cons

"Automation could be a challenge."

"One of the main disadvantages is the time it takes to initiate the first run."

"The tool has some stability issues."

"Using Code Prover on large applications crashes sometimes."

"I'd like the data to be taken from any format."

"Because we had difficulties in efficiently integrating Polyspace Code Prover into our CI toolchain, these tests are mostly run manually and only occasionally."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"If I consider the market standards, the product's price is pocket-friendly."

"The price of this solution is reasonable."

"You don't have to pay for a license if you are using the free version."

"We have an enterprise licensing agreement, and I am not part of the finance department so I can't say how much it costs."

"Regarding pricing, I'd rate it eight out of ten. It's decent and not too expensive, and small businesses can also afford it. With AWS taking CodeCommit out of the market, I don't see many competitors for small companies in terms of GitHub."

"If there are only 10 people using a particular repository, then GitHub is free. But if we increase the number of users, we need to pay the normal charge for GitHub."

"The private repositories are free, which is very good."

"We pay a subscription-based yearly licensing fee for the solution."

More GitHub pricing and cost advice

"We use the paid version."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

39%

Computer Software Company

Aerospace/Defense Firm

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	42
Midsize Enterprise	13
Large Enterprise	49

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	6

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about GitHub?

The control is the most valuable feature as developers can work on a single code.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for GitHub?

I was paying approximately one hundred dollars annually about a year ago. I am uncertain of the current cost, but GitHub without Copilot is free as far as I know. I am not paying anything for my Gi...

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What needs improvement with GitHub?

Security could make GitHub better. OWASP Top Ten security advisors could be integrated on GitHub, and it could provide checks and advice. That would be much better. Additionally, LLM integration on...

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What do you like most about Polyspace Code Prover?

When we work on safety modules, it is mandatory to fulfill ISO 26262 compliance. Using Prover helps fulfill the standard on top of many other quality checks, like division by zero, data type casts,...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Polyspace Code Prover?

We use the paid version.

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What needs improvement with Polyspace Code Prover?

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Overview

GitHub is a web-based Git repository hosting service. It offers all of the distributed revision control and source code management (SCM) functionality of Git as well as adding its own features. Unlike Git, which is strictly a command-line tool, GitHub provides a Web-based graphical interface and desktop as well as mobile integration. It also provides access control and several collaboration features such as bug tracking, feature requests, task management, and wikis for every project.

GitHub

Polyspace Code Prover is a sound static analysis tool that proves the absence of overflow, divide-by-zero, out-of-bounds array access, and certain other run-time errors in C and C++ source code. It produces results without requiring program execution, code instrumentation, or test cases. Polyspace Code Prover uses semantic analysis and abstract interpretation based on formal methods to verify software interprocedural, control, and data flow behavior. You can use it on handwritten code, generated code, or a combination of the two. Each operation is color-coded to indicate whether it is free of run-time errors, proven to fail, unreachable, or unproven.

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Sample Customers

Dominion Enterprises, NASA, Braintree, SAP, CyberAgent

Alenia Aermacchi, CSEE Transport, Delphi Diesel Systems, EADS, Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety, Korean Air, KOSTAL, Miracor, NASA Ames Research Center

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