Invicti vs Klocwork comparison

Invicti and Perforce are both solutions in the Static Application Security Testing (SAST) category. Invicti is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.4, while Perforce is ranked #15 with an average rating of 7.8. Invicti holds a 2.0% mindshare in SAST, compared to Perforce’s 1.4% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Invicti users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of Perforce users who would recommend it.

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96% willing to recommend

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93% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 8, 2024

Invicti and Klocwork compete in software security and code analysis. Users lean towards Klocwork for its comprehensive feature set.

Features: Invicti is valued for its extensive scanning capabilities, ease of integration with various environments, and user-friendly interface. Klocwork is favored for deep static code analysis, support for multiple programming languages, and advanced analysis features.

Room for Improvement: Invicti needs to improve reporting functionalities, scan speeds, and user interface intuitiveness. Klocwork requires enhancements in documentation clarity, setup simplicity, and user interface design.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Invicti offers simple deployment and reliable customer service, ensuring a smooth user start. Klocwork, while supported by responsive customer service, faces complexity during deployment.

Pricing and ROI: Invicti is cost-effective for smaller teams, offering good ROI. Klocwork's features justify higher costs, with strong long-term ROI for larger enterprises.

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Categories and Ranking

Invicti

Ranking in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

11th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Container Security (25th), Software Composition Analysis (SCA) (10th), API Security (10th), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) (4th), Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) (9th)

Klocwork

Ranking in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

15th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Security Tools (21st), Static Code Analysis (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Static Application Security Testing (SAST) category, the mindshare of Invicti is 2.0%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Klocwork is 1.4%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Invicti	2.0%
Klocwork	1.4%
Other	96.6%

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

Featured Reviews

PrashantUppuluri

Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Automated scanning has strengthened web application security and supports hybrid protection

A good scanning engine is what I appreciate about Invicti. When you want to find out the vulnerabilities within your web applications, Invicti has done a thorough job with respect to filtering out the vulnerabilities and identifying the risk factors with respect to the security modules within the solution. Invicti does have a segment of the solution which works on the automated scanning engine. As long as the license is active, the scanners that work within the solution are pretty effective. With respect to SAST and DAST, being a real-time scanning engine is one of the portfolios and one of the selling factors of the solution. Invicti is known to be a solution that works within the hybrid environment, be it cloud, on-premises, or a mix and match across multiple marketplaces. It does a thorough job. Most importantly, Invicti is a very good SAST and DAST solution that is very competitive in the market with respect to competitors. Invicti is a part of the Magic Quadrant with respect to Gartner's Magic Quadrant and has made a very good customer database and pipeline within the marketplace locally. With respect to security impacts in terms of support, Invicti is pretty much supportive. With respect to use cases or the POCs I have run on the solution, we have identified a couple of vulnerabilities and Invicti was able to trace them, detect, and quarantine the attacks.

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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

"I would definitely recommend it to those who really want to know in-depth details of their applications/products regarding security."

"This tool is really fast and the information that they provide on vulnerabilities is pretty good."

"The scanner and the result generator are valuable features for us."

"We use simultaneous products, but I found this to be the best of the lot."

"The scanner is light on the network and does not impact the network when scans are running."

"I would definitely recommend to those who really want to know in-depth details of their applications/products regarding the security of their web system."

"It is a very good tool."

"Its ability to crawl a web application is quite different than another similar scanner, and sometimes it can find more vulnerabilities that another scanner can’t."

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"Using Klocwork, we have cleared all these issues without much difficulty."

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

"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."

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

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

"Klocwork is a good product, but keep in mind that before building the code you have to get a report."

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

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Cons

"The scanning time, complexity, and authentication features of Invicti could be improved."

"The solution's false positive analysis and vulnerability analysis libraries could be improved."

"The higher level vulnerabilities like Cross-Site Scripting, SQL Injection, and other higher level injection attacks are difficult to highlight using Netsparker."

"I find that the scannings are not sufficiently updated."

"Perhaps the custom attack preparation screen might be improved."

"When scanning a large web-based application, it tends to process slow and takes a long time especially on crawling and attacking part."

"The proxy review, the use report views, the current use tool and the subset requests need some improvement. It was hard to understand how to use them."

"Maybe the ability to make a good reporting format is needed."

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"The way to define the rules is too complex."

"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."

"Modern languages, such as Angular and .NET, should be included as a part of Klocwork."

"The main problem is that since it only parses the code, the warnings or the problems that are given as a result of the report can sometimes require a lot of effort to analyze."

"For an improved product, we'd like to see integration with Agile DevOps and Agile methodologies."

"Klocwork has to improve its features to stay ahead of other free solutions."

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

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We are using an NFR license and I do not know the exact price of the NFR license. I think 20 FQDN for three years would cost around 35,000 US Dollars."

"I think that price it too high, like other Security applications such as Acunetix, WebInspect, and so on."

"Invicti is best suited for large enterprises. I don't think small and medium-sized businesses can afford it. Maintenance costs aren't that great."

"We never had any issues with the licensing; the price was within our assigned limits."

"Netsparker is one of the costliest products in the market. It would help if they could allow us to scan multiple URLs on the same license."

"The solution is very expensive. It comes with a yearly subscription. We were paying 6000 dollars yearly for unlimited scans. We have three licenses; basic, business, and ultimate. We need ultimate because it has unlimited scan numbers."

"It is competitive in the security market."

"OWASP Zap is free and it has live updates, so that's a big plus."

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"This solution offers competitive pricing."

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

"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 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."

"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."

"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."

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

21%

Construction Company

Transportation Company

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	14
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	13

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	13

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Netsparker Web Application Security Scanner?

The setup cost is pretty competitive. For example, if you want to talk about the SAST license, it comes to about $150 or sometimes less than $100, depending on the conversion or the number of licen...

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What needs improvement with Invicti?

At this time, there is nothing that comes to mind. However, most of the products in the market are pretty much neck-to-neck competitors. Speaking about it, there are a couple of factors which they ...

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What is your primary use case for Invicti?

I have worked on a couple of products, specifically in web application security. I have worked on Invicti, and with respect to PAM, I have worked with BeyondTrust. I have not worked specifically fo...

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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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Overview

Invicti offers advanced web application security testing focused on identifying vulnerabilities like SQL injection and cross-site scripting. Its Proof-Based Scanning minimizes false positives and integrates seamlessly with CI/CD pipelines, making it an effective tool for enterprise environments.

Invicti provides comprehensive scanning capabilities that include detecting and verifying critical vulnerabilities and security data consolidation. Its scalable scanning engine and robust API support allow for flexible testing across diverse environments, including web and API testing. Despite some drawbacks like limited single sign-on integration and slow scanning speeds for large applications, Invicti remains a popular choice for automating security assessments, ensuring compliance with standards like OWASP Top 10, PCI DSS, and GDPR.

What are the key features of Invicti?

Comprehensive Vulnerability Scanning: Detects vulnerabilities like SQL injection and XSS.
Proof-Based Scanning: Confirms exploitability and reduces false positives.
CI/CD Integration: Seamlessly integrates with development pipelines.
Security Data Consolidation: Centralizes data for better insights.
User-Friendly Interface: Facilitates easy analysis and reporting.
Scalable Scanning Engine: Supports testing in enterprise environments.
Robust API Support: Enhances flexibility in testing.

What benefits and ROI should users look for in reviews?

Proactive Security: Actively identifies and verifies vulnerabilities to prevent breaches.
Regulatory Compliance: Helps maintain compliance with standards like PCI DSS and GDPR.
Efficient Vulnerability Management: Aids in prioritizing remediation efforts.
Integration Capabilities: Streamlines processes with CI/CD pipeline compatibility.

In industries like finance, healthcare, and e-commerce, Invicti is implemented to bolster security through automated vulnerability assessments. Its ability to provide insightful reports and remediation suggestions assists companies in efficiently managing security risks and achieving compliance with critical regulatory standards.

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Klocwork offers advanced static code analysis with integration capabilities for enhanced development efficiency, supporting various development environments and providing clear defect reports. It streamlines software development by reducing defects and improving code quality.

Klocwork integrates seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines, providing real-time and incremental analysis to identify and rectify code defects quickly. It supports multiple integrated development environments (IDEs) and minimizes false positives in its analysis. While primarily supporting C/C++, Java, and C#, there is a need to expand language support and enhance its static analysis engine. The tool assists in adhering to industry standards with features like automated code parsing and MISRA compliance checks. Ease of setup and collaboration capabilities further promotes efficiency, although the dashboard could benefit from user-friendly updates and better integration with Agile tools.

What are the primary features of Klocwork?

Static Code Analysis: Identifies vulnerabilities and defects in code with reduced false positives.
CI/CD Integration: Seamlessly embeds into continuous integration and delivery pipelines for efficient testing.
Customizable Checkers: Allows users to tailor checkers according to specific project needs.
On-the-fly Analysis: Provides incremental analysis to detect issues during coding, reducing development time.
IDE Support: Functions across multiple IDEs, enhancing developer workflow and productivity.

What benefits should users expect from Klocwork?

Reduced Development Time: By detecting issues early, faster development cycles are achieved.
Improved Code Quality: Helps in maintaining high code standards and adherence to compliance checks.
Efficient Collaboration: Streamlines team collaboration with easy integration and analysis reports.
Enhanced Maintainability: Through automation and efficient detection of memory-related and security issues.

Klocwork is extensively implemented in industries that prioritize software quality and security standards, particularly in environments focused on C/C++ development on Linux systems. Its capabilities in automated code parsing, traffic analysis, and support for DevOps integration make it invaluable for industries requiring strict MISRA compliance and internal standards adherence. By aiding refactoring and detecting memory-related vulnerabilities, Klocwork contributes to the maintainability and security standards in these sectors.

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Sample Customers

Samsung, The Walt Disney Company, T-Systems, ING Bank

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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