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Best Application Security Testing Software

Compare 9 products that meet the research threshold. Ranking uses category-specific buying scores and keeps fit conditions, limitations, and evidence confidence visible.

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Application Security Testing Software

Filter by fit first, then compare cost, capability depth, and buying constraints. Rank is a starting point, not the decision.

#1

Snyk AI Security Platform

Snyk AI Security Platform combines Snyk Code SAST, Snyk Open Source SCA, Snyk Container, and Snyk IaC with IDE, repository, pull-request, CLI, CI/CD, prioritization, remediation, reporting, and enterprise governance workflows.

83Category score
Pricing
  • Free plan available — see plan limits
  • Paid · Team · $25 USD · per contributing developer · per month · starting at · Development teams purchasing one or more Snyk products at the Team plan level
  • Paid · Ignite · $1260 USD · per contributing developer · per year · starting at · Organizations with fewer than 50 developers
  • Custom quote required for some paid plans
Best for
  • Mid-market
  • Enterprise
  • Small business
Strong fit for
  • Developer-led AppSec programs standardizing security checks in IDE, repository, pull-request and CI/CD workflows
  • Organizations consolidating SAST, SCA, container and IaC testing under one plan level while retaining module selection
Check before buying
  • Buyers requiring one fully public all-module price with a published commitment and renewal schedule
  • Teams assuming DAST, API testing, secrets, IAST, Evo, human validation or runtime protection are in every Snyk platform plan
#2

Invicti Platform

Invicti Platform is a DAST-first application security testing and posture management platform that combines web and API testing, proof-based runtime validation, SAST, SCA, container and infrastructure-as-code scanning, secrets detection, ASPM, and developer workflow automation.

81Category score
Pricing
  • Custom quote required for some paid plans
Best for
  • Enterprise
  • Mid-market
Strong fit for
  • Enterprise AppSec teams prioritizing proof-based DAST and API security
  • Programs consolidating code, dependency, container, IaC, secrets, and runtime findings
Check before buying
  • Buyers requiring published numeric pricing or a permanent free plan
  • Small teams seeking the separate Acunetix product rather than an enterprise AppSec platform
#3

Mend AppSec

Mend AppSec is Mend.io's application security platform for SAST, SCA, container-image scanning, AI-assisted code security, dependency updates, risk prioritization, policy enforcement, and reporting across developer workflows.

81Category score
Pricing
  • Paid · Mend AppSec · 1000 · per contributing developer · per year · Up to the displayed rate for each contributing developer, as defined by Mend.io
Best for
  • Enterprise
  • Mid-market
Strong fit for
  • Mid-market and enterprise AppSec programs consolidating SAST, SCA, and container-image security
  • Organizations prioritizing reachable and exploitable open-source and container risk
Check before buying
  • Teams requiring a permanent free production plan
  • Buyers requiring a published minimum price or deterministic total before contacting sales
#4

HCL AppScan

HCL AppScan is an application security testing family spanning hosted and self-managed SAST, DAST, IAST, SCA, API, secrets, container, and infrastructure-as-code testing with developer workflows, centralized risk management, and remediation guidance.

81Category score
Pricing
  • Free plan available — see plan limits
  • Paid · Professional · $29.99 USD · per scan · per usage unit · Limited single-scan offer · promotional · minimum 1 scan · Professional credit-card purchase in a listed country; 1 to 100 scans per order
  • Paid · Professional · $299 USD · per scan · per usage unit · Displayed regular reference price · reference · Professional plan reference price displayed beside the limited offer
  • Custom quote required for some paid plans
Best for
  • Mid-market
  • Enterprise
  • Small business
Strong fit for
  • Developers starting with free SAST in code-review workflows
  • Small and midsize teams buying hosted SAST, DAST, or SCA scans as needed
Check before buying
  • Buyers requiring complete public pricing for every AppScan product and service
  • Teams expecting the 14-day trial to remain available as a free plan
#5

Veracode Application Risk Management Platform

Veracode is a modular cloud-native application risk management platform with separately licensed SAST, DAST, SCA, and container/IaC capabilities, plus platform governance, developer integrations, optional AI remediation, and separately scoped expert services.

80Category score
Pricing
  • Custom quote required for some paid plans
Best for
  • Enterprise
  • Mid-market
Strong fit for
  • Enterprises with large polyglot application portfolios and formal AppSec governance
  • Teams that need SAST, DAST, SCA, API, container, IaC, and secrets workflows on one SaaS platform
Check before buying
  • Buyers requiring public self-service pricing and a complete package matrix
  • Very small teams seeking a simple permanent-free scanner
#6

Semgrep AppSec Platform

Semgrep AppSec Platform unifies Semgrep Code SAST, Semgrep Supply Chain SCA, and Semgrep Secrets with Pro Engine analysis, AI-assisted triage and remediation, policy controls, developer integrations, reporting, and managed or customer-run scanning.

80Category score
Pricing
  • Free plan available — see plan limits
  • Paid · Teams · $30 USD · per contributor · per month · Teams Code license · Teams customers selecting Semgrep Code
  • Paid · Teams · $30 USD · per contributor · per month · Teams Supply Chain license · Teams customers selecting Semgrep Supply Chain
  • Custom quote required for some paid plans
Best for
  • Small business
  • Mid-market
  • Enterprise
Strong fit for
  • Developer-led AppSec programs emphasizing pull-request and CI/CD guardrails
  • Polyglot teams needing broad SAST coverage and custom security rules
Check before buying
  • Programs requiring DAST, IAST, dynamic API testing, container scanning, and SAST in one core license
  • Buyers requiring human manual validation or an outsourced managed AppSec operation
#7

GitHub Advanced Security

GitHub Advanced Security is GitHub's application-security product family. Its current standalone offers are GitHub Secret Protection for secret detection and prevention, and GitHub Code Security for CodeQL scanning, premium dependency security, Copilot Autofix, and organization-level security workflows.

79Category score
Pricing
  • Paid · GitHub Secret Protection · $19 USD · per active committer · per month · Metered monthly billing · usage based · billed monthly · GitHub Team or GitHub Enterprise organization using metered billing for licensed repository use
  • Paid · GitHub Code Security · $30 USD · per active committer · per month · Metered monthly billing · usage based · billed monthly · GitHub Team or GitHub Enterprise organization using metered billing for licensed repository use
Best for
  • Mid-market
  • Enterprise
  • Small business
Strong fit for
  • GitHub-native development organizations that want AppSec feedback in pull requests and repository workflows
  • Teams that need CodeQL SAST, dependency review, Dependabot automation, and Copilot Autofix for private repositories
Check before buying
  • Programs requiring native DAST, IAST, API security testing, container-image scanning, or manual validation in the same product
  • Organizations whose source estate is primarily outside GitHub and that do not want to operate through SARIF or separate platform products
#8

Black Duck Polaris Platform

Black Duck Polaris Platform is a cloud-native SaaS application security platform that combines Polaris fAST Static, fAST SCA, and fAST Dynamic with IaC analysis, secrets detection, DevOps integrations, centralized policy, risk scoring, dashboards, and reporting.

79Category score
Pricing
  • Custom quote required for some paid plans
Best for
  • Enterprise
  • Mid-market
Strong fit for
  • Enterprise AppSec programs consolidating SAST, SCA, DAST, API, IaC, and secrets testing in one SaaS platform
  • Developer-led security programs using SCM discovery, pull-request feedback, IDEs, CI/CD, policies, APIs, and issue trackers
Check before buying
  • Teams requiring a transparent numeric price, public minimum, or deterministic total before contacting sales
  • Buyers requiring a permanent free production plan
#9

Checkmarx One

Checkmarx One is an enterprise application security platform that combines configurable SAST, SCA, API security, DAST, IaC, container, supply-chain, runtime, ASPM, and AI-assisted remediation capabilities in shared developer and governance workflows.

76Category score
Pricing
  • Custom quote required for some paid plans
Best for
  • Enterprise
  • Mid-market
Strong fit for
  • Mid-market and enterprise organizations consolidating multiple AppSec testing and governance workflows
  • Polyglot development estates that need SAST depth plus open-source, API, IaC, container, supply-chain, and runtime options
Check before buying
  • Small teams prioritizing transparent low-cost self-service purchasing
  • Buyers requiring a permanent free platform plan or unsupervised platform trial

How this list is produced

How this list is produced

A product is included only when it is published, has a complete fact package, supported fit and non-fit conclusions, stored dimension rationales, and no blocking commercial conflict.

  1. Confirm that every product belongs to the same purchasable software category.
  2. Use official evidence for pricing, capabilities, limits, and commercial scope.
  3. Rank with the stored category dimensions and buyer-facing rationales.
  4. Keep unknowns and purchase checks visible; model output is not evidence by itself.

Frequently asked questions

Frequently asked questions

Is the highest-scoring product right for every buyer?

No. Scores use a shared Application Security Testing Software framework, while the right choice still depends on team size, budget, ecosystem, security requirements, and required capabilities.

Does this list change when products change?

Pages change when newly verified research is published. Check each product’s evidence date; prices are not live.

Are these scores user ratings?

No. They are editorial buying scores built from structured facts and category dimensions. Third-party user ratings are shown separately with their sources.

This page compares published products in Application Security Testing Software. Scores are editorial fit assessments for this buying category, not user ratings or a claim that one product is universally superior.

This is public-evidence buying research, not an account-based hands-on test. Interface quality, implementation effort, support response, and negotiated terms still require buyer verification.