We performed a comparison between Checkmarx and Snyk based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Snyk has an edge in this comparison. According to its reviewers, it is a less expensive product than Checkmarx.
"Most valuable features include: ease of use, dashboard. interface and the ability to report."
"The solution improved the efficiency of our code security reviews. It helps tremendously because it finds hundreds of potential problems sometimes."
"Scan reviews can occur during the development lifecycle."
"The SAST component was absolutely 100% stable."
"The administration in Checkmarx is very good."
"The features and technologies are very good. The flexibility and the roadmap have also been very good. They're at the forefront of delivering the additional capabilities that are required with cloud delivery, etc. Their ability to deliver what customers require and when they require is very important."
"The most valuable features of Checkmarx are the Best Fix Location and the Payments option because you can save a lot of time trying to mitigate the configuration. Using these tools can save you a lot of time."
"It's not an obstacle for developers. They can easily write their code and make it more secure with Checkmarx."
"It's very easy for developers to use. Onboarding was an easy process for all of the developers within the company. After a quick, half-an-hour to an hour session, they were fully using it on their own. It's very straightforward. Usability is definitely a 10 out of 10."
"The most valuable feature is that they add a lot of their own information to the vulnerabilities. They describe vulnerabilities and suggest their own mitigations or version upgrades. The information was the winning factor when we compared Snyk to others. This is what gave it more impact."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It has a nice dashboard where I can see all the vulnerabilities and risks that they provided. I can also see the category of any risk, such as medium, high, and low. They provide the input priority-wise. The team can target the highest one first, and then they can go to medium and low ones."
"The most valuable features are their GitLab and JIRA integrations. The GitLab integration lets us pull projects in pretty easily, so that it's pretty minimal for developers to get it set up. Using the JIRA integration, it's also pretty easy to get the information that is generated, as a result of that GitLab integration, back to our teams in a non-intrusive way and in a workflow that we are already using."
"The most effective feature in securing project dependencies stems from its ability to highlight security vulnerabilities."
"The most valuable features include enriched information around the vulnerabilities for better triaging, in terms of the vulnerability layer origin and vulnerability tree."
"It has an accurate database of vulnerabilities with a low amount of false positives."
"As the solution becomes more complex and feature rich, it takes more time to debug and resolve problems. Feature-wise, we have no complaints, but Checkmarx becomes harder to maintain as the product becomes more complex. When I talk to support, it takes them longer to fix the problem than it used to."
"The product can be improved by continuing to expand the application languages and frameworks that can be scanned for vulnerabilities. This includes expanded coverage for mobile applications as well as open-source development tools."
"You can't use it in the continuous delivery pipeline because the scanning takes too much time."
"It would be really helpful if the level of confidence was included, with respect to identified issues."
"They can support the remaining languages that are currently not supported. They can also create a different model that can identify zero-day attacks. They can work on different patterns to identify and detect zero-day vulnerability attacks."
"Its pricing model can be improved. Sometimes, it is a little complex to understand its pricing model."
"I would like the product to include more debugging and developed tools. It needs to also add enhancements on the coding side."
"The reports are good, but they still need to be improved considering what the UI offers."
"The feature for automatic fixing of security breaches could be improved."
"They need to improve the Snyk plugins and make it easier to make your optimizations based on your own needs or features."
"Compatibility with other products would be great."
"For the areas that they're new in, it's very early stages for them. For example, their expertise is in looking at third-party components and packages, which is their bread-and-butter and what they've been doing for ages, but for newer features such as static analysis I don't think they've got compatibility for all the languages and frameworks yet."
"The product is very expensive."
"The tool's initial use is complex."
"We have seen cases where tools didn't find or recognize certain dependencies. These are known issues, to some extent, due to the complexity in the language or stack that you using. There are some certain circumstances where the tool isn't actually finding what it's supposed to be finding, then it could be misleading."
"I think Snyk should add more of a vulnerability protection feature in the tool since it is an area where it lacks."
Checkmarx One is ranked 2nd in DevSecOps with 67 reviews while Snyk is ranked 1st in DevSecOps with 41 reviews. Checkmarx One is rated 7.6, while Snyk is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Checkmarx One writes "The report function is a great, configurable asset but sometimes yields false positives". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Snyk writes "Performs software composition analysis (SCA) similar to other expensive tools". Checkmarx One is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Fortify on Demand, Coverity and Mend.io, whereas Snyk is most compared with SonarQube, Black Duck, GitHub Advanced Security, Fortify Static Code Analyzer and Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks. See our Checkmarx One vs. Snyk report.
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