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    SonarQube

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ASonarQube is an automated code review solution, serving as the verification layer for code quality and SDLC security. SonarQube is used to ensure that code is secure, reliable, and maintainable. It is available through SaaS or self-managed deployment.

    $34

    per month Recommended for teams <50 developers

    Veracode

    Score8.5 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Veracode provides advanced application security solutions, trusted by enterprises to develop and maintain secure software. Its platform identifies exploitable risks, speeds up vulnerability remediation, and reduces security debt at scale using a proprietary AI-assisted remediation engine.N/A
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    SonarQubeVeracode
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    SonarQube Community Build
    $0
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    Self-managed: Developer
    Starting at $720 annually
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    SonarQubeVeracode
    Free Trial
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    Community Pulse
    SonarQubeVeracode
    Considered Both Products
    SonarSource Sarl
    Chose SonarQube
    SonarQube is more focused on code quality, whereas Veracode does a better job of finding security vulnerabilities. We lean towards SonarQube because we are looking for quality.
    Incentivized
    Chose SonarQube
    Sonar Qube doesn't do as good of a job of finding security vulnerabilities as dedicated SAST software, but it does more for code quality that the developers want to see. A comparison of Sonar Qube to something like Veracode or Fortify isn't apples to apples since they're not …
    Incentivized
    Chose SonarQube
    Setting up with Azure devops is easier.
    Scans results and depth of tweaking/whitelisting code snippets is easier with SonarQube.
    Incentivized
    Veracode
    Chose Veracode
    Sonar cube was quicker, but not as thorough. Both integrated into our CI/CD pipeline, however the integration for Veracode is more straight forward.
    Incentivized
    Chose Veracode
    SonarQube doesn't have the required code scanning vulnerability detecting service.
    Incentivized
    Chose Veracode
    I have used SonarQube for code quality and security analysis in the past, but Veracode's Software Composition Analysis analysis makes a big difference in terms of identifying vulnerabilities in dependencies. It would make it a lot easier if the IDE plugin could show the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Veracode
    SonarQube is better at identifying code smells (code quality) but Veracode is better at identifying vulnerabilities when it comes to csharp.
    Incentivized
    Chose Veracode
    Earlier in our organisation, Fortify was used (formerly from HP but now owned by Micro Focus). The general consensus was that there was too much noise (false positives), taking a lot of time to find and then fix the real issues.

    SonarQube is also used in our organisation but not …
    Incentivized
    Chose Veracode
    SonarQube or Sonar Cloud focuses on scanning for coding good practice and code security is not covered as extensively as Veracode. SonarQube is free but required installation on an on-prem server. Subscription to Sonar Cloud (Saas version of Sonar Qube) is cheaper but does not …
    Incentivized
    Chose Veracode
    SonarQube is faster and can be free, but the security scanning capabilities are a joke compared to Veracode.
    Unlike SonarQube, Veracode goes deeper into finding a very wide variety of vulnerabilities and best practices that should be applied to software and provides reporting …
    Incentivized
    Chose Veracode
    SonarQube is a great general code quality analyzer, and we do use it as a companion to Veracode. However, it's not security-focused and tends to have a higher false-positive rate for security issues it flags. It's also not as easy to generate reports from the findings unless …
    Incentivized
    Chose Veracode
    Veracode takes compiled code, so integration, regression based test cases can be evaluated well. Now, it has lot of features ranging from API sec to DAST, so have a code which is well working in live env is very essential to setup and hence giving us an edge over other tools. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Veracode
    Mainly for reporting: Veracode reports are really comprehensive
    Incentivized
    Chose Veracode
    Why you selected Veracode?
    Stack coverage.
    Integration into our pipeline and ticketing tools.
    Incentivized
    Chose Veracode
    Veracode is much better at uncovering security weaknesses and providing information and consulting. I use Veracode because our company decided for.
    Incentivized
    Chose Veracode
    The maturity of the Veracode and the continuous improvements in its products it's one of the principal characteristics of chosee it, Veracode it's a SaaS platform and was born in the cloud, so this is a great option for our clients to be quick to implement also the easy of …
    Incentivized
    Chose Veracode
    More comprehensive.
    Incentivized
    Chose Veracode
    My organization use veracode.
    Incentivized
    Chose Veracode
    Once we learn how to use Veracode, its simple and very efficient tool to include in any of your devops environments like Dev, QA, Staging , UAT etc. The configuration is much simpler compared to others. The Enterprise license cost is also competitive compared to others. The …
    Incentivized
    Chose Veracode
    It is company's higher authorities' decision to use Veracode over other products
    Incentivized
    Chose Veracode
    Veracode has a very good integration within its products, which makes it easy for a developer. Veracode helps in providing support both actively and through resources on their platform to remediate and fix the issues found in one's application. The reporting section being …
    Incentivized
    Chose Veracode
    Veracode stands out for trusted community results, vendor relationship, and partner channels to support and provide a close relationship.
    Integration capacity is a good point when deciding to integrate with DevOps framework.
    Incentivized
    Chose Veracode
    Veracode has a better security analysis and detection.
    Incentivized
    Chose Veracode
    Veracode speaks on very practical, actual security issues rather than thousands of code quality issues.
    Incentivized
    Chose Veracode
    Veracode is a solution easy to set up and integrate with virtually any pipeline--a single product for three solutions.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    SonarQubeVeracode
    Highlights

    TrustRadius
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    SonarQube and Veracode are application security and code quality management options. SonarQube provides a free and open source community edition and focuses on static code analysis, while Veracode provides SAST, but also DAST, IAST, and penetration testing, as well as application security consulting.SonarQube is deployed among businesses of all sizes, notably midsize and larger companies, while Veracode is more widely adopted, and somewhat more likely to appear in larger enterprises who might wish to take advantage of Veracode’s more extensive services.

    Features

    Users of SonarQube and Veracode point out distinct advantages to both solutions.

    SonarQube is a SAST specialist which excels in its core competency. It allows users to set their own coding standards and enforce them, and ensure best practice. Users describe an excellent code checking process, and detailed issue and bug tracking with commenting and issue highlighting. SonarQube integrates well into a CI/CD pipeline.

    Veracode provides CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) reporting and its users learn to rely on its vulnerability scanning; Veracode’s static scans are said to provide clear identification of issues, and useful reporting with detailed recommendations for triage. Veracode is not only highly regarded for SAST, but training, consultation, and support, which users also have learned to trust.

    Limitations

    A few elements of each product may give some users pause when considering which is right for them.

    While SonarQube is praised for enforcing coding standards, it is not as well-regarded as a security tool. Also, being less widely adopted, users point to unreliability in some of its integrations (Jira), and an open source community that is not as active as other more widely adopted tools. Also, SonarQube provides SAST only.

    While Veracode is appealing as an all-in-one app security and coding standard tool, its DAST features are said by some to be less reliable than alternatives. A large number of users also find the user interface not to their liking, describing a steep learning curve to get started, terminating in a cumbersome process of getting around even for experienced users.

    Pricing

    Users can get started with SonarQube free via the open source Community Edition. Paid plans are priced per instance per year, starting with the Developer Edition that adds Branch Analysis and other vulnerability detection features for $150, the Enterprise Edition which adds advanced reporting and portfolio management for $20,000, and the Data Center edition available for $130,000. Veracode pricing is not published and shared freely, though present and past users share some information, and describe the service as “pricey,” but fair for its capabilities.

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    User Ratings
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (35 ratings)
    8.3
    (144 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    6.3
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    Usability
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    5.5
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    Availability
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    Performance
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    5.5
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    Configurability
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
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    4.5
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    Ease of integration
    -
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    6.4
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    Product Scalability
    -
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    6.4
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    6.4
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    8.2
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    User Testimonials
    SonarQubeVeracode
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SonarSource Sarl
    SonarQube is excellent if you start using it at the beginning when developing a new system, in this situation you will be able to fix things before they become spread and expensive to correct. It’s a bit less suitable to use on existing code with bad design as it’s usually too expensive to fix everything and only allows you to ensure the situation doesn’t get worse.
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    Veracode
    Veracode helped us our team's developers in saving time significantly. For instance, if I take a library and assume it's going to work until it reaches QA or UAT, where we find out there's a vulnerability, that can require extensive effort for code refactoring or redesigning; Veracode helps prevent that before the pull request is merged.
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    Pros
    SonarSource Sarl
    • Detecting bugs and vulnerabilities: SonarQube can identify a wide range of bugs and vulnerabilities in code, such as null pointer exceptions, SQL injection, and cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. It uses static analysis to analyze the code and identify potential issues, and it can also integrate with dynamic analysis tools to provide even more detailed analysis.
    • Measuring code quality: SonarQube can measure a wide range of code quality metrics, such as cyclomatic complexity, duplicated code, and code coverage. This can help teams understand the quality of their code and identify areas that need improvement.
    • Providing actionable insights: SonarQube provides detailed information about issues in the code, including the file and line number where the issue occurs and the severity of the issue. This makes it easy for developers to understand and address issues in the code.
    • Integrating with other tools: SonarQube can be integrated with a wide range of development tools and programming languages, such as Git, Maven, and Java. This allows teams to use SonarQube in their existing development workflow and take advantage of its powerful code analysis capabilities.
    • Managing technical debt: SonarQube provides metrics and insights on the technical debt on the codebase, enabling teams to better prioritize issues to improve the quality of the code.
    • Compliance with coding standards: SonarQube can check the code against industry standards like OWASP, CWE and more, making sure the code is compliant with security and coding standards.
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    Veracode
    • It is good at recommending fixing issues with third-party dependencies used in application code with detailed version information and knowing which version fixes what.
    • It has a very nice interface for triaging flaws. One can sort the vulnerabilities found in code from Very Likely to be exploited to least likely to be exploited.
    • There is a collections feature that allows us to group together groups of application profiles belonging to the same suite of applications.
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    Cons
    SonarSource Sarl
    • Importing a new custom quality profile on SonarQube is a bit tricky, it can be made easier
    • Every second time when we want to rerun the server, we have to restart the whole system, otherwise, the server stops and closes automatically
    • When we generate a new report a second time and try to access the report, it shows details of the old report only and takes a lot of time to get updated with the details of the new and fresh report generated
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    Veracode
    • Scan results stability: from one scan to another, additional flaws appear whereas code did not change.
    • Entry points selection: hard to be sure selection is optimal, should be automatized or hidden.
    • Branches management: we currently use sandboxes to scan different branches of our software. Would be good to have real branches management.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    SonarSource Sarl
    No answers on this topic
    Veracode
    At this time, and we just renewed a month ago, I dont see any products out there overall that can offer what Veracode does. Yes, its not cheap by any means, but for the money its the best application security scanning tool out there.
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    Usability
    SonarSource Sarl
    It can improve in some user experience and usability parts, like the code view and the way we assign issues it's a bit hidden and not highlighted
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    Veracode
    - Almost no setup required and easy to configure - Very easy to use, intuitive UI with integrated analytics and learning portals. - Seamless to review the results, triage them, generate reports. - Security progression of the product/application is tracked via successive scans. - Privileges/Roles nicely fine grained and tightly controlled to let teams "view" only their products.
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    Reliability and Availability
    SonarSource Sarl
    No answers on this topic
    Veracode
    Veracode has always been up and available to us.
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    Performance
    SonarSource Sarl
    No answers on this topic
    Veracode
    At this point, it runs well and mostly in a timely fashion. Dynamic scans take days but this may be a config issue still to be resolved.
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    Support Rating
    SonarSource Sarl
    We we easily able to integrate the SonarQube steps into our TFS process via the Microsoft Marektplace, we didn't have the need to call SonarQube support. We've used their online documentation and community forum if we ran into any issues.
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    Veracode
    Overall, Veracode support is helpful, community support is great, and documentation is available for self-service. Our Customer Success Manager is very helpful and reaches out regularly to see if we need assistance. We have not utilized many of the other resources offered by Veracode, however, in the future we would like to leverage secure coding training for our Development teams.
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    Implementation Rating
    SonarSource Sarl
    No answers on this topic
    Veracode
    We use it as a SAS service, so really just getting our teams to mold the use of Veracode into their SDLC has been a process of years in the making. It comes down to what your teams are ready and willing to accept and change. Management is key in getting their groups on board with using it regularly. If it doesnt have management backing, your security teams have little to no influence in getting this process off the ground fully.
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    Alternatives Considered
    SonarSource Sarl
    SonarQube is an open-source. It's a scalable product. The costs for this application, for the kind of job it does, are pretty descent. Pipeline scan is more secured in SonarQube. Its a very good tool and its support multiple languages. Its main core competency is of static code analysis and that is why SonarQube exists and it does it exceedingly well. The quality of scan on code convention, best practices, coding standards, unit test coverage etc makes them one of the best competent tool in the market
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    Veracode
    Veracode is slower with scan results however the flaws discovered and sites crawled are almost the same. Rapid7 InsightAppSec only does dynamic scans. Veracode did find more links on a site crawl. Rapid7 InsightAppSec has more out of the box reports than Veracode. Both integration to DevOps tools were striaghtforward.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    SonarSource Sarl
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    Veracode
    No idea
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    Scalability
    SonarSource Sarl
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    Veracode
    It meets our needs.
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    Return on Investment
    SonarSource Sarl
    • Positive ROI from the standpoint of flagging several issues that would have otherwise likely been unaddressed and caused more time to be spent closer to launch
    • Slightly positive ROI from time-saving perspective (it's an automated check which is nice, but depending on the issues it finds, can take developers time to investigate and resolve)
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    Veracode
    • Positive: Scanning all our applications on Veracode provides us an overview of our cyber security posture for the organization as a whole.
    • Positive: Performing the SAST, SCA and DAST scanning for all the applications at the early stages of the SDLC helps us identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities early, reducing the risk of data breaches and cyber-attacks.
    • Negative: Sometimes Veracode SAST scanner closed and reopens some findings, leading to reliability issues on the scanner itself.
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