Checkmarx One vs Mend.io

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Quote on request

Enterprise annual licensing, typically by developer count or lines of code. Six figures at scale.

Quote-based enterprise pricing, typically per developer or per application.

Free trial.

Free tier for small teams on Mend's developer products.

Widely used

Checkmarx · since 2006

Widely used

Mend.io · since 2011

• Very deep SAST analysis with wide language coverage including legacy enterprise languages.
• One platform and one risk view across every scan type.
• Strong compliance and audit reporting.

• Licence compliance reporting is the strongest in the category and often the reason legal approves a release.
• Reachability analysis reduces the transitive-dependency alert flood.
• Automated remediation pull requests.

• Expensive, with a long procurement and deployment cycle.
• High false-positive volume typical of deep SAST; tuning is a project.
• Scans are slow relative to developer-first tools.

• SAST is weaker than dedicated code-analysis vendors.
• Enterprise pricing and sales process.
• Interface is dated in places.

Large enterprises with a security function and regulatory obligations.

Enterprises where open-source licence compliance is as important as vulnerability management.