Checkmarx One vs Trivy

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Free and open source

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

Free and open source. You pay in engineering time and CI minutes.

Free trial.

Everything, self-hosted

Widely used

Checkmarx · since 2006

Category standard

Aqua Security · since 2019

• 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.

• Free and covers container, IaC, secret and dependency scanning in one binary.
• Fast enough to run on every image build without slowing the pipeline.
• Excellent Kubernetes integration through the Trivy Operator.

• 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.

• No hosted dashboard or workflow — findings go to your pipeline output.
• No reachability analysis, so alert volume is high on large images.
• Reporting for compliance requires building it yourself.

Large enterprises with a security function and regulatory obligations.

Container and Kubernetes pipelines that need free, comprehensive scanning.