GitGuardian vs Checkmarx One

Free tier available

Quote on request

Free tier covers small teams entirely; business pricing is quote-based per developer.

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

Free for individuals and teams up to 25 developers.

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Widely used

GitGuardian · since 2017

Widely used

Checkmarx · since 2006

• Validity checking distinguishes a live credential from a revoked one, which transforms triage priority.
• Scans full commit history, where most leaked secrets actually live.
• Free for teams up to 25 developers.

• 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.

• Secrets scanning only — not a general security platform.
• Historical scans on old repositories produce a large initial backlog.
• Requires repository access, which needs a security review of its own.

• 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.

Any organisation with more than a handful of repositories and no secrets scanning today.

Large enterprises with a security function and regulatory obligations.