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SAST

Static Application Security Testing

Analyze source code or bytecode for vulnerable patterns without running the application.

31 tools profiled

How it differs Reads the code you wrote without running it. SCA checks the third party packages you depend on; IAST watches the running app while your tests exercise it.

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  • Bandit

    PyCQA

    SAST

    An AST-based security linter for Python that flags common insecure patterns such as unsafe deserialization, shell injection and weak crypto.

    Open source
    Established Verified

  • Bearer

    Bearer (Cycode)

    SAST

    A static analyzer that classifies sensitive data in code and reports where it flows, joining security findings to privacy and compliance concerns.

    Open source
    Growing

  • Brakeman

    Brakeman

    SAST

    A Rails-aware static analyzer that models controllers, routes and views to find injection, mass assignment and unsafe redirect flaws in Ruby code.

    Commercial, free tier
    Established

  • Checkmarx

    Checkmarx

    SAST

    An enterprise SAST engine with broad language coverage that builds a queryable code graph and traces tainted data from source to sink.

    Commercial
    Established

  • Codacy

    Codacy

    SAST

    A code quality platform that orchestrates open-source linters and security analyzers, normalizes their output, and enforces standards on pull requests.

    Open source and commercial
    Established

  • Coverity

    Black Duck

    SAST

    A build-integrated static analyzer known for deep interprocedural analysis of C and C++, covering memory safety, concurrency and injection defects.

    Commercial
    Established

  • GitHub CodeQL

    GitHub

    SAST

    A semantic code analysis engine that turns a codebase into a queryable database and finds vulnerabilities with declarative security queries.

    Open source and commercial
    Established

  • gosec

    Go Security (securego)

    SAST

    A Go security scanner that inspects the AST and SSA representation to flag unsafe patterns such as command injection, weak crypto and unhandled errors.

    Open source
    Established Verified

  • HCL AppScan

    HCLSoftware

    SAST

    The static analysis component of HCL's application security suite, using taint analysis plus machine learning triage to reduce finding volume.

    Commercial
    Established

  • Horusec

    Zup Innovation

    SAST

    An open-source CLI that orchestrates a set of language-specific security scanners in containers and merges their findings into one report.

    Open source
    Established

  • Bandit

    PyCQA

    An AST-based security linter for Python that flags common insecure patterns such as unsafe deserialization, shell injection and weak crypto.

    Open source Established
    SAST

  • Bearer

    Bearer (Cycode)

    A static analyzer that classifies sensitive data in code and reports where it flows, joining security findings to privacy and compliance concerns.

    Open source Growing
    SAST

  • Brakeman

    Brakeman

    A Rails-aware static analyzer that models controllers, routes and views to find injection, mass assignment and unsafe redirect flaws in Ruby code.

    Commercial, free tier Established
    SAST

  • Checkmarx

    Checkmarx

    An enterprise SAST engine with broad language coverage that builds a queryable code graph and traces tainted data from source to sink.

    Commercial Established
    SAST

  • Codacy

    Codacy

    A code quality platform that orchestrates open-source linters and security analyzers, normalizes their output, and enforces standards on pull requests.

    Open source and commercial Established
    SAST

  • Coverity

    Black Duck

    A build-integrated static analyzer known for deep interprocedural analysis of C and C++, covering memory safety, concurrency and injection defects.

    Commercial Established
    SAST

  • GitHub CodeQL

    GitHub

    A semantic code analysis engine that turns a codebase into a queryable database and finds vulnerabilities with declarative security queries.

    Open source and commercial Established
    SAST

  • gosec

    Go Security (securego)

    A Go security scanner that inspects the AST and SSA representation to flag unsafe patterns such as command injection, weak crypto and unhandled errors.

    Open source Established
    SAST

  • HCL AppScan

    HCLSoftware

    The static analysis component of HCL's application security suite, using taint analysis plus machine learning triage to reduce finding volume.

    Commercial Established
    SAST

  • Horusec

    Zup Innovation

    An open-source CLI that orchestrates a set of language-specific security scanners in containers and merges their findings into one report.

    Open source Established
    SAST

  • NodeJSScan

    Ajin Abraham

    SAST

    Static security scanner for Node.js applications with a self hosted web interface, built on a pattern matching rule engine for JavaScript.

    Open source
    Growing

  • OpenGrep

    Opengrep community project

    SAST

    Community maintained fork of an open source pattern matching static analysis engine, governed to keep the engine and rule format permissively licensed.

    Open source
    Emerging

  • OpenText Fortify

    OpenText

    SAST

    A long-established enterprise static analyzer with very broad language support, rule-driven taint analysis and detailed compliance reporting.

    Commercial
    Established

  • PHPStan

    PHPStan project (Ondrej Mirtes and contributors)

    SAST

    Static analyzer for PHP that infers types and reports code that cannot work, configurable through escalating strictness levels.

    Open source
    Established

  • PMD

    PMD open source project

    SAST

    Extensible source code analyzer that applies rule sets to the syntax tree of several languages, bundled with a cross language copy and paste detector.

    Open source
    Established

  • Psalm

    Psalm project (originated at Vimeo)

    SAST

    Static analyzer for PHP combining type inference with an opt in taint mode that traces untrusted input to dangerous sinks.

    Open source
    Established

  • Qodana

    JetBrains

    SAST

    Static analysis platform that runs the inspection engine from JetBrains IDEs as a containerized pipeline job with quality gates and trend reporting.

    Commercial, free tier
    Growing

  • Semgrep

    Semgrep, Inc.

    SAST

    Pattern matching static analysis engine whose rules are written as code snippets with metavariables, with an optional commercial platform for triage.

    Open source and commercial
    Established

  • SonarQube

    Sonar

    SAST

    Self hosted analysis server that scans repositories for quality and security issues, enforces quality gates and tracks findings over time.

    Commercial, free tier
    Established

  • Veracode

    Veracode

    SAST

    Hosted application security platform whose static engine analyzes compiled binaries and bytecode rather than source, under a central policy model.

    Commercial
    Established

  • NodeJSScan

    Ajin Abraham

    Static security scanner for Node.js applications with a self hosted web interface, built on a pattern matching rule engine for JavaScript.

    Open source Growing
    SAST

  • OpenGrep

    Opengrep community project

    Community maintained fork of an open source pattern matching static analysis engine, governed to keep the engine and rule format permissively licensed.

    Open source Emerging
    SAST

  • OpenText Fortify

    OpenText

    A long-established enterprise static analyzer with very broad language support, rule-driven taint analysis and detailed compliance reporting.

    Commercial Established
    SAST

  • PHPStan

    PHPStan project (Ondrej Mirtes and contributors)

    Static analyzer for PHP that infers types and reports code that cannot work, configurable through escalating strictness levels.

    Open source Established
    SAST

  • PMD

    PMD open source project

    Extensible source code analyzer that applies rule sets to the syntax tree of several languages, bundled with a cross language copy and paste detector.

    Open source Established
    SAST

  • Psalm

    Psalm project (originated at Vimeo)

    Static analyzer for PHP combining type inference with an opt in taint mode that traces untrusted input to dangerous sinks.

    Open source Established
    SAST

  • Qodana

    JetBrains

    Static analysis platform that runs the inspection engine from JetBrains IDEs as a containerized pipeline job with quality gates and trend reporting.

    Commercial, free tier Growing
    SAST

  • Semgrep

    Semgrep, Inc.

    Pattern matching static analysis engine whose rules are written as code snippets with metavariables, with an optional commercial platform for triage.

    Open source and commercial Established
    SAST

  • SonarQube

    Sonar

    Self hosted analysis server that scans repositories for quality and security issues, enforces quality gates and tracks findings over time.

    Commercial, free tier Established
    SAST

  • Veracode

    Veracode

    Hosted application security platform whose static engine analyzes compiled binaries and bytecode rather than source, under a central policy model.

    Commercial Established
    SAST
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