Checkmarx vs Hostile Review
An honest comparison. The enterprise AppSec platform used by 60% of the Fortune 100 meets adversarial AI auditing built for speed.
Checkmarx One is a unified application security platform — SAST, SCA, DAST, IaC, container, API, and supply chain scanning in one dashboard. IDC MarketScape Leader. 1,800+ enterprise customers.
Hostile Review is an adversarial code audit — 108 specialized AI agents that assume your code is broken and prove where. No procurement cycle. No annual contract. Scan in 30 seconds from the website.
| Checkmarx | Hostile Review | |
|---|---|---|
| Approach | Unified AppSec (SAST/DAST/SCA/IaC/API) | Adversarial multi-agent AI audit |
| Detection Method | Static + dynamic + SCA + AI remediation | 108 AI agents reasoning adversarially |
| Target Market | Enterprise security & compliance teams | Developers and teams of any size |
| When It Runs | IDE, CI/CD, PR checks, scheduled | On-demand scans |
| DAST (Runtime) | ✓ | ✗ Source-level only |
| API Security | ✓ Dedicated API scanner | ✓ API agents |
| Pricing | Enterprise contracts (custom) | Pay per scan, no contracts |
| Free Tier | ✗ | ✓ Demo scans (20 files) |
| Scope Beyond Security | Security-focused only | 14 categories (security, perf, compliance, arch, AI, a11y...) |
- Unified platform — SAST, DAST, SCA, IaC, container, API, and supply chain security in a single dashboard. One vendor for everything
- Enterprise governance — policy management, risk scoring, compliance dashboards, and audit-ready reporting across the entire SDLC
- 60% of the Fortune 100 — proven at massive scale with dedicated support and implementation teams
- Checkmarx One Assist — AI-powered remediation guidance that explains vulnerabilities and suggests fixes
- Supply chain security — detects malicious packages, dependency confusion attacks, and typosquatting in your supply chain
- IaC and container scanning — catches misconfigurations in Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, and Docker
- Correlation engine — correlates findings across SAST, DAST, and SCA to prioritize the most exploitable paths
- Accessible to everyone — no enterprise contract, no sales call, no procurement process. Free demo scans in 30 seconds
- 14 categories beyond security — performance, architecture, compliance, AI security, accessibility, i18n, cloud infrastructure, data pipelines
- Business logic vulnerabilities — AI agents reason about application logic, catching flaws that no SAST rule can express
- 108-agent adversarial consensus — agents attack from different angles, findings are deduplicated and ranked by severity
- AI & LLM security — 7 dedicated agents for prompt injection, model poisoning, denial-of-wallet
- Minutes, not weeks — results come back in minutes to hours. No implementation timeline, no professional services engagement
- No per-seat pricing — a solo developer and a 200-person team pay the same rate per scan
Checkmarx
No free tier. No public pricing.
Enterprise contracts via sales engagement.
Per-developer subscription model.
Requires procurement process, implementation timeline, and dedicated onboarding. Built for organizations with security budgets and compliance requirements.
Hostile Review
Free: Demo scans (20 files, no account needed)
Credits: Pay per scan, 5 quality tiers
Subscribers: 50% off all scans
Sign up, scan, get results. No sales calls. No annual contracts. Enterprise-grade adversarial auditing at startup-friendly pricing.