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CAST Application Intelligence Platform vs SonarQube Server (formerly SonarQube) comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 15, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

CAST Application Intelligen...
Ranking in Software Development Analytics
3rd
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.0
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SonarQube Server (formerly ...
Ranking in Software Development Analytics
1st
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
116
Ranking in other categories
Application Security Tools (1st), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Software Development Analytics category, the mindshare of CAST Application Intelligence Platform is 11.6%, up from 7.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SonarQube Server (formerly SonarQube) is 43.1%, down from 48.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Software Development Analytics
 

Q&A Highlights

JB
May 23, 2023
 

Featured Reviews

Jayanti Rode - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Intelligence Platform that offers useful insights into violations and improvements
There are different products of the CAST solution that we use for different reasons. For quality improvement, we use CAST AIP which is an Application Intelligence Platform. We have a health dashboard where we can view improvements and violations that have been fixed.  Our clients use CAST Highlight…
Sthembiso Zondi - PeerSpot reviewer
Consistent improvements in code quality and security with effective integration and reliable technical support
The features of SonarQube Server (formerly SonarQube) that I find most useful are the suggestions received from reviewing the code. When they review the code, they provide suggestions on how to fix it, and we find those very useful from a development perspective. We use SonarQube Server's (formerly SonarQube) centralized management and visualization of code quality metrics on the dashboard because that's the executive dashboard that we send to the executives to show where we are in terms of quality, security, and where the company can improve. We use that for organizational improvement purposes. The ability to tailor metrics tracking in SonarQube Server (formerly SonarQube) has been beneficial to my team. There are team-specific dashboards which are related to specific repositories they utilize, and we have that aggregative dashboard that shows the whole organization's performance. We can drill down per specific repository, which makes it easier for the team to improve specific things.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"CAST's risk and security flow detection capabilities are highly effective, particularly in identifying security vulnerabilities. It is one of the most important and valuable features of the platform."
"It supports most programming languages."
"Our clients use CAST Highlight for cloud migration. This allows them to remove or remediate the blockers which are highlighted. This part of the solution shows improvement in quality and captures feedback for our clients."
"Used for controlling the technical debt and code quality."
"The most valuable feature of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is its security dashboard which is a dedicated dashboard that's pretty helpful because it gives compliance checks based on some of the leading frameworks in the industry, such as ISO 5055, OWASP, CWE Top 25, and NIST security guidelines. I find the security dashboard of the solution and the information it provides pretty useful. The security dashboard of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is a feature that stands out."
"It is a very good tool for analysis despite its limitations."
"The product is simple."
"The most valuable features are the wide array of languages, multiple languages per project, the breakdown of bugs, and the description of vulnerabilities and code smells (best practices)."
"I like that it helps us maintain our work quality and code security."
"Issue Explanations: Documentation with detailed samples. Helps in growing technical knowledge and re-writing logic to conforming solutions."
"All the features of the solution are quite good."
"This solution has helped with the integration and building of our CICD pipeline."
"We can create a Quality Gate in order to fail Jenkins jobs where the code coverage is lower than the set percentage."
 

Cons

"It has very few plugins to access different code repositories, so source code has to be fed."
"The overall coverage of rules could be improved in the CAST Application Intelligence Platform because it does not cater to or cover all. For example, 2022 CWE coverage is still not available in the CAST Application Intelligence Platform. The solution also covers some NIST rules, but it does not cater to all rules. An additional feature I'd like to see in the next update of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is for it to provide source code developer and contributor details, especially information on which areas of code were touched. This would be a good insight as the CAST Application Intelligence Platform looks into the source code."
"Implementation could be made more simpler as it is complex."
"The integration of this solution could be improved."
"Areas for improvement in CAST AIP include enhancing support for implementation in complex environments and improving technical support to address organizational challenges alongside engineering issues."
"There are limitations to the free version that limit development options as far as languages."
"SonarQube is not development-centric like Snyk."
"The solution is a bit lacking on the security side, in terms of finding and identifying vulnerabilities."
"There is no automation. You need to put the code there and test. You then pull the results and put them back in the development environment. There is no integration with the development environment. We would like it to be integrated with our development environment, which is basically the CI/CD pipeline or the IDE that we have."
"The tool needs to be more compatible with C/C++ language"
"SonarQube's detail in the security could be improved. It may be helpful to have additional details, with regards to Oracle PL/SQL. For example, it's neither as built nor as thorough as Java. For now, this is the only additional feature I would like to see."
"The reporting is good, but I am not able to download a specific report as a PDF, so downloading reports is something that should be looked at."
"There could be better integration with other products."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I do know how the CAST Application Intelligence Platform is licensed, but I'm not able to give the cost because the price is not listed. My company works with individual vendors, so pricing is on a case-to-case basis, but the vendors give specialized pricing because of the enterprise deployment, though my team is aware of product pricing based on lines of code, based on the number of applications, etc., I'm unable to give the exact licensing costs of the CAST Application Intelligence Platform. My company doesn't have to pay extra for some features or services because all are included as part of the enterprise license. On a scale of one to five, with five being very cheap and one being very expensive, I would rate the CAST Application Intelligence Platform as three out of five."
"SonarQube enterprise, I am not sure of the price but from what I understand they are charging a fee. It's is not clear if it is an annual fee or a one-off."
"This product is open source and very convenient."
"The development license cost is reasonable, and we've had no concerns about SonarQube when it comes to cost."
"We use the tool's community edition."
"We pay €10 per month for this solution, which is good. It provides a good value for money."
"I use the full trial version of SonarQube."
"The price of the solution could be reduced."
"SonarQube price is a little bit higher than Kiuwan's. Kiuwan also gives a little bit of flexibility in terms of pricing."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
27%
Computer Software Company
13%
Government
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about CAST Application Intelligence Platform?
CAST's risk and security flow detection capabilities are highly effective, particularly in identifying security vulnerabilities. It is one of the most important and valuable features of the platfor...
What needs improvement with CAST Application Intelligence Platform?
Areas for improvement in CAST AIP include enhancing support for implementation in complex environments and improving technical support to address organizational challenges alongside engineering iss...
What is your primary use case for CAST Application Intelligence Platform?
CAST AIP is a valuable solution for quality metrics and application security. It is beneficial for software architecture detection.
Is SonarQube the best tool for static analysis?
I am not very familiar with SonarQube and their solutions, so I can not answer. But if you are asking me about which tools that are the best for for Static Code Analysis, I suggest you have a look...
Which gives you more for your money - SonarQube or Veracode?
SonarQube is easy to deploy and configure, and also integrates well with other tools to do quality code analysis. SonarQube has a great community edition, which is open-source and free. Easy to use...
How would you decide between Coverity and Sonarqube?
We researched Coverity, but in the end, we chose SonarQube. SonarQube is a tool for reviewing code quality and security. It helps to guide our development teams during code reviews by providing rem...
 

Also Known As

CAST AIP
Sonar
 

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Sample Customers

Steria, T-Systems MMS, Atos Origin, Accenture, Capgemini
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