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CAST Highlight vs JFrog Xray comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 5, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
8.2
CAST Highlight boosts efficiency, cutting report time by 80%, doubles output, improves security, with no extra integration costs.
Sentiment score
3.5
JFrog Xray improved efficiency, security, and compliance, reduced downtime, and sped up release cycles with enhanced vulnerability detection and reporting.
In terms of time saved, it went from approximately 3.5 hours per insight report to around 40 minutes, which is 80% faster.
Senior Data Engineer at LTM
For one of the clients, they actually improved their security a lot based on the CAST Highlight results.
Partner at a hospitality company with 1-10 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.5
CAST Highlight's customer support is mixed, with valuable assistance but occasional issues in communication and technical expertise.
Sentiment score
4.0
JFrog Xray's customer service is generally well-received, with positive technical support, though not all users engage directly.
Some support team members are helpful, and others lack in-depth knowledge of the tool, which might cause challenges.
Technical Associate Manager at Accenture
I interacted with customer support regarding one of my project results related to vulnerabilities and license risks, and they explained everything clearly, leaving me very satisfied.
Senior Data Engineer at LTM
When I get one of the supporters from India, they actually fix whatever is wrong.
Partner at a hospitality company with 1-10 employees
When we need clarifications, we contact our account manager, and they arrange demos.
Development Senior at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
On a scale of 1 to 10, I would rate the technical support of JFrog Xray an eight because they are very knowledgeable.
DevSecOps Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.4
CAST Highlight efficiently handles large codebases and multiple users, ensuring stable performance and scalability for growing teams.
Sentiment score
6.8
JFrog Xray is scalable and suitable for multiple applications, despite PostgreSQL limitations and some performance challenges.
The processing time per new report stays consistent, experiencing no slowdowns even when we had over 200 new reports dropped in a week.
Senior Data Engineer at LTM
The analysis is performed next to the source code, which means the performance, if you increase the number of applications, will not be affected that much.
Partner at a hospitality company with 1-10 employees
According to my use case, it is highly scalable.
DevOps Engineer at Syvora
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.1
CAST Highlight is generally stable and reliable, though some bugs and complex data transfers occasionally cause disruptions.
Sentiment score
7.6
JFrog Xray is praised for stability and security, compared favorably to competitors, with minor concerns about PostgreSQL support.
CAST Highlight proves reliable in nature.
Senior Data Engineer at LTM
CAST Highlight is not that stable because it has a lot of downtime.
Partner at a hospitality company with 1-10 employees
I use JFrog Xray primarily for security purposes, and I find it reliable.
DevOps Engineer at Syvora
We did experience crashes, downtimes, and performance issues with JFrog Xray.
DevSecOps Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
 

Room For Improvement

CAST Highlight requires better code analysis, user customization, support, and enhancements in integration, metrics clarity, and domain understanding.
Users demand better reporting, documentation, UI, site performance, API limits, custom reports, vulnerability management, and integration support.
Understanding only the OS-specific blockers means I would avoid resolving irrelevant issues, thus saving time.
Technical Associate Manager at Accenture
CAST Highlight's deduplication is great for avoiding spam, but sometimes we want two similar quotes if they are from very different company sizes, such as SMB versus enterprise perspectives on pricing.
Senior Data Engineer at LTM
It would be nice if it were easier to actually drill down and figure out how the score was calculated and what the exact thing was that violated a rule.
Partner at a hospitality company with 1-10 employees
When we have given a very long tag, it doesn't work as expected and requires excessive scrolling.
DevOps Engineer at Syvora
somehow you need to adapt your GitLab pipeline and turn them into JFrog pipeline, and this is something they don't really advertise at first—you're obliged to use the JFrog CLI.
DevSecOps Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
X-ray needs improvement in supporting more than one database, as it currently only supports PostgreSQL.
Development Senior at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Setup Cost

Users find CAST Highlight pricey, with costs based on annual scans, while extra support services incur additional fees.
The price was relatively low, which means it was easy to convince the customers.
Partner at a hospitality company with 1-10 employees
JFrog Xray provides a free trial of 14 days.
DevOps Engineer at Syvora
The basic scanning capabilities come with Artifactory, however, curation requires additional licenses.
Development Senior at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Valuable Features

CAST Highlight offers remote access, easy setup, Azure DevOps integration, efficient scans, cloud migration insights, and vulnerability detection.
JFrog Xray offers deep scanning, seamless integration with Artifactory, robust vulnerabilities management, flexible deployment, and attractive pricing.
Smart deduplication groups similar quotes and picks the strongest and most significant one. It stops insights from showing eight variations of great UI, giving diverse voices instead of repetition.
Senior Data Engineer at LTM
The user interface made the setup process smooth for me, but it was actually the CLI that stood out, as it was so easy to configure the scans that within an hour or two, I had the results to show.
Partner at a hospitality company with 1-10 employees
In cloud migration, I use CAST highlight to identify blockers, which are the negative road patterns, and also the boosters, which are positive code patterns.
Technical Associate Manager at Accenture
The most valuable features of JFrog Xray are its curation capabilities, its native integration with Artifactory, scanning for vulnerabilities, and license compliance features.
Development Senior at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
The policy-driven approach of JFrog Xray helped me maintain security standards by integrating it in the development pipeline.
DevSecOps Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
With other registries such as ECR, we can use the images only in the AWS cloud. With JFrog, we can use this registry from any cloud or work locally as well.
DevOps Engineer at Syvora
 

Categories and Ranking

CAST Highlight
Ranking in Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
13th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
JFrog Xray
Ranking in Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
8th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (50th), Container Security (19th), Software Supply Chain Security (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Software Composition Analysis (SCA) category, the mindshare of CAST Highlight is 1.4%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of JFrog Xray is 5.1%, down from 9.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Software Composition Analysis (SCA) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
JFrog Xray5.1%
CAST Highlight1.4%
Other93.5%
Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
 

Featured Reviews

Nishant Chauhan - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Engineer at LTM
Automated code insights have improved security checks and made review workflows more consistent
If I talk about improvements for CAST Highlight, I would suggest three things. The first is better understanding or niche understanding. Right now, the intent matching is strong for general topics such as ease of use, but for niche B2B terms such as HIPAA compliance or multi-tenant architecture, it sometimes misses context. Improving the domain-specific models would make highlights more accurate for these verticals. The second improvement is more control over the deduplication logic. CAST Highlight's deduplication is great for avoiding spam, but sometimes we want two similar quotes if they are from very different company sizes, such as SMB versus enterprise perspectives on pricing. A slider to adjust deduplication strictness would help. The third suggestion I would like to give is deeper sentiment and outcome tagging. While it has core sentiment capabilities, it does not tag outcomes automatically. For instance, if a quote mentions saved $50,000 per year, tagging that as cost savings $50,000 would let us build ROI charts instantly instead of reading each quote manually. Regarding user experience, integrations, and reporting, I think there is room to enhance those aspects. Regarding user experience, I would suggest improving user actions in terms of bulk actions and keyboard shortcuts. Day-to-day analysts review 50-plus suggested quotes, and currently it is mostly clicking to approve one by one. Adding bulk approve or reject options and keyboard shortcuts would significantly reduce the time taken. A small UX change can lead to a big speed boost. The second point is integrations when pushing to the CMS and Slack alerts. Right now, we export approved highlights manually from CAST Highlight. If CAST Highlight could push directly to our CMS or send Slack alerts for high-strength quotes that hit trending topics, it would close the loop faster, reducing copy-pasting. The third improvement relates to reporting, specifically custom insight dashboards. The tool displays which topics have the most highlights, but we cannot build custom dashboards yet. For example, showing all security quotes from healthcare companies with more than 1,000 employees over the last 90 days would enable better filtering, and exportable dashboards would streamline quarterly reviews.
Anand Nanwana - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at Syvora
Offers flexibility across clouds and easy credential management while interface improvements are needed
For JFrog Xray, the Artifactory and package repositories are valuable features. There are many benefits from JFrog Xray. For example, with other registries such as ECR, we can use the images only in the AWS cloud. With JFrog, we can use this registry from any cloud or work locally as well. JFrog can support multiple packages, such as NuGet package, pip, and other technologies. It can be used for Terraform as well. The credential management is very easy in JFrog. For instance, when using GitHub action as a CI/CD tool, I just need to create a token and set up JFrog CLI there and give access to the repository. With multiple repositories, I can generate a token for a specific repository, add that token in the GitHub secret, fetch from the CI/CD, run the command JFrog CLI, and authenticate through the token. Then we can push the images into JFrog.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Outsourcing Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Government
6%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Financial Services Firm
25%
Manufacturing Company
11%
University
5%
Outsourcing Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise6
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CAST Highlight?
The pricing of CAST Highlight was not considered expensive or cheap, and no specific comment was made about the setup cost.
What needs improvement with CAST Highlight?
If I talk about improvements for CAST Highlight, I would suggest three things. The first is better understanding or niche understanding. Right now, the intent matching is strong for general topics ...
What is your primary use case for CAST Highlight?
I have been using CAST Highlight for the last four years. In my company, we use CAST Highlight to perform testing for our code to find vulnerabilities and license risks. We also use CAST Highlight ...
What needs improvement with JFrog Xray?
I would assess the integration of JFrog Xray with CI/CD tools as the weak point. You have two means to do that: one is using the API, or the other is using the command line from JFrog. That part is...
What is your primary use case for JFrog Xray?
For JFrog Xray product, you can use it for two main goals: compliance and security. You can use it to check if your licenses are compliant, and you can check if your dependencies you want to use ar...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for JFrog Xray?
It is affordable because JFrog Xray provides a free trial of 14 days. We can explore all the features of JFrog in the free trial. The pricing is reasonable because we can manage all the images in a...
 

Comparisons

 

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Overview

 

Sample Customers

Liberty Mutual, Barclays, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, US Army, US Air Force, US Navy, Marsh & McLennan, Ernst & Young, PwC, Boston Consulting Group, Telefonica, Total Energies France, SNCF, Broadridge, Sirius XM
google, amazon, cisco, netflix, oracle, vmware, facebook
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