CAST Highlight vs Veracode comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 5, 2024

Veracode and CAST Highlight compete in the application security testing space. Veracode seems to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive scanning capabilities and extensive integration options, making it a strong choice for regulatory compliance and SDLC integration.

Features: Veracode provides comprehensive static, dynamic, and manual scanning capabilities, which are crucial for regulatory compliance and SDLC integration. It supports a broad range of programming languages and offers robust integration with IDEs and APIs. Veracode is valued for its ease of use, especially its ability to minimize false positives, along with features for sandbox scanning and vulnerability management. CAST Highlight offers fast, automated code scanning and portfolio assessments, providing a high-level overview rather than the in-depth analysis delivered by Veracode.

Room for Improvement: Veracode faces issues with false positives and complex integrations, leading to potential usability and reporting problems. Improvements in scanning speeds and language support are needed. CAST Highlight is criticized for its abstract reporting and lack of detailed analysis capabilities, with its pricing model viewed as inflexible, limiting deeper analyses without significant cost.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Veracode can be deployed across various cloud environments—public, private, and hybrid—offering adaptability but with potential complexity in implementation. While its technical support receives mixed reviews, its quick response time is praised, despite some inconsistencies. CAST Highlight shares similar support complexities and the need for potential service improvements according to its users.

Pricing and ROI: Veracode's pricing is perceived as high but justified by its comprehensive features and robust security assurances, making it less accessible for small businesses but valuable for larger enterprises in risk management and operational efficiencies. CAST Highlight is considered more cost-effective than its sibling CAST AIP, but still requires careful cost-benefit analysis. Veracode is frequently cited for delivering more measurable benefits in reducing security vulnerabilities.

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CAST Highlight vs. Veracode

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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

6.5

Veracode boosts ROI by reducing security breaches and costs, enhancing compliance, and integrating effective vulnerability detection and automation.

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.

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Partner at a hospitality company with 1-10 employees

The scanners of Veracode bring status of the weaknesses in the current infrastructure. It scans and provides reports regarding the servers, the network, and the applications running on those servers.

AlejandroMosso

Senior Solutions Architect at IDS Comercial

Regarding price, the evaluation should focus on how efficiently they will recover their investment, considering the time saved through the use of Veracode Fix, for example, and the ability to fix code at dev time compared to the problems faced when fixing after the product is already deployed.

reviewer2703864

Head of Security Architecture at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

We did see a return on investment with Veracode, as we segregated our remediation efforts, which reduced our time to delivery as well as the number of engineers needed to help us in delivering a secure solution.

reviewer2774562

DevSecOps Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

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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

7.2

Veracode's support is praised for expertise and responsiveness, though some report delays, improvements noted with dedicated managers.

Some support team members are helpful, and others lack in-depth knowledge of the tool, which might cause challenges.

Jayanti Rode

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.

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Partner at a hospitality company with 1-10 employees

Access to the engineering team is crucial for faster feedback on the product fix process.

SrikanthRaghavan

Principal Architect at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

I have communicated with the technical support of Veracode a couple of times, and this was a really great experience because these professionals know their material.

Andrei Kriukov

Application Security Specialist at Herrenknecht

They share detailed information via email, including screenshots or further clarification about the issue.

reviewer2753535

DevSecOps Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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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

7.4

Veracode is praised for effective scalability across diverse needs, though costs and complexity can increase with scaling.

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.

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Partner at a hospitality company with 1-10 employees

Cloud solutions are easier to scale than on-premise solutions.

AlejandroMosso

Senior Solutions Architect at IDS Comercial

It has a good capacity to scale effectively.

Brintha Prabakar

Lead Automation Quality Engineer in Leading UK Bank at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Implementing these features into our normal CI/CD was good, so I can say that scalability is really good.

Andrei Kriukov

Application Security Specialist at Herrenknecht

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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

7.8

Veracode is generally stable with minor glitches, but could improve speed and communication for enhanced reliability.

CAST Highlight proves reliable in nature.

Senior Data Engineer at LTM

CAST Highlight is not that stable because it has a lot of downtime.

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Partner at a hospitality company with 1-10 employees

If the Veracode server is down, we experience many issues during the scan.

Brintha Prabakar

Lead Automation Quality Engineer in Leading UK Bank at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

I have observed that it is not that reliable in terms of security because Veracode was not able to find some security threats in our application that existed since the product was developed.

Yash Shende

Software Development Engineer II at Rocket Software

It's not that easy to onboard, but once they have been onboarded on the platform, and the pipeline configured alongside the product configured, it works effectively.

reviewer2703864

Head of Security Architecture at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

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Room For Improvement

CAST Highlight requires better code analysis, user customization, support, and enhancements in integration, metrics clarity, and domain understanding.

Veracode is criticized for high costs, licensing rigidity, false positives, slow UI, and limited integration and language support.

Understanding only the OS-specific blockers means I would avoid resolving irrelevant issues, thus saving time.

Jayanti Rode

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.

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Partner at a hospitality company with 1-10 employees

If it could be integrated directly with code repositories such as Bitbucket or GitHub, without the need to create a pipeline to upload and decode code, it would simplify the code scan process significantly.

Himadri Subudhi

Works

We had issues with scanning large applications. Scanning took a lot of time, so we kept it outside the DevOps pipeline to avoid delaying deployments.

Brintha Prabakar

Lead Automation Quality Engineer in Leading UK Bank at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

A nice addition would be if it could be extended for scenarios with custom cleansers.

reviewer2700198

IT App Security Senior Analyst at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

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Setup Cost

Users find CAST Highlight pricey, with costs based on annual scans, while extra support services incur additional fees.

Veracode's pricing is high and complex, valued by enterprises but expensive for smaller businesses with flexible options.

The price was relatively low, which means it was easy to convince the customers.

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Partner at a hospitality company with 1-10 employees

It's not the most expensive solution.

AlejandroMosso

Senior Solutions Architect at IDS Comercial

Overall, Veracode's pricing is lower and more scalable than many alternatives in the market.

reviewer2753535

DevSecOps Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

If there's a security gap, you'll never know the cost or effect.

Himadri Subudhi

Works

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Valuable Features

CAST Highlight offers remote access, easy setup, Azure DevOps integration, efficient scans, cloud migration insights, and vulnerability detection.

Veracode offers effective security analysis, CI/CD integration, multi-language support, and detailed reports for secure, compliant software development.

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.

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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.

Jayanti Rode

Technical Associate Manager at Accenture

It offers confidence by preventing exposure to vulnerabilities and helps ensure that we are not deploying vulnerable code into production.

Kv Rao

Site Leader (India) at Industrial Scientific

The best features in Veracode include static analysis and the early detection of vulnerable libraries; it integrates with tools such as Jenkins.

Himadri Subudhi

Works

It fixes issues directly in the IDE while you're doing it.

reviewer2700198

IT App Security Senior Analyst at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

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Categories and Ranking

CAST Highlight

Ranking in Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

13th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Veracode

Ranking in Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

2nd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

208

Ranking in other categories

Application Security Tools (3rd), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (3rd), Container Security (14th), Static Code Analysis (1st), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) (1st), Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) (3rd)

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 Veracode is 6.1%, down from 8.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Software Composition Analysis (SCA) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Veracode	6.1%
CAST Highlight	1.4%
Other	92.5%

Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

Featured Reviews

Automated code insights have improved security checks and made review workflows more consistent

Senior Data Engineer at LTM

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.

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Yash Shende

Software Development Engineer II at Rocket Software

Monthly scans have provided baseline security but still miss critical vulnerabilities

Veracode can improve to stand in this market. They do not have to do much; they just need to improve their UI experience and add more documentation within the application rather than just creating documentation pages on different websites. They need to ensure their web application guides whoever uses it. Since whoever uses Veracode must be a technical person, they just need to guide them to the actual points. They can also improve their security capabilities by adding more filters to identify what vulnerabilities their application has. They need to improve their scanning engine to scan for more critical defects. Also, the integration part can be enhanced by adding features to integrate with a CLI, such as introducing a CLI version or a Jenkins plugin. If such features exist, they should show it as a pop-up, signaling that they have a new feature. Currently, it feels Veracode from two years ago is still the same, so that is something Veracode needs to improve. They can improve the security part. Some of the severe security issues were never caught by Veracode in the reports. In fact, I have never seen any high or critical severity issues pop up in my Veracode report. That is one thing they can improve on their scanning ability to catch high severity issues. Next is integration; Veracode does not provide any tools to integrate with Jenkins or CLI. I do not even know if there is any CLI for Veracode that I can use to automate in my pipeline. The last thing is the UI interface that they have, as it is a bit confusing. I remember we did not have the capability to handle authentications of our internal application. We had to write Selenium code using a Selenium IDE. To write a Selenium script for a Veracode scan, you have to download a Selenium IDE, record it, and then paste that file into Veracode. I can see that Selenium IDE is already decommissioned, so it is no longer used by anyone. Still, we have to use it because Veracode only supports that kind of file for Selenium to automate. They can add more ways to authenticate our application using normal JavaScript or Python or Shell script. I feel these are the four main points. They can document it more by adding tooltips into the application that explain why a parameter is required and what other options are available. For the same example with the Selenium script, they can add a link to their documentation that explains what other kinds of scripts can be written for authentication. I feel they can also make the UI more intuitive so that whoever uses it can guide themselves, as whoever uses Veracode is already a technical person.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Outsourcing Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Government

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Outsourcing Company

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	6

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	70
Midsize Enterprise	46
Large Enterprise	114

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?

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 ...

Which gives you more for your money - SonarQube or Veracode?

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What is the biggest difference between Veracode and Checkmarx?

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Veracode Static Analysis?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Veracode is that it is fairly moderate.

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Overview

Portfolio-level insights for app modernization, AI readiness, tech debt, OSS risks

CAST Highlight is a SaaS software intelligence technology that delivers rapid, fact-based insights across your entire application portfolio. By automatically analyzing the source code of hundreds or thousands of applications, CAST Highlight helps organizations assess cloud maturity, AI & Agentic readiness, software health, open source risk, resiliency, technical debt, and sustainability from a single lightweight scan.

CAST Highlight is designed for CIOs, CTOs, enterprise architects, cloud leaders, application owners, security teams, and modernization teams that need a fact-based way to prioritize modernization, cloud, and AI adoption decisions at scale. It helps teams identify which applications are ready to move quickly, which require remediation, and where hidden software risks may affect transformation cost, timelines, security, resilience, or business outcomes.

Unlike traditional manual or survey-based assessments, CAST Highlight analyzes application source code directly to rapidly segment portfolios, prioritize modernization paths, and uncover risks before they impact transformation programs.

Organizations use CAST Highlight to:

Accelerate cloud migration and modernization planning
Segment applications by cloud maturity and transformation path
Identify high-value AI adoption opportunities
Assess Agentic Readiness across application portfolios
Prioritize technical debt, resiliency, and maintainability improvements
Assess open source vulnerabilities and IP / license exposure
Evaluate software sustainability with Green Impact insights
Reduce complexity, cost, and risk across transformation programs

CAST

Veracode is a leading provider of application security solutions, offering tools to identify, mitigate, and prevent vulnerabilities across the software development lifecycle. Its cloud-based platform integrates security into DevOps workflows, helping organizations ensure that their code remains secure and compliant with industry standards.

Veracode supports multiple application security testing types, including static analysis (SAST), dynamic analysis (DAST), software composition analysis (SCA), and manual penetration testing. These tools are designed to help developers detect vulnerabilities early in development while maintaining speed in deployment. Veracode also emphasizes scalability, offering features for enterprises that manage a large number of applications across different teams. Its robust reporting and analytics capabilities allow organizations to continuously monitor their security posture and track progress toward remediation.

What are the key features of Veracode?

Static Analysis (SAST) - Scans source code for vulnerabilities before deployment.
Dynamic Analysis (DAST) - Examines applications in a running state to detect flaws in real-time.
Software Composition Analysis (SCA) - Identifies risks in open-source libraries and third-party components.
Manual Penetration Testing - Offers expert analysis for more complex vulnerabilities.
Integrations with DevOps tools - Seamlessly integrates with CI/CD pipelines for automated security checks.

What benefits should users consider in Veracode reviews?

Early detection of vulnerabilities - Helps developers fix security issues early in the development process.
Scalability - Supports organizations with large-scale application portfolios.
Compliance support - Ensures applications meet various security standards and regulations.
Developer training - Provides tools for educating developers on secure coding practices.
Comprehensive reporting - Offers detailed reports that track remediation and risk trends.

Veracode is widely adopted in industries like finance, healthcare, and government, where compliance and security are critical. It helps these organizations maintain strict security standards while enabling rapid development through its integration with Agile and DevOps methodologies.

Veracode helps businesses secure their applications efficiently, ensuring they can deliver safe and compliant software at scale.

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

Manhattan Associates, Azalea Health, Sabre, QAD, Floor & Decor, Prophecy International, SchoolCNXT, Keap, Rekner, Cox Automotive, Automation Anywhere, State of Missouri and others.