Checkmarx One vs Xygeni comparison

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Checkmarx and Xygeni are both solutions in the Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) category. Checkmarx is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.3, while Xygeni is ranked #13 with an average rating of 9.0. Checkmarx holds a 8.7% mindshare in ASPM, compared to Xygeni’s 2.3% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Checkmarx users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Xygeni users who would recommend it.

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Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) category, the mindshare of Cortex Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is 2.3%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Checkmarx One is 8.7%, down from 15.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Xygeni is 2.3%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Checkmarx One	8.7%
Cortex Cloud by Palo Alto Networks	2.3%
Xygeni	2.3%
Other	86.7%

Application Security Posture Management (ASPM)

Featured Reviews

Sonali Jha

Technical Solutions Architect at IBM

Cloud security has improved as AI-driven runtime protection detects threats and reduces incidents

In my opinion, Cortex Cloud by Palo Alto Networks could be improved or enhanced in various ways. I don't have an idea about that yet because for that you actually need to use two or three different other tools to make a basic comparison. If you ask me how good the tool is, I would fairly rate it quite high. The tool is very popular, and customers can already see that it is one of the cloud leaders in the security space. The platform had a very good feature which provides documentation links about how to use a specific feature on the UI. It takes you to the proper documentation page where it suggests what to do and tells you about the steps that need to be done for a resource deployment. My thoughts about improving the product which I believe could greatly aid vendors is that it used to be a very user-friendly tool, but now they have incorporated everything under one umbrella. It has XDR, XSOAR, and Cortex Cloud by Palo Alto Networks. Before, we used to have separate modules and separate environments for each of these capabilities or features. Right now, it is a little complex and users would take their own time to know the tool better. This is something that would have been way better, but I would say there would be different opinions on this. Talking about user-friendliness, it has decreased now.

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Shahzad Shahzad

Senior Solution Architect | L3+ Systems & Cloud Engineer | SRE Specialist at Canada Cloud Solution

Enable secure development workflows while identifying opportunities for faster scans and improved AI guidance

Checkmarx One is a very strong platform, but there are several areas where it can improve to support modern DevSecOps workflows even better. For example, better real-time developer guidance is needed. The IDE plugin should offer richer AI-powered auto-fixes similar to SNYK Code or GitHub Copilot Security, as current guidance is good but not deeply contextual for large-scale enterprise codebases. This matters because it reduces developer friction and accelerates shift-left adoption. More transparency control over the correlation engines is another need. The correlation engine is powerful but not fully transparent. Users want to understand why vulnerabilities were correlated or de-prioritized, which helps AppSec teams trust the prioritization logic. Faster SAST scan and more language coverage is needed since SAST scan can still be slow for very large mono-repos and there is limited deep support for new language frameworks like Rust and Go, along with advanced coverage for serverless-specific frameworks. This matters because large organizations want sub-minute scans in CI/CD as cloud-native ecosystems evolve fast. A strong API security module is another area for enhancement. API security scanning could be improved with active testing, API discovery, full Swagger, OpenAPI, drift detection, and schema-based fuzzing. This is important as API attacks are one of the biggest AppSec risks in 2025. Checkmarx One is strong, but I see a few areas for improvement including faster SAST scanning for large mono-repos, deeper language framework support, more transparent correlation logic, and stronger API security that includes discovery and runtime context. The IDE plugin could offer more AI-assisted fixes, and the SBOM lifecycle tracking can evolve further. Enhancing integration with SIEM and SOAR would also make enterprise adoption smoother, and these improvements would help developers and AppSec teams move faster with more accuracy.

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A Iskakov

Business development manager at RSsecurity

Unified monitoring has reduced alert noise and provides accurate, proactive application security

Xygeni was highly effective for us, but there are areas where improvements could be made. More customization options for dashboards and reports would help teams tailor the platform to their specific metrics and workflows. I also occasionally encounter DevOps tools that are not yet supported natively. Expanded coverage for niche or emerging tools would make onboarding even smoother. These points, however, are minor compared to the overall value the platform delivers, especially given the strength of its AI-driven detection, remediation, and supply chain protection capabilities. It would also be an improvement for licensing with regard to on-premise variants. Perhaps we could have an on-premise option for standard subscription.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"Previously with Cortex Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, I deployed this product for one of my customers, and after three to four months, they said that previously they had around four hours of MTTR, and now it has reduced to just 15 to 20 minutes."

"The AI and automation features in detecting and responding to high-risk threats are impressive; it's one of the best tools regarding AI technology and unifies security in one platform in real-time, improving vulnerability analysis, incident response, and compliance reporting."

"The capabilities of Cortex Cloud by Palo Alto Networks are valuable because it is the best product in the market."

"I have seen several benefits from using Cortex Cloud by Palo Alto Networks: It was easy to use and easy to migrate from the IBM platform."

"The most valuable features I have found in Cortex Cloud by Palo Alto Networks are those that we provided to customers in a stock environment, as we have done some POCs and tried to check how it can help different organizations, and this same solution has been positioned for multiple customers."

"The most beneficial aspect of Cortex Cloud by Palo Alto Networks and Palo Alto in general is that there is a single platform for all cloud providers for securitization."

"From a technical standpoint or pricing, Cortex Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is a stronger solution in the market at the moment compared to other products from ConnectWise or Symantec."

"I have absolutely seen improvements in our incident close rates, with mean time to detect and respond reduced significantly, sometimes by at least forty to fifty percent."

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"After scanning, it shows in-depth code of where actual vulnerabilities are, which helps us to analyze them."

"It gives the proper code flow of vulnerabilities and the number of occurrences."

"Overall, I use Checkmarx One as a strategic control point to improve developer velocity while strengthening application security across the full software lifecycle."

"The most valuable features of Checkmarx are its integration with multiple SCM solutions and CICD tools, its ability to scale according to user licenses, and the quick scanning process."

"Overall, we are very satisfied with Checkmarx and it is a product that I recommend."

"The product's most valuable feature is static code and supply chain effect analysis. It provides a lot of visibility."

"It allows for SAST scanning of uncompiled code. Further, it natively integrates with all key repos formats (Git, TFS, SVN, Perforce, etc)."

"It provides a graphical view of any vulnerabilities."

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"I would like to highlight Xygeni's Core AI function, which makes it easier to understand security information for both technical leaders as well as for those who are higher up in business management, helping make smarter, faster decisions and offering more secure developments in less time."

"The visibility of our open-source supply chain dependencies and real-time detection of vulnerabilities have been invaluable."

"Xygeni provides a comprehensive and developer-friendly approach to securing the entire software supply chain."

"The best Xygeni feature is the ability to filter what is truly important, which really helps me focus on the key vulnerabilities in the software that I am building."

"Since using Xygeni, the time to review vulnerabilities has decreased."

Cons

"In my opinion, Cortex Cloud by Palo Alto Networks can be improved by addressing forensic information collection and storage, although I cannot suggest specific things right now, based on what customers might need."

"Cortex Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is not the cheapest solution in the market, but I know that is the best solution for SOC and Cloud once have all tools to connect cloud issues with SOC procedures, because we are partners with T-Systems."

"Cortex Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is creating some confusion in terms of names because this is recent."

"My thoughts about improving the product which I believe could greatly aid vendors is that it used to be a very user-friendly tool, but now they have incorporated everything under one umbrella."

"The pricing is high, making ROI challenging to justify, especially during transitions between solutions."

"The negative aspects or areas for improvement in the product include the fact that the cost might be a bit high, which challenges commercials, but not technically."

"Some aspects of the GUI can be confusing and make it difficult for me to find certain options or navigate where needed."

"From the commercial perspective, we have some limitations because Palo Alto has a minimum number of users of endpoints set at 200, which is quite high for the Italian market."

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"They can support the remaining languages that are currently not supported. They can also create a different model that can identify zero-day attacks. They can work on different patterns to identify and detect zero-day vulnerability attacks."

"When we first ran it on a big project, there wasn't enough memory on the computer. It originally ran with eight gigabytes, and now it runs with 32. The software stopped at some point, and while I don't think it said it ran out of memory, it just said "stopped" and something else. We had to go to the logs and send them to the integrator, and eventually, they found a memory issue in the logs and recommended increasing the memory. We doubled it once, and it didn't seem enough. We doubled it again, and it helped."

"Scanning speed optimization is an area where improvements can be made, and we can reduce false positives."

"Integration into the SDLC (i.e. support for last version of SonarQube) could be added."

"It needs better role management."

"It could be improved with more reporting of false positives and the understanding of file references."

"The product's reporting feature could be better. The feature works well for developers, but reports generated to be shared with external parties are poor, it lacks the details one gets when viewing the results directly from the Checkmarx One platform."

"Its pricing model can be improved. Sometimes, it is a little complex to understand its pricing model."

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"I think Xygeni could be improved by having more information in the form of videos in Spanish and more use cases to share it with more prospects."

"Xygeni could be improved if on-premise options were available starting from the starter packages, not only the enterprise models."

"Xygeni can be more automated."

"Xygeni was highly effective for us, but there are areas where improvements could be made."

"There should be more configuration options that make it easier to target the issues that are more important in your organization's context."

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"The license has a vague language around P1 issues and the associated support. Make sure to review these in order to align them with your organizational policies."

"The number of users and coverage for languages will have an impact on the cost of the license."

"The solution is costly."

"The pricing is competitive and provides a lower TCO (total cost of ownership) for achieving application security."

"We got a special offer for a 30% reduction for three years, after our first year. I think for a real source-code scanning tool, you have to add a lot of money for Open Source Analysis, and AppSec Coach (160 Euro per user per year)."

"It's relatively expensive."

"Most of my customers opted for a perpetual license. They prefer to pay the highest amount up front for the perpetual license and then pay for additional support annually."

"The price of Checkmarx could be reduced to match their competitors, it is expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

16%

Construction Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Outsourcing Company

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

Outsourcing Company

Computer Software Company

Comms Service Provider

27%

Outsourcing Company

10%

Security Firm

10%

Retailer

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	4

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	32
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	46

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cortex Cloud by Palo Alto Networks?

I am not fully aware of the pricing and licensing of Cortex Cloud by Palo Alto Networks. The pricing is also based on...

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What needs improvement with Cortex Cloud by Palo Alto Networks?

In my opinion, Cortex Cloud by Palo Alto Networks could be improved or enhanced in various ways. I don't have an idea...

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What is your primary use case for Cortex Cloud by Palo Alto Networks?

The usual use cases for Cortex Cloud by Palo Alto Networks that I have been working with mostly are as simple as dete...

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What alternatives are there for Fortify WebInspect and Fortify SCA?

I would like to recommend Checkmarx. With Checkmarx, you are able to have an all in one solution for SAST and SCA as ...

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What is the biggest difference between Veracode and Checkmarx?

According to my experience of using both the tools in different organizations Veracode is a Cloud-native, managed Ap...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Checkmarx?

Checkmarx One is a premium solution, so budget accordingly. Make sure you understand how licensing scales with additi...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Xygeni?

The pricing is reasonable. Xygeni provided me with the pricing list that is already public on the web, so it is very ...

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What needs improvement with Xygeni?

I think Xygeni could be improved by having more information in the form of videos in Spanish and more use cases to sh...

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What is your primary use case for Xygeni?

My main use case for Xygeni is that we offer it to our clients to ensure security in the software supply chain.I don'...

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Overview

Cortex Cloud by Palo Alto Networks enhances cloud security with features like AI/ML threat detection and automated remediation, ensuring real-time protection and efficient management across cloud environments.

Cortex Cloud by Palo Alto Networks offers comprehensive cloud security posture management and runtime protection. It reduces manual tasks and accelerates incident investigation through advanced threat detection and AI-driven anomaly detection. With integration to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, it boosts threat response while reducing incident resolution time. Although users find the UI complex and pricing high, its capabilities in securing AWS, Azure, and other environments, as well as its potential integration with CyberArk, emphasize its enterprise-ready design for cloud transformation across diverse industry sectors.

What are the key features of Cortex Cloud by Palo Alto Networks?

Runtime Protection: Ensures real-time security for workloads.
AI/ML-powered Threat Detection: Identifies threats using AI/ML technology.
Automated Remediation: Streamlines threat response through automation.
Comprehensive Detection Coverage: Offers extensive detection capabilities with unified data.
Integration with MITRE ATT&CK: Enhances threat response efficiency.

What benefits or ROI should users consider?

Enhanced Security Visibility: Provides dashboards for better security insights.
Reduced Manual Tasks: Automates processes for efficiency gains.
Improved Threat Response: Accelerates incident resolution with AI-driven anomaly detection.
Seamless Cloud Integration: Supports APIs and multi-cloud environments.

Cortex Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is deployed across industries like telecom, BFSI, and manufacturing for robust cloud security. It's leveraged for detecting misconfigurations and vulnerabilities, aiding cloud transformation and compliance with standards such as GDPR and NIST. The integration across cloud infrastructures, including AWS and Azure, supports policy creation and threat management strategies for diverse enterprises.

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Checkmarx One delivers robust security through seamless integration with SCM and CI/CD tools, ensuring reliable SAST and SCA. Primarily used by organizations for vulnerability detection, it supports cloud and on-premises deployment to enhance secure coding practices.

Checkmarx One provides organizations with comprehensive tools for secure software development, integrating effectively with CI/CD pipelines to scan thousands of applications. Its capabilities extend to identifying vulnerabilities in both code bases and third-party software. Enhancing workflow by supporting SCM solutions, it assists in maintaining secure coding standards and compliance. While excelling in various areas, it requires improvements in scan speed, reduction of false positives, and broader platform integration, particularly for COBOL and Swift. Its pricing model is noted as high, and demand exists for better tutorials and documentation.

What are the key features of Checkmarx One?

Comprehensive Integration: Seamlessly connects with SCM, CI/CD tools to streamline security workflows.
Accurate SAST and SCA: Precisely identifies vulnerabilities down to the exact line of code.
Custom Rules Configuration: Allows tailored security measures to match specific needs.
Quick Scanning: Provides fast analysis to speed up the development process.
Automated Code Remediation: Helps in efficiently fixing code vulnerabilities.

What benefits should users expect in reviews?

Improved Security: Enhances code safety, reducing vulnerabilities efficiently.
Effective False Positivity Management: Optimizes time spent on genuine issues.
Enhanced Development Processes: Integrates smoothly to boost secure coding initiatives.
Comprehensive Language Support: Facilitates scanning in multiple programming languages, accommodating diverse needs.

Industries implement Checkmarx One for secure coding compliance and vulnerability management across varying environments, choosing between cloud and on-premises deployment based on requirements. Its extensive language support and integration with DevSecOps practices make it a popular choice for organizations aiming to enhance software security.

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Xygeni All-In-One AppSec Platform ensures comprehensive security across the software supply chain, using deep contextual intelligence to prioritize exploitable and business-critical vulnerabilities.

With its AI-powered capabilities, Xygeni offers automatic detection and quarantine of malicious packages as soon as they're published, alongside context-aware auto-remediation. It integrates seamlessly across source code, dependencies, secrets, IaC, builds, containers, and CI/CD systems. Xygeni Shield extends that protection to the developer's own machine, blocking unauthorized package downloads at the OS level before they ever reach disk. Unified ASPM visibility and supply-chain malware protection enable accelerated, secure delivery without compromising speed or innovation.

What are the most important features of Xygeni?

Deep Contextual Intelligence: Prioritizes vulnerabilities based on exploitability and business impact.
Early Malware Detection: Continuously scans public registries and quarantines malicious packages at the moment they're published, before they reach a developer's machine.
Endpoint Enforcement (Shield): Blocks unauthorized or policy-violating package downloads directly on the developer's machine, with every block attributed to the exact process that requested it.
Seamless Integration: Works across code, dependencies, secrets, IaC, containers, and CI/CD systems.
AI-Powered Auto-Remediation: Generates context-aware fixes for vulnerabilities in code and infrastructure-as-code.
Code Quality, Unified: Measures maintainability, complexity, and duplication across ten languages and opens pull requests with ready-to-apply fixes, in the same platform and prioritization model as security findings.
Developer-First Remediation: Supports developers with IDE and AI co-pilot integrations to speed up fixes.

What benefits or ROI should users expect in reviews?

Enhanced Security: Comprehensive coverage from code to cloud, and now to the developer endpoint, reduces vulnerability risk.
Increased Efficiency: Automation and seamless integration streamline security processes.
Accelerated Delivery: Enables fast-paced development without compromising safety.
Developer Productivity: AI co-pilots assist developers, improving the remediation process.
Cost Savings: Efficient threat prioritization minimizes time spent on non-essential alerts.

Industries like finance, healthcare, and technology implement Xygeni to fortify their software supply chain, ensuring robust protection and compliance. By combining AI-driven prioritization with broad integration coverage, from the registry to the endpoint to code quality, these sectors maintain development speed while strengthening their security posture against supply chain threats.

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