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Kiuwan Insights vs PyCharm comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

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Categories and Ranking

Kiuwan Insights
Ranking in Static Code Analysis
23rd
Average Rating
4.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
PyCharm
Ranking in Static Code Analysis
4th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Static Code Analysis category, the mindshare of Kiuwan Insights is 1.7%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PyCharm is 2.2%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Static Code Analysis Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
PyCharm2.2%
Kiuwan Insights1.7%
Other96.1%
Static Code Analysis
 

Featured Reviews

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Head of Development and Consulting at Logalty
Protects problematic libraries; sorely lacking in customer services
Kiuwan lacks decent support, it's very bad. A couple of years ago an American company bought Kiuwan and support became non-existent. It's a big part of why we're looking to move to another product. We have questions regarding false positives and nobody responds to our tickets. They don't have any answers. If you're looking for a cheaper solution and don't require support, it might be okay, but a large end company that has a lot of questions about how the developers are programming will have trouble.
Sahil Sanskar Jha - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Advanced machine learning workflows have become faster but still need better memory efficiency
In PyCharm, I find several components and libraries to be the most valuable. The support that Jupyter Notebook offers is essential, as we work through Jupyter regularly. Scientific libraries such as NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, and Plotly are integral to our work. Machine learning libraries including scikit-learn, PyTorch, and TensorFlow are used extensively. Hugging Face integration is particularly valuable because it is easily findable, the documentation is comprehensive, and it can be directly integrated with the IDEs we work with. The intelligent code editor in PyCharm definitely helps me manage code quality and efficiency in my projects. When using these libraries, it makes parallelization of data very efficient, allowing me to use multi-thread programming architecture. The code can work for multiple datasets rather than one at a time. With native Python code, a machine learning deployment taking 45 to 50 minutes to calculate can be efficiently reduced to a minute or half a second using these libraries.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Insights is valuable at protecting a problematic library and enabling you to reduce the number of false positives."
"I have found the interface to be perfect."
"Can help in reducing the number of false positives."
"The solution provides a good comprehensive debugging feature that I like and which is easy to use."
"The recent AI-powered code completion is pretty cool."
"The integrated code structure makes coding more organized and manageable compared to using Python alone."
"The product's IDE feature is quite user-friendly."
"PyCharm has an excellent user experience, and I appreciate its cross-platform capabilities."
"The solution has a nice environment and extensions that make it easy to develop software."
"The automated package installation is helpful. I like the code highlighting features. A huge library of plugins is available, including AI coding tools, though I don't use those myself. The debugging tools are good, showing errors and problem lines."
"The latest AI features and tab completion features are good."
 

Cons

"Kiuwan lacks decent support, it's very bad. A couple of years ago an American company bought Kiuwan and support became non-existent."
"The solution has issues detecting intrusive methods."
"The solution is great, but improvement is needed in the number of lines of code allowed, that is the capacity. Pricing can be improved as well."
"One issue with JetBrains tools, including PyCharm, is their heavy resource usage. They can be slow to start, especially when beginning a new project, as it takes some time to index."
"The solution is heavy because running it on laptops consumes a lot of memory and power. Typically, a laptop battery might last about eight to nine hours, but with the tool running, it reduces to two hours or one and a half hours at most. It is designed to handle large projects and heavy tasks, making it resource-intensive. For smaller projects, use IDEs like Visual Studio Code."
"A potential area of improvement in PyCharm at this point would be memory efficiency."
"The solution does not support some features of OpenCV even though it is part of a PyCharm package."
"There is room for improvement in memory usage. It uses too much memory. It can get a bit heavy, especially when you have too many open files and the system becomes very slow."
"The breakpoints could be improved as they are not that intuitive to use."
"The navigation can be better."
"They give some functionality to use Python Notebook, but it's not great."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pricing can be improved as well."
"The community edition is free and the professional edition has a licensing fee."
"I don't have much info on the pricing, but I would say it is somewhat competitive."
"The community edition is free, which is good."
"I use the free community version, so I'm saving money there."
"The price is reasonable."
"They have a free Community edition, and they also have a licensed version. They definitely have an annual license. They probably also have a monthly license. Its pricing is good and reasonable. It is a little bit more expensive than the others, but it is well worth it. I would rate it a four out of five in terms of pricing."
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What needs improvement with PyCharm?
A potential area of improvement in PyCharm at this point would be memory efficiency. PyCharm is based on its IntelliJ platform, which is Java-based, meaning it can be very memory-intensive, especia...
What is your primary use case for PyCharm?
My main use case for PyCharm is for machine learning operations.
What advice do you have for others considering PyCharm?
I use PyCharm's debugging tools on a case-by-case basis. The libraries are generally documented well enough that in most cases when I am debugging, half of the errors are found by the IDE initially...
 

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