Klocwork vs Software Risk Manager ASPM comparison

Perforce and Black Duck are both solutions in the Static Application Security Testing (SAST) category. Perforce is ranked #15 with an average rating of 8.2, while Black Duck is ranked #29. Perforce holds a 1.4% mindshare in SAST, compared to Black Duck’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 93% of Perforce users are willing to recommend the solution.

Klocwork

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 21, 2025

Klocwork and Software Risk Manager ASPM compete in the application security and analysis market. Software Risk Manager ASPM has the upper hand due to its comprehensive feature set, offering greater value despite pricing differences.

Features: Klocwork comes with robust static code analysis capabilities, integration with various IDEs, and customizable checkers. Software Risk Manager ASPM outpaces it by offering advanced analytics, detailed risk insights, and prioritization of vulnerabilities, strengthening its position with superior risk management features.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Klocwork provides a straightforward deployment model and strong customer service with a focus on streamlined setup. Software Risk Manager ASPM leverages a cloud-based deployment, ensuring quicker implementation and flexibility, making its deployment process more efficient.

Pricing and ROI: Klocwork is cost-effective, delivering returns by reducing security vulnerabilities with a moderate setup investment. Software Risk Manager ASPM might have higher initial costs, but its thorough risk assessment translates into significant ROI, enabling better-informed security decisions through its risk management capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

Klocwork

Ranking in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

15th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Security Tools (17th), Static Code Analysis (3rd)

Software Risk Manager ASPM

Ranking in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

29th

Average Rating

0.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Software Composition Analysis (SCA) (21st), Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) (14th)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Static Application Security Testing (SAST) category, the mindshare of Klocwork is 1.4%, down from 1.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Software Risk Manager ASPM is 0.8%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Klocwork	1.4%
Software Risk Manager ASPM	0.8%
Other	97.8%

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

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Krishna M Gopalakrishnan

Manager, Quality, Functional Safety, Cybersecurity Embedded Processing at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Experience with compliance improvements and efficiency boosts but static analysis engine shows a need for enhancement

One area for improvement is that when customers use different static analysis tools, they report more issues compared to Klocwork. The static analysis engine of Klocwork has areas that need improvement. Customers using different static analysis tools report more issues than with Klocwork, indicating that Klocwork's engine is not as superior. Klocwork should be able to analyze large codebases efficiently, supporting a desktop version for periodic small delta changes before pushing to the server.

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Saravanan_Radhakrishnan

Senior Manager at Happiest Minds Technologies

Facilitates continuous assessment of applications, covering both static and dynamic security aspects

Code Dx lacks one aspect, the dynamic security part, known as DAST. It's not an on-premise solution; it's in the cloud now. There are compliance standards and data standards where the customer might need to have the data on-premises for dynamic security testing. So that is one shortfall. An area of improvement could be developing an on-premise DAST solution. The current one is a complete cloud-based solution, and that can be one of the areas of improvement.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Klocwork is user-friendly, with a client-server architecture that provides all needed compliance."

"Overall I find Klocwork's features superior for our needs."

"The best advantage of Klocwork is the reduced setup time."

"The most valuable feature of Klocwork is its reduced setup time."

"On-the-fly analysis and incremental analysis are the best parts of Klocwork. Currently, we are using both of these features very effectively."

"We like using the static analysis and code refactoring, which are very valuable because of our requirements to meet safety critical levels and reliability."

"The most valuable feature of Klocwork is finding defects while you're doing the coding. For example, if you have an IDE plug-in of Klocwork on Visual Studio or Eclipse, you can find the faults; similar to using spell check on Word, you can find out defects during the development phase, which means that you don't have to wait till the development is over to find the flaws and address the deficiencies. I also find language support in Klocwork good because it used to support only C, C++, C#, and Java, but now, it also supports Java scripts and Python."

"The best advantage of Klocwork is the reduced setup time."

More Klocwork pros

"The customers were looking for something around static security and dynamic security, and in all those areas, they were looking for an industry leader with a proven solution. Synopsys is a Gartner leader, so I position this particular technology for the technical pre-sales part of it."

Cons

"What needs improvement in Klocwork, compared to other products in the market, is the dashboard or reporting mechanisms that need to be a bit more flexible. The Klocwork dashboard could be improved. Though it's good, it's not as good as some of the other products in the market, which is a problem. The reporting could be more detailed and easier to sort out because sorting in Klocwork could be a bit more time-consuming, mainly when sorting defects based on filters, compared to how it's done on other tools such as Coverity."

"I hope that in each new release they add new features relating to the addition of checkers, improving their analysis engines etc."

"I believe it should support more languages, such as Python and JavaScript."

"The way to define the rules is too complex. The definition/rules for static analysis could be automated according to various SILs, so as to avoid confusion."

"Modern languages, such as Angular and .NET, should be included as a part of Klocwork. They have recently added Kotlin as a part of their project, but we would like to see more languages in Klocwork. That's the reason we are using Coverity as a backup for some of the other languages."

"This solution could be improved if they offered support of more languages including Ada and Golang. They currently only support seven languages."

"Every update that we receive requires of us a lengthy and involved process."

"Now the only issue we have is that whenever we need to get the code we have to build it first. Then we can get the report."

More Klocwork cons

"The initial setup is a bit challenging because things are not easy. It needs a lot of technology adaptability plus the customer's environment-specific use cases."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The limitation that we have is that Klocwork is licensed to certain programs, and if you want to license them to other programs, you have to pay more money."

"Klocwork should not to be quite so heavy handed on the licensing for very specific programs."

"This solution offers competitive pricing."

"The pricing for Klocwork is very competitive if you compare it from apple to apple. It has competitive pricing regarding the licensing model and the per-license cost. Klocwork isn't a high-end investment for anyone deploying it; even SMBs can afford it. The Klocwork cost per user would depend on the license type, so I'm unable to mention a ballpark figure because it would depend on the type of installation and how the deployment will be, and the nodes to give an accurate calculation or figure. The total price depends on the package, so my company could never publish pricing for Klocwork on the website. My team first collects information from potential clients on the deployment scenario, project environment, etc., before suggesting a package for Klocwork. My rating for Klocwork in terms of pricing is a five because of its flexible license models. There's a license model for every type of organization, whether small, midsize, or enterprise, so it's a five out of five for me."

"When it comes to licensing, the solution has two packages, one for a fixed and the other for a floating server, with the former being more cost effective than the latter."

"There are other solutions on the market such as Microsoft Visual Studio. They have been adding more static code analysis features that come for free. It is getting better all the time. That is one of the possibilities is that we've been considering that we may stop using the Klocwork because it doesn't give us any added value."

"Licensing fees are paid annually, but they also have a perpetual license."

"Klocwork is still tight on their licensing. If Klocwork would loosen up on the licensing, and where the license could be used, and how many different programs could be run on it, then we have several development programs that I would love to be able to use it for going forward."

"It is more of an enterprise solution for budget-conscious customers. So, it's moderately priced. It's not for everybody."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

24%

Computer Software Company

10%

Transportation Company

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

18%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

University

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	12

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Klocwork?

Klocwork's pricing seems attractive, as it uses a per-user license model that does not have a lot of overhead.

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What is your primary use case for Klocwork?

I work on tools such as Klocwork, LDRA, as well as Jira and Confluence, focusing more on the software quality assurance aspect. We use Klocwork for coding and aggregate checks. We use it for static...

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Code Dx

Overview

Klocwork detects security, safety, and reliability issues in real-time by using this static code analysis toolkit that works alongside developers, finding issues as early as possible, and integrates with teams, supporting continuous integration and actionable reporting.

Perforce

Software Risk Manager is an application security posture management (ASPM) solution that enables security and development teams to manage their application security programs at enterprise scale. By unifying policy, test orchestration, correlation, prioritization, and built-in static application security testing (SAST) and software composition analysis (SCA) engines, organizations can streamline their security activities across the enterprise.

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ACCESS Co Ltd, Risk-AI, Winbond Electronics, Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute, University of Southern California, Alebra Technologies, SIMULIA, Risk Management Solutions, Brigham Young University, SRD, HRL

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