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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Veracode and PyCharm operate within the software development space. Veracode appears to have an advantage in terms of comprehensive security features, while PyCharm stands out for developer productivity features.

Features: Veracode includes static and dynamic analysis tools, API integration for seamless automation, and supports various programming languages and platforms. It is especially adept at identifying vulnerabilities and aligning with DevOps workflows. PyCharm excels as an IDE offering intelligent coding features like robust code completion, testing, and debugging facilities primarily for Python. It integrates well with version control systems and supports a multitude of plugins enhancing the development experience.

Room for Improvement: Veracode struggles with false positives and has a complex pricing model. It faces integration challenges with APIs and lacks flexibility and scanning speed for newer programming languages. PyCharm is known for its high resource usage, necessitating better support for numerous programming languages and additional integrations, such as data science notebooks.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Veracode functions across multiple cloud environments and offers expert-level technical support, though response times can be slow. PyCharm typically operates on-premises or in public cloud settings and is known for an easy installation process, with generally agreeable support, albeit less so for resource-heavy scenarios.

Pricing and ROI: Veracode is perceived as expensive, offering value through enhanced security and compliance, with a quantifiable ROI attributed to decreased vulnerability instances. PyCharm provides a free Community edition and a paid Professional edition, which is deemed fairly priced given its feature set, potentially lowering costs through efficient coding and debugging support.

To learn more, read our detailed PyCharm vs. Veracode Report (Updated: September 2026).

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PyCharm vs. Veracode

September 2026

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Categories and Ranking

PyCharm

Ranking in Static Code Analysis

4th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Veracode

Ranking in Static Code Analysis

1st

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), Software Composition Analysis (SCA) (2nd), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) (1st), Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Static Code Analysis category, the mindshare of PyCharm is 2.7%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Veracode is 10.9%, down from 19.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Static Code Analysis Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Veracode	10.9%
PyCharm	2.7%
Other	86.4%

Static Code Analysis

Featured Reviews

Sahil Sanskar Jha

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.

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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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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"The solution has a nice environment and extensions that make it easy to develop software."

"The solution has a great debugging feature."

"The integrated code structure makes coding more organized and manageable compared to using Python alone."

"The solution provides a good comprehensive debugging feature that I like and which is easy to use."

"PyCharm has an excellent user experience, and I appreciate its cross-platform capabilities."

"The latest AI features and tab completion features are good."

"We have integrated the tool with GitHub. PyCharm provides easy integration with GitHub, allowing us to push changes directly. Many plugins are available on PyCharm for GitHub integration, including GitHub Copilot for auto code completion and GitHub Copilot Chat for assistance with code-related queries."

"Good syntax highlighting and very it's very customizable."

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"The ability on static scans to be able to do sandbox scans which do not generate metrics."

"It has provided what we were looking for in such an application, meaning static application security testing functionality. That was what we were interested in."

"Considering that in my project, we are mostly using Software Composition Analysis as a part of Static Code Analysis, for me, the main part is reporting and highlighting necessary vulnerabilities. Veracode platform has a rather good database of different vulnerabilities in different libraries and different sources. So, finding vulnerabilities in third-party libraries is the main feature of Software Composition Analysis that we use. It is the most important feature for us."

"Veracode has improved my organization's ability to fix flaws because before Veracode, we did not even know about issues from the security side."

"The reporting being highly accurate is pretty cool. I use another product and I was always looking for answers as to what line, which part of the code, was wrong, and what to do about it. Veracode seems to have a solid database to look things up and a website to look things up."

"The article scanning is excellent, the composition analysis and common CBEs attached to it are quite good, and the solution offers a lot of really great analysis with lots of good data support."

"The one thing we really liked about Veracode when we got it was the consultation calls; that our developers are able to schedule them on their own, instead of going to a "gatekeeper." They upload their code, they have questions, they schedule it, they speak with someone on the other side who is an expert, they can speak developer-to-developers."

"You can easily integrate it with Azure DevOps. This is an added value because we work with Azure DevOps. Veracode is natively supported and we don't have to work with APIs."

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Cons

"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."

"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."

"PyCharm's use of system resources can get pretty heavy. Loading, in particular, takes longer than I would like and I think they should optimize it so that it's a bit lighter on the system."

"The navigation can be better."

"The pricing model for PyCharm is a significant area for improvement. It is currently too high, with a per-seat cost of approximately 200 pounds."

"Customizing the tool can make it complicated."

"A potential area of improvement in PyCharm at this point would be memory efficiency."

"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."

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"It would be better if we had a channel for direct communication with the engineering team to speed up the process of providing feedback."

"Once your report has been generated, you need to review the report with consultation team, especially if it is too detailed on the development side or regarding the language. Then, you need some professional help from their end to help you understand whatever has been identified. Scheduling consultation takes a longer time. So, if you are running multiple reports at the same time, then you need to schedule a multiple consultation times with one of their developers. There are few developers on their end who work can work with your developers, and their schedules are very tight."

"It would be nice if Veracode were bundled with some preferred vendors like Salesforce and offered at a discount."

"It would be ideal if it was able to demonstrate higher levels of cybersecurity certifications like becoming FedRAMP compliant or working in those areas."

"It is pricey. There is a lot of value in the product, but it is a costly tool."

"The interface is basic and has room for improvement."

"Those pages need to be redesigned."

"Another problem we have is that, while it is integrated with single sign-on—we are using Okta—the user interface is not great. That's especially true for a permanent link of a report of a page. If you access it, it goes to the normal login page that has nothing that says "Log in with single sign-on," unlike other software as a service that we use. It's quite bothersome because it means that we have to go to the Okta dashboard, find the Veracode link, and log in through it. Only at that point can we go to the permanent link of the page we wanted to access."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I don't have much info on the pricing, but I would say it is somewhat competitive."

"The community edition is free and the professional edition has a licensing fee."

"The community edition is free, which is good."

"The price is reasonable."

"I use the free community version, so I'm saving money there."

"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."

"The product’s price is a bit higher compared to other solutions."

"I'm unfamiliar with the solution's pricing, but it must be worth the cost from a company perspective, as we have been using it for years and have no plans to move away from it."

"To my knowledge, licensing for Veracode Static Analysis is paid yearly by my company."

"Its cost for what we needed it for was too high. It wasn't too high for other companies and it was competitively priced, but for us, it just didn't fit. We did plan to use it and increase the usage. In the end, it may have been abandoned because of the cost, but I'm not a hundred percent sure. So, even though we had planned on using it more and more, because of the cost and the business conditions of things, we didn't have the opportunity to really use it more."

"Veracode is fairly priced."

"Veracode is costly. They have different license models for different customers. What we had was based on the amount of code that has been analyzed. The license that we had was capped to a certain amount, for example, 5 Gig. There would be an extra charge for anything above 5 Gig."

"Veracode's price is reasonable."

"No issues, the pricing seems reasonable."

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21%

University

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Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

12%

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Small Business	8
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 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...

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

SonarQube is easy to deploy and configure, and also integrates well with other tools to do quality code analysis. SonarQube has a great community edition, which is open-source and free. Easy to use...

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 AppSec platform with strong focus on ease of use, it is SaaS delivery, and provide...

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

PyCharm is a powerful IDE designed for Python development, offering intelligent code analysis, seamless GitHub integration, and extensive support for frameworks like Django and Flask. Ideal for both beginners and professionals, it enhances coding efficiency and supports complex programming tasks.

PyCharm provides an integrated development environment that supports robotics, scientific computing, and machine learning. It features a built-in debugger and powerful AI-driven code completion, facilitating rapid prototyping and debugging. While it excels in many areas, users note challenges regarding system resource consumption and memory efficiency. Despite its pricing model, PyCharm remains a preferred choice for Python projects, thanks to its robust feature set and intuitive design.

What are PyCharm's key features?

Intelligent Code Analysis: Detects errors and suggests corrections in real-time.
Built-in Debugger: Offers a powerful tool for debugging complex code seamlessly.
Seamless GitHub Integration: Simplifies version control and collaboration.
Robust AI Features: Enhances productivity with AI-driven code completion.
Extensive Plugin Support: Customizes the environment for specific needs.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Enhanced Productivity: Streamlines coding with features like context-aware code completion.
Support for Scientific Libraries: Provides efficiency in projects involving data processing and machine learning.
Integration Capabilities: Works well with tools like Grafana, Coverity, and Pylint.

In scientific fields, PyCharm aids data scientists and engineers with machine learning and algorithm optimization. Its support for Python frameworks and integration with other tools make it suitable for projects in robotics and data processing. Users often pair it with Visual Studio for tasks outside Python development.

JetBrains

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.

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