An estimated 72% of enterprises with 500+ employees have integrated SAST tools into their development pipelines but many face issues with false positives and developer friction. Untuned SAST tools can produce false positive rates of 30-60%, and at enterprise scale, that noise compounds. As Mike Wilkes, Enterprise CISO at Aikido, wrote, when tools generate overwhelming noise, engineers disengage.
Beyond developer adoption, enterprise SAST also has to hold up under audit. Compliance frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS require documented evidence that code is tested for vulnerabilities.
This post breaks down what to look for in enterprise SAST and compares the best options on noise, remediation, coverage, governance and compliance, and cost. We'll look at different enterprise SAST offerings in this post, including:
- Aikido Security
- Checkmarx
- Veracode
- Fortify (OpenText)
- Snyk Code
- SonarQube Enterprise
TL;DR
Aikido Security is the best option for enterprise teams looking for a SAST tool because its engine cuts false positives by up to 95% through AI-powered noise reduction and reachability analysis, and customers consistently report 90%+ noise reduction in production. When it comes to governance, the platform includes RBAC and SSO/SCIM for access control, with policy enforcement at the CI/CD level that can block PRs based on severity rules. Compliance reporting maps to SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS. The platform supports 20+ languages, runs on-prem or in-cloud, and integrates with every major CI/CD system.
What makes SAST an enterprise problem
Keeping up with AI-generated code
Aikido's 2026 State of AI in Security & Development report, nearly 70% of organizations say they've uncovered flaws tied to AI-generated code, which makes SAST accuracy and speed more important. Tools with high false positive rates become even noisier as code volume grows, and LOC-based pricing models become less predictable.
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Compliance
SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS all require evidence that code is being tested for vulnerabilities before release. SAST helps adhere to these standards by detecting vulnerabilities early in the development cycle and enforcing secure coding practices. It doesn't replace penetration testing or manual code review, both of which are important for compliance, but without it there's a gap in the evidence chain.
Tool sprawl
Security teams at large organizations are being asked to reduce the number of tools they run without reducing what those tools cover. SAST that lives inside a broader platform can consolidate part of that footprint. SAST that requires its own infrastructure, admin overhead, and separate reporting adds to it.
Ownership
At enterprise scale, a SAST finding in a shared library might be relevant to fifteen teams and owned by none of them. If findings aren't routed to specific teams by repo, path, or code ownership, they sit in a backlog nobody prioritizes. Enterprise SAST evaluation should include how findings get assigned, not just how they get surfaced.
How to evaluate enterprise SAST
Noise at scale
A high false positive rate becomes a compounding cost for an enterprise with hundreds of developers. Engineers spend 6.1 hours per week triaging security findings, with 72% of that time wasted on false positives. Multiply that across a large engineering org and you're burning thousands of hours a quarter on findings that don't matter. Look for reachability analysis, contextual prioritization, and AI-assisted triage that learns from your codebase rather than applying generic severity scores.
AI remediation
Can the tool generate a fix, does the fix compile, and is it specific to your code? Some tools offer generic code suggestions. Others generate verified fixes scoped to the specific vulnerability in your codebase, opened as a PR the developer can review and merge.
Pipeline integration and policy enforcement
Enterprise SAST has to run in the CI/CD pipeline to be effective, and ideally in the IDE before code is even committed. Evaluate whether the tool can gate merges based on severity rules you define, and whether those rules are configurable per-repo. Inline PR comments pointing to the exact line are more actionable than a dashboard link. Test whether the integration actually works in your pipeline or requires custom scripting.
Governance and compliance
For enterprises, SAST tooling is part of the audit trail. SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS all require evidence that security vulnerabilities are identified during development, and SAST generates that evidence through scan history, gating policies, and remediation records. PCI DSS specifically references OWASP Top 10 coverage. SAST doesn't replace penetration testing or manual review, but your SAST tool's reporting needs to hold up when auditors ask how vulnerabilities are caught and tracked during development.
Beyond reporting, look for RBAC so team leads see their own findings, SSO/SCIM so onboarding and offboarding don't create security gaps, and audit logs that track who triaged what and when.
Top enterprise SAST tools 2026
Aikido Security
Aikido ships a deterministic SAST engine designed to run on every commit. It integrates with LLMs to reduce noise and false positives compared to other SAST tools by over 90%. When SAST finds a vulnerability and a fix is available, AI AutoFix attaches the suggested diff to the comment so you can review and commit it at once, or opens a dedicated PR whose metadata you can fine-tune to match your contribution guidelines. You can adjust any generated fix with natural-language follow-ups so it matches your standards, and write custom code checks in plain English instead of regex.
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Aikido returns results on the first commit with no infrastructure to provision and no multi-week implementation, which makes it a realistic path for teams that have put off SAST adoption because the rollout looked too heavy.
For enterprises that can't send source code to external SaaS, Aikido offers private deployment via local scanning where only results leave the customer environment. CI gating is configurable per-repo with severity thresholds and scan type toggles, and findings route through Code Owners so they land with the team that owns the code. Audit logs track every triage decision, and compliance reporting maps to SOC 2 and ISO 27001 for teams that need evidence without manual assembly. The platform supports large monorepos and legacy languages, and enterprise contracts include SLAs and named support contacts.
The IDE plugins for VS Code and other editors scan on file open and save, highlight issues inline, and list them in an Aikido panel. Hovering a finding lets you assess its impact with AutoTriage, and AutoFix shows a side-by-side preview you apply in place, after which the file is rescanned to confirm the issue is resolved. Everything routes into tools teams already use. Aikido connects to Jira Cloud, Linear, Slack, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps, and can insert Jira ticket IDs into AutoFix PR titles for traceability between fixes and tickets.
Beyond deterministic SAST, Aikido also ships an agentic AI Code Analysis product that reasons about source code the way a pentester would, extending coverage to all languages and surfacing issues that pattern-based tools structurally miss. For teams that want runtime validation, Aikido AI Pentest runs the same engine against a live target to prove exploitability.
Best for: Enterprise teams that want accurate, noise-free SAST with governance, compliance reporting, and private deployment, alongside AI code analysis and AI pentesting, without the six-month rollout or dedicated admin headcount that legacy tools require.
Checkmarx
Checkmarx SAST's core detection runs on CxQL (Checkmarx Query Language), its proprietary language for writing SAST detection rules. Full Checkmarx SAST scans take 25 to 45 minutes per application, which is orders of magnitude slower than other deterministic SAST tools that return results in seconds. Checkmarx SAST offers broad language support, including legacy stacks like COBOL and RPG.
Implementing Checkmarx in an organization can take six weeks or more, compared to tools that return results the same day. Pricing is quote-based through sales, licensed per contributing developer, with each module billed separately. Expect total cost to climb significantly once you add modules beyond SAST alone. Multiple Gartner Peer Insights reviewers note that the tool can feel dated in its developer experience, and users have specifically requested more advanced AI-powered auto-remediation comparable to what newer tools offer.
Best for: Large enterprises with dedicated AppSec engineering staff and the budget to absorb per-module licensing, slower scan times, and multi-week implementation in exchange for broad language coverage and a mature governance layer.
Veracode
Veracode scans source code, compiled binaries (e.g., .jar files, .NET assemblies, COBOL binaries), or hybrid combinations. For organizations in banking, defense, or government that have policies against sharing source code with third-party SaaS vendors, compiled binaries are sometimes the only option on the table. Veracode offers coverage of over 100 languages, including legacy stacks like COBOL, Visual Basic 6, RPG, and PL/SQL. The unified dashboard covers SAST, DAST, and SCA in one view. Compliance reporting maps to major frameworks.
But the developer experience has not kept pace. G2 reviewers report analysis times are slow, and Peer Insights report high false positive rates. Pricing starts around $15,000/year for SAST alone and can exceed $100,000/year once you add SCA, DAST, and full enterprise reporting. If binary analysis is a hard requirement, Veracode is a worthwhile option. If it isn't, newer tools deliver faster feedback with less friction.
Best for: Regulated enterprises that need binary-level analysis without sharing source code, particularly those managing legacy stacks. But teams will have to deal with opaque pricing and an unfriendly developer workflow.
OpenText Fortify
Fortify has been around for over twenty years and is used in government, defense, and financial services. The platform has been through three ownership changes (HP to Micro Focus to OpenText), and each transition has introduced changes to support, account management, and product direction that matter when you're signing a multi-year enterprise contract.
Its SAST product offers support for 45+ languages, detects 1,500+ vulnerability categories, and offers on-premises, SaaS (Fortify on Demand), or hybrid deployment. Recent releases introduced AI-assisted analysis and remediation, though these are separate SKUs and relatively new compared to vendors who have been shipping AI triage and fixes for over a year.
However, the on-premises deployment requires significant infrastructure and ongoing maintenance, and the user experience reflects a product that predates modern developer workflows. Licensing runs $50,000 to $200,000+ per year, and the Fortify Aviator AI-assisted fix feature is a separate SKU, so remediation help costs extra.
Best for: Government and defense organizations where air-gapped deployment and an established compliance track record outweigh heavy infrastructure requirements, outdated developer experience, and high cost.
Snyk Code
Snyk started as an SCA tool, and SAST came later. Snyk Code is the SAST product within the broader Snyk AppSec platform. The SAST engine uses more traditional machine learning, instead of an LLM, for noise reduction, specifically when it comes to well-known vulnerability classes like command injection and hardcoded secrets. Snyk is known to still produce noisier SAST findings than its competitors. If you want an LLM involved in code triage and prioritization, you’ll have to go with a different SAST vendor.
Snyk's autofix, now called Snyk Agent Fix, pulls human-written fix examples for that CWE from a database of thousands of handwritten pairs, feeds them to an LLM as few-shot prompts, generates candidate fixes, and re-runs static analysis on each one to verify the fix actually worked. If verification fails, the error feeds back to the model, and it retries.
Enterprise pricing is custom and negotiated through sales, but third-party estimates put the floor around $15,000 per year for small teams, scaling significantly with developer count and product selection. Custom rules are available for enterprise customers. Snyk claims support for 19 languages.
Best for: Developer-first teams that value a mature, scanning experience integrated across IDE, CLI, and CI/CD, that can absorb the per-developer pricing model and don’t mind having to tune to avoid noise.
SonarQube Enterprise
SonarQube started as a code quality platform and layered security analysis on top. The Enterprise edition's SAST tool supports 35+ languages (including COBOL and ABAP), adds taint analysis for tracking injection vulnerabilities across methods and classes, and provides portfolio-level reporting for organizations managing hundreds of repos. Quality gates that block merges based on configurable thresholds are well understood by developers, and the SonarQube IDE extension provides local feedback.
But SonarQube's DNA is code quality, not security. The majority of its rules target code smells, bugs, and maintainability, with security being the secondary use case. Advanced SAST with taint tracking across third-party libraries is currently limited to Java, C#, JavaScript, and TypeScript. Advanced SAST features like taint analysis and SCA require an Advanced Security add-on subscription on top of the base Cloud plan. And pricing is LOC-based, which gets unpredictable as codebases grow, especially with AI-generated code expanding line counts faster than headcount. Reviewers report running SonarQube for quality enforcement and layer a dedicated SAST tool on top for security depth, which says something about its SAST capabilities.
Best for: Engineering organizations that want unified code quality and baseline SAST in one platform. However, teams might need a dedicated SAST tool for deeper security.
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