Product Solutions Resources Partners Pricing Support Talk to an expert Get free trial Login GitLab vs Veracode Decision Kit Summary Both Veracode and GitLab Ultimate offer open source component scanning along with Static and Dynamic Application Security Testing. Veracode is a mature product with a hefty price tag. Veracode offers a separate SAST-lite product that integrates in the developer’s IDE offering spell-check-like functionality to flag vulnerabilities as the developer types. GitLab Ultimate automatically includes broad security scanning with every code commit including Static and Dynamic Application Security Testing, along with dependency scanning, container scanning, and license management. Note: In November 2018, the private equity firm Thoma Bravo acquired Veracode from Broadcom. Veracode now functions as an independent company within the Thoma Bravo portfolio of companies. Between March 2017 and July 2018 Veracode was part of CA Technologies. For a brief period, from July 2018 to November 2018, Veracode was part of Broadcom following CA Technologies’ acquisition by Broadcom Comparison to GitLab Veracode is a well established player in the Application Security Testing (AST) market. Although they offer a range of products, including SAST, DAST, IAST, and SCA, each of these products are sold and licensed separately. GitLab offers simplicity and a high level of integration by including all of these types of scanning capabilities within a single product. Additionally, GitLab has tightly integrated the scanning results with the rest of the SLDC, including the merge request review process. Additionally, organizations that have concerns about using a cloud-hosted scanning solution, or that use GitLab’s self managed offering, will find that GitLab is a clear winner as Veracode does not have an on-premise offering. Security Scanning Strengths and Weaknesses GitLab Veracode Strengths • Tight out-of-the-box integration with the rest of the SDLC, including the merge request review process • GitLab’s recent acquisitions of Peach Tech and Fuzzit provide Fuzzing capabilities that Veracode lacks • Supports on-premise deployments including disconnected, offline, or air-gapped environments • Strong offering across scanning types • Nice, clean UX and design • Strong offering across scanning types • Tight integration with IDEs • Strong offering across scanning types • False positive rates are better than average Weaknesses • GitLab’s SAST offering only scans code repositories today and cannot scan compiled binaries • Only available as a SaaS tool and cannot be deployed on-premise • Not natively integrated into merge requests or the SDLC Feature Lineup GitLab Veracode SAST ✅ ✅ DAST ✅ ✅ IAST ✅ SCA: Vulnerability Scanning ✅ ✅ SCA: Open Source Audit ✅ ✅ Fuzz Testing ✅ Feature Comparison FEATURES Static Application Security Testing SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE GitLab allows easily running Static Application Security Testing (SAST) in CI/CD pipelines; checking for vulnerable source code or well known security bugs in the libraries that are included by the application. Results are then shown in the Merge Request and in the Pipeline view. This feature is available as part of Auto DevOps to provide security-by-default. Learn more about Static Application Security Testing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Security Scanning SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE “With Gitlab 14.5 we’re introducing security scanning for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) configuration files.” Learn more about IaC security scanning Secret Detection SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE GitLab allows you to perform Secret Detection in CI/CD pipelines; checking for unintentionally committed secrets and credentials. Results are then shown in the Merge Request and in the Pipeline view. This feature is available as part of Auto DevOps to provide security-by-default. Learn more about Secret Detection Dependency Scanning SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Protect your application from vulnerabilities that affect dynamic dependencies by automatically detecting well-known security bugs in your included libraries. Learn more about Dependency Scanning Dynamic Application Security Testing SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Ensure you are not exposed to web application vulnerabilities like broken authentication, cross-site scripting, or SQL injection by dynamically investigating your running test applications in CI/CD pipelines. Learn more about application security for containers Interactive Application Security Testing SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE IAST combines elements of static and dynamic application security testing methods to improve the overall quality of the results. IAST typically uses an agent to instrument the application to monitor library calls and more. GitLab does not yet offer this feature. Container Scanning SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Run a security scan to ensure the Docker images for your application do not have any known vulnerabilities in the environment where your code is shipped. Learn more about container scanning License Compliance SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Check that licenses of your dependencies are compatible with your application, and approve or deny them. Results are then shown in the Merge Request and in the Pipeline view. Learn more about License Compliance On-demand DAST SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Identify vulnerabilities in your running application, independent of code changes or merge requests. Learn more about On-demand DAST Site and Scanner profiles for On-demand DAST scans SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Reuse configuration profiles quickly with on-demand DAST scans, instead of reconfiguring scans every time you need to run one. Mix different scan profiles with site profiles to quickly conduct scans that cover different areas or depths of your application and API. Learn more about application security for containers DAST Configuration UI SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Enabling DAST is now as simple as three clicks. This guided configuration experience makes it easier for non-CI experts to get started with GitLab DAST. The tool helps a user create a merge request to enable DAST scanning while leveraging best configuration practices like using the GitLab-managed DAST.gitlab-ci.yml template. Learn more about the DAST Configuration UI Scheduling On-demand DAST scans SaaS FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Self-Managed FREE PREMIUM ULTIMATE Set on-demand DAST scans to run on ad hoc or recurring schedules. Learn more about scheduling on-demand scans Twitter Facebook YouTube LinkedIn Why GitLab? Product Solutions Services DevOps tools Is it any good? Releases Pricing Get started Resources All resources All-Remote Blog Newsletter Events Webcasts Topics Training Docs Developer Portal Install Community Customers Contribute Community Programs Direction Technology Partners Channel Partners Open Source Partners GitLab for Open Source GitLab for Education GitLab for Startups Shop Community Forum Support Get help Contact Sales Contact Support Support options Status Customers Portal Company About What is GitLab? 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