Best Static Code Analysis Software

Compare the Top Static Code Analysis Software as of December 2025

What is Static Code Analysis Software?

Static code analysis software is software designed to examine source code for potential errors, vulnerabilities, and code quality issues without executing the program. It scans the code to detect syntax problems, security flaws, and non-compliance with coding standards. This type of software helps developers identify bugs early in the development process, improving code reliability and reducing debugging time later. Static code analysis also assists in maintaining code consistency across teams by enforcing best practices and coding guidelines. By automating the review process, the software enhances code quality, reduces technical debt, and contributes to more secure, maintainable software. Compare and read user reviews of the best Static Code Analysis software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Parasoft

    Parasoft

    Parasoft

    Parasoft helps organizations continuously deliver high-quality software with its AI-powered software testing platform and automated test solutions. Supporting embedded and enterprise markets, Parasoft’s proven technologies reduce the time, effort, and cost of delivering secure, reliable, and compliant software by integrating everything from deep code analysis and unit testing to UI and API testing, plus service virtualization and complete code coverage, into the delivery pipeline. A powerful unified C and C++ test automation solution for static analysis, unit testing and structural code coverage, Parasoft C/C++test helps satisfy compliance with industry functional safety and security requirements for embedded software systems.
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    Starting Price: $35/user/mo
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    Amazon CodeGuru
    Amazon CodeGuru is a developer tool powered by machine learning that provides intelligent recommendations for improving code quality and identifying an application’s most expensive lines of code. Integrate Amazon CodeGuru into your existing software development workflow where you will experience built-in code reviews to detect and optimize the expensive lines of code to reduce costs. Amazon CodeGuru Profiler helps developers find an application’s most expensive lines of code along with specific visualizations and recommendations on how to improve code to save money. Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer uses machine learning to identify critical issues and hard-to-find bugs during application development to improve code quality.
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    Softagram

    Softagram

    Softagram

    Software projects tend to be complex and there is the law of entropy making it more complex all the time. The developers easily get lost in the dependency network and tend to create designs that does not stand time well. Softagram provides automatically illustrations on how the dependencies are changing. Automated integration works so that pull requsts (in GitHub, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps), merge requests (in GitLab) and patch sets (in Gerrit) are decorated with a dependency analysis report that pops up as a comment in the tool you already use. The analysis also covers other aspects such as open source licenses and quality. It can be tailored for your needs. Software audits can also be efficiently performed by using Softagram analysis together with Softagram Desktop app designed for advanced software understanding and auditing usage.
    Starting Price: $25 per month per user
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    Semgrep
    Modern security teams are “paving the road” for developers — enforcing code guardrails on every commit. r2c’s Semgrep can eliminate vulnerability classes organization-wide. Scale your security team with lightweight static analysis. Semgrep is a fast, open-source, static analysis tool that excels at expressing code standards — without complicated queries — and surfacing bugs early in the development flow. Precise rules look like the code you’re searching; no more traversing abstract syntax trees or wrestling with regexes. Start right away with 900+ rules and SaaS infrastructure to get fast results in your editor, at commit-time, or in CI. When off-the-shelf rules aren’t enough, quickly and intuitively write custom rules to express your unique code standards. Rules look like the code you’re searching. For example, rules for Go look like Go. Find function calls, class or method definitions, and more without having to understand abstract syntax trees or wrestle with regexes.
    Starting Price: $40 per month
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    Understand

    Understand

    SciTools

    Understand is a comprehensive static-analysis and code-comprehension platform that helps software engineers “see” and understand large, complex code bases, whether legacy, safety-critical, or modern multi-language projects. It parses your source code and builds a complete “code dictionary” of every entity (files, classes, functions, variables), populating cross-references, call trees, dependency graphs, control-flow diagrams, and more. Through interactive, customizable graphs and visualizations, call graphs, control flow graphs, dependency trees, and UML-style class diagrams, you can explore exactly how parts of the code connect, which modules depend on which, and where changes may ripple across the project. Understand also computes detailed metrics at various levels (file, class, function) such as cyclomatic complexity, lines of code, comment-to-code ratio, coupling/cohesion, and other maintainability indicators; these metrics can be viewed in treemaps, exported to HTML or CSV.
    Starting Price: $100 per month
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    Moderne

    Moderne

    Moderne

    Reduce 1000s of hours of static code analysis fixes to minutes. Patch security vulnerabilities across 100s of repositories at once. Moderne automates code remediation tasks for you, enabling developers to deliver more business value all the time. Automatically make safe, sweeping changes to your codebase that improve the quality, security, and cost of code. Manage dependencies of your software supply chain, keeping software up to date continuously. Alleviate code smells automatically without all the scanning noise of SAST and SCA tools. Work in high-quality code all the time. Find and fix CVEs automatically across repositories, it's the ultimate shift left for security. The reality of modern applications is that they naturally accrue technical debt. They are composed of large and diverse codebases and ecosystems, and a supply chain of custom, third-party, and open-source software.
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    eXplain

    eXplain

    PKS Software

    eXplain is a specialized code-analysis and legacy-system evaluation tool from PKS Software GmbH, designed to deeply analyze, map, document, and assess legacy applications, especially on mainframe platforms such as IBM i (AS/400) and IBM Z, so organizations can understand what lives in their software, how it’s structured, and what parts are worth keeping, refactoring or retiring. It imports existing source code into an independent “eXplain server”, no need to install anything on the host system, then uses advanced parsers to examine languages like COBOL, PL/I, Assembler, Natural, RPG, JCL, and others, along with data about databases (Db2, Adabas, IMS), job-schedulers, transaction monitors, and more. eXplain builds a central repository that becomes a knowledge hub; from there, it generates cross-language dependency graphs, data-flow maps, interface analyses, clusterings of related modules, and detailed object-and-resource usage reports.
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    Checkmarx

    Checkmarx

    Checkmarx

    The Checkmarx Software Security Platform provides a centralized foundation for operating your suite of software security solutions for Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST), Software Composition Analysis (SCA), and application security training and skills development. Built to address every organization’s needs, the Checkmarx Software Security Platform provides the full scope of options: including private cloud and on-premises solutions. Allowing a range of implementation options ensures customers can start securing their code immediately, rather than going through long processes of adapting their infrastructure to a single implementation method. The Checkmarx Software Security Platform transforms the standard for secure application development, providing one powerful resource with industry-leading capabilities.
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