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Comparison summary
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| Dimension | HCL AppScan | Mend AppSec |
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Professional scan credits provide DAST, SAST, or SCA access for a stated one-year SaaS subscription, and unused scans expire when that subscription period ends. Enterprise is quote-based and adds broader technologies and deployment choices. Public payment timing, renewal price, taxes, implementation cost, support price, and minimum Enterprise purchase are not stated. Product-specific user, floating-user, application, and concurrent metrics are separate routes rather than additional core plans.
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Mend AppSec is the core paid offer and is listed at up to $1,000 per contributing developer per year. The page defines contributing developers broadly to include platform users and people who write or modify scanned code, without double-counting one person in multiple roles. Code size, scan count, and application count do not limit the core per-developer price. The exact customer amount, currency code, billing schedule, commitment, minimum quantity, renewal, support level, implementation amount, and discount method are not published. Mend AI Core, Mend AI Premium, DAST, API Security, EOL Support, hosting, services, and custom agreements can add cost.
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| Source check | 97/100 | 98/100 |
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| Category buying score | 81Joint highest score | 81Joint highest score |
| Rank | #2 | #4 |
| Context | Security & Privacy / Application Security Testing Software | Security & Privacy / Application Security Testing Software |
| Accuracy and validation | 80Facilitates finding correlation and prioritization using AI-driven analytics, while actual false-positive rates remain unverified by public documentation. | 82Reachability analysis, malicious-package intelligence, contextual prioritization, and triage workflows help validate which findings matter, subject to language, package manager, integration, and build-context support boundaries. |
| Testing scope and depth | 88Testing scope includes SAST, DAST, SCA, IAST, API, secrets, container, and IaC across the family, with Professional focused on hosted SAST, DAST, or SCA credits and Enterprise expanding technologies and unlimited-scan entitlement under quote. | 85Testing depth covers SAST, SCA reachability and license analysis, container image/registry/Kubernetes workflows, secrets detection, and AI component discovery, but does not establish core DAST or API Security coverage. |
| Developer workflow | 85The AST offering includes IDE, source-control, CI/CD, API, and automation workflows, which can fit developer-centered security checks. The boundary is that the specific integration set and behavior depend on the chosen AppScan product and deployment route. | 87IDE, repository, pull-request, CI/CD, ticket, package-manager, and coding-agent touchpoints let developers receive findings and dependency update PRs in existing delivery channels rather than only in a central security UI. |
| Remediation quality | 79AI-assisted remediation guidance can shorten fix planning for developers, while separate RapidFix or advisory services may still need distinct entitlement confirmation before assuming packaged remediation help. | 81Provides reliable automated dependency PRs through native Renovate capabilities, while AI-generated code remediations require human verification before implementation. |
| Risk prioritization | 81Prioritizes vulnerabilities based on centralized policy rules and AI-assisted triage metadata managed through the platform dashboard. | 85Shared risk context combining reachability, CVSS, EPSS, malicious-package data, and application/project grouping helps prioritize exploitable open-source and container issues over raw severity lists. |
| Governance and integrations | 82Delivers centralized compliance reporting and dashboard consolidation, though mapping these tools into local ticketing workflows requires custom scoping. | 81Policy enforcement, workflows, roles, APIs, and connections into repositories, CI/CD, and tickets support governance inside delivery systems, with hybrid or self-hosted setups still needing architecture and connectivity planning. |
| Support and total cost | 62The entry cost is low via a free tier, but overall TCO is impacted by expiring scan credits, high reference pricing step-ups, and unquoted enterprise rates. | 59The core offer is priced at up to $1,000 per contributing developer per year, but add-ons, separate packaging, deployment choices, and undisclosed commercial terms make total cost and support burden harder to predict from the public offer alone. |
| Full profile | Full profile | Full profile |
Comparison summary
These are the stored dimension rationales returned with each score. They explain the buyer conditions behind the gap without speculating about hidden model reasoning.
Research basis
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