The Best 10 Coverity Scan Alternatives

  • Cppcheck

    Cppcheck is an static analysis tool for C/C++ code. Unlike C/C++ compilers and many other analysis tools it does not detect syntax errors in the code. Cppcheck primarily detects the types of bugs that the compilers normally do not detect.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • PVS-Studio

    PVS-Studio is a static analyzer that detects errors in source code of C, C++ and C# applications.

    Commercial Windows Linux Microsoft Visual Studio MinGW GCC C Preprocessor (cpp) clang

  • Flawfinder

    Flawfinder examines source code and reports possible security weaknesses (``flaws'') sorted by risk level. It's very useful for quickly finding and removing...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • Splint

    Splint is a tool for statically checking C programs for security vulnerabilities and coding mistakes. With minimal effort, Splint can be used as a better lint. If...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • EDoC++

    EDoC++ is a C++ source analysis tool designed to identify problems associated with the use of exceptions in C++ code. Additionally EDoC++ can be used to generate...

    Free Open Source Windows

  • lgtm.com

    lgtm.com is a platform for code analytics. It's free to use for open source software; results for over 55k projects are readily available (add your own!), has...

    Free Web

  • Clang Static Analyzer

    The Clang Static Analyzer is a source code analysis tool that finds bugs in C, C++, and Objective-C programs.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Xcode

  • Infer

    Facebook Infer is a static analysis tool - if you give Infer some Objective-C, Java, or C code, it produces a list of potential bugs.

    Free Open Source Linux

  • VisualCodeGrepper

    VCG is an automated code security review tool that handles C/C++, Java, C#, VB and PL/SQL.

    Free Open Source Windows