Black Duck

How does Fluid Attacks' solution compare to Black Duck's? The following comparison table enables you to discern the performance of both providers across various attributes essential for meeting your company’s cybersecurity needs. To better understand each attribute, read their descriptions in the dedicated page.

Organization

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	Black Duck
Focus	Native ASPM with In-house scanners	AI-powered PTaaS on top of native ASPM with In-house scanners	Native ASPM with In-house scanners
Extras	None	None	Fuzz testing, MAST, MPT and PTaaS
Headcount	136	Same	1,368
Headcount distribution	Engineering 40%, TI 15%, sales 13%, marketing 2%, operations 4% and others 26%	Same	Engineering 30%, TI 17%, sales 16%, marketing 3%, operations 2% and others 32%
Headcount growth	+3%, -2%, -7%	Same	+3%, +204%, +302%
Headquarters	86% CO	Same	49% US
Countries	CO and US	Same	US
Reputation	9.79 from 161 reviews over 7 years on Gartner and Clutch	Same	8.74 from 153 reviews over 8 years on G2, Gartner, PeerSpot, Software Advice and TrustRadius
Followers	20K based on the following: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X and YouTube	Same	85K based on the following: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X and YouTube
Research firms	None	None	451 Research, Forrester and Gartner
Founded	2001	Same	2003
Funding	Bootstrapped	Same	$82M USD in 12 rounds from 15 investors
Acquisitions	None	None	Acquired 1 time and made 4 acquisitions
Revenue	5M to 10M	Same	25M to 1B
CVE	257 CVEs reported to MITRE, ranked among the top 10 CVE labs worldwide	Same	53 CVEs reported to MITRE
Compliance	SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3	Same	CSA STAR Level 1, ISO/IEC 26262, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017, SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3 and TISAX
Bug bounty	Yes	Yes	No
Visits	19K per month. Top 3: 50% NL, 17% CO, 6% US and others 27%	Same	181K per month. Top 3: 22% US, 20% IN, 7% CN and others 51%
Authority	32 out of 100	Same	52 out of 100
Vulnerability database	Discovered	Same	Discovered and third-party
Content	Blog, documentation, e-books, reports, videos, webinars and white papers	Same	Blog, case studies, data sheets, documentation, e-books, glossary, reports, webinars, white papers
Knowledge base	13 KB sections, 7 in common and 6 additional	Same	8 KB sections, 7 in common and 1 additional
Community	Forum	Same	Private
Sync training	No	No	No
Async training	3 product use courses, all free	Same	Security education platform (subscription-based)
Distribution	Direct or with any of its 14 partners	Same	Direct or with any of its partners
Marketplaces	AWS	Same	AWS and GCP
Freemium	No	No	No
Free trial	21-day free trial	PoV	PoC
Demo	Yes	Yes	Yes
Pricing	Contact sales, marketplace and public web	Contact sales and public web	Contact sales and marketplaces
Pricing tiers	1 plan	1 plan	1 plan
Minimum commit	Monthly	Monthly	Annually
Minimum payment period	Monthly	Monthly	Monthly
Minimum capabilities	API security Testing, ASPM, Binary SAST, Containers, CSPM, DAST, IaC, SAST, SCA and secrets	Same plus: PTaaS, RE and SCR	Binary SAST, IAST, SAST and SCA
Minimum scope	1 group	1 author	50 developers
Pricing drivers	Groups	Authors	Developers
Minimum monthly payment	1.529 USD	1.529 + 429 USD	4.375 USD

Service

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	Black Duck
PTaaS	No	Yes	Yes
Reverse engineering	No	Yes	Yes
Secure code review	No	Yes	No
Pivoting	No	Yes	Yes
Exploitation	No	Yes	Yes
Manual reattacks	Not applicable	Unlimited reattacks	1 reattack
Zero-day vulnerabilities	None	Continuous zero-day vulnerability research	Continuous zero-day vulnerability research
SLA	Availability	Accuracy, availability and response	Response
Min availability	>=99.95% per minute LTM	Same	No information available
After-sale guarantees	No	No	Yes
Accreditations	CNA and Penetration Testing by CREST	Same	CNA and Penetration Testing by CREST
Hacker certifications	Not applicable	202 from 59 different types	101 from 27 different types
Type of contract	Employee	Same	Employee
Endpoint control	Not applicable	Total	No information available
Channel control	Not applicable	Total	No information available
Standards	Some requirements from 65 standards, 14 in common and 51 additional	All requirements from the same standards	23 standards, 14 in common and 9 additional
Detection method	Automated tools	Automated tools, AI and human intelligence	Automated tools
Remediation	5, 3 in common and 2 additional	Same, plus 1	3, all in common
Outputs	5, 4 in common and 1 additional	Same, plus 2	6, 4 in common and 2 additional

Product

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	Black Duck
ASPM	Yes	Yes	Yes
API	GraphQL with JSON	Same	REST with JSON and XML
IDE	5 functionalities, 2 in common and 3 additional	Same, plus 1 functionality	2 functionalities in common and 1 additional
CLI	Yes	Yes	Yes
CI/CD	Breaks the build	Same	Breaks the build
Vulnerability sources	4 sources	Same	2 sources, none in common
Priority criteria	CVSS v4.0, CVSSF, EPSS and KEV	Same	CVSS v4.0 and EPSS
Custom prioritization	Priority score	Same	Vulnerability prioritization
Scanner origin	In-house	In-house	In-house
SCA	24 package managers, 14 in common and 10 additional	Same	27 package managers, 14 in common and 13 additional
AI security	No	Yes	No
Reachability	12 languages, 1 in common and 11 additional	Same	1 language in common
Reachability type	Deterministic	Same	Deterministic
SBOM	22 package managers, 11 in common and 11 additional	Same	27 package managers, 11 in common and 16 additional
Malware detection	Yes	Yes	No
Autofix on components	No	No	Yes
Containers	4 distributions	Same	Yes. No information available
Source SAST (languages)	12, all in common	Same	29 languages, 12 in common and 17 additional
Source SAST (frameworks)	22, 13 in common and 9 additional	Same	78 frameworks, 13 in common and 65 additional
Custom rules	No	No	Modeling
IaC	6, 4 in common and 2 additional	4, 3 in common and 1 additional	8, 7 in common and 1 additional
Binary SAST	1 type of binary in common	Same, plus 2 types of binaries	28 types of binaries, 1 in common and 27 additional
DAST	7 attack surface types, 5 in common and 2 additional	Same	6 attack surface types, 5 in common and 1 additional
API security testing	No	4 types of APIs, 3 in common and 1 additional	3 types of APIs, all in common
IAST	No	No	58 languages and frameworks
CSPM	Yes	Yes	Yes
Environments	Left & Right (included)	Same	Left and Right (included)
ASM	No	No	No
Secrets	15 secrets types, 5 in common and 10 additional	Same, plus verify other attack vectors and secrets exploitability	9 secrets types, 5 in common and 4 additional
AI	4 functions, 1 in common and 3 additional	Same	1 function in common
Open-source	MPL-2.0 license, totally equivalent to the paid version	Not applicable	No
Provisioning as Code	Yes	Yes	No
Deployment	SaaS	Same	SaaS and on-premises
Regions	US	Same	No information available
Status	Yes	Yes	No
Incidents	6 per year	Same	No information available

Integrations

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	Black Duck
SCM	4	Same	4, all in common
Binary repositories	None	None	6
Ticketing	3, 2 in common and 1 additional	Same	3, 2 in common and 1 additional
ChatOps	None	None	2
IDE	3, 2 in common and 1 additional	Same	11, 2 in common and 7 additional
CI/CD	20, 11 in common and 9 additional	Same	12, 11 in common and 1 additional
SCA	Native	Same	Native and 13 integrations
Container	Native	Same	Native and 4 integrations
SAST	Native	Same	Native and 27 integrations
DAST	Native	Same	Native and 13 integrations
IAST	None	None	Native and 3 integrations
Cloud	3	Same	3, all in common
CSPM	Native	Same	Native and 2 integrations
Secrets	Native	Same	Native
Remediation	None	None	Native
Bug bounty	None	None	1
Vulnerability management	None	None	4
Compliance	None	None	None

References were last checked on Aug 28, 2025.

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