HCL AppScan

How does Fluid Attacks' solution compare to HCL AppScan'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.

This comparison focuses exclusively on the product itself, even though it belongs to a larger parent company. All information collected is based on the product’s technical, functional, and theoretical capabilities, not on attributes of the parent company.

Organization

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	HCL AppScan
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	None
Headcount	143	Same	34
Headcount distribution	Engineering 42%, IT 13%, sales 13%, marketing 2%, operations 4% and others 26%	Same	Engineering 50%, IT 12%, marketing 3% and others 35%
Headcount growth	+8%, +10%, -8%	Same	+6%, +13%, +13%
Headquarters	CO and US	Same	US
Countries	AR, BO, CA, CL, CO, DO, EC, MX, PA, PE and US	Same	IL, IN and US
Reputation	9.77 from 209 reviews over 7 years on Gartner and Clutch	Same	8.84 from 329 reviews over 10 years on G2, Gartner, PeerSpot and TrustRadius
Followers	20K based on the following: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X and YouTube	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Research Firms	None	None	Forrester
Founded	2001	Same	2019
Funding	Bootstrapped	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Acquisitions	None	None	Acquired 3 times and made 1 acquisition
Revenue	10M to 15M	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
CVE	276 CVEs reported to MITRE , ranked in the top 10 CVE labs worldwide	Same	291 CVEs reported to MITRE by HCL Software
Compliance	SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3	Same	ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017 and SOC 2 Type II
Bug bounty	Yes	Yes	No
Visits	21K per month. Top 3: 26% CO, 8% FR, 7% US. Others 59%	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Authority	32 out of 100	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Vulnerability database	Discovered and third-party	Same	None
Content	Blog, documentation, e-books, reports, success stories, videos, webinars and white papers	Same	Blog, documentation, newsroom and success cases
Knowledge base	13 KB sections, 6 in common and 7 additional KB sections	Same	6 KB sections, all in common
Community	Forum	Same	Forum by HCL Software
Sync training	1 workshop	Same	No
Async training	3 product use courses, all free	Same	Certification platform and 7 product use courses by HCL Software (subscription-based)
Distribution	Direct or with any of its 14 partners	Same	Direct or with any of its 95 partners
Marketplaces	AWS	Same	AWS and Azure
Freemium	No	No	No
Free trial	21-day free trial	PoV	30-day free trial and PoV
Demo	Yes	Yes	Yes
Open Demo	No	No	No
Pricing	Contact sales, marketplace and public web	Contact sales and public web	Contact sales, marketplace and public web
Pricing tiers	1 plan	1 plan	3 plans (silver, gold and platinum). All transparent
Minimum term	Monthly	Monthly	Annually
Minimum payment period	Monthly	Monthly	Annually
Minimum capabilities	ASPM, binary SAST, containers, CSPM, DAST, IaC, SAST, SCA and secrets	Same plus: API security testing, PTaaS, RE and SCR	One of the following techniques: DAST, IAST, SAST or SCA
Minimum scope	1 author	Same	1 concurrent scan and 1 scanning technique
Pricing drivers	Authors	Same	Concurrency and scanning technique
Minimum monthly payment	143 USD	592 USD	No information available

Service

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	HCL AppScan
PTaaS	No	Yes	No
Reverse engineering	No	Yes	No
Secure code review	No	Yes	No
Pivoting	No	Yes	No
Exploitation	No	Yes	No
Manual reattacks	Not applicable	Unlimited reattacks	Not applicable
Zero-day vulnerabilities	None	Continuous zero-day vulnerability research	None
SLA	Availability	Accuracy, availability and response	Availability
Min availability	>=99.95% per minute LTM	Same	>=99.9% per month
After-sale guarantees	No	Yes	No
Accreditations	CNA and Penetration Testing by CREST	Same	CNA (as HCL Software)
Hacker certifications	Not applicable	202 from 59 different types	Not applicable
Type of contract	Employee	Same	Employee
Endpoint control	Not applicable	Total	Not applicable
Channel control	Not applicable	Total	Not applicable
Standards	Some requirements from 67 standards, 19 in common and 48 additional	All requirements from the same standards	37 standards, 19 in common and 18 additional
Detection method	Automated tools	Automated tools, AI and human intelligence	Automated tools and AI
Remediation	5, 3 in common and 2 additional	Same, plus 1	3, all in common
Outputs	5, 3 in common and 2 additional	Same, plus 2	8, 3 in common and 5 additional

Product

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	HCL AppScan
ASPM	Yes	Yes	Yes
API	GraphQL with JSON	Same	REST with JSON
IDE	5 functionalities, 1 in common and 2 additional	Same, plus 1 functionality	2 functionalities, 1 in common and 1 additional
CLI	Yes	Yes	Yes
CI/CD	Breaks the build	Same	Breaks the build
Vulnerability sources	4 sources, 1 in common and 3 additional	Same	3 sources, 1 in common and 2 additional
Threat model alignment	Yes	Yes	No
Priority criteria	CVSS v4.0, CVSSF, EPSS and KEV	Same	CVSS v3.1
Custom prioritization	Priority score	Same	No
Scanner origin	In-house	In-house	In-house
SCA	23 package managers, 8 in common and 15 additional	Same	10 package managers, 8 in common and 2 additional
AI security	No	Yes	Yes
Reachability	12 languages	Same	No
Reachability type	Deterministic	Same	Not applicable
SBOM	22 package managers, 7 in common and 15 additional	Same	10 package managers, 7 in common and 3 additional
Malware detection	Yes	Yes	Yes
Autofix on components	No	No	No
Containers	4 distributions	Same	Yes. No information available
Source SAST (languages)	12, all in common	Same	29, 12 in common and 17 additional
Source SAST (frameworks)	22, 4 in common and 18 additional	Same	10, 4 in common and 6 additional
Custom rules	No	No	Patterns
IaC	6, 4 in common and 2 additional	4	4, all in common
Binary SAST	1 type of binary	Same, plus 2 types of binary	7 types of binaries, 2 in common and 5 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	Yes. No information available
IAST	No	No	3 languages
CSPM	Yes	Yes	No
ASM	No	No	No
Secrets	15 secrets types, 7 in common and 8 additional	Same, plus verify other attack vectors and secrets exploitability	20 secrets types, 7 in common and 13 additional
AI	3 functions, 1 in common and 2 additional	Same	1 function in common
MCP	Yes	Yes	No
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	NA and WE
Status	Yes	Yes	Yes
Incidents	4 per year	Same	1.6 per year

Integrations

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	HCL AppScan
SCM	6, 2 in common and 4 additional	Same	2, all in common
Binary repositories	None	None	None
Ticketing	3, 2 in common and 1 additional	Same	3, 2 in common and 1 additional
ChatOps	None	None	None
IDE	3, 2 in common and 1 additional	Same	11, 2 in common and 9 additional
CI/CD	21, 7 in common and 14 additional	Same	7, all in common
SCA	Native	Same	Native
Container	Native	Same	Native
SAST	Native	Same	Native
DAST	Native	Same	Native
IAST	None	None	Native
Cloud	3	Same	None
CSPM	Native	Same	None
Secrets	Native	Same	None
Remediation	None	None	None
Bug bounty	None	None	None
Vulnerability management	None	None	3
Compliance	None	None	None

References were last checked on Nov 21, 2025.

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