Deep dataflow is table stakes. The platform around it is the difference.
Checkmarx has a real interprocedural engine — so do we. But you buy it a module at a time, and its DAST is open-source ZAP. Farion ships SAST-informed DAST, audit-grade licence compliance and the whole platform air-gapped, as one product.
The dataflow is real. Everything around it is where Checkmarx stops.
Checkmarx pioneered interprocedural taint, and we’re not going to pretend otherwise — on deep dataflow, this is parity. But you buy Checkmarx a module at a time, at enterprise pricing, with a rollout measured in quarters. And the moment you step outside the SAST box, the story changes.
Their DAST is ZAP — the open-source scanner, with their team behind it. It’s black-box: it hammers your endpoints from outside and guesses. Farion’s DAST is fed by our own SAST — it knows which handler is vulnerable and which input reaches it, and synthesises an exploit for that flow. Their licence compliance reads declared metadata; ours extracts the full licence text and verifies it matches the package — audit-grade, at SCA speed.
On interprocedural dataflow, Farion and Checkmarx are peers. The comparison below is about everything else — DAST, licence depth, packaging and deployment.
Farion vs. Checkmarx
Farion
Checkmarx
Interprocedural SAST
SSA taint
Interprocedural taint
DAST
SAST-informed — knows handler & input
ZAP (open-source, black-box)
Licence compliance
Full text extracted & verified
Declared metadata
Packaging
One product, one price
Module-by-module SKUs
Rollout
Days
Measured in quarters
Air-gapped deployment
Your network, fully air-gapped
On-prem available, per module
The platform around the engine
DAST that isn’t ZAP
Checkmarx’s DAST is open-source ZAP with their team behind it — black-box, guessing at your endpoints. Farion’s DAST is fed by our SAST: it knows the vulnerable handler and the reaching input, then synthesises an exploit for that flow.
Licence text, not metadata
Checkmarx reads the licence a package declares. Farion extracts the full licence text and verifies it matches — the audit-grade tier of the market, at SCA speed.
One product, not seven SKUs
SAST, SCA, DAST, licence, container and vuln management ship integrated, at one price — not a module at a time over quarters.
Air-gapped, end to end
Farion runs entirely inside your environment — your cloud, your data centre, or fully air-gapped. Your code never leaves your network.
Why teams choose Farion
SAST-informed DAST
Our DAST reads the SSA engine — it knows which HTTP handler is vulnerable and which input reaches it, then synthesises an exploit for that exact flow. Everyone else guesses at your endpoints from the outside.
Audit-grade licence compliance
We extract the full licence text and verify it matches the package — not just the declared metadata. The Black Duck tier of the market, at SCA speed.
Reachability on real taint
Exploitability verdicts ride on SSA-computed, context- and field-sensitive data flows across your whole codebase — not a call-graph guess.
Your code never leaves your network
Full capability inside your own environment — your cloud, your data centre, or fully air-gapped. Not a policy. An architecture.
Own SLMs, no third-party AI API
Our security language models are ours and run on your hardware. No slice of your source is shipped to someone else’s cloud to be reasoned about.
One integrated product
SAST, SCA, DAST, licence, container and vuln management in a single platform — not modules bolted onto a dashboard, and not seven SKUs.
The engine is parity. The platform isn’t.
See SAST-informed DAST and audit-grade licence compliance in one air-gapped product. German vendor, built in Berlin.