--- title: ActiveState Reviews meta\_title: 'ActiveState Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 35 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how ActiveState works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.1 review\_count: 35 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-10' parent\_category: name: "DevSecOps\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t" url: https://www.g2.com/categories/devsecops --- # ActiveState Reviews & Product Details Visit Website ActiveState provides the world's largest library of secure open source: 79 million (Java, Javascript, Python, R, Go, etc.) vetted components across all major language ecosystems, including transitive dependencies and OS-level libraries—built from source to ensure every component is verified, vulnerability-free, and continuously updated. Software teams improve security posture while accelerating development velocity. We deliver five critical outcomes. Counter Supply Chain Risks at Their Source Significantly reduce the possibility of inheriting malicious code from pre-built binaries. Replace risky, unvetted public components with secure, verifiable packages built directly from source. Gain provenance over your artifacts, ensuring bad actors and malware never reach your environment. - Protection from compromised package ecosystems and build systems - Mitigate high-profile malware attacks such as the npm Shai-Hulud attack and other future threats Continuous Remediation for Your Open Source Inventory Shift from reactive patching to proactive immunity. Maintain a hardened security posture with safe-by-default open source and continuous remediation across your inventory. ActiveState artifacts reduce your attack surface and evolve to help close vulnerabilities before they become incidents. - Up to 99% reduction in CVEs compared to community open source artifacts - Achieve up to 90% reduction in MTTR for future vulnerabilities Apply Frictionless Security Policies Embed governance directly into developer workflows without impeding engineering or adding costly CI/CD bloat. ActiveState solutions slot seamlessly into existing tools and AI coding assistants, transforming security policy from a blocker into an enabler that reduces open source approval workflows from weeks and days to just hours and minutes. - Reduce open source approval workflows from weeks and days to hours and minutes Audit Ready Compliance, Always Achieve continuous compliance with instant, granular visibility into components, licenses, and dependencies across your organization. ActiveState delivers comprehensive SBOMs and metadata by default, ensuring you can meet complex standards and minimizing the scramble of audit preparation. - Full visibility into your open source usage, including transitive and OS level dependencies Reclaim Developer Velocity and Focus Minimize high-value engineering hours on dependency conflicts, environment setup, research and remediation. ActiveState components and artifacts are fully managed to ensure they are always up to date and safe to use so your team can focus entirely on shipping revenue-generating features. - Free up 4-8 developer hours per CVE - 68% reduction in scanner noise from false positives * * * Product Website ActiveState Seller [ActiveState](https://www.g2.com/sellers/activestate-fd82e7c7-dea3-4ff5-9e96-cc5cd7d39a87) Discussions [ActiveState Community](https://www.g2.com/products/activestate/discuss) Languages Supported English Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Remi Mortier Show More ## Pricing Pricing provided by ActiveState. ### SMB $25,000.00 Per Year [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/activestate/pricing) ![Verified User in Computer & Network Security](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer & Network Security") UC Verified User in Computer & Network Security Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/9/2022 "It was good. The interface was very user friendly." 4.5/5 What do you like best about ActiveState? It provides plenty of languages to choose from and a lot of frameworks to practice. It is also a good platform to share your work with your colleagues and collaborate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ActiveState? Signing up requires some work. If I want to sign up from a personal account, I have a lot of restrictions. I understand that ActiveState has to take care of security breaches, but they should have a trial-based platform for personal use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ActiveState solving and how is that benefiting you? For me, dockers are very useful. I create programs for different operating systems but using the dockers facility of ActiveState comes in handy while dealing with these problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/9/2022 "Komodo IDE docs in ActiveState Platform" 4/5 What do you like best about ActiveState? As a software developer, I have greatly benefited from the use of the Komodo IDE (integrated development environment), and have never had any difficulties finding the documentation in the ActiveState Platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ActiveState? I haven't created any new projects on the Platform yet, so I don't have any specific complaints at this time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ActiveState solving and how is that benefiting you? Finding needed documentation for the Komodo IDE. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/9/2022 "Good service" 4.5/5 What do you like best about ActiveState? It is possible to learn a lot of things and improve about a lot of skills. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ActiveState? The only thing is the fact that is a bit tricky to get the knowledge about it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ActiveState solving and how is that benefiting you? ActiveState helps me to make a python UI interface in order to launch rest requests to a web service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Sruthy K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sruthy K.") SK Sruthy K. Hardware Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/9/2022 "Useful for professionals and researchers to study python, perl etc" 3.5/5 What do you like best about ActiveState? It's an open source platform to use for python, perl etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ActiveState? I think you need some improvements in ux area. If you can include more languages in same platform that will also helpful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ActiveState solving and how is that benefiting you? I was used to do my projects. It is an open source. And it's free to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Shivankar P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Shivankar P.") SP Shivankar P. Research Intern Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/9/2022 "Activestate review" 5/5 What do you like best about ActiveState? Integrates with existing development workflow in the best possible way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ActiveState? Little expensive. Prices could have been more nominal so that developers not in any company can also use it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ActiveState solving and how is that benefiting you? Helping me in building my scripts in Perl for my portfolio project Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Jure R.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Jure R.") JR Jure R. Sofwere engeneeir Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/9/2022 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Verry pleased" 5/5 What do you like best about ActiveState? simplicity, that is one of my main interest Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ActiveState? nothing, everything is perfect I don't know how else to say it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ActiveState solving and how is that benefiting you? the ability to roll back at any time to a previous configuration, it helped me when working with python Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![MOHD DILSHAD AHMAD ANSARI C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "MOHD DILSHAD AHMAD ANSARI C.") MC MOHD DILSHAD AHMAD ANSARI C. Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/9/2022 "Expert" 4/5 What do you like best about ActiveState? User Friendly and simple to coding and handling Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ActiveState? bug resolving is taking more time and difficult to detect Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ActiveState solving and how is that benefiting you? Update packages are taking more time and the internet also Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Telecommunications](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Telecommunications") UT Verified User in Telecommunications Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/9/2022 "Good platform for beginners and advanced users" 4.5/5 What do you like best about ActiveState? Possibility to use free plan for learning programming languages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ActiveState? Limited availability of repositories for specific version in free plan Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ActiveState solving and how is that benefiting you? Excellent platform for developing and learning perl on windows Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite GP Gaurish P. L Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 2/16/2022 "Overall positive experience but may need some improvement in the UX area" 4.5/5 What do you like best about ActiveState? The freedom and flexibility it provides to create and publish customized projects which only have the things that are needed, and use it in the automation framework. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ActiveState? Navigating around the platform can get a bit confusing sometimes, which could have to do with the placement of UI elements and options and labeling. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ActiveState solving and how is that benefiting you? As mentioned earlier, all our customized Python needs are taken care of, with excellent support provided on top for fixing any issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![D M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "D M.") DM D M. Manager Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/9/2022 "consistent cross platform delivery" 3.5/5 What do you like best about ActiveState? allows consistent runtime on various different platforms Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ActiveState? poor integration with vendor provided libraries Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ActiveState solving and how is that benefiting you? simplifying deployment across operating systems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ## Questions about ActiveState? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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