--- 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) ![Shankar S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Shankar S.") SS Shankar S. Export Manager Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/12/2022 "Low Development Time and Increase Productivity" 3.5/5 What do you like best about ActiveState? This platform offers easy way to virtualize and manage Python & Perl runtime environments. Moreover, we can get value for money and time as this platform is a service and not just runtime environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ActiveState? Many applications are built-in PHP environments. I haven't seen a runtime environment in PHP, so this limitation is quite evident on this platform, and it should be added to improve the dependency of this platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ActiveState solving and how is that benefiting you? It is pretty helpful for configuring, troubleshooting, restoring, and securing the attacks from the open-source supply chain. This platform is as easy to use as installing Python, Perl, or Tcl software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Sporting Goods](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Sporting Goods") AS Verified User in Sporting Goods Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/9/2022 "Using can be easy" 4.5/5 What do you like best about ActiveState? Platform is very easy to use. It does remove the restrictions of having things running on different platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ActiveState? Can be difficult for some users to start using. Once setup issues are resolved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ActiveState solving and how is that benefiting you? Resolves the issues relating to open source code. Keeps me from having to process this directly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Building Materials](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Building Materials") EB Verified User in Building Materials Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/9/2022 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Great platform" 4/5 What do you like best about ActiveState? It easy to use platform. the features are well catered Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ActiveState? navigation of the SaaS platform, sometimes it was hard to locate and was a bit slow, it could have been our connection Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ActiveState solving and how is that benefiting you? my secure coding and vul scanning issues are now via ActiveState Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Program Development](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Program Development") UP Verified User in Program Development Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/9/2022 "The platform is easy to use and collaborative." 4.5/5 What do you like best about ActiveState? The most helpful feature of ActiveState is the ability to collaborate with co-workers on projects easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ActiveState? Occasionally, I could use more documentation to help me identify features quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ActiveState solving and how is that benefiting you? The solution provides a better platform to allow collaboration within the team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated 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 Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/10/2022 "Great platform for acquiring software" 4/5 What do you like best about ActiveState? It was very easy to get the software that I needed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ActiveState? I did not like the number of emails that I received after registering on the platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ActiveState solving and how is that benefiting you? They provide me with the needed instructions to acquire my software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Environmental Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Environmental Services") TE Verified User in Environmental Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/10/2022 "Really useful tool packaging python projects" 3.5/5 What do you like best about ActiveState? Security features and easy packaging good dependency management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ActiveState? Nothing in particular the tool respond well to what I need Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ActiveState solving and how is that benefiting you? Dependency management it solves a lot of problems to version upgrade and to ensure there is no security breach Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Industrial Automation](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Industrial Automation") UI Verified User in Industrial Automation Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/9/2022 "Unclear build and use instructions" 2.5/5 What do you like best about ActiveState? I never got the platform to build correctly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ActiveState? I tried several build configurations, but they failed to build a usable load. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ActiveState solving and how is that benefiting you? I was interested in fast consistent python development environment for all developers 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 "Couldn't figure out how to get it working" 1/5 What do you like best about ActiveState? Seems like a good platform for reproducible runs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ActiveState? I was trying to download Perl and couldn't figure it out Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ActiveState solving and how is that benefiting you? It should solve "works on my machine" but fails elsewhere, saving time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Research](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Research") UR Verified User in Research Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/9/2022 "Very helpful" 3.5/5 What do you like best about ActiveState? Choice of language options and ease of collaboration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ActiveState? The pricing could be more competitive but only a little Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ActiveState solving and how is that benefiting you? It is helping us work on projects as a team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Harshad K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Harshad K.") HK Harshad K. Technical Lead Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/17/2022 "Very good and trustworthy platform with added advantage of custamization." 5/5 What do you like best about ActiveState? Best way to customize the package and building. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ActiveState? I don't see any down points for using the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ActiveState solving and how is that benefiting you? Get the customized python package on Windows and Linux platforms. It is very easy customize and quickly building the package is a very straightforward feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 4/19/2022 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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