--- 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 Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") CI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/9/2022 "Good Services" 5/5 What do you like best about ActiveState? easy to use, websites is well-structured and accessibility-based Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ActiveState? too much emails, too much app with different purposes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ActiveState solving and how is that benefiting you? project work in intelligent systems 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 Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/29/2021 "ActiveState Platform" 4/5 What do you like best about ActiveState? Security vulnerability fixes that are provided on top of the deliverables Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ActiveState? packaging of deliverables has scope to improve Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering ActiveState: recommend for Python 2 enterprise support and vulnerability fixes around Python Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ActiveState solving and how is that benefiting you? python2 support with security vulnerability fixes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 1/5/2022 Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![John C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "John C.") JC John C. Training Manager Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/26/2021 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Best in class for securing your software supply chain." 5/5 What do you like best about ActiveState? As someone who has been in tech for a long time the thing that matters to me is ease of use and simplicity and that is big here. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ActiveState? My only real complaint is that because this is such a great piece of software that you need to review carefully if you need this much security for the cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering ActiveState: make sure you need it because it's good but expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ActiveState solving and how is that benefiting you? At Siemens we constantly use code for our refrigeration items for its' systems, this ensures as we update our systems that the code doesn't get stolen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Program Development](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Program Development") UP Verified User in Program Development Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/19/2021 "Very helpful team and well organized" 5/5 What do you like best about ActiveState? Small videos that help you guide thru active state platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ActiveState? nothing to dislike, everything was helpful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ActiveState solving and how is that benefiting you? Running few commands about installing but it was fixed thanks to the support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Package/Freight Delivery](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Package/Freight Delivery") CP Verified User in Package/Freight Delivery Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/5/2022 "Active State" 4.5/5 What do you like best about ActiveState? The team is accessible, professional, and committed to a quality product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ActiveState? There is nothing that I dislike at this time, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering ActiveState: N/A. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ActiveState solving and how is that benefiting you? It is maintaining the viability of service application that has reached end-of-life. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ## 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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