ActiveState Reviews & Product Details

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

Seller

ActiveState

Discussions

ActiveState Community

Languages Supported

English

Solution Type

Best-of-Breed

Overview by

Remi Mortier

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Pricing

Pricing provided by ActiveState.

SMB

$25,000.00

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Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/20/2026

"Great for open-source compliance in enterprise, onboarding needs improvement"

3.5/5

What do you like best about ActiveState?

It helps a lot in managing open-source license compliance and is particularly useful in the enterprise environment, where control and traceability of licenses are important. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ActiveState?

The onboarding was not very simple; however, after a few attempts, we managed to understand how it works. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Paul D'Arienzo of ActiveState

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Thank you for your feedback! We're thrilled ActiveState is streamlining your open-source compliance and keeping your enterprise environments protected and reproducible. I particularly appreciate your honesty about the onboarding process. It should not take multiple attempts to get set up. Our team is actively working to make this experience much more intuitive. If you ever need guidance optimizing your workflow, navigating new features, or adding additional users, please do not hesitate to reach out to your CSM team. We're always eager to enable you!

Saurav S.

software engineer ( Django )

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/10/2022

"Very easy to use and very helpful"

5/5

What do you like best about ActiveState?

Setting up a runtime correctly for a project where you have some patches along the way to make the project work is very painful. i have wasted a lot of time in that. activeState solves this problem and saves a lot of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ActiveState?

so far i liked every aspect of activeState and didn't have anything that i disliked. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Civil Engineering

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/9/2022

"Too complicated Git Competitor"

0.5/5

What do you like best about ActiveState?

The only reason I use the platform is because it offer the TcL download. And I have to note that the process to do so is quite painful (much more described below).

Aside from that, the GUI of the website is quite OK. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ActiveState?

When I open the website, I don't know what kind of website is this? Is this a Git competitor, Docker competitor, or GitHub action competitor? Even after I open the about page etc, it mostly filled with corporate fluff that does not help the end user to determine their need. It too much focuses on building, it should focus more like Git on code. when you open git, you see the code upfront, but when you open ActiveState, you only see build. Which is not really intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alexander H.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/9/2022

"Super easy to use platform, makes building code way less of a hassle"

5/5

What do you like best about ActiveState?

Easy to use

fast

active community to help if I encounter problems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ActiveState?

I haven't really hit many issues, I did have some initial trouble getting Perl built correctly, but the community members were able to help get me unstuck Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hussain A.

Graduate Student

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

8/9/2022

"I love it!"

4.5/5

What do you like best about ActiveState?

I like how I can find all programs I need at one spot. It just makes life way much easier. To add more to that, there are different categories for all kinds of people. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ActiveState?

I don't really have a dislike. Well, maybe one thing to mention would be to add more websites and programs for people who work in areas outside of computer and business management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

FRANCISCO M.

computer systems engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/9/2022

"excellent work tool"

5/5

What do you like best about ActiveState?

the great advantages it offers to develop my projects in terms of security in addition to the great community ready-to-use software supply chain security solution that covers the entire process of importing, creating and consuming open source Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ActiveState?

I don't like the customer service time, sometimes it's a bit slow but the community is enough help but I would like them to be faster in that aspect even with the free version. I have no complaints about the rest Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Davi C.

owner

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/21/2022

"will help me reach my potential with the technology I need today to succeed in my business"

4/5

What do you like best about ActiveState?

works well with Firefox and the team I've had communication with has been very professional. I've recommended it to others who have their businesses Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ActiveState?

so far I haven't had any issues. Hopefully it will continue to be this way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Leonardo A.

Senior Software Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/9/2022

"Awesome Service"

5/5

What do you like best about ActiveState?

Build progress monitoring and Easy installation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ActiveState?

Nothing to say, but, what about integration with more runtimes? Like golang... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nick H.

Project Manager, Estimator, & SDE

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/9/2022

"Easier than docker"

5/5

What do you like best about ActiveState?

No need to containerize everything. Keeping all dependencies where they need to has never been easier. I've used it several times and I recommend it frequently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ActiveState?

It's not common knowledge in the tech-realm. Users may not know how to handle active-state whereas building a docker container is common knowledge. It's simply a matter of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/10/2022

"Good platform to get stable build for almost all versions"

4.5/5

What do you like best about ActiveState?

Sometimes they support very old outdated versions also. Thats great help if you dont have options. They give you great suggestions for minimal jump you have to make to fix your current problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ActiveState?

As good things comes with price tag. Pricing is bit on higher side for support they provide. If they can come up with community support or something like that will help developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.