89 C Static Analysis Tools

Mega-Linter can handle any type of project thanks to its 70+ embedded Linters, its advanced reporting, runnable on any CI system or locally, with assisted installation and configuration, able to apply formatting and fixes

Static and dynamic analysis tool supporting more than 25 languages and direct IDE integration. Free hosting for Open Source projects available on request. Free academic licenses available.

A fast, open-source, static analysis tool for finding bugs and enforcing code standards at editor, commit, and CI time. Its rules look like the code you already write; no abstract syntax trees or regex wrestling. Supports 17+ languages.

Static analysis of C/C++ code.

clang static analyser.

Astrée automatically proves the absence of runtime errors and invalid con­current behavior in C/C++ applications. It is sound for floating-point computations, very fast, and exceptionally precise. The analyzer also checks for MISRA/CERT/CWE/Adaptive Autosar coding rules and supports qualification for ISO 26262, DO-178C level A, and other safety standards. Jenkins and Eclipse plugins are available.

Synopsys Coverity supports 20 languages and over 70 frameworks including Ruby on rails, Scala, PHP, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Fortran, C, C++, C#, VB.NET.

A sound and extensible static analyzer for C code.

CodeScene is a quality visualization tool for software. Prioritize technical debt, detect delivery risks, and measure organizational aspects. Fully automated.

A ([conditionally free](https://pvs-studio.com/en/order/open-source-license) for FOSS and individual developers) static analysis of C, C++, C# and Java code. For advertising purposes [you can propose a large FOSS project for analysis by PVS employees](https://github.com/viva64/pvs-studio-check-list). Supports CWE mapping, MISRA and CERT coding standards.

DeepCode finds bugs, security vulnerabilities, performance and API issues based on AI. DeepCode's speed of analysis allow us to analyse your code in real time and deliver results when you hit the save button in your IDE. Supported languages are Java, C/C++, JavaScript, Python, and TypeScript. Integrations with GitHub, BitBucket and Gitlab.

Open-source code analysis platform for C/C++ based on code property graphs

Analyzes C/C++ code using LLVM at compile-time.

A static analyzer for Java, C and Objective-C

A LLVM-based static analysis framework which comes with a taint and type state analysis.

Find security vulnerabilities, variants, and critical code quality issues using queries over source code. Automatic PR code review; free for public GitHub/Bitbucket repo: [LGTM.com](https://LGTM.com).

Advanced static analyzer for multi-threaded software. Supports OpenMP, Pthreads, std::thread, and GPU/CUDA.

Advanced, whole program, deep path, static analysis of C, C++, Java and C# with easy-to-understand explanations and code and path visualization.

Enterprise-grade static analysis for embedded software. Supports MISRA, CERT, and AUTOSAR coding standards.

Quality and Security Static analysis for C/C++, Java and C#.

Identifies run-time errors, concurrency issues, security vulnerabilities, and other defects in C and C++ embedded software.

Tracks down error-prone code locations, style violations, cloned or dead code, cyclic dependencies and more for C/C++, C#/.NET, Java and Ada 83/Ada 95.

Bounded model-checker for C programs, user-defined assertions, standard assertions, several coverage metric analyses.

Static analysis for C/C++. Runs natively under Windows/Linux/MacOS. Analyzes code for virtually any platform, supporting C11/C18 and C++17.

Universal code beautifier with a GitHub app. Supports HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, JSX, Vue, C++, Go, Objective-C, Java, Python, PHP, GraphQL, Markdown, and more.

Beautify HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Java, C, C++, C#, Objective-C, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, Coldfusion, SQL, and more in Atom editor.

Cross-platform, zero-dependency port of flint, a lint program for C++ developed and used at Facebook.

A sound static analyzer for C/C++ code based on LLVM.

Identify and remediate cyber threats in a blazingly fast, collaborative environment, with seamless integration in your SDLC. Python, C\C++, Java, C#, PHP and more.

Enables code auditors and security teams to interactively investigate their unique code bases to find business logic flaws and technical vulnerabilities that traditional SASTs cannot. This is done by enabling the analyst to write their own custom queries. Can find hard-coded secrets, authentication issues, and malicious code like rootkits and backdoors.

Provide code verification that proves the absence of overflow, divide-by-zero, out-of-bounds array access, and certain other run-time errors in C and C++ source code.

Linter for integrating annotated TODOs with your issue trackers

Automated Code Analysis for repos on GitHub or BitBucket.

Automated C++ checker that follows Google's style guide.

Finds possible security weaknesses.

A commercial static analysis platform that supports the scanning of C/C++, C#, VB.NET, VB6, ABAP/BSP, ActionScript, Apex, ASP.NET, Classic ASP, VB Script, Cobol, ColdFusion, HTML, Java, JS, JSP, MXML/Flex, Objective-C, PHP, PL/SQL, T-SQL, Python (2.6, 2.7), Ruby (1.9.3), Swift, Scala, VB, and XML.

Grep rough audit - source code auditing tool.

Deep code analysis for GitHub and Bitbucket to find security vulnerabilities and critical code quality issues (using Semmle QL). Automatic code review for pull requests; free for public repositories.

A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.

Annotation-assisted static program checker.

Code visualization tool that provides code analysis, standards testing, metrics, graphing, dependency analysis and more for Ada, VHDL, and others.

Find flaws in binaries and bytecode without requiring source. Support all major programming languages: Java, .NET, JavaScript, Swift, Objective-C, C, C++ and more.

Static analysis for C/C++/C#, PHP and Java.

Commercial Static Code Analysis which generates exploits to verify vulnerabilities.

Creates reports of over 400 rule patterns for feature detection (e.g. the use of cryptography or version control in apps).

Commercial Static Code Analysis.

Static code analysis for binary and source code - Java/Scala, PHP, Javascript, C#, PL/SQL, Python, T-SQL, C/C++, ObjectiveC/Swift, Visual Basic 6.0, Ruby, Delphi, ABAP, HTML5 and Solidity.

Qt-oriented static code analyzer based on the Clang framework. clazy is a compiler plugin which allows clang to understand Qt semantics. You get more than 50 Qt related compiler warnings, ranging from unneeded memory allocations to misusage of API, including fix-its for automatic refactoring.

Measures size and complexity for C files.

Language independent framework for creating code analysis - supports [over 60 languages](https://coala.io/languages) by default.

Structural source code analyzer by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Code quality and technical debt management platform that supports 10+ languages.

Provides a unified interface to sort and act on the issues it finds.

A defect database and viewer extension for the Clang Static Analyzer with web GUI.

CI/CD-agnostic DevSecOps platform which combines industry-leading fuzzing engines for finding bugs and visualizing code coverage

Deep code analysis - semantic queries and dataflow for several languages with VSCode plugin support.

A tool for configurable software verification of C programs. The name CPAchecker was chosen to reflect that the tool is based on the CPA concepts and is used for checking software programs.

Quality metrics for C code.

Complexity and quality metrics for for C and C preprocessor code.

Analyses the comprehensive dependencies of code elements for Java, C/C++, Ruby.

Regex-based static analysis tool for Visual Studio, VS Code, and Sublime Text - C/C++, C#, PHP, ASP, Python, Ruby, Java, and others.

ESBMC is an open source, permissively licensed, context-bounded model checker based on satisfiability modulo theories for the verification of single- and multi-threaded C/C++ programs.

Regexp based customizable linter.

A multi-language static analyzer for C/C++/Obj-C/Python/Ruby to create a graph (in dot or graphml format) which shows all `#include` relations of a given set of files.

A tool suite including static analysis (TBVISION) to various standards including MISRA C & C++, JSF++ AV, CWE, CERT C, CERT C++ & Custom Rules.

Lizard is an extensible Cyclomatic Complexity Analyzer for many programming languages including C/C++ (doesn't require all the header files or Java imports). It also does copy-paste detection (code clone detection/code duplicate detection) and many other forms of static code analysis. Counts lines of code without comments, CCN (cyclomatic complexity number), token count of functions, parameter count of functions.

A static source code analysis tool to improve quality and reduce defects for C, C++ and Objective-C.

Automated Software Testing Solutions for unit-, API-, and web UI testing. Complies with MISRA, OWASP, and others.

Quick automated code review of your changes. Supports more than 40 runners for various languages, including Clang, Elixir, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby and more.

A static file linter that allows you to write custom rules using regular expressions (RegEx).

Security code analyzer for C# and VB.NET. Detects various security vulnerability patterns: SQLi, XSS, CSRF, XXE, Open Redirect, etc. Integrates into Visual Studio 2015 and newer. Detects various security vulnerability patterns: SQLi, XSS, CSRF, XXE, Open Redirect, etc.

A tool that finds similarities between or within files to support you encountering DRY principle violations.

SonarLint is an extension for Visual Studio 2015 and 2017 that provides on-the-fly feedback to developers on new bugs and quality issues injected into .NET code.

Suite of static analysis tools consisting of the three components Sotoarc (Architecture Analysis), Sotograph (Quality Analysis), and Sotoreport (Quality report). Helps find differences between architecture and implementation, interface violations (e.g. external access of private parts of subsystems, detection of all classes, files, packages and subsystems which are strongly coupled by cyclical relationships and more. The Sotograph product family runs on Windows and Linux.

Static Code Analysis for C/C++, Java, C#, Python, and RPG III and RPG IV versions (including free-form).

A static tool that enables scalable and precise interprocedural dependence analysis for C and C++ programs.

A fast and accurate static analysis solution for C/C++, C#, Lua codes provided by Tencent. Using GPLv3 license.

Language-independent tool for massive, automatic, programmable refactoring based on simple pattern definitions.

Vera++ is a programmable tool for verification, analysis and transformation of C++ source code.

Commercial Static Code Analysis which runs locally, but uploads the results to its cloud for presentation.

A commercial static analysis platform that allows for scanning of multiple languages (C/C++, Android, C#, Java, JS, PHP, Python, Node.JS, Ruby, Fortran, and Swift).

XCode provides a pretty decent UI for [Clang's](http://clang-analyzer.llvm.org/xcode.html) static code analyzer (C/C++, Obj-C).

Intelligent software analytics platform that identifies design issues, code issues, duplication and metrics. Supports Java, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go, Kotlin and more.

Reports known vulnerabilities in common dependencies and recommends updated packages to minimize breaking changes

Commercial Static Code Analysis which doesn't require pre-compilation.