By Jai Mittal, CTO at Launch Ready Code ·
Checkmarx is an enterprise application security platform offering SAST, DAST, SCA, and API security testing. It is built for large engineering organizations with dedicated security teams, compliance requirements, and the budget to match.
Launch Ready Code is an automated audit service for founders who shipped on Lovable, Bolt, Cursor, or Replit. No code access. No enterprise contract. A free scan in 60 seconds and a full audit report in under 48 hours.
Launch Ready Code internal data (the vibe-coded apps we've audited): an average Launch Readiness Score around 44/100 on first audit, with most apps carrying at least one P0 critical finding, missing HTTP security headers, or exposing API keys and secrets. CVE-2025-48757 affected 170+ Lovable-built apps with disabled Supabase RLS. Sources: NVD CVE-2025-48757, OWASP Top 10.
The security vulnerabilities discussed here are catalogued in the OWASP Top 10 — the industry standard for web application risk. Severity scores for individual CVEs are published by NIST’s National Vulnerability Database (NVD).
Across the 700+ vibe-coded applications Launch Ready Code has scanned, most have at least one critical security finding at their first audit, with an average Launch Readiness Score around 44/100 — LRC scan data, 2026.
| Feature | Checkmarx | Launch Ready Code |
|---|---|---|
| Scans live deployed URL | DAST module only — enterprise add-on | ✓ Yes — every plan |
| Requires code / repo access | ✗ Yes — for SAST | ✓ No — URL only |
| Detects Supabase RLS disabled | ✗ No | ✓ Yes — P0 finding in 31/47 apps |
| Platform-aware (Lovable/Bolt/Cursor) | ✗ No | ✓ Yes — 11 AI platforms |
| Client-side API key detection | SAST only — code patterns | ✓ Yes — live bundle scan |
| OWASP Top 10 | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes |
| Time to first result | Days (sales + setup) | 60 seconds (free scan) |
| Pricing | $20,000+/year (enterprise) | $0 free / $499 audit / $149/mo |
| EU AI Act / GDPR check | Compliance modules — enterprise add-on | ✓ Yes — $799 Compliance Score |
| Copy-paste fixes for AI tools | ✗ No | ✓ Yes |
| Named CTO assigned | ✗ No | ✓ Yes — Pro and Code Care plans |
Checkmarx SAST is excellent at finding vulnerabilities in code written by humans: SQL injection patterns, insecure deserialization, hardcoded credentials in source files. But vibe-coded apps have a different failure profile:
main.js bundle. Checkmarx SAST scans the source. Launch Ready Code fetches and parses the live compiled bundle.Checkmarx is overkill for a solo founder. It was built for a hundred-person engineering org. The overhead — sales, setup, tuning, interpretation — is itself a full-time job.
Enterprise SAST tools like Checkmarx are built around the assumption that you have source code, a security team to configure the scanner, and engineers to fix what’s found. The attack surface of a vibe-coded app is dominated by configuration errors, not code-level vulnerabilities. URL-based scanning catches the former; SAST catches the latter.
Free scan. No code access. No credit card. Just your URL.
Run the free scanFor vibe-coded apps, yes. Checkmarx is built for enterprise engineering teams with dedicated security budgets. Launch Ready Code covers the specific failure modes of AI-built apps — RLS, leaked keys, missing headers — at a fraction of the cost and with no code access required.
Checkmarx enterprise pricing starts at roughly $20,000 per year and requires a sales conversation. Launch Ready Code starts at $0 (free scan) and offers a full one-time audit for $499. Monthly monitoring starts at $149/mo.
Not entirely. If your team has hundreds of engineers and a mature DevSecOps pipeline, Checkmarx offers depth Launch Ready Code doesn’t. But for live-URL, runtime, and vibe-coding-specific gaps, Launch Ready Code catches what SAST misses.
The Compliance Wing includes automated checks for EU AI Act Article 50 obligations, GDPR data handling, and SOC 2 foundations. A Compliance Score ($799 one-time) returns a full PDF report with a compliance certificate.