Automation & access
What is a REST API?
Programmatic access to findings, configuration and scan results over HTTP.
An API is what lets a tool become part of your systems rather than another destination to visit: findings into your own dashboards, configuration managed as code, evidence collection automated for audits.
It is also your exit route. A tool with a complete API is one whose data you can extract if you switch vendors, which is worth weighing at purchase rather than at renewal.
What to look for
- Coverage, meaning whether everything in the UI is reachable from the API
- Rate limits, and whether they permit a full data export
- Authentication model and token scoping
- Versioning and deprecation policy
Best 19 code quality, security and code review tools with a REST API
Every tool in the directory whose documentation covers this, 11 fully and 8 partially. Full support is shown first. Shown in a random order that changes on every visit, so no tool gets an advantage from its position.
Support is not the same as parity, since some implementations are narrower in scope, gated to a higher plan tier, or maintained only for existing customers. The note under each tool is what its own documentation describes.
Code Security Platform
Application security platform spanning code, cloud, container and runtime scanning with AI triage, autofix and automated pentesting.
Code Security Platform
Application Security Posture Management platform bundling SAST, SCA, IaC, container, API, secret, and DAST scanners under one risk model.
Code Quality Platform
Code quality and security platform aggregating third-party analyzers across 40+ languages, with SAST, SCA, secrets, coverage and a free IDE extension.
Code Quality Platform
Behavioral code analysis platform scoring Code Health, hotspots, knowledge distribution and delivery risk from version-control history.
Code Security Platform
AI-native AppSec platform (BLAST SAST) that finds business-logic vulnerabilities across code, dependencies, containers and IaC, and ships AI-generated pull-request fixes.
PR Review Tool
Cursor's PR review layer: Bugbot diff review, Security Agents, PR routing/approval and a PR/merge-queue workspace.
Code Security Platform
GitHub-native AppSec sold as two add-on SKUs — Secret Protection and Code Security — with CodeQL SAST, Dependabot SCA, secret scanning.
PR Review Tool
AI pull request reviewer that indexes the whole repository graph for context and can execute PR code in a sandbox.
Code Quality Platform
GitHub-only static analysis, security scanning and code coverage platform, split between a free open-source CLI and hosted Qlty Cloud.
Code Quality Platform
Code quality and security analysis platform for 40+ languages, delivered as SonarQube Cloud SaaS or self-managed SonarQube Server.
Code Security Platform
Enterprise AppSec platform spanning SAST, SCA, DAST, container/IaC scanning, AI auto-remediation, ASPM risk management, and developer training.
AI Coding Agent
OpenAI's Codex coding agent with an agentic diff/PR reviewer plus a separate Codex Security scanning agent (CLI, SDK, cloud).
AI Coding Agent
Anthropic's agentic coding tool with a managed GitHub PR review service, local review commands, and security-scanning plugins.
PR Review Tool
AI pull-request review platform bundling SAST, SCA, secrets, IaC and multi-cloud posture scanning with IDE and CLI review.
PR Review Tool
AI pull request reviewer layering 57 third-party linters and a separately metered AI Deep Scan, plus IDE extension and CLI.
Code Quality Platform
Static analysis and code security platform that reviews every commit and PR, with an AI review agent and Autofix remediation.
AI Coding Agent
Google Cloud's AI coding assistant for IDEs and Google Cloud, with a GitHub app posting PR summaries and severity-tagged reviews.
Code Security Platform
Open-source pattern-matching SAST engine plus a commercial AppSec Platform adding SCA, secrets detection, policy governance and AI triage.
Code Security Platform
Developer security platform covering SAST, SCA, container, IaC, secrets and DAST scanning with risk scoring and automated fix PRs.
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FAQ
What is a REST API?
Programmatic access to findings, configuration and scan results over HTTP.
How many tools in the directory offer a REST API?
19 of the 20 tools in this directory offer a REST API, 11 fully and 8 partially:
Support is not the same as parity, since some implementations are narrower in scope, gated to a higher plan tier, or maintained only for existing customers. The note under each tool is what its own documentation describes.
What should you check when comparing tools with a REST API?
Four things:
- Coverage, meaning whether everything in the UI is reachable from the API
- Rate limits, and whether they permit a full data export
- Authentication model and token scoping
- Versioning and deprecation policy