ActiveState Platform vs OHRisk

ActiveState Platform hosts custom runtimes assembled from source. Projects specify runtime components, preserve project history and provide deployment instructions; their artifacts may include packages, dependencies, patches and bundles, but not contributors’ first-party code. Create projects in the web interface or with the State Tool CLI, then deploy and activate them locally. Projects can remain personal, be shared with an organization or be public. The platform supports Windows, macOS and Linux deployments, and its GraphQL API can build open-source software for different operating systems and languages without requiring users to manage build infrastructure. It provides immutable SBOMs in SPDX formats and describes build safeguards including reproducible builds, checksum checks and isolated containers. A free organization plan costs nothing and is limited to public projects. Curated Catalog annual pricing is $25,000 for fewer than 100 employees, $50,000 for 100–999 employees and $150,000 for 1,000 or more; those prices do not apply to legacy Platform subscriptions.

OHRisk is a local command-line tool for assessing open-source license risk in software dependencies. It evaluates dependencies against SaaS or distributed-app usage profiles and reports findings as low, review, high, or unknown. Inputs span package information from npm, Rust, Go, Python, Java, .NET, Ruby, and PHP, plus CycloneDX or SPDX software bills of materials. It can use local package evidence and selected remote evidence sources, with checksum and identity validation described for supported ecosystems. Reports can be generated for the terminal or as JSON, HTML, Markdown, SARIF 2.1.0, or CycloneDX 1.5 JSON. A bundled GitHub Actions composite action supports scan, ci, and diff commands; the guide also documents SARIF upload to GitHub code scanning. Local waiver files can keep findings visible in reports while excluding them from CI threshold failures. OHRisk is free under the MIT License and distributed as an npm package, also runnable with pnpm, Yarn, or Bun. The packaged CLI requires Node.js 24.0.0 or later. It is a risk decision aid, not a replacement for legal review.