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Overview

Product Information on ActiveState Platform

Updated 12th March 2026

What is ActiveState Platform?

ActiveState Platform is a software that offers solutions for managing open source programming languages and dependencies, primarily focusing on Python, Perl, and Tcl. It provides tools for automating the creation of custom runtime environments, ensuring reproducibility, and controlling dependencies across teams and projects. The software streamlines the process of building, packaging, and updating language distributions while maintaining security by tracking and mitigating vulnerabilities. Businesses can use ActiveState Platform to reduce risks associated with open source usage, improve development workflows, and support compliance with internal policies. The platform enables collaboration by supporting shared projects, version control, and deployment across different operating systems and environments.

ActiveState Platform Pricing

ActiveState’s 79M components built-from-source and continually remediated open source. Consumption models include Components (for custom images, managed distributions or part of a curated catalog) $180 per component with a minimum 100 components; Curated catalog named users are $1,000 per user; Base Images are $5,000.

Overall experience with ActiveState Platform

VP, Software Development
50M - 250M USD, Software
FAVORABLE

“Experienced Developer and Useful Portal Offset Configuration and Build Quality Issues”

4.0
Sep 30, 2025
Weekly review meetings are well run. Turnaround time to resolving issues has been much better than past cycles. Lead developer who's worked with us for a number of years now, is very familiar with our needs, this is super helpful.
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Company Description

Updated 29th July 2024

ActiveState is a software company that offers solutions to streamline the application development process. The firm offers a range of resources, including programming language distributions with cross-platform consistency. ActiveState's offerings cater to enterprises looking to manage the complexities and risks associated with open source language implementations at a large scale. ActiveState's portfolio includes a variety of products such as ActivePerl, ActivePython, ActiveTcl, and the Komodo development environment. The company supports enterprises and developers with its extensive experience, enhancing efficiency and reducing time to market.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Private
Year Founded
1997
Head office location
Vancouver, Canada
Number of employees
51 - 200
Website
https://www.activestate.com

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The web portal that captures the current configuration and vulnerabilities is very useful. Hopefully we'll be able to use it for self-driven updating of modules in our configuration.

Like

The ease of use for developers and the evolution of the product from customer feedback is the biggest strength in my eyes.

Like

- secure product - great technical service

Dislike

There's still room to improve quality of the configurations. Missing modules from previous configurations, mixing win64 and win64d build modules, and cleaning up the final packaging of intermediate build files not required to run.

Dislike

1. There is no ACL support for projects within an enterprise account 2. There is no field for defining an owner for a created project 3. Lack of SSO integration within my organization and reporting on active license use 4. Usernames are not specific to the enterprise account and are global to the platform. There is also no ability to change usernames.

Dislike

We are still in the testing phase. So overall it is good.

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  • VP, Software Development
    50M-1B USD
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    Experienced Developer and Useful Portal Offset Configuration and Build Quality Issues

    4.0
    Sep 30, 2025
    Weekly review meetings are well run. Turnaround time to resolving issues has been much better than past cycles. Lead developer who's worked with us for a number of years now, is very familiar with our needs, this is super helpful.
  • VP, Software Development
    1B-10B USD
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    Product Evolution from Customer Feedback Elevates User Experience

    5.0
    Dec 12, 2024
    The account manager has always been timely in responses and setting up meetings with other members of the team when the team had more questions. All the people I have spoken to in the company have been very knowledgeable about their areas.
  • Engineer
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    Eliminating Security Threats Efficiently with New Product

    5.0
    Dec 13, 2024
    We are using this product to get rid of any security threats to our organization. This is a vary secure product.
  • DATA ENGINEERING MANAGER
    50M-1B USD
    Software
    Review Source

    ActiveState's Solution: Practical and Seamless Implementation

    4.0
    Nov 22, 2024
    ActiveState has a good customer-focussed team that quickly developed the proof of concepts and implemented the solution for us. They are also responsive and prompt in addressing support issues, ensuring quick turn-around times.
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