Trivy alternatives
13 other tools do this job. Which one is right depends on why Trivy is not working for you — so start from the reason, not the list.
Why teams leave Trivy
- No hosted dashboard or workflow — findings go to your pipeline output.
- No reachability analysis, so alert volume is high on large images.
- Reporting for compliance requires building it yourself.
Worth saying: Trivy is genuinely strong at this — free and covers container, iac, secret and dependency scanning in one binary. If that is the part you rely on, switching may cost more than it saves.
If cost is the problem
Cheaper than Trivy at the entry point, or free outright.
Dependabot
Security Testing
Free dependency updates and vulnerability alerts, built into GitHub.
OWASP ZAP
Security Testing
The free, open-source DAST scanner that attacks your running application.
Renovate
Security Testing
Highly configurable automated dependency updates, free and self-hostable.
Everything else in Security Testing
Ranked by how widely adopted they are. Compare any two to see the differences that matter.
Developer-first security across dependencies, code, containers and infrastructure.
Software composition analysis with automated remediation and licence compliance.
Enterprise application security platform: SAST, SCA, DAST, IaC and API security.
The professional web security tester's tool of choice, plus an enterprise scanner.
The free, open-source DAST scanner that attacks your running application.
Highly configurable automated dependency updates, free and self-hostable.
Query your codebase like a database to find vulnerability patterns across the whole repo.
Secrets detection across your repositories, history and developer machines.
Open-source secret scanning that verifies whether the credential is still live.
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