Dependabot vs Invicti

Free

Quote on request

Completely free. Advanced Security features such as code scanning are separately licensed.

Enterprise licensing by number of target sites or applications.

Free on all GitHub repositories including private ones.

Demo and trial on request.

Category standard

GitHub (Microsoft) · since 2017

Established

Invicti Security · since 2009

• Free and requires a single config file to enable.
• Version-bump pull requests mean remediation is a review, not a task.
• Grouped updates keep the PR volume manageable.

• Proof-based scanning eliminates most false-positive triage, which is the main cost of DAST.
• Handles authenticated scanning of modern JavaScript applications well.
• Good asset discovery for organisations that do not know all their own sites.

• No reachability analysis, so it reports vulnerabilities in code you never call.
• PR noise is a genuine problem on large dependency trees without grouping configured.
• GitHub only.

• Expensive relative to free DAST alternatives.
• Scans take time and are not suited to per-commit feedback.
• Dynamic testing alone cannot find everything a code review would.

Every GitHub repository, as the free baseline before considering a paid SCA tool.

Organisations with many web applications and no capacity to triage scanner noise.