Dependabot vs Snyk

Free

From $25 per contributing developer/month (indicative, Team)

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

Priced per contributing developer. Enterprise agreements add reporting and governance and get expensive.

Free on all GitHub repositories including private ones.

Free plan with a monthly test allowance, generous enough for small projects.

Category standard

GitHub (Microsoft) · since 2017

Category standard

Snyk · since 2015

• 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.

• Reachability analysis dramatically cuts the noise from transitive dependency alerts.
• Automated fix pull requests make remediation a merge rather than a project.
• One vendor covers dependencies, code, containers and IaC.

• 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.

• Per-developer pricing scales uncomfortably in large engineering organisations.
• SAST is less deep than dedicated code-analysis vendors.
• Still produces substantial alert volume on older codebases.

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

Engineering teams that want security findings arriving in the pull request with a fix attached.