GitGuardian vs Mend.io

Free tier available

Quote on request

Free tier covers small teams entirely; business pricing is quote-based per developer.

Quote-based enterprise pricing, typically per developer or per application.

Free for individuals and teams up to 25 developers.

Free tier for small teams on Mend's developer products.

Widely used

GitGuardian · since 2017

Widely used

Mend.io · since 2011

• Validity checking distinguishes a live credential from a revoked one, which transforms triage priority.
• Scans full commit history, where most leaked secrets actually live.
• Free for teams up to 25 developers.

• Licence compliance reporting is the strongest in the category and often the reason legal approves a release.
• Reachability analysis reduces the transitive-dependency alert flood.
• Automated remediation pull requests.

• Secrets scanning only — not a general security platform.
• Historical scans on old repositories produce a large initial backlog.
• Requires repository access, which needs a security review of its own.

• SAST is weaker than dedicated code-analysis vendors.
• Enterprise pricing and sales process.
• Interface is dated in places.

Any organisation with more than a handful of repositories and no secrets scanning today.

Enterprises where open-source licence compliance is as important as vulnerability management.