GitGuardian vs Snyk

Free tier available

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

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

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

Free for individuals and teams up to 25 developers.

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

Widely used

GitGuardian · since 2017

Category standard

Snyk · since 2015

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

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