Invicti vs Dependabot

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Free

Enterprise licensing by number of target sites or applications.

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

Demo and trial on request.

Free on all GitHub repositories including private ones.

Established

Invicti Security · since 2009

Category standard

GitHub (Microsoft) · since 2017

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

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