Mend.io vs Snyk

Quote on request

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

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

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

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

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

Widely used

Mend.io · since 2011

Category standard

Snyk · since 2015

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

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