Mend.io vs Trivy

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Free and open source

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

Free and open source. You pay in engineering time and CI minutes.

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

Everything, self-hosted

Widely used

Mend.io · since 2011

Category standard

Aqua Security · since 2019

• 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.

• Free and covers container, IaC, secret and dependency scanning in one binary.
• Fast enough to run on every image build without slowing the pipeline.
• Excellent Kubernetes integration through the Trivy Operator.

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

• No hosted dashboard or workflow — findings go to your pipeline output.
• No reachability analysis, so alert volume is high on large images.
• Reporting for compliance requires building it yourself.

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

Container and Kubernetes pipelines that need free, comprehensive scanning.