Snyk vs Mend.io

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

Quote on request

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

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

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

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

Category standard

Snyk · since 2015

Widely used

Mend.io · since 2011

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

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

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