Snyk vs OWASP ZAP

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

Free and open source

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

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

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

Everything, self-hosted

Category standard

Snyk · since 2015

Category standard

Checkmarx / OWASP · since 2010

• 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.

• Free, with no licence limits on scanning or users.
• The baseline scan runs in CI in a couple of minutes and catches real misconfiguration.
• Active community and extensive add-on marketplace.

• 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.

• Higher false-positive rate than commercial DAST tools.
• Scanning authenticated, JavaScript-heavy applications requires meaningful configuration effort.
• The interface is dated and the learning curve is real.

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

Any team that currently does no dynamic security testing at all.