Snyk vs Trivy

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

Aqua Security · since 2019

• 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 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

Container and Kubernetes pipelines that need free, comprehensive scanning.