Trivy vs GitGuardian

Free and open source

Free tier available

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

Free tier covers small teams entirely; business pricing is quote-based per developer.

Everything, self-hosted

Free for individuals and teams up to 25 developers.

Category standard

Aqua Security · since 2019

Widely used

GitGuardian · since 2017

• 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.

• Validity checking distinguishes a live credential from a revoked one, which transforms triage priority.
• Scans full commit history, where most leaked secrets actually live.
• Free for teams up to 25 developers.

• 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.

• Secrets scanning only — not a general security platform.
• Historical scans on old repositories produce a large initial backlog.
• Requires repository access, which needs a security review of its own.

Container and Kubernetes pipelines that need free, comprehensive scanning.

Any organisation with more than a handful of repositories and no secrets scanning today.