Trivy vs Mend.io

Free and open source

Quote on request

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

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

Everything, self-hosted

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

Category standard

Aqua Security · since 2019

Widely used

Mend.io · since 2011

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

Container and Kubernetes pipelines that need free, comprehensive scanning.

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