Trivy vs Snyk

Free and open source

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

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

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

Everything, self-hosted

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

Category standard

Aqua Security · since 2019

Category standard

Snyk · since 2015

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

Container and Kubernetes pipelines that need free, comprehensive scanning.

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