TruffleHog vs Mend.io

Free tier available

Quote on request

Free CLI; the enterprise platform adds continuous monitoring and reporting, priced on request.

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

Open-source CLI is free and fully functional including verification.

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

Widely used

Truffle Security · since 2016

Widely used

Mend.io · since 2011

• Live verification cuts false positives to near zero for supported providers.
• Free and easy to add as a pre-commit hook or CI step.
• Scans far beyond git — buckets, images, logs.

• 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 dashboard or workflow in the free CLI.
• Verification requires outbound network calls, which some environments block.
• Full-history scans on large repositories are slow.

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

Teams that want free, high-signal secret scanning in the pipeline today.

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