TruffleHog vs OWASP ZAP

Free tier available

Free and open source

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

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

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

Everything, self-hosted

Widely used

Truffle Security · since 2016

Category standard

Checkmarx / OWASP · since 2010

• 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.

• Free, with no licence limits on scanning or users.
• The baseline scan runs in CI in a couple of minutes and catches real misconfiguration.
• Active community and extensive add-on marketplace.

• 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.

• Higher false-positive rate than commercial DAST tools.
• Scanning authenticated, JavaScript-heavy applications requires meaningful configuration effort.
• The interface is dated and the learning curve is real.

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

Any team that currently does no dynamic security testing at all.