Veracode vs Dependabot

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Free

Enterprise annual subscriptions priced by application count and scan types.

Completely free. Advanced Security features such as code scanning are separately licensed.

No free tier.

Free on all GitHub repositories including private ones.

Widely used

Veracode · since 2006

Category standard

GitHub (Microsoft) · since 2017

• Binary scanning works on third-party and supplier software where source is unavailable.
• Policy engine and attestation reports satisfy regulated procurement directly.
• Managed service model suits organisations without a security engineering team.

• Free and requires a single config file to enable.
• Version-bump pull requests mean remediation is a review, not a task.
• Grouped updates keep the PR volume manageable.

• Slow feedback compared with developer-first tools — poor fit for per-commit scanning.
• Expensive per application.
• Developer experience lags Snyk and Semgrep considerably.

• No reachability analysis, so it reports vulnerabilities in code you never call.
• PR noise is a genuine problem on large dependency trees without grouping configured.
• GitHub only.

Regulated enterprises needing formal security attestation, including for supplier software.

Every GitHub repository, as the free baseline before considering a paid SCA tool.