Veracode vs Trivy

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Free and open source

Enterprise annual subscriptions priced by application count and scan types.

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

No free tier.

Everything, self-hosted

Widely used

Veracode · since 2006

Category standard

Aqua Security · since 2019

• 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 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.

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

• 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.

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

Container and Kubernetes pipelines that need free, comprehensive scanning.