# GitGuardian vs Snyk

| Attribute | GitGuardian | Snyk |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 75.6 (71% (medium)) | 71.7 (75% (high)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 10,449 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 5,679 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | - | 671,447 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A platform that scans code repositories, CI/CD pipelines, containers, and infrastructure for exposed credentials and machine identities, providing real-time detection with automated remediation and incident management workflows. It is indexed under DevSecOps Tools.","source":"https://www.gitguardian.com/pricing","question":"What is GitGuardian?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"GitGuardian does not publish its prices. Pricing is quoted on request, across 3 plans (Free, Growth and Enterprise), so the figure depends on your seat count and requirements. We record this as a pricing-transparency signal rather than guessing a number. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.gitguardian.com/pricing","question":"How much does GitGuardian cost?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"GitGuardian supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.gitguardian.com/pricing","question":"What platforms does GitGuardian support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. GitGuardian can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.gitguardian.com/pricing","question":"Can GitGuardian be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 20 integrations for GitGuardian, including GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure Repos, Azure DevOps, Jira, Slack and ServiceNow, plus 12 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.gitguardian.com/pricing","question":"What does GitGuardian integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR for GitGuardian. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as GitGuardian not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.gitguardian.com/security-engineers","question":"What security certifications does GitGuardian have?","confidence":0.48},{"answer":"GitGuardian is available worldwide. Its primary markets are the United States and the EU.","source":"https://www.gitguardian.com/pricing","question":"Where is GitGuardian available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"An integrated scanning and remediation platform that identifies vulnerabilities across application code, open-source dependencies, container images, and infrastructure configurations, with AI-powered analysis to accelerate detection and fix guidance. It is indexed under DevSecOps Tools.","source":"https://snyk.io/plans/","question":"What is Snyk?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Snyk is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the Apache-2.0 licence. A commercial or hosted edition starts at $25 per developer per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://snyk.io/plans/","question":"Is Snyk free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Snyk supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://snyk.io/plans/","question":"What platforms does Snyk support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Snyk can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://snyk.io/plans/","question":"Can Snyk be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 48 integrations for Snyk, including GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure Repos, Jira, Slack, AWS CodePipeline and Azure Pipelines, plus 40 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://snyk.io/plans/","question":"What does Snyk integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR for Snyk. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Snyk not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://snyk.io/security","question":"What security certifications does Snyk have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Yes. Snyk is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://www.npmjs.com/package/snyk","question":"Is Snyk open source?","confidence":0.85},{"answer":"Snyk is available worldwide. Its primary markets are the United States, the United Kingdom and Israel. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://snyk.io/plans/","question":"Where is Snyk available?","confidence":0.75}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | A platform for discovering hardcoded secrets, API keys, and credentials across code repositories, CI/CD pipelines, container images, and collaboration tools. Provides incident remediation workflows, non-human identity governance, and supports cloud or self-hosted deployment. | A security platform that scans code, dependencies, containers, and infrastructure for vulnerabilities while providing specialized capabilities for validating AI-generated code and supporting development agent security. |
| features.capabilities | `{"sca":true,"sast":true,"hosting":"both","ci_native":true,"ide_plugin":true,"auto_fix_pr":true,"open_source":true,"reachability":true,"secret_scanning":true,"container_scanning":true}` | `{"sca":true,"dast":true,"sast":true,"sbom":true,"hosting":"both","ci_native":true,"ide_plugin":true,"auto_fix_pr":true,"open_source":true,"iac_scanning":true,"reachability":true,"secret_scanning":true,"container_scanning":true,"license_compliance":true}` |
| integrations.count | 16 | 109 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"GitHub Enterprise Server"},{"name":"GitLab"},{"name":"Bitbucket"},{"name":"Azure Repos"},{"name":"Azure DevOps"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"ServiceNow"},{"name":"Confluence"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"Container registries"},{"name":"HashiCorp Vault"},{"name":"CyberArk"},{"name":"AWS Secrets Manager"},{"name":"AWS IAM","native":true,"category":"iam","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Azure Entra ID","native":true,"category":"iam","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Cursor","native":true,"category":"ide","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Claude Code","native":true,"category":"ide","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"GitHub Copilot","native":true,"category":"ide","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Windsurf","native":true,"category":"ide","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Google Gemini CLI","native":true,"category":"ide","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams","native":true,"category":"chat","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"PagerDuty","native":true,"category":"incident_management","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"AWS Marketplace","native":true,"category":"distribution"}]` | `[{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"GitLab"},{"name":"Bitbucket"},{"name":"Azure Repos"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"Jira Cloud"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"AWS CodePipeline"},{"name":"Azure Pipelines"},{"name":"GitHub Actions"},{"name":"Jenkins"},{"name":"CircleCI"},{"name":"TeamCity"},{"name":"Terraform Cloud"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"Docker Hub"},{"name":"Amazon ECR"},{"name":"Azure ACR"},{"name":"Quay"},{"name":"JFrog Artifactory"},{"name":"Harbor"},{"name":"Nexus"},{"name":"IntelliJ"},{"name":"PyCharm"},{"name":"PhpStorm"},{"name":"CLion"},{"name":"GoLand"},{"name":"RubyMine"},{"name":"RustRover"},{"name":"Android Studio"},{"name":"Eclipse"},{"name":"DataGrip"},{"name":"AppCode"},{"name":"Rider"},{"name":"Cursor"},{"name":"Claude"},{"name":"Tabnine"},{"name":"Continue"},{"name":"Qodo"},{"name":"Amazon Q Dev"},{"name":"Google Gemini Code Assist"},{"name":"TabbyML"},{"name":"Dynatrace"},{"name":"SentinelOne"},{"name":"Sysdig"},{"name":"ServiceNow"},{"name":"Snowflake"},{"name":"Backstage"},{"name":"Port"},{"name":"OpsLevel"},{"name":"Claude Code","native":true,"category":"coding_assistant"},{"name":"Copilot","native":true,"category":"coding_assistant"},{"name":"Codex","native":true,"category":"coding_assistant"},{"name":"Windsurf","native":true,"category":"coding_assistant"},{"name":"AWS","native":true,"category":"cloud"},{"name":"Azure","native":true,"category":"cloud"},{"name":"Terraform","native":true,"category":"iac"},{"name":"npm","native":true,"category":"package_manager"},{"name":"GitHub Container Registry","native":true,"category":"container","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Bitbucket Cloud","native":true,"category":"source_control","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Bitbucket Server","native":true,"category":"source_control","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Buildkite","native":true,"category":"ci","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Pulumi","native":true,"category":"iac","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"GitGuardian","native":true,"category":"security","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Akamai","native":true,"category":"security","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Bright Security","native":true,"category":"security","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"StackHawk","native":true,"category":"security","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Snyk API","native":true,"direction":"bidirectional"}]` |
| language.primary | - | TypeScript |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US","EU"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","features":["Unlimited real-time scanning","Internal secrets monitoring","Public secrets monitoring (limited)","Slack, Jira, ServiceNow integrations","SSO (SAML 2.0) + SCIM","US and EU data hosting regions"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Community plan with core scanning capabilities","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"api_calls":"10k/month","repository_size":"12 GB","historical_scans":"500"}},{"free":false,"name":"Growth","features":["Internal secrets monitoring across code, CI/CD, container registries","Public secrets monitoring (limited)","Remediation playbooks and notifiers","SSO (SAML 2.0) + SCIM, IP allowlisting, privacy mode","Dedicated Customer Success Manager"],"description":"Starter plan for teams scaling secrets governance with dedicated support","contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","features":["NHI Governance with vault coverage and identity inventory","AI-powered remediation with Smart Routing","Enterprise data sources including file storage and CI logs","Self-hosted deployment (Helm or KOTS)","12-month audit log retention","Honeytoken for preemptive threat detection"],"description":"Advanced plan for complex environments with NHI governance and self-hosted options","contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"Developer Endpoint Protection"}],"summary":"Free tier available. Paid tiers (Growth, Enterprise) pricing available upon request.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gitguardian.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-09-04T13:30:58.383Z","billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"Free forever","features":["SCA (Open Source) scanning","SAST (Code) scanning","Infrastructure as Code scanning","Container scanning","Real-time code scanning","IDE integrations","CLI access","Source code manager integrations"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For individual developers and small teams with core scanning capabilities","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"projects":"5","snyk_code_tests":"100/month"}},{"free":false,"name":"Team","summary":"$25/month","features":["All Free plan features","Increased test limits per product","Jira integration","Next business day support"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":25,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For development teams up to 10 developers with increased testing limits","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"projects":"100","snyk_code_tests":"1,000/month"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Pre-purchase credits at $1/credit","features":["All capabilities via credit system","AI Pentesting","Coding Agent security","Premium support & services"],"components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"active contributor","amount":1,"period":"day","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"open source","amount":0.33,"period":"day","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"iac","amount":0.33,"period":"day","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"secrets","amount":0.66,"period":"day","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"assessment"},"kind":"per_unit","amount":4000,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Credit-based platform with flexible consumption across all capabilities","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free plan available. Team from $25/month. Enterprise with credit-based pricing at $1 per credit.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://snyk.io/plans/","retrievedAt":"2026-10-15T20:24:30.478Z","startingPrice":{"amount":25,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | mid |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":25,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | - | 7 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.1309.0-preview.b252ba72496c0e1e27c456584c33f66037c0ac5a","date":"2026-10-15T14:41:55Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v1.1309.0-preview.b252ba72496c0e1e27c456584c33f66037c0ac5a"},{"url":"https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.1309.0-preview.9fd3bff85d4336fe4b41eb020382869fbc91c7d1","date":"2026-10-14T17:27:40Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v1.1309.0-preview.9fd3bff85d4336fe4b41eb020382869fbc91c7d1"},{"url":"https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.1309.0-preview.897de23f63b3c5e4a0d65f2f31ab5acec80394c7","date":"2026-10-14T15:47:03Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v1.1309.0-preview.897de23f63b3c5e4a0d65f2f31ab5acec80394c7"},{"url":"https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.1309.0-preview.5f14c765b340bb2b7eac06aff617d3094a667815","date":"2026-10-14T09:47:08Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v1.1309.0-preview.5f14c765b340bb2b7eac06aff617d3094a667815"},{"url":"https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.1308.1","date":"2026-10-14T14:22:05Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.1308.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.1308.0","date":"2026-10-08T11:47:59Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.1308.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.1307.4","date":"2026-09-23T16:00:37Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.1307.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.1307.3","date":"2026-09-18T08:01:39Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.1307.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.1307.2","date":"2026-09-09T15:09:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.1307.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.1307.1","date":"2026-09-07T14:46:54Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.1307.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.1307.0","date":"2026-08-26T14:15:47Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.1307.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.1306.4","date":"2026-08-13T15:08:27Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.1306.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.1306.3","date":"2026-08-06T12:39:11Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.1306.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.1306.2","date":"2026-07-27T15:27:37Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.1306.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.1306.1","date":"2026-07-16T15:03:27Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.1306.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.1306.0","date":"2026-07-09T12:32:08Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.1306.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.1305.2","date":"2026-06-23T09:58:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.1305.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.1305.1","date":"2026-06-02T10:24:21Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.1305.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.1305.0","date":"2026-05-20T12:58:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.1305.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.1304.3","date":"2026-05-13T12:25:00Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.1304.3"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | yes | yes |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 5.2 |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://www.gitguardian.com/videos/webinar-devops-backups-vs-ransomware-best-security-and-compliance-practices | https://snyk.io/platform/security-intelligence/ |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":4,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=npm&package_name=snyk&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":"HIGH"}` |

## Capabilities (DevSecOps Tools)

| Capability | GitGuardian | Snyk |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Scan types** |  |  |
| SAST (static analysis) | ✓ | ✓ |
| DAST (dynamic analysis) | - | ✓ |
| SCA / dependency scanning | ✓ | ✓ |
| Secret scanning | ✓ | ✓ |
| Container / image scanning | ✓ | ✓ |
| IaC misconfiguration scanning | - | ✓ |
| **Governance** |  |  |
| OSS licence compliance | - | ✓ |
| SBOM generation (SPDX/CycloneDX) | - | ✓ |
| **Remediation** |  |  |
| Automated fix / upgrade PRs | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Prioritisation** |  |  |
| Reachability / exploitability prioritisation | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud + self-hosted | Cloud + self-hosted |
| **Integration** |  |  |
| First-class CI / pipeline integration | ✓ | ✓ |
| In-editor / IDE scanning | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| OSS engine available | ✓ | ✓ |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T17:43:28.431Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*