# GitGuardian vs Snyk

| Attribute | GitGuardian | Snyk |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 75.1 (71% (medium)) | 71.7 (76% (high)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 10,449 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 5,648 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | - | 768,717 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A platform that detects hardcoded secrets and leaked credentials in source code, CI/CD pipelines, container images, developer machines, and public repositories, then automates remediation through context-aware prioritization and integration with existing security workflows. | 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. |
| features.capabilities | `{"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 | 15 | 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":"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"}]` |
| language.primary | - | TypeScript |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"FR","primaryMarkets":["US","EU"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US","GB","IL"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Starter","summary":"Free, no credit card required","features":["Internal secrets monitoring","Unlimited real-time scanning","Multi-VCS support (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure Repos)","Developer workstations scan via Git hooks","Remediation tracking and guidelines","GitGuardian CLI (ggshield)","VSCode extension"],"minSeats":25,"description":"For individuals and teams up to 25 devs","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"devs":"25","historical_scans":"500","api_calls_per_month":"10K"}},{"free":false,"name":"Growth","summary":"Free trial available","features":["Everything in Starter, plus:","Internal secrets monitoring (code, CI/CD, containers, custom sources)","Public secrets monitoring (limited)","Endpoint protection for developer machines","Remediation playbooks with automated routing","Slack, Jira, ServiceNow integrations","AI-driven risk scoring and false-positive filtering","SSO (SAML 2.0) and SCIM provisioning","US and EU data hosting options"],"description":"For teams up to 500 developers","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"devs":"500","teams":"10","repository_scan_size_gb":"12"}},{"free":false,"name":"Business","summary":"Custom pricing via sales","features":["Internal secrets monitoring","Remediation playbooks","Up to 20 teams","Large repository scanning"],"description":"For teams up to 200 devs","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"teams":"20","repository_scan_size_gb":"12"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom enterprise pricing","features":["Everything in Growth, plus:","Unlimited public secrets monitoring","NHI governance (vault management, identity mapping, policy enforcement)","Endpoint protection (developer and standard endpoints)","Corporate and enterprise data sources (Jira, Slack, Confluence, file storage)","Self-hosted deployment with GitGuardian Bridge","Unlimited teams and custom RBAC","Custom regex-based detectors","12-month audit log retention","Premium Care support"],"minSeats":500,"description":"For 500+ developer organizations","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"teams":"None","repository_scan_size_gb":"60"}}],"addOns":[{"name":"Extra endpoints (endpoint protection)"},{"name":"Premium Care support"}],"summary":"Free Starter tier for up to 25 developers. Paid plans start with Growth tier; Enterprise and Business require custom quote.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gitguardian.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T15:23:02.350Z","billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"$0/month","features":["Open source dependency scanning","Real-time code scanning","SCA, SAST, IaC, and container scanning","IDE, CLI, and source code manager integrations"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"projects":"5","iac_tests_monthly":"300","code_tests_monthly":"100","container_tests_monthly":"100","open_source_tests_monthly":"200"}},{"free":false,"name":"Team","summary":"$25/developer/month","features":["All Free features","Increased test limits per product","Jira integration","License compliance","Transitive dependency analysis","Next business day support"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"developer","amount":25,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"projects":"100","tests_monthly":"1000"}},{"free":false,"name":"Ignite","summary":"$1,260/developer/year","features":["All Team features","Full platform capabilities","Custom security rules and risk-based prioritization","Real-time custom code scanning","Dev-first fix examples in IDE","Container base image recommendations","Reporting dashboard","Policy management","Role-based access control"],"commitment":"annual","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"developer","amount":1260,"period":"year","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"projects":"Unlimited","tests_monthly":"Unlimited"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["All Ignite features","Zero-day risk prevention","Unified AppSec control and strategic security oversight","Full SDLC automation"],"contactSales":true}],"summary":"From $25/developer/month. Free tier available; Enterprise requires custom quote.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://snyk.io/plans/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T15:30:23.329Z","startingPrice":{"amount":25,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | low | mid |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | - | 11 |
| release.history | - | `[{"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"},{"url":"https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.1304.2","date":"2026-05-06T13:59:19Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.1304.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.1304.1","date":"2026-04-27T12:51:17Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.1304.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.1304.0","date":"2026-04-09T11:40:07Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.1304.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.1303.2","date":"2026-03-23T11:30:30Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.1303.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.1303.1","date":"2026-03-04T14:34:05Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.1303.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.1303.0","date":"2026-02-26T11:37:42Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.1303.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.1302.1","date":"2026-01-22T15:42:16Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.1302.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.1302.0","date":"2026-01-14T10:25:53Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.1302.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.1301.2","date":"2025-12-16T10:06:29Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.1301.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/snyk/cli/releases/tag/v1.1301.1","date":"2025-12-08T10:08:34Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.1301.1"}]` |
| 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.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: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T14:37:43.640Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*