Invicti vs Dependabot
Feature checklists rarely decide anything. What decides it is the pricing metric, who has to write the tests, and which limitation you can live with.
Entry price
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FreeWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
Enterprise licensing by number of target sites or applications.
Completely free. Advanced Security features such as code scanning are separately licensed.
Free tier
Demo and trial on request.
Free on all GitHub repositories including private ones.
Open source
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Established
Invicti Security · since 2009
Category standard
GitHub (Microsoft) · since 2017
Strengths
- Proof-based scanning eliminates most false-positive triage, which is the main cost of DAST.
- Handles authenticated scanning of modern JavaScript applications well.
- Good asset discovery for organisations that do not know all their own sites.
- 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.
Limitations
- Expensive relative to free DAST alternatives.
- Scans take time and are not suited to per-commit feedback.
- Dynamic testing alone cannot find everything a code review would.
- 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.
Best for
Organisations with many web applications and no capacity to triage scanner noise.
Every GitHub repository, as the free baseline before considering a paid SCA tool.
All of these integrate with: GitHub.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.