Invicti vs Mend.io
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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The metric that actually scales your invoice.
Enterprise licensing by number of target sites or applications.
Quote-based enterprise pricing, typically per developer or per application.
Free tier
Demo and trial on request.
Free tier for small teams on Mend's developer products.
Open source
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Established
Invicti Security · since 2009
Widely used
Mend.io · since 2011
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.
- Licence compliance reporting is the strongest in the category and often the reason legal approves a release.
- Reachability analysis reduces the transitive-dependency alert flood.
- Automated remediation pull requests.
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.
- SAST is weaker than dedicated code-analysis vendors.
- Enterprise pricing and sales process.
- Interface is dated in places.
Best for
Organisations with many web applications and no capacity to triage scanner noise.
Enterprises where open-source licence compliance is as important as vulnerability management.
All of these integrate with: Jira, GitHub, Jenkins, Azure DevOps.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.