Invicti vs Renovate
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
Quote on request
Quote onlyFree and open source
Open sourceWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
Enterprise licensing by number of target sites or applications.
Free and open source, including the hosted GitHub app. Mend sells an enterprise edition with support.
Free tier
Demo and trial on request.
Everything, self-hosted
Open source
AGPL-3.0
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Established
Invicti Security · since 2009
Category standard
Mend.io · 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.
- Far more configurable than Dependabot — grouping, scheduling and automerge rules that keep PR volume sane.
- Supports dozens of package managers including Docker, Terraform, Helm and GitHub Actions.
- Free hosted app, or self-host it entirely.
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.
- The configuration surface is large enough to be its own learning curve.
- Without careful grouping rules it produces a lot of pull requests.
- Vulnerability context is thinner than a dedicated SCA tool.
Best for
Organisations with many web applications and no capacity to triage scanner noise.
Teams that outgrew Dependabot's limited configuration and want update policy under control.
All of these integrate with: GitHub, Azure DevOps.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.