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Invicti vs Semgrep

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 only

From $30 per contributor/month (Teams, per product)

Free tier

What drives the bill

The metric that actually scales your invoice.

Enterprise licensing by number of target sites or applications.

The CLI plus community rules costs nothing and covers a lot. Teams is priced per product per contributor — Code $30, Supply Chain $30, Secrets $15 — so scanning for all three multiplies the per-contributor figure.

Free tier

Demo and trial on request.

Open-source CLI is free and complete; hosted platform free for up to 10 contributors.

Open source

LGPL-2.1 (CLI)

Self-hostable

No-code authoring

Languages

Codeless
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptJavaGoC#RubyPHPKotlinSwift

Platforms

WebAPI
WebAPI

Fits teams

Scale-up / mid-marketEnterprise
StartupScale-up / mid-marketEnterprise

Adoption

Established

Invicti Security · since 2009

Widely used

Semgrep · since 2020

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.
  • Custom rules are genuinely writable — you can encode your own security or architecture standards in an afternoon.
  • Free CLI with a large community rule registry is immediately useful.
  • Fast enough to run on every pull request without complaint.

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.
  • Pattern matching without full dataflow misses some vulnerability classes.
  • Community rule quality is uneven; expect to curate.
  • Advanced dataflow and supply-chain features are paid only.

Best for

Organisations with many web applications and no capacity to triage scanner noise.

Teams that want customisable static analysis and can start entirely for free.

All of these integrate with: Jira, GitHub, Jenkins, Slack.

Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.