Mend.io vs Dependabot

Quote on request

Free

Quote-based enterprise pricing, typically per developer or per application.

Completely free. Advanced Security features such as code scanning are separately licensed.

Free tier for small teams on Mend's developer products.

Free on all GitHub repositories including private ones.

Widely used

Mend.io · since 2011

Category standard

GitHub (Microsoft) · since 2017

• 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.

• 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.

• SAST is weaker than dedicated code-analysis vendors.
• Enterprise pricing and sales process.
• Interface is dated in places.

• 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.

Enterprises where open-source licence compliance is as important as vulnerability management.

Every GitHub repository, as the free baseline before considering a paid SCA tool.