Renovate vs Invicti
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
Free and open source
Open sourceQuote on request
Quote onlyWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
Free and open source, including the hosted GitHub app. Mend sells an enterprise edition with support.
Enterprise licensing by number of target sites or applications.
Free tier
Everything, self-hosted
Demo and trial on request.
Open source
AGPL-3.0
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Category standard
Mend.io · since 2017
Established
Invicti Security · since 2009
Strengths
- 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.
- 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.
Limitations
- 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.
- 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.
Best for
Teams that outgrew Dependabot's limited configuration and want update policy under control.
Organisations with many web applications and no capacity to triage scanner noise.
All of these integrate with: GitHub, Azure DevOps.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.