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Semgrep 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

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

Free tier

Quote on request

Quote only

What drives the bill

The metric that actually scales your invoice.

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.

Enterprise licensing by number of target sites or applications.

Free tier

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

Demo and trial on request.

Open source

LGPL-2.1 (CLI)

Self-hostable

No-code authoring

Languages

PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptJavaGoC#RubyPHPKotlinSwift
Codeless

Platforms

WebAPI
WebAPI

Fits teams

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

Adoption

Widely used

Semgrep · since 2020

Established

Invicti Security · since 2009

Strengths

  • 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.
  • 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

  • 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.
  • 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 want customisable static analysis and can start entirely for free.

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

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

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