Snyk vs Dependabot

From $25 per contributing developer/month (indicative, Team)

Free

Priced per contributing developer. Enterprise agreements add reporting and governance and get expensive.

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

Free plan with a monthly test allowance, generous enough for small projects.

Free on all GitHub repositories including private ones.

Category standard

Snyk · since 2015

Category standard

GitHub (Microsoft) · since 2017

• Reachability analysis dramatically cuts the noise from transitive dependency alerts.
• Automated fix pull requests make remediation a merge rather than a project.
• One vendor covers dependencies, code, containers and IaC.

• 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.

• Per-developer pricing scales uncomfortably in large engineering organisations.
• SAST is less deep than dedicated code-analysis vendors.
• Still produces substantial alert volume on older codebases.

• 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.

Engineering teams that want security findings arriving in the pull request with a fix attached.

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