Snyk vs TruffleHog
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 $25 per contributing developer/month (indicative, Team)
Free tierFree tier available
Free tierWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
Priced per contributing developer. Enterprise agreements add reporting and governance and get expensive.
Free CLI; the enterprise platform adds continuous monitoring and reporting, priced on request.
Free tier
Free plan with a monthly test allowance, generous enough for small projects.
Open-source CLI is free and fully functional including verification.
Open source
AGPL-3.0
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Category standard
Snyk · since 2015
Widely used
Truffle Security · since 2016
Strengths
- 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.
- Live verification cuts false positives to near zero for supported providers.
- Free and easy to add as a pre-commit hook or CI step.
- Scans far beyond git — buckets, images, logs.
Limitations
- 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 dashboard or workflow in the free CLI.
- Verification requires outbound network calls, which some environments block.
- Full-history scans on large repositories are slow.
Best for
Engineering teams that want security findings arriving in the pull request with a fix attached.
Teams that want free, high-signal secret scanning in the pipeline today.
All of these integrate with: Jenkins, Docker.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.