Trivy 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
Free and open source
Open sourceFree tier available
Free tierWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
Free and open source. You pay in engineering time and CI minutes.
Free CLI; the enterprise platform adds continuous monitoring and reporting, priced on request.
Free tier
Everything, self-hosted
Open-source CLI is free and fully functional including verification.
Open source
Apache-2.0
AGPL-3.0
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Category standard
Aqua Security · since 2019
Widely used
Truffle Security · since 2016
Strengths
- Free and covers container, IaC, secret and dependency scanning in one binary.
- Fast enough to run on every image build without slowing the pipeline.
- Excellent Kubernetes integration through the Trivy Operator.
- 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
- No hosted dashboard or workflow — findings go to your pipeline output.
- No reachability analysis, so alert volume is high on large images.
- Reporting for compliance requires building it yourself.
- 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
Container and Kubernetes pipelines that need free, comprehensive scanning.
Teams that want free, high-signal secret scanning in the pipeline today.
All of these integrate with: Docker, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.