TruffleHog 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 tier available
Free tierQuote on request
Quote onlyWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
Free CLI; the enterprise platform adds continuous monitoring and reporting, priced on request.
Enterprise licensing by number of target sites or applications.
Free tier
Open-source CLI is free and fully functional including verification.
Demo and trial on request.
Open source
AGPL-3.0
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Widely used
Truffle Security · since 2016
Established
Invicti Security · since 2009
Strengths
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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 free, high-signal secret scanning in the pipeline today.
Organisations with many web applications and no capacity to triage scanner noise.
All of these integrate with: Jenkins.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.