TruffleHog vs Snyk

Free tier available

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

Free CLI; the enterprise platform adds continuous monitoring and reporting, priced on request.

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

Open-source CLI is free and fully functional including verification.

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

Widely used

Truffle Security · since 2016

Category standard

Snyk · since 2015

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

Teams that want free, high-signal secret scanning in the pipeline today.

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