Veracode vs Dependabot
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
Quote on request
Quote onlyFree
FreeWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
Enterprise annual subscriptions priced by application count and scan types.
Completely free. Advanced Security features such as code scanning are separately licensed.
Free tier
No free tier.
Free on all GitHub repositories including private ones.
Open source
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Widely used
Veracode · since 2006
Category standard
GitHub (Microsoft) · since 2017
Strengths
- Binary scanning works on third-party and supplier software where source is unavailable.
- Policy engine and attestation reports satisfy regulated procurement directly.
- Managed service model suits organisations without a security engineering team.
- 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.
Limitations
- Slow feedback compared with developer-first tools — poor fit for per-commit scanning.
- Expensive per application.
- Developer experience lags Snyk and Semgrep considerably.
- 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.
Best for
Regulated enterprises needing formal security attestation, including for supplier software.
Every GitHub repository, as the free baseline before considering a paid SCA tool.
All of these integrate with: GitHub.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.