Alternatives to Snyk
A hosted developer security platform that scans code and applications for vulnerabilities. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Snyk
A hosted developer security platform that scans code and applications for vulnerabilities.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Snyk.
SonarQube
A static code analysis platform that flags bugs, maintainability issues and security vulnerabilities.
SonarQube adds code quality and technical debt tracking to security checks. It can run as a self-hosted server or as a managed cloud service, and advanced features are on paid plans.
CodeQL
A semantic code analysis engine from GitHub that lets you query source code to find vulnerabilities.
CodeQL lets you write queries that trace data flow to find vulnerability patterns in source code and runs from a CLI. Free use is limited to research and open source.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Bandit
A command-line static analyser that finds common security issues in Python code.
detect-secrets
A command-line tool from Yelp that detects and prevents secrets such as keys being committed to code.
Hadolint
Dockerfile linter that also checks the shell commands inside it.
Qodo
An AI code review service that checks pull requests and IDE changes against full codebase context.
Sentry
An error tracking and application performance monitoring service for developers, hosted or self-hosted.
