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Dependency-Check vs pip-audit: catalog facts
Dependency-Check	pip-audit
Free The software is free under its open-source licence. Hosting, hardware and external…	Free Free and open source.
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
It matches dependencies to CPE identifiers and reports the linked CVEs, and it plugs into Maven, Gradle, Jenkins…	Audits installed environments as well as requirements files Can automatically fix vulnerable packages
CPE matching produces false positives and misses, and it needs an NVD API key and a long initial…	Only covers Python packages Needs network access to query vulnerability data
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License not stated
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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