Snyk alternatives, including the ones better than us.
We make one of the five tools below. That is a reason to check this page, not to close it — a roundup that concludes with its own author would not be worth writing. Four of these will suit you better than Spartyx depending on what made you leave.
Every figure comes from the vendor's own pricing page, checked August 2026. Where a vendor does not publish a number, this page says so rather than repeating one from somewhere else.
Three reasons teams look, and they lead to different answers.
Snyk is a good product. People leave it for reasons that are mostly about shape and price rather than quality, and which reason it is decides which of the options below is yours.
The bill grows with the team
Snyk bills per contributing developer, so the cost tracks headcount rather than how much scanning you do. Teams that hire faster than their security workload grows feel this first.
You are paying for breadth you do not use
Code, open source, containers and infrastructure in one platform is the point for a large organisation. If you only wanted the first two, it is surface area you are carrying.
The free tier ran out
Five projects and a monthly test limit is enough to evaluate and not always enough to operate. The jump from free to paid arrives sooner than expected.
Five tools, and what each one is bad at.
Semgrep
Community Edition is open sourceFree tier: 10 contributors, 10 repos. Teams from $30 per contributor per month, one product each.
- STRENGTH
- Custom rules, and a large public registry of them. 35+ languages.
- WEAKNESS
- Cross-file analysis needs the platform, not the open-source CLI. Rules need somebody to write them.
- SUITS
- Teams with security engineering time who want to encode their own patterns.
Aikido
ProprietaryFree: 2 users, 10 repos. Basic $300 a month for 10 users.
- STRENGTH
- SAST, SCA, secrets, IaC, containers and DAST in one flat-priced product.
- WEAKNESS
- Flat pricing means a small team pays the same as a team of ten.
- SUITS
- Startups who want everything covered and one predictable invoice.
SonarQube Community
Open source, self-hostedFree — you run the server.
- STRENGTH
- Code quality and security in one place, and it is yours.
- WEAKNESS
- No dependency scanning. Somebody has to host and maintain it.
- SUITS
- Teams who already run their own infrastructure and want no vendor at all.
GitHub Code Security
ProprietaryFree for public repositories. Private repositories are paid; GitHub does not publish the figure on its docs.
- STRENGTH
- CodeQL, and it is already where your code is. Nothing to integrate.
- WEAKNESS
- Tied to GitHub. Little use if your code lives elsewhere.
- SUITS
- Teams entirely on GitHub who want scanning without adding a vendor.
SpartyxOurs
Proprietary, hostedFree tier: 5 scans a month, public repositories. Pro $29 a month, flat.
- STRENGTH
- Scans without an account, and produces a PDF report written for someone who is not a security engineer.
- WEAKNESS
- Young. No CI, no IDE plugin, and 14 languages against the others’ 30-plus.
- SUITS
- Small teams with no application security function who need something they can show to a client or an auditor.
Pick by the reason you are leaving.
- Cost, and you have security engineering time — Semgrep. Free for ten contributors and you can write your own rules.
- Cost, and you do not — Aikido if you want everything covered at a flat price, or GitHub Code Security if your code is already there.
- You want no vendor at all — SonarQube Community, self-hosted, with dependency scanning added separately.
- You need to show somebody the result — Spartyx. This is the case we are built for and the only one where we are the straight answer.
Try ours before you shortlist it.
A public repository URL, no account, nothing to install. If the report is not the one you would forward to someone, one of the other four is your answer.