Spartyx vs Snyk, including the parts we lose.
We build Spartyx, so treat this page accordingly — and then check it. Snyk's figures come from their own plans page, and where Snyk is the better choice we say so, because a comparison you can catch out is worth less than none.
Both products checked August 2026. Spartyx is compared as the beta that ships today. Pro is $29 a month.
Weighing more than these two? Five Snyk alternatives compared, four of which are not us.
Thirteen dimensions. Snyk wins seven.
| Dimension | Spartyx | Snyk | Better |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scan without an account The fastest way to find out whether a scanner is worth your time is to run it. | Yes — paste a public repo URL | No — signup required | Spartyx |
| Free tier scope Snyk's free tier is more generous today. Spartyx is in beta and capped. | 5 scans a month, public repos, all 14 languages | 5 projects, 100 code tests a month, private repos included | Snyk |
| Private repositories | Pro, $29 a month | Free tier and up | Snyk |
| CI/CD integration Spartyx has one integration and Snyk has the set. If your pipeline is GitHub Actions this row is close to even; if it is anything else, it is not. | GitHub Actions, with SARIF into Code Scanning | GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, CircleCI, Azure, Bitbucket and more | Snyk |
| IDE plugins | None | VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio, Eclipse | Snyk |
| Container and IaC scanning | IaC only | Both | Snyk |
| Scanning the running website Snyk's DAST is the more capable product: it drives a headless browser, so it reads single-page apps we cannot. It is also not in the Free or Team plan priced above - it is bought on its own. This row is about what the plans being compared include, not about which scanner is deeper. | Included — headers, TLS, cookies, exposed files, forms, subdomains | Snyk API & Web, sold separately | Spartyx |
| Report you can send to someone Built for the moment a client, an auditor or an investor asks what your security posture is. | PDF with file, line range and a public verification id | Dashboard and exports | Spartyx |
| OWASP mapping edition Both on the current edition. Plenty of scanners still cite 2021, which was superseded - and the renumbering is not cosmetic, since Injection moved from A03 to A05 and SSRF stopped being a category of its own. | Top 10:2025 | Top 10:2025 | Neither |
| Cross-file taint tracking | Yes, with the source-to-sink path shown | Yes | Neither |
| Dependency advisories Snyk's database is curated and often ahead of public feeds. | OSV, nine ecosystems | Proprietary database plus public sources | Snyk |
| Pricing above the free tier Flat against per-developer. Snyk is cheaper for one developer and more expensive from the second onwards. | $29 a month, flat | From $25 per contributing developer per month | Spartyx |
| Maturity | Beta | Established, large ecosystem, enterprise support | Snyk |
- You want to see what a scanner finds before you create an account.
- You need a report to hand to a client, an auditor or an investor — not a dashboard login.
- You are one developer or a small team with no application security function.
- You want the finding to name the folder, the file and the line range, and to say how it got there.
- You want the whole assessment in one document rather than a seat in a dashboard.
- You want your running website scanned without buying a second product for it.
- You need private repository scanning today.
- Your CI is not GitHub Actions — Jenkins, GitLab, CircleCI, Azure.
- You want it inside the IDE while you type.
- You need container scanning as well as code and dependencies.
- You are buying for an organisation and need SSO, support contracts and procurement paperwork.
A scanner is only as good as the report it produces.
Every scanner finds things. The question is whether what it hands you is worth reading. We spent this year finding out how wrong our own answers were, on our own source code, and fixing it.
Rules are not vulnerabilities
A security tool's own pattern list contains every string it looks for. Scanning one and reporting its vocabulary back is a mistake most scanners make. Spartyx recognises a definition and skips it — the same for a docstring showing the bad code a rule catches.
Your tests are not your product
A Playwright spec calling its own mock server is not server-side request forgery. Findings in test code go to an appendix so they cannot bury the ones in code that ships — except credentials, which stay, because a key committed to a test file is in your history all the same.
A wrong line number is worse than none
Language models quote code accurately and count lines badly. Spartyx locates every AI finding's quoted snippet in the real file before printing a line number, and prints none when it cannot find it.
Try it on a repository you already know.
Paste a public repository and read the findings. No account, nothing to install. You will know within a scan whether this is a tool you trust.