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Snyk Open Source

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4.5
Market Presence: Application Security Testing, Software Supply Chain Security

Overview

Product Information on Snyk Open Source

Updated 22nd March 2024

What is Snyk Open Source?

Snyk Open Source provides a developer-first SCA solution, to find, prioritize, and fix security vulnerabilities and license issues in open source packages, throughout the software development lifecycle. Application context helps prioritize reachable, deployed, or publicly exposed open source issues that pose the greatest risk to your organization, while guardrails verify that your projects adhere to your security and license policies. SBOM exporting for open source and container projects allows you to meet increasing software transparency regulations, and SBOM testing can scan external tools for vulnerabilities.

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Overall experience with Snyk Open Source

IT Security & Risk Management Associate
Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees, Education
FAVORABLE

“Continuous Code Scanning and Security Screening Features with Good Reporting”

4.0
Jan 15, 2026
Snyk is used to continuously scan our code base as well as providing security screening by means of the Pull Request Checks. The interface and API provide a great way to manage vulnerability issues.
Director of Product Security
1B - 3B USD, Software
CRITICAL

“Traditional SCA Solution Faces Modern Challenges”

3.0
Oct 8, 2024
More of a traditional SCA, has many gaps and cons when compared to the newer SCA solutions in the market. The developer experience is ok, but got heavily degraded over the last few years.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 10th January 2024

Snyk specializes in providing security solutions that enable security teams and developers to work together to reduce application risk and speed software delivery. By integrating application security into developers' workflows, Snyk aims to help organizations secure their applications from code creation to cloud deployment. The end-to-end view of applications gives developers and security the shared perspective to improve security posture, while enhancing developers' productivity, preventing issues early in the development cycle, and allowing for the fastest response when security events like zero days occur.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Private
Year Founded
2015
Head office location
Boston, United States
Number of employees
501 - 1000
Website
https://snyk.io/what-is-snyk/

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Deciding Factors: Snyk Open Source Vs. Market Average
Performance of Snyk Open Source Across Market Features

Snyk Open Source Likes & Dislikes

Like

The CLI scanning tools are very powerful. The UI is intuitive and has very good reporting dashboards. The API is powerful and can be used for data extraction. There are multiple integrations available such as Jira, GitHub, BitBucket, Artifactory.

Like

Easy to deploy, results are pretty accurate and customizable for most needs related to vulnerabilities and license checks. Also (I think) that they support the highest number of technologies when compared to other SCA solutions in the market.

Like

After running a scan, automatic checks compare the used dependencies with new vulnerabilities regularly without any interaction. If vulnarabilities occur, alert mails are send so the issue can be address fast.

Dislike

Sometimes, when importing repos into Snyk, the import fails but the reason is not obvious. This can be due to dependencies not being accessible - for example, they are in Artifactory - or because the version of the tools (python, java) or package manager (e.g. npm, maven) used in the repo don't match the versions used by Snyk.

Dislike

When talking about large scale, they had many issues with the integration to GitHub such as rate limit issues, failing scans, etc. The product is also unaware of the code context without a runtime agent and its reachability checks aren't good enough.

Dislike

The scan process does not address relationships in multi project builds so duplicate alerts are send for the same issue in all downstream projects

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Peer Discussions

Snyk Open Source Reviews and Ratings

4.5

(68 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
59%
4 Star
37%
3 Star
4%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.5

Integration & Deployment

4.6

Service & Support

4.6

Product Capabilities

4.5

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  • IT Security & Risk Management Associate
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    Continuous Code Scanning and Security Screening Features with Good Reporting

    4.0
    Jan 15, 2026
    Snyk is used to continuously scan our code base as well as providing security screening by means of the Pull Request Checks. The interface and API provide a great way to manage vulnerability issues.
  • PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Automatic Alerts Enable Fast Response to New Vulnerabilities in Dependencies

    5.0
    Oct 1, 2025
    Easy to set up (just install scanner, authenticate, run monitor), UI is informative and easy to read. Automatic mails with alerts help to address issues fast
  • Cybersecurity Analyst
    <50M USD
    Transportation
    Review Source

    Security Analysts Find Snyk Useful but Note Missing Task Tracking Capabilities

    4.0
    Dec 20, 2025
    Snyk has proven quite useful for us to enable code security. Its features and integrations give you the ease of managing code vulnerabilities and mitigation operations.
  • Software Development Manager
    50M-1B USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Heavily easy to take into use

    5.0
    Nov 17, 2025
    This is a truly developer friendly tool, very easy to onboard and get results
  • Head of Platform Engineering
    <50M USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Great tooling with comprehensive support and solid customer service.

    5.0
    Jul 1, 2025
    Great product, great onboarding. They listen to your feedback well and offer hands on support when you ask for it.
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