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Snyk Open Source

bySnyk
in
4.2
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

Cybersecurity Analyst
<50M USD, Transportation
FAVORABLE

“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.
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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Performance of Snyk Open Source Across Market Features

Snyk Open Source Likes & Dislikes

Like

The integration with BitBucket. Makes it very useful for me as a security analyst to communicate with developers and point issues in a way that developers will also understand

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

Its ease of use and speed to get results for developers. Its very simple yet robust with how granular you can configure your scan their their CLI option.

Dislike

The fact that it offers no possibility to follow up on tasks within the platform. Additionally, it is not possible to see which projects are archived or disabled and which are still being worked on by devs.

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

Snyk Open Source does not support scanning binary files such as .jar files. This would allow the option to scan at source code and at finished/compiled artifact to provide validation of scanning results.

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Snyk Open Source Reviews and Ratings

Showing data for 12 ratings and reviews for Software Supply Chain Security market. View all 68 ratings and reviews across markets for a complete picture.

4.2

(12 Ratings)

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4 Star
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Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

3.9

Integration & Deployment

4.7

Service & Support

4.3

Product Capabilities

4.4

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  • 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.
  • Senior Cybersecurity Engineer
    1B-10B USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    Snyk Open Source Review

    5.0
    Nov 4, 2024
    Snyk Open Source provides a more precise compilation of dependencies during the build process than other products I have used in the past. Its integration in the CI Pipeline and IDE offers results at the time of commit or prior to the code being pushed to remote repositories. It provides the developer with the information needed to remediate to give save time on the backend of a release cycle.
  • LEAD ENGINEER
    10B+ USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    A Comprehensive Examination of a Maven-Based Solution Experience

    5.0
    Oct 11, 2024
    Excellent experience from start to end. We started on the free tier to trial the product on our application, moving from our previous open source maven based solution. Setup was simple, maintenance was almost non-existent and the pre-compiled packages for certifications/etc made the supplier onboarding process much more streamlined.
  • Director of Product Security
    1B-10B USD
    Software
    Review Source

    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.
  • Principal Security Engineer
    1B-10B USD
    Retail
    Review Source

    Evaluating Snyk's Thorough Issue Detection and Challenging Reporting

    3.0
    Jul 3, 2024
    Snyk's SCA detection capabilities are very good, however it feels like they have broadened their product suite too quickly and so lack some depth in their bread and butter product features like SCA and other fundamental elements like reporting and APIs
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