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Snyk Open Source

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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

Manager, It Security And Risk Management
<50M USD, Finance (non-banking)
FAVORABLE

“Ease of integration into CI/CD contrasts with manual vulnerability management”

4.0
Apr 22, 2026
An excellent and highly accurate vulnerability analysis tool for third-party software using SCA, although it should be noted that the CLI still needs improvements to allow for real-time vulnerability monitoring. Additionally, the results and reports management lacks features for efficient results handling, as it currently only allows for individual modifications per result, not global ones.
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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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Snyk Open Source Reviews and Ratings

Showing data for 13 ratings and reviews for Software Supply Chain Security market. View all 77 ratings and reviews across markets for a complete picture.

4.2

(13 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
46%
4 Star
31%
3 Star
23%
2 Star
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1 Star
0%
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Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.0

Integration & Deployment

4.6

Service & Support

4.2

Product Capabilities

4.5

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  • Manager, It Security And Risk Management
    <50M USD
    Finance (non-banking)
    Review Source

    Ease of integration into CI/CD contrasts with manual vulnerability management

    4.0
    Apr 22, 2026
    An excellent and highly accurate vulnerability analysis tool for third-party software using SCA, although it should be noted that the CLI still needs improvements to allow for real-time vulnerability monitoring. Additionally, the results and reports management lacks features for efficient results handling, as it currently only allows for individual modifications per result, not global ones.
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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.
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Performance of Snyk Open Source Across Market Features

Snyk Open Source Likes & Dislikes

Like

The versatility of its use in development environments, as well as its ease of implementation in CI/CD when talking about using Snyk broker with SCM, supports the ability to examine vulnerabilities in each pipeline during the development cycle, through modification of the source code.

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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

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

Dislike

I don't like that there isn't enough follow-up from the support team. Also, in the web environment for vulnerability management and editing false positives, you have to do it one by one instead of being able to manage globally by vulnerability or detected controller. This makes administration on the portal tedious. There also isn't much customization for vulnerability reports.

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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 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.

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