FOSSA comparisons
FOSSA is compared head-to-head with Snyk Open Source, Safeguard SCA and Black Duck SCA and more: 7 head-to-heads in Software Composition Analysis Software, each with the specs and prices we checked.
FOSSA head-to-head
- FOSSA vs Snyk Open Source
- FOSSA vs Safeguard SCA
- FOSSA vs Black Duck SCA
- FOSSA vs Endor Labs
- FOSSA vs Semgrep Supply Chain
- FOSSA vs Socket
- FOSSA vs Mend SCA
FOSSA vs each of them
| # | Tool | Free plan | Paid from | Supported ecosystems | SBOM generation | Reachability analysis | Pull request scanning | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | FOSSA | Yes | $20/site/mo | JavaScript/TypeScript, Java/Kotlin, Python, Go, Ruby, Rust, Clojure, Elixir, iOS/Objective-C/Swift, .NET, PHP, Dart, Erlang, Fortran, Haskell, Perl | Yes | Yes | Yes | 9.3 |
| 1 | Snyk Open Source | Yes | $25/user/mo | C/C++, Dart/Flutter, Elixir, Go, Java/Kotlin, JavaScript, .NET, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust (limited), Scala, Swift/Objective-C, TypeScript; npm, pnpm, Yarn, Maven, Gradle, Pip, Poetry, pipenv and setup.py | Yes | Yes | Yes | 9.4 |
| 3 | Safeguard SCA | Yes | $9/mo | npm, PyPI, Maven, Gradle, Go modules, Cargo, RubyGems, Composer, NuGet, Hex | Yes | Yes | Yes | 9.1 |
| 4 | Black Duck SCA | BitBake, Cargo, Carthage, CocoaPods, Conan, Conda, CPAN, CRAN, Dart, Go, Gradle, Hex, Ivy, Lerna, Maven, npm, NuGet, Packagist, PEAR, pip, pnpm, Poetry, RubyGems, SBT, Setuptools, Swift, Yarn, Xcode, OPAM, UV, Rush | Yes | Yes | Yes | 8.9 | ||
| 5 | Endor Labs | Yes | C/C++, Go, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, .NET (C#), PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Swift, TypeScript, Bazel | Yes | Yes | Yes | 8.8 | |
| 6 | Semgrep Supply Chain | Yes | $30/user/mo | C# (NuGet); Dart (Pub); Go (Go modules); Java (Gradle, Maven); JavaScript/TypeScript (npm, Yarn, pnpm); Kotlin (Gradle, Maven); PHP (Composer); Python (pip, pip-tool, Pipenv, Poetry); Ruby (RubyGems); Rust (Cargo); Scala (Maven); Swift (SwiftPM) | Yes | Yes | Yes | 8.7 |
| 7 | Socket | Yes | $25/user/mo | JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Go, Java, Ruby, .NET, Scala, Kotlin, Rust, PHP, Swift, C/C++, Julia, Dart, Elixir/Erlang, GitHub Actions | Yes | Yes | Yes | 8.6 |
| 8 | Mend SCA | No | $1,000/user/yr | C/C++/Conan, C#/.NET/NuGet, Go, Java/Maven/Gradle, JavaScript/npm/yarn/pnpm, PHP/Composer, Python/pip/Poetry/Conda/uv, Ruby/Bundler, Scala/sbt, Swift/SwiftPM/CocoaPods, Rust/Cargo, Haskell/Cabal, Elixir/Erlang/Hex, Bazel, OCaml | Yes | Yes | Yes | 8.5 |
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