OpenSSF Scorecard comparisons
OpenSSF Scorecard is compared head-to-head with Sonatype Lifecycle, Endor Labs and Socket and more: 7 head-to-heads in Open Source Package Health Tools, each with the specs and prices we checked.
OpenSSF Scorecard head-to-head
- OpenSSF Scorecard vs Sonatype Lifecycle
- OpenSSF Scorecard vs Endor Labs
- OpenSSF Scorecard vs Socket
- OpenSSF Scorecard vs Mend Open Source
- OpenSSF Scorecard vs ActiveState Platform
- OpenSSF Scorecard vs LFX Insights
- OpenSSF Scorecard vs Aikido Package Health
OpenSSF Scorecard vs each of them
| # | Tool | Free plan | Paid from | Package ecosystems | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | OpenSSF Scorecard | Yes | Free | 7.5 | |
| 1 | Sonatype Lifecycle | No | C++/Conan; Conda; Dart and Flutter/pub; Go/Go Modules; Hugging Face; Java/Maven, Gradle, Ivy; JavaScript/npm, yarn; .NET/NuGet; Objective-C/CocoaPods; PHP/Composer; Python/PyPI, Poetry, pipenv; R/CRAN; RPM/Yum and Fedora EPEL; Ruby/RubyGems and Bundler; Rust/Cargo; Swift/Swift | 9.2 | |
| 2 | Endor Labs | Yes | C/C++, Go, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, .NET (C#), PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Swift, TypeScript, Bazel | 8.8 | |
| 3 | 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 | 8.6 |
| 4 | Mend Open Source | Conan, NuGet, Go Modules, Maven, Gradle, sbt, Bower, npm, Yarn, Composer, Python (conda, pip, uv), pnpm | 8.5 | ||
| 5 | ActiveState Platform | Yes | 8.3 | ||
| 6 | LFX Insights | Yes | Free | npm, PyPI, Maven, Go | 8.0 |
| 7 | Aikido Package Health | Yes | Free | npm, Packagist, Maven, PyPI | 7.8 |
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