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Veracode vs Snyk
Choose Veracode Over Snyk
Snyk appears robust at first, but it lacks native production scanning, has limited scalability, and suffers from high false positives, making it less effective for comprehensive AppSec programs.
Unmasking the illusions of Snyk
Unrivaled application security that delivers
| Capabilities | Veracode | Snyk |
|---|---|---|
| Enterprise governance & policy | Robust, centralized policy enforcement with features like Mitigation Approver roles, ensuring auditable, controlled flaw management and strict compliance with standards. | Limited, coarse policy enforcement and governance controls. Allows developers to ignore findings easily, leading to increased risk visibility gaps for security teams at scale. |
| Accuracy & false positives | Industry-leading lowest false positive rate, < 1.1% out-of-the-box. AI-powered Veracode Fix is trained on proprietary, expert-validated security data for trusted remediation. | High false positive rate frequently cited by users, which overwhelms development teams, creates backlog, and wastes resources on non-issues. AI features are built on open-source-trained models, which can introduce trust/manipulation risks. |
| Software Supply Chain Defense | Proactive security with Package Firewall that automatically blocks untrusted or vulnerable open-source packages before they enter the repository. Delivers full SBOM lifecycle management. | Traditional, reactive SCA with dependency management. Lacks a proactive Package Firewall to block malicious components pre-emptively, focusing instead on alerting after the fact. |
| AI remediation & fixes | Veracode Fix delivers AI-generated, high-confidence remediation guidance directly in the IDE backed by proprietary security research. | Offers automated remediation suggestions but is limited by the underlying high false positive rate and the need for developers to triage noisy findings first. |
| Language support | Veracode delivers market leading coverage with over 30+ languages and 100+ frameworks. On average, we cover more CWEs than Snyk, especially in C# and JAVA. | Snyk supports less than half of the languages and frameworks Veracode supports. |
| IDE integrations | Veracode streamlines the process of scanning and securing code with popular IDE plugins for Eclipse, Visual Studio, VS Code and IntelliJ family which includes IntelliJ, PyCharm, Android Suite & Ryder. | Snyk claims to offer 12 IDE integrations but 9 of them are for one JetBrains plugin. |
| Policy & reporting | Detailed reporting and customizable dashboards for presentations, along with Peer Benchmarking. | Limited policies and reporting. |
Unrivaled application security that delivers
Capabilities:
Enterprise governance & policy
Veracode:
Robust, centralized policy enforcement with features like Mitigation Approver roles, ensuring auditable, controlled flaw management and strict compliance with standards.
Snyk:
Limited, coarse policy enforcement and governance controls. Allows developers to ignore findings easily, leading to increased risk visibility gaps for security teams at scale.
Capabilities:
Accuracy & false positives
Veracode:
Industry-leading lowest false positive rate, < 1.1% out-of-the-box. AI-powered Veracode Fix is trained on proprietary, expert-validated security data for trusted remediation.
Snyk:
High false Positive rate frequently cited by users, which overwhelms development teams, creates backlog, and wastes resources on non-issues. AI features are built on open-source-trained models, which can introduce trust/manipulation risks.
Capabilities:
Software Supply Chain Defense
Veracode:
Proactive security with Package Firewall that automatically blocks untrusted or vulnerable open-source packages before they enter the repository. Delivers full SBOM lifecycle management.
Snyk:
Traditional, reactive SCA with dependency management. Lacks a proactive Package Firewall to block malicious components pre-emptively, focusing instead on alerting after the fact.
Capabilities:
AI remediation & fixes
Veracode:
Veracode Fix delivers AI-generated, high-confidence remediation guidance directly in the IDE backed by proprietary security research.
Snyk:
Offers automated remediation suggestions but is limited by the underlying high false positive rate and the need for developers to triage noisy findings first.
Capabilities:
Language support
Veracode:
Veracode delivers market leading coverage with over 30+ languages and 100+ frameworks. On average, we cover more CWEs than Snyk, especially in C# and JAVA.
Snyk:
Snyk supports less than half of the languages and frameworks Veracode supports.
Capabilities:
IDE integrations
Veracode:
Veracode streamlines the process of scanning and securing code with popular IDE plugins for Eclipse, Visual Studio, VS Code and IntelliJ family which includes IntelliJ, PyCharm, Android Suite & Ryder.
Snyk:
Snyk claims to offer 12 IDE integrations but 9 of them are for one JetBrains plugin.
Capabilities:
Policy & reporting
Veracode:
Detailed reporting and customizable dashboards for presentations, along with Peer Benchmarking.
Snyk:
Limited policies and reporting.
Make the Move to Veracode
Discover why Veracode continues to set the standard in application security. For the 11th consecutive year, we’re proud to be named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Application Security Testing, showcasing our unwavering commitment to innovation and protecting your software.
Don’t just take our word for it
Digite
“Veracode’s scanning engine is more innovative and provides a more detailed analysis relative to Snyk and AppScan. It performs much better in terms of the number of issues discovered.“
