We performed a comparison between Snyk and WhiteSource based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Snyk is the winner in this comparison. It is high performing with a good UI. In addition, it has excellent customer support and its users feel that it is reasonably priced.
"With the fix suggestions feature, not only do you get the specific trace back to where the vulnerability is within your code, but you also get fix suggestions."
"The most valuable feature is the unified JAR to scan for all langs (wss-scanner jar)."
"Our dev team uses the fix suggestions feature to quickly find the best path for remediation."
"The overall support that we receive is pretty good. "
"It gives us full visibility into what we're using, what needs to be updated, and what's vulnerable, which helps us make better decisions."
"The reporting capability gives us the option to generate an open-source license report in a single click, which gets all copyright and license information, including dependencies."
"For us, the most valuable tool was open-source licensing analysis."
"What is very nice is that the product is very easy to set up. When you want to implement Mend.io, it just takes a few minutes to create your organization, create your products, and scan them. It's really convenient to have Mend scanning your products in less than one hour."
"The most valuable features include enriched information around the vulnerabilities for better triaging, in terms of the vulnerability layer origin and vulnerability tree."
"I am impressed with the product's security vulnerability detection. My peers in security are praising the tool for its accuracy to detect security vulnerabilities. The product is very easy to onboard. It doesn't require a lot of preparation or prerequisites. It's a bit of a plug-and-play as long as you're using a package manager or for example, you are using a GitHub repository. And that is an advantage for this tool because developers don't want to add more tools to what they're currently using."
"It is easy for developers to use. The documentation is clear as well as the APIs are good and easily readable. It's a good solution overall."
"It has an accurate database of vulnerabilities with a low amount of false positives."
"What is valuable about Snyk is its simplicity."
"The solution's Open Source feature gives us notifications and suggestions regarding how to address vulnerabilities."
"Snyk is a developer-friendly product."
"There are many valuable features. For example, the way the scanning feature works. The integration is cool because I can integrate it and I don't need to wait until the CACD, I can plug it in to our local ID, and there I can do the scanning. That is the part I like best."
"Some detected libraries do not specify a location of where in the source they were matched from, which is something that should be enhanced to enable quicker troubleshooting."
"If anything, I would spend more time making this more user-friendly, better documenting the CLI, and adding more examples to help expand the current documentation."
"We have ended our relationship with WhiteSource. We were using an agent that we built in the pipeline so that you can scan the projects during build time. But unfortunately, that agent didn't work at all. We have more than 500 projects, and it doubled or tripled the build time. For other projects, we had the failure of the builds without any known reason. It was not usable at all. We spent maybe one year working on the issues to try to make it work, but it didn't in the end. We should be able to integrate it with ID and Shift Left so that the developers are able to see the scan results without waiting for the build to fail."
"Mend lets you create custom policies. They're not too complicated to set up, but it would be helpful if they had some preconfigured policies to match what we have in Azure DevOps. That would save us a lot of time. It's tedious to configure the policies manually, and I lack the capacity to do it right now. Other products have preconfigured packs and templates, and Mend doesn't."
"I would like to see the static analysis included with the open-source version."
"At times, the latency of getting items out of the findings after they're remediated is higher than it should be."
"Needs better ACL and more role definitions. This product could be used by large organisations and it definitely needs a better role/action model."
"They're working on a UI refresh. That's probably been one of the pain points for us as it feels like a really old application."
"The product is very expensive."
"We have seen cases where tools didn't find or recognize certain dependencies. These are known issues, to some extent, due to the complexity in the language or stack that you using. There are some certain circumstances where the tool isn't actually finding what it's supposed to be finding, then it could be misleading."
"There is always more work to do around managing the volume of information when you've got thousands of vulnerabilities. Trying to get those down to zero is virtually impossible, either through ignoring them all or through fixing them. That filtering or information management is always going to be something that can be improved."
"The solution's integration with JFrog Artifactory could be improved."
"The solution could improve the reports. They have been working on improving the reports but more work could be done."
"It would be great if they can include dynamic, interactive, and run-time scanning features. Checkmarx and Veracode provide dynamic, interactive, and run-time scanning, but Snyk doesn't do that. That's the reason there is more inclination towards Veracode, Checkmarx, or AppScan. These are a few tools available in the market that do all four types of scanning: static, dynamic, interactive, and run-time."
"The tool's initial use is complex."
"It would be helpful if we get a recommendation while doing the scan about the necessary things we need to implement after identifying the vulnerabilities."
Mend.io is ranked 4th in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 29 reviews while Snyk is ranked 2nd in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 41 reviews. Mend.io is rated 8.4, while Snyk is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Mend.io writes "Easy to use, great for finding vulnerabilities, and simple to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Snyk writes "Performs software composition analysis (SCA) similar to other expensive tools". Mend.io is most compared with SonarQube, Black Duck, Checkmarx One, Veracode and JFrog Xray, whereas Snyk is most compared with SonarQube, Black Duck, Fortify Static Code Analyzer, Veracode and JFrog Xray. See our Mend.io vs. Snyk report.
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