Software composition analysis · RankedOSV-Scanner
OSV-Scanner is a vulnerability scanner for open source dependencies that matches a project's packages against the OSV.dev vulnerability database · osv.dev ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Snyk Open Source is first at 38%.
Snyk Open Source is first at 34%.
Sonatype Lifecycle is first at 30%.
Why models recommend it
“Use dedicated open-source CLIs like Trivy, Grype, or OSV-Scanner instead of writing custom parsers.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · alternative
“Uses the Google OSS Vulnerability database (OSV.dev); highly accurate for reading standard lockfiles”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“If you only want a lightweight dependency-vulnerability scanner, OSV-Scanner is another free option.”GPT-6 Luna · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“For the most accurate dependency matching, especially in CI/CD, OSV-Scanner is a strong pick.”Mistral Small · Paraphrase question · alternative
What gives them pause
“free deployments often leave monitoring, triage, reporting, and governance to your team”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as OSV-Scanner, over the 40 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 35 | 15 | View → | |
| 27 | 5 | View → | |
| 22 | 5 | View → | |
| 16 | 2 | View → | |
| 15 | 0 | View → | |
| 14 | 4 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of OSV-Scanner →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 37 of the 40 answers that named OSV-Scanner and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
114 of the 114 domain citations in answers naming OSV-Scanner came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 23 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page osv.dev exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read September 29, 2026.