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OWASP Dependency-Check

OWASP Dependency-Check is an open source scanner that finds vulnerabilities in the third-party dependencies of a software project · owasp.org ↗

#3Best rank (small business)
14/14Models named it
16First choices
40Warnings
November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.
Ranked inSoftware composition analysis #3 small businessStatic application security testing #39
What AI models recommend in SCA

Strongest at small business. Ranked 13 of 67 for enterprise buyers.

The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.

Why models recommend it

“For budget-conscious teams or open-source projects, OWASP Dependency-Check is recommended”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Primary SCA: OWASP Dependency-Check (free, comprehensive scanning)”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“I'd suggest OWASP Dependency-Check as your primary tool”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Scenario: Zero budget | Top pick: OWASP Dependency-Check”Muse Glimmer 30B · Budget-constrained question · first choice

What gives them pause

“generally not recommended for modern pipelines due to high false-positive rates and slow build times”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Paraphrase question · warning
“OWASP Dependency-Check as your sole scanner: It's an actively maintained project, not one I'd dismiss. But its approach relies in part on matching components to vulnerability records”GPT-6 Luna · Negative question · warning
“it is commonly used with caution because it is CPE and metadata driven, has historically high false-positive rates, lacks built-in reachability / exploitability prioritization”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“High false positive rate (research shows 88.8% of findings are false positives for vulnerabilities covered by code-centric approaches)”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · warning

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as OWASP Dependency-Check, over the 106 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

What the models named instead of OWASP Dependency-Check →

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

The sites and pages the answers that named OWASP Dependency-Check came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

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 95 of the 106 answers that named OWASP Dependency-Check and are not a share of its labels.

By model

How each model answered on OWASP Dependency-Check across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionWarningLabels
Claude Haiku 4.520114
GPT-5.4 mini02002
Gemini 3.5 Flash00134
Perplexity Sonar00134
Grok 4.2010135
Mistral Small01001
DeepSeek V4 Flash01023
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash00011
Kimi K211013
GLM 4.7 FlashX01012
MiniMax M2.501023
GPT-6 Luna00112
Muse Glimmer 30B11013

What it publishes

Addresses on owasp.org
893
subdomains included
Content
154
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Documentation
1
Product · Integration
30 · 216
KindPagesLast 90 days2025-10 to 2026-09LatestCategories named
Blog8602025-08-05
Conference or event3502025-11-14
News or press1802024-11-20
Webinar or virtual event702026-05-13
Podcast or video4undated
Template or tool302024-05-08
Glossary or explainer1undated

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Events in person

Announced as of September 28, 2026
The twelve months before September 28, 2026

As the event pages on owasp.org state them, read September 28, 2026.

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Every page owasp.org 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. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.