Software composition analysis · RankedSnyk Open Source
Snyk Open Source is a software composition analysis product from Snyk · snyk.io ↗
Strongest at small business, contested with Trivy. Ranked 5 of 67 for enterprise buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Ranked first, contested: Trivy has 26%.
Tied for first with Trivy. 12 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Sonatype Lifecycle is first at 30%.
Why models recommend it
“Snyk is built to get security out of the hands of security teams and into the IDEs of developers. It focuses heavily on speed and automation.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Comparative question · first choice
“Snyk Open Source is the best overall choice due to its broad feature set, strong community support, and developer-friendly approach”Mistral Small · Direct question · first choice
“The best software composition analysis tool for a company with a limited budget is Snyk Open Source, which offers a free plan”Llama 4 Maverick · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“For a limited-budget company, Snyk Open Source is the best overall choice if its free tier covers your repositories.”Perplexity Sonar · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
“tools including Snyk, GitHub Dependabot, OWASP Dependency-Check, and npm audit all failed to detect vulnerabilities in cloned or shaded components”MiniMax M2.5 · Negative question · warning
“Does not protect against unknown malware or supply chain attacks like typosquatting, and lacks vulnerability prioritization”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Negative question · warning
“Credit-based pricing model; SBOM generation locked behind Enterprise tier; can be expensive at scale”Kimi K2 · Negative question · warning
“A Doyensec benchmark reported substantial false positives for Snyk and Dependabot in its test”GPT-6 Luna · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Snyk Open Source, over the 176 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 113 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 101 | 10 | View → | |
| 93 | 20 | View → | |
| 70 | 8 | Compare → | |
| 69 | 14 | Compare → | |
| 54 | 1 | View → | |
| 48 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 48 | 0 | View → | |
| 43 | 1 | View → | |
| 40 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Snyk Open Source →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Snyk Open Source's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Groups and Organizations
- Also from Snyk
- Snyk ASPM, Snyk AppRisk, Snyk Code, Snyk Container, Snyk Free Tier, Snyk Learn
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 157 of the 176 answers that named Snyk Open Source and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
460 of the 460 domain citations in answers naming Snyk Open Source 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 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |