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Software Composition Analysis

Identify open-source dependencies and match them against known vulnerability and license data.

28 tools profiled

How it differs Checks the open source packages you depend on for known vulnerabilities and license obligations. Flaws in code you wrote are SAST territory.

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14 tools match

  • Arnica

    Arnica

    SCA

    A source-control-native application security platform that scans dependencies, secrets and code changes on push and pushes findings to the committing developer in chat.

    Freemium
    Growing
  • SCA

    A rapid portfolio scanner that analyzes source across hundreds of applications to report open source component risk, license exposure, cloud readiness and software health.

    Commercial
    Established
  • Crash Override

    Crash Override

    SCA

    A supply chain platform built around build-time artifact marking, linking running workloads back to the source code, pipeline and people that produced them.

    Commercial
    Emerging
  • Endor Labs

    Endor Labs

    SCA

    A composition analysis platform that builds call graphs across application and dependency code to determine whether a vulnerable function is actually reachable before raising it.

    Commercial
    Growing
  • Finite State

    Finite State

    SCA

    A product security platform that unpacks firmware and binaries to generate SBOMs and identify component vulnerabilities in connected devices where no source code is available.

    Commercial
    Growing
  • FOSSA

    FOSSA

    SCA

    A composition analysis platform focused on license obligation management, resolving dependencies through native build tooling and generating attribution notices and SBOMs.

    Freemium
    Established
  • SCA

    GitHub's built-in dependency scanner and update bot, matching your dependency graph against the GitHub Advisory Database and opening pull requests that bump vulnerable packages.

    Free
    Established
  • Arnica

    Arnica

    A source-control-native application security platform that scans dependencies, secrets and code changes on push and pushes findings to the committing developer in chat.

    Freemium Growing
    SCA
  • A rapid portfolio scanner that analyzes source across hundreds of applications to report open source component risk, license exposure, cloud readiness and software health.

    Commercial Established
    SCA
  • Crash Override

    Crash Override

    A supply chain platform built around build-time artifact marking, linking running workloads back to the source code, pipeline and people that produced them.

    Commercial Emerging
    SCA
  • Endor Labs

    Endor Labs

    A composition analysis platform that builds call graphs across application and dependency code to determine whether a vulnerable function is actually reachable before raising it.

    Commercial Growing
    SCA
  • Finite State

    Finite State

    A product security platform that unpacks firmware and binaries to generate SBOMs and identify component vulnerabilities in connected devices where no source code is available.

    Commercial Growing
    SCA
  • FOSSA

    FOSSA

    A composition analysis platform focused on license obligation management, resolving dependencies through native build tooling and generating attribution notices and SBOMs.

    Freemium Established
    SCA
  • GitHub's built-in dependency scanner and update bot, matching your dependency graph against the GitHub Advisory Database and opening pull requests that bump vulnerable packages.

    Free Established
    SCA
  • Mend

    Mend.io

    SCA

    A composition analysis platform combining broad ecosystem coverage, license policy and automated upgrade pull requests, with reachability analysis to prioritize what matters.

    Commercial
    Established
  • A composition analysis service that resolves dependency trees from source, matches known vulnerabilities, and scores the health and maintenance risk of the projects you depend on.

    Freemium
    Established
  • Qwiet AI

    Qwiet AI

    SCA

    Builds a code property graph of the application and its dependencies, then uses data flow across that graph to judge whether a vulnerable library function is actually reachable.

    Commercial
    Growing
  • Renovate

    Mend

    SCA

    Dependency update bot that detects outdated packages across dozens of package managers and raises pull requests to bump them, with grouping, scheduling and automerge rules.

    Open source
    Established
  • Compliance oriented composition analysis that combines dependency scanning with source snippet matching against a large open source knowledge base, wrapped in a legal review workflow.

    Commercial
    Established
  • Snyk

    Snyk

    SCA

    Resolves the full dependency tree including transitives, matches it against a curated vulnerability database, and raises fix pull requests with the minimum viable upgrade path.

    Freemium
    Established
  • Socket

    Socket

    SCA

    Analyzes what a package actually does, including install scripts, network and filesystem access and obfuscated code, to catch supply chain attacks that advisory based scanners never see.

    Open source and commercial
    Growing
  • Mend

    Mend.io

    A composition analysis platform combining broad ecosystem coverage, license policy and automated upgrade pull requests, with reachability analysis to prioritize what matters.

    Commercial Established
    SCA
  • A composition analysis service that resolves dependency trees from source, matches known vulnerabilities, and scores the health and maintenance risk of the projects you depend on.

    Freemium Established
    SCA
  • Qwiet AI

    Qwiet AI

    Builds a code property graph of the application and its dependencies, then uses data flow across that graph to judge whether a vulnerable library function is actually reachable.

    Commercial Growing
    SCA
  • Renovate

    Mend

    Dependency update bot that detects outdated packages across dozens of package managers and raises pull requests to bump them, with grouping, scheduling and automerge rules.

    Open source Established
    SCA
  • Compliance oriented composition analysis that combines dependency scanning with source snippet matching against a large open source knowledge base, wrapped in a legal review workflow.

    Commercial Established
    SCA
  • Snyk

    Snyk

    Resolves the full dependency tree including transitives, matches it against a curated vulnerability database, and raises fix pull requests with the minimum viable upgrade path.

    Freemium Established
    SCA
  • Socket

    Socket

    Analyzes what a package actually does, including install scripts, network and filesystem access and obfuscated code, to catch supply chain attacks that advisory based scanners never see.

    Open source and commercial Growing
    SCA
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