OpenNebula vs Snyk comparison

OpenNebula and Snyk are both solutions in the Cloud Management category. OpenNebula is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.5, while Snyk is ranked #14 with an average rating of 7.8. OpenNebula holds a 5.8% mindshare in CM, compared to Snyk’s 1.3% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of OpenNebula users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Snyk users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 7, 2025

OpenNebula and Snyk are competing in cloud management and security sectors, respectively. Snyk seems to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive features outweighing its pricing, whereas OpenNebula's advantage lies in its affordability and support.

Features: OpenNebula is known for its VM orchestration, resource management, and ability to customize cloud infrastructure. Snyk excels in real-time vulnerability scanning, extensive security coverage, and integration capabilities with development tools.

Room for Improvement: OpenNebula could enhance its security features to match industry advancements, improve documentation for better community support, and develop more robust integration solutions. Snyk can expand its library for broader coverage, streamline its pricing model for better accessibility, and improve user onboarding processes.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: OpenNebula offers flexible deployment options with support channels tailored for infrastructure management needs. Snyk seamlessly integrates into existing development pipelines with a focus on proactive customer support, facilitating smoother implementation for development security.

Pricing and ROI: OpenNebula provides cost-effective solutions delivering a strong ROI for infrastructure management, appealing to cloud managers. Snyk, although involving higher initial costs, justifies this through its extensive security features that promise substantial long-term risk management benefits.

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Categories and Ranking

OpenNebula

Ranking in Cloud Management

6th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Snyk

Ranking in Cloud Management

14th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Security Tools (8th), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (8th), Container Security (6th), Software Composition Analysis (SCA) (1st), Software Development Analytics (2nd), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (16th), DevSecOps (2nd), Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Cloud Management category, the mindshare of OpenNebula is 5.8%, down from 7.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Snyk is 1.3%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
OpenNebula	5.8%
Snyk	1.3%
Other	92.9%

Cloud Management

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FOURES Jean-Philippe

Products Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Reliable, simple to manage, and offers great technical support

The support of VXLAN fits with our network management. Thanks to this we can propose mixed solutions using virtual resources on OpenNebula and bare metal servers hosted in our facilities linked to each other on the sale network. This use case is very useful when some applications need bare metal power (Kubernetes workers, huge databases, AI models computations, et cetera). The cluster management is very useful for splitting our different clusters (mutual vs dedicated). We can manage deployments and capacity planning without pain. The API is also really simple and it helped us to develop the Terraform provider to manage OpenNebula like any other cloud infrastructure.

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meetharoon

CEO at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Affordable tool boosts code scanning efficiency but faces integration hurdles

The most important feature of Snyk is its cost-effectiveness compared to other solutions such as Check Point. It is easy to consolidate Snyk across multiple entities within a large organization. Additionally, our integration of Snyk into GitHub allows us to automatically scan codebases and identify issues, which has improved efficiency.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The ability to use it almost like a public cloud for an organization is a big asset, as it will create a value proposition and can control costs in a great way."

"The most valuable feature of OpenNebula is that it scales very well."

"It's easy to integrate OpenNebula with our IT systems."

"For the entire data center, as a private cloud, I believe that user management, expert management, and the virtual data center is completely magic for the users."

"With a single click, we could set things up and initiate them."

"OpenNebula is lightweight, stable, and easy to customize."

"OpenNebula has very good integration with SAP Storage."

"It is quite easy to deploy."

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"Our customers find container scans most valuable. They are always talking about it."

"The most valuable feature is that they add a lot of their own information to the vulnerabilities. They describe vulnerabilities and suggest their own mitigations or version upgrades. The information was the winning factor when we compared Snyk to others. This is what gave it more impact."

"We have integrated it into our software development environment. We have it in a couple different spots. Developers can use it at the point when they are developing. They can test it on their local machine. If the setup that they have is producing alerts or if they need to upgrade or patch, then at the testing phase when a product is being built for automated testing integrates with Snyk at that point and also produces some checks."

"From the software composition analysis perspective, it first makes sure that we understand what is happening from a third-party perspective for the particular product that we use. This is very difficult when you are building software and incorporating dependencies from other libraries, because those dependencies have dependencies and that chain of dependencies can go pretty deep. There could be a vulnerability in something that is seven layers deep, and it would be very difficult to understand that is even affecting us. Therefore, Snyk provides fantastic visibility to know, "Yes, we have a problem. Here is where it ultimately comes from." It may not be with what we're incorporating, but something much deeper than that."

"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."

"The most valuable features of Snyk are vulnerability scanning and automation. The automation the solution brings around vulnerability scanning is useful."

"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

"Snyk is a good and scalable tool."

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Cons

"They should add more features like object storage."

"The web interface could be better. It's not very difficult to use, but there's room for enhancement."

"It should have a simple REST API like most other tools. It's the industry standard format. An XML-RPC API gives you an XML document that you have to convert and then do something with that. REST API endpoint provides outputs in a JSON document. I would also like to see support for user data or heat templates, which OpenStack offers, but OpenNebula doesn't have this yet."

"As with all enterprise software licensing, the pricing is not intuitive and must be negotiated; grandfathered contracts are better than anything offered today."

"There are small things that are hard. For example, making sure that it is going to be installable on public clouds."

"They have been saying for the past two and a half years that they would develop a feature to hot-add RAM and CPU, but it does not work."

"Most of the competitors are offering some sort of billing software to transform their installation to work as a small-sized public cloud, but those offerings from OpenNebula are still missing."

"The storage feature that they have is a bit confusing."

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"We use Bamboo for CI.CD, and we had problems integrating Snyk with it. Ultimately, we got the two solutions to work together, but it was difficult."

"Basically the licensing costs are a little bit expensive."

"I think Snyk should add more of a vulnerability protection feature in the tool since it is an area where it lacks."

"We would like to have upfront knowledge on how easy it should be to just pull in an upgraded dependency, e.g., even introduce full automation for dependencies supposed to have no impact on the business side of things. Therefore, we would like some output when you get the report with the dependencies. We want to get additional information on the expected impact of the business code that is using the dependency with the newer version. This probably won't be easy to add, but it would be helpful."

"Generating reports and visibility through reports are definitely things they can do better."

"There are some new features that we would like to see added, e.g., more visibility into library usage for the code. Something along the lines where it's doing the identification of where vulnerabilities are used, etc. This would cause them to stand out in the market as a much different platform."

"DAST has shortcomings, and Snyk needs to improve and overcome such shortcomings."

"We've also had technical issues with blocking newly introduced vulnerabilities in PRs and that was creating a lot of extra work for developers in trying to close and reopen the PR to get rid of some areas. We ended up having to disable that feature altogether because it wasn't really working for us and it was actually slowing down developer velocity."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"VRA is very expensive but OpenNebula is free."

"OpenNebuoa has recently come up with a new subscription model that is economical and a lot of new customers are choosing this as it is an easy subscription model."

"The licensing for OpenNebula used to be free, but now it's no longer free. A customer contacted me asking to move to another provider because of the changes in the licensing terms for OpenNebula. I have no information on how much the OpenNebula license is because the customer pays for it, and I only do the integration."

"The solution is open source so is free."

"We use the Community Edition, rather than the Enterprise Edition."

"OpenNebula gives good value for money."

"Presently, my company uses an open-source version of the solution. The solution's pricing can be considered quite reasonable owing to the features they offer."

"The solution is less expensive than Black Duck."

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the pricing a three. It is a cheap solution."

"With Snyk, you get what you pay for. It is not a cheap solution, but you get a comprehensiveness and level of coverage that is very good. The dollars in the security budget only go so far. If I can maximize my value and be able to have some funds left over for other initiatives, I want to do that. That is what drives me to continue to say, "What's out there in the market? Snyk's expensive, but it's good. Is there something as good, but more affordable?" Ultimately, I find we could go cheaper, but we would lose the completeness of vision or scope. I am not willing to do that because Snyk does provide a pretty important benefit for us."

"The license model is based on the number of contributing developers. Snyk is expensive, for a startup company will most likely use the community edition, while larger companies will buy the licensed version. The price of Snyk is more than other SLA tools."

"It is pretty expensive. It is not a cheap product."

"The product's price is okay."

"Pricing-wise, it is not expensive as compared to other tools. If you have a couple of licenses, you can scan a certain number of projects. It just needs to be attached to them."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

19%

University

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	3

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	20
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	21

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about OpenNebula?

The live migration feature has been great and is something we use very often.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for OpenNebula?

OpenNebula gives good value for money.

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What needs improvement with OpenNebula?

The web interface could be better. It's not very difficult to use, but there's room for enhancement. Another area for improvement is the integration with hardware to manage the lower layer of the n...

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How does Snyk compare with SonarQube?

Snyk does a great job identifying and reducing vulnerabilities. This solution is fully automated and monitors 24/7 to find any issues reported on the internet. It will store dependencies that you a...

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What do you like most about Snyk?

The most effective feature in securing project dependencies stems from its ability to highlight security vulnerabilities.

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What needs improvement with Snyk?

There are a lot of false positives that need to be identified and separated. The inclusion of AI to remove false positives would be beneficial. So far, I've not seen any AI features to enhance vuln...

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Overview

OpenNebula provides the most simple but feature-rich and flexible solution for the comprehensive management of virtualized data centers to enable private, public and hybrid IaaS clouds. OpenNebula interoperability makes cloud an evolution by leveraging existing IT assets, protecting your investments, and avoiding vendor lock-in.

OpenNebula is a turnkey enterprise-ready solution that includes all the features needed to provide an on-premises (private) cloud offering, and to offer public cloud services.

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Snyk's AI Trust Platform empowers developers to innovate securely in AI-driven environments, ensuring rapid and secure software development with enhanced policy governance.

Snyk’s platform integrates AI-ready engines across the software development lifecycle, offering broad coverage with high speed and accuracy essential for fast-paced coding environments. AI-driven features include visibility, prioritization, and tailored security policies that enable proactive threat prevention and quick remediation. By focusing on LLM engineering and AI code analysis, Snyk supports secure and productive development processes. The platform's partnerships, including GenAI code assistants, enhance AI application security by addressing new threats and code velocity challenges.

What are the key features of Snyk?

Easy Integration: Snyk integrates with CI/CD pipelines, GitHub, and JIRA for seamless security management.
Multilingual Support: It offers extensive programming language support, enhancing project compatibility.
Actionable Insights: Provides accurate vulnerability detection with actionable remediation guidance.
Cloud and Container Security: Offers comprehensive checks for cloud and container environments, improving security posture.
Automation & Notifications: Automates vulnerability alerts and notifications for early threat identification in development.

What benefits should users consider in reviews?

Time Efficiency: Speeds up development by identifying and fixing vulnerabilities early in the software lifecycle.
Risk Reduction: Minimizes security risks with extensive vulnerability scanning and proactive alerting.
Productivity Boost: Enhances productivity by integrating security directly into developers' workflows.
Improved Compliance: Aids in maintaining license compliance and managing open-source dependencies effectively.

Snyk is implemented across industries focusing on agile development and DevSecOps, enhancing software delivery speed and security. It is widely used for continuous monitoring and adherence to security and licensing standards, especially in environments relying on Docker image security and CI/CD pipeline integration.

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Sample Customers

Akamai, BBC, Fermilab, Terradue, Surf Sara, Produban, Netways, ESA, China Mobile, BlackBerry, Deloitte, Fuze, Telefonica, Trivago, Nokia, Encore Tech, Beeks.

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