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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2025

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

Categories and Ranking

Snyk
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
51
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (21st), Application Security Tools (7th), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (6th), GRC (5th), Cloud Management (13th), Vulnerability Management (20th), Container Security (7th), Software Composition Analysis (SCA) (1st), Software Development Analytics (2nd), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (18th), DevSecOps (3rd), Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) (2nd), AI Security (11th)
Trustwave App Scanner [EOL]
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

Abhishek-Goyal - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Improves security posture by actively reducing critical vulnerabilities and guiding remediation
Snyk's main features include open-source vulnerability scanning, code security, container security, infrastructure as code security, risk-based prioritization, development-first integration, continuous monitoring and alerting, automation, and remediation. The best features I appreciate are the vulnerability checking, vulnerability scanning, and code security capabilities, as Snyk scans all open-source dependencies for known vulnerabilities and helps with license compliance for open-source components. Snyk integrates into IDEs, allowing issues to be caught as they appear in the code dynamically and prioritizes risk while providing remediation advice. Snyk provides actionable remediation advice on where vulnerabilities can exist and where code security is compromised, automatically scanning everything and providing timely alerts. Snyk has positively impacted my organization by improving the security posture across all software repositories, resulting in fewer critical vulnerabilities, more confidence in overall product security, and faster security compliance for project clients. Snyk has helped reduce vulnerabilities significantly. Initially, the repository had 17 to 31 critical and high vulnerabilities, but Snyk has helped manage them down to just five vulnerabilities, which are now lower and not high or critical.
Securityd276 - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Stable solution that has increased the maturity of our security program
I would like to see a little more flexibility with regards to setting up profiles for vulnerabilities. For the most part, it fits our needs but a little more flexibility would be great. I would also like to have more information on AI. If we start to deploy AI in our infrastructure, does it cover that as well?

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable features of Snyk are vulnerability scanning and automation. The automation the solution brings around vulnerability scanning is useful."
"Fugue provides core capabilities that enable visualization, discovery, and compliance automation."
"I find SCA to be valuable. It can read your libraries, your license and bring the best way to resolve your problem in the best scenario."
"The major reason why customers prefer Snyk is that, nowadays, people are moving towards cloud-native tools."
"From this perspective, Snyk looks like the most promising solution."
"The most prominent reason why everybody goes with Snyk as a starting point is because they have an open source offering, and as such, it is a developer-friendly solution that our developers really like, deliberately made to be developer-friendly from the start with lots of integrations that fit with other tools."
"The most valuable feature of Snyk is the software composition analysis."
"The customization is excellent."
"Web application security testing is a valuable feature."
"Trustwave App Scanner makes it really easy and convenient for us to notify the website owners before the scans, as well as providing the scan results."
"The simple fact that it puts us in a better place for identifying our vulnerabilities is a form of ROI."
"Go ahead and use Hailstorm as it's the best dynamic code analysis tool one can invest in and it gives a better ROI than most."
"This scanner was more efficient compared to its competitors."
"The stability is great. We haven't had any issues at all with it."
 

Cons

"Scalability has some issues because we have a lot of code and its use is mandatory. Therefore, it can be slow at times, especially because there are a lot of projects and reporting. Some UI improvements could help with this."
"Snyk should improve the scanning capabilities for other languages. For example, Veracode is strong with different languages such as Java, C#, and others."
"All such tools should definitely improve the signatures in their database. Snyk is pretty new to the industry."
"They need to improve the Snyk plugins and make it easier to make your optimizations based on your own needs or features."
"Could include other types of security scanning and statistical analysis"
"Compatibility with other products would be great."
"The product could be improved by including other types of security scanning (e.g. SAST or DAST), which is important."
"We had some issues integrating into our pipeline, however, they were resolved."
"It doesn't support modern web technologies such as GWT, Angular, JS etc."
"I would like to see a little more flexibility with regards to setting up profiles for vulnerabilities."
"Used to crash/freeze due to poor performance, not sure about newer versions."
"It was complex as I have to make sure all the requirements are in place before on-boarding Hailstorm."
"One feature that I would really want is the number of total applications in the web GUI; after selecting a filter on the applications, it would be really helpful if it shows the number of applications."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We are using the open-source version for the scans."
"The product has good pricing."
"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."
"It is pretty expensive. It is not a cheap product."
"Their licensing model is fairly robust and scalable for our needs. I believe we have reached a reasonable agreement on the licensing to enable hundreds of developers to participate in this product offering. The solution is very tailored towards developers and its licensing model works well for us."
"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."
"It's good value. That's the primary thing. It's not cheap-cheap, but it's good value."
"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
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Computer Software Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
7%
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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business20
Midsize Enterprise10
Large Enterprise23
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Questions from the Community

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...
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...
What is your primary use case for Snyk?
I use Snyk ( /products/snyk-reviews ) in the DevOps pipeline to identify vulnerabilities before deploying the application. It integrates with Jenkins ( /products/jenkins-reviews ).
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Also Known As

Fugue, Snyk AppRisk
Hailstorm, Cenzic Hailstorm
 

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