Snyk
Application security platform covering dependencies, code, containers and IaC, extended in 2026 to govern what AI coding agents are allowed to ship.
Overview
Snyk began as a dependency scanner for npm and grew into the default application security purchase at companies that buy developer tools rather than security tools. The platform now covers software composition analysis, static code analysis through DeepCode AI, container images and infrastructure as code, all wired into the IDE, the CLI and the source control host so findings appear in a pull request instead of a quarterly report. That developer-first placement is the entire product thesis and it still works.
The 2026 story is the Evo line. AI-SPM went generally available at RSAC in March, discovering models, agents and MCP servers across an estate and producing a live AI bill of materials. Agentic Development Security followed on 23 June to set policy over what tools like Claude Code, Cursor and Devin are allowed to do. Continuous Offensive Security landed on 4 August with autonomous pentesting and agent red teaming. Three launches in five months is a lot of surface area to ship and some of it will settle differently from the launch decks, but the direction is right. An engineering lead whose agents are opening pull requests needs an enforcement point, and very few vendors have one in general availability today.
Fit is clearest for a mid to large engineering organisation that already has agents in the workflow and needs an auditable policy layer, with budget for $25 per developer per month at Team and considerably more once SSO forces the jump to Ignite at $1,260 per developer per year. Small teams should start free and watch the monthly caps, which are 200 open source tests and 100 code tests. Anyone whose main pain is static analysis precision should evaluate Semgrep or CodeQL beside it rather than assume Snyk covers that leg.
Key Features
- ✓ SCA, SAST, container and infrastructure as code scanning in one platform, with DeepCode AI behind the code analysis
- ✓ Evo AI-SPM, generally available since March 2026, discovers models, agents and MCP servers across an estate and keeps a live AI bill of materials
- ✓ Evo Continuous Offensive Security, GA on 4 August 2026, runs autonomous pentesting and red teams AI agents for prompt injection, tool abuse and data exfiltration
- ✓ Evo Agentic Development Security, launched 23 June 2026, sets policy over what coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor and Devin may touch
- ✓ IDE, CLI and source control integrations that put findings in the pull request and fail builds on policy violations
- ✓ Policy Agent that turns plain English governance intent into machine enforceable guardrails
Where it holds
- • The only major AppSec vendor with a shipped, generally available answer to autonomous coding agents rather than a roadmap slide
- • Dependency and supply chain remediation stay the strongest part of the product, and the generated fix pull requests mostly apply cleanly
- • Procurement is easy. Security teams already know the name, so it clears vendor review faster than a newer tool would
Where it breaks
- • Noise. Reviewers on G2 score its false positive handling around 6.8 out of 10, and the SAST side draws more of that criticism than the dependency scanning
- • SSO, custom rules and unlimited code tests sit above the Team tier, and Ignite starts at $1,260 per developer per year
- • Per contributing developer pricing climbs faster than headcount once contractors and service accounts get counted
- • The Evo line had three launches in five months, so expect the packaging and bundle boundaries to keep moving
My Take
The noise comes up first in every practitioner thread. G2 reviewers score its false positive handling around 6.8 out of 10, and the static analysis side takes more of that criticism than the dependency scanning, which is genuinely strong. Where Snyk pulled ahead in 2026 is agent governance: Evo Continuous Offensive Security went GA on 4 August with red teaming for prompt injection, tool abuse and data exfiltration against live LLM applications, sitting on top of the AI-SPM inventory that shipped at RSAC in March. Buy it for supply chain and for a defensible answer about what your coding agents are permitted to ship, not as a Semgrep replacement.
Quick Info
- Pricing:
- freemium
- Openness:
- Proprietary
- Starting at:
- Free tier at $0 with monthly caps of 200 open source, 100 code, 300 infrastructure as code and 100 container tests. Team starts at $25 per contributing developer per month. Ignite starts at $1,260 per developer per year and is where unlimited code tests, custom rules and risk-based prioritisation appear. Enterprise is custom quoted. Third party buyer data puts 50 to 100 developer contracts in the $35,000 to $90,000 a year range.
- Added:
- Aug 2026
- Updated:
- Aug 2026
Use Cases
Judge it on your own work
The notes above say where Snyk holds and where it breaks. The fastest check is your own workload.
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