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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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3 tools match

  • Anchore

    Anchore

    SCA

    An SBOM-first software composition platform that catalogs container and filesystem contents, matches them against vulnerability feeds, and enforces policy in the pipeline.

    Open source and commercial
    Established
  • Chainguard

    Chainguard

    SCA

    A supplier of minimal, continuously rebuilt container images and language dependencies that ship with signatures, provenance and SBOMs to cut vulnerability backlog at the source.

    Commercial, free tier
    Growing
  • A self-hosted platform that ingests CycloneDX SBOMs and continuously re-evaluates every component against vulnerability and policy data, without rescanning the source.

    Open source
    Established
  • Anchore

    Anchore

    An SBOM-first software composition platform that catalogs container and filesystem contents, matches them against vulnerability feeds, and enforces policy in the pipeline.

    Open source and commercial Established
    SCA
  • Chainguard

    Chainguard

    A supplier of minimal, continuously rebuilt container images and language dependencies that ship with signatures, provenance and SBOMs to cut vulnerability backlog at the source.

    Commercial, free tier Growing
    SCA
  • A self-hosted platform that ingests CycloneDX SBOMs and continuously re-evaluates every component against vulnerability and policy data, without rescanning the source.

    Open source Established
    SCA
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