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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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10 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
  • Black Duck

    Black Duck Software

    SCA

    A software composition analysis platform that identifies open source components through manifest parsing, file signature matching and binary analysis, with deep license obligation data.

    Commercial
    Established
  • 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
  • JFrog Xray

    JFrog

    SCA

    A composition analysis engine layered on JFrog Artifactory that recursively indexes stored artifacts and enforces security and license policy at download and promotion points.

    Commercial
    Established
  • 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
  • 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
  • Black Duck

    Black Duck Software

    A software composition analysis platform that identifies open source components through manifest parsing, file signature matching and binary analysis, with deep license obligation data.

    Commercial Established
    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
  • JFrog Xray

    JFrog

    A composition analysis engine layered on JFrog Artifactory that recursively indexes stored artifacts and enforces security and license policy at download and promotion points.

    Commercial Established
    SCA
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • SCANOSS

    SCANOSS

    SCA

    Open source composition analysis engine that fingerprints code at snippet level using winnowing hashes and matches it against a knowledge base you can query as a service or host yourself.

    Freemium
    Growing
  • SCA

    Commercial software composition analysis that identifies components by binary fingerprint and enforces staged security and license policy across the build and release pipeline.

    Commercial
    Established
  • 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
  • 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
  • SCANOSS

    SCANOSS

    Open source composition analysis engine that fingerprints code at snippet level using winnowing hashes and matches it against a knowledge base you can query as a service or host yourself.

    Freemium Growing
    SCA
  • Commercial software composition analysis that identifies components by binary fingerprint and enforces staged security and license policy across the build and release pipeline.

    Commercial Established
    SCA
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