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Pixee vs Snyk

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors.

The short answer

Free plan
Snyk has one; Pixee prices on request
Public API
Both have one
Best fit
Pixee: Security teams sitting on a large scanner backlog they cannot triage by hand · Snyk: Small teams that want dependency and container scanning in the pull request without a security hire
Platforms
Pixee: Web · Snyk: Web, VS Code extension, Linux
Trust score
About even — Pixee 87, Snyk 90

From our own records as of each tool's last check. Anything we have not confirmed is left out rather than guessed. How we verify

PixeeTriages SAST and SCA findings, drops the false positives and opens pull requests with the fixSnykDeveloper security scanning for code and dependencies

Side by side

FactPixeeSnyk
CategoryVulnerability Scanning & PentestingAI Security & Model Protection
Pricing modelContactFreemium
Starts at—$25/mo
Public APIYesYes
Trust score87 / 10090 / 100
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, API, VS Code extension, Linux
CompanyPixee Inc.Snyk Limited
Launched—2015
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

Pixee

Pixee attacks the part of AppSec that stayed manual - triage and fixing - and charges on findings volume rather than seats, so onboarding more developers does not raise the bill. Being built by the people who ran Contrast Security shows in the workflow design. The friction is commercial: no published price, no free tier, no self-serve way to try it on your own repository.

Pros

  • Charges on findings volume, so adding developers does not raise the bill
  • Delivers fixes as reviewable pull requests, not as advisory tickets
  • Filters exploitable findings out of scanner output instead of forwarding the whole backlog
  • Design-time review catches issues before the code exists, not only after

Cons

  • No published price at all - every engagement starts with a sales call
  • No free tier or self-serve trial to test against your own repository
  • Depends on you already owning SAST and SCA scanners
  • The company publishes no founding year or headcount

Snyk

Snyk earns its place on the free tier for any small team that ships open-source dependencies and containers: the scanner lives in the IDE and the pull request, and the fix-PR workflow is what gets findings closed rather than filed. The commercial cliff is steep — Team is a flat self-serve plan that stops at ten developers, and everything above that, including every AI-branded Evo feature, is a credit-based enterprise contract priced per contributor per day.

Pros

  • Free tier includes code, dependency, container and IaC scanning with IDE and CLI integrations
  • Fix pull requests close findings instead of listing them
  • Published rate card makes enterprise credits legible: 1 credit = $1 per contributor per day for Code or Open Source
  • Founded 2015, with a decade of vulnerability data behind the scanner

Cons

  • Free Code scanning is capped at 100 tests a month, which a busy repository exhausts quickly
  • Team stops at 10 developers and shows no annual price
  • All Evo AI capabilities require an Enterprise subscription
  • Enterprise credits are prepaid for the contract term and overage is invoiced in arrears

Which one fits

Choose Pixee if you need

  • Security teams sitting on a large scanner backlog they cannot triage by hand
  • Enterprises shipping AI-generated code faster than AppSec can review it
  • Organisations that already own SAST and SCA tooling and need the resolution half

Choose Snyk if you need

  • Small teams that want dependency and container scanning in the pull request without a security hire
  • Developers who want fixes proposed as PRs rather than a vulnerability list
  • Organisations on GitHub, GitLab or Jira that need SCA, SAST and IaC from one vendor

Pixee vs Snyk: the questions people ask

Is Pixee cheaper than Snyk?

Snyk starts at $25/mo; Pixee prices on request, so a quote is the only way to compare.

Does Pixee or Snyk have a free tier?

Snyk has a free tier; Pixee prices on request.

Which has a public API, Pixee or Snyk?

Both ship a public API, so either can be built on; the fact table above shows the platforms each one runs on.

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