Anchore Enterprise vs Ortelius

Anchore Enterprise is an SBOM-powered platform for continuous software supply-chain security and compliance. It generates software bills of materials for containers, source code, and filesystems in Syft, CycloneDX, and SPDX formats, then continuously scans those SBOMs for vulnerabilities, secrets, and malware. Policy packs cover NIST, FedRAMP, and DISA, while policy-as-code rules use JSON instructions that can be version controlled in Git. Runtime inventory can cover images running across EKS, ECS, AKE, GKE, and OpenShift clusters. Deployment options include an AWS machine image or container images installed with Helm on Kubernetes-compatible platforms, including air-gapped environments. Every feature and operation can be instrumented through an API. Integrations include major CI, registry, and cloud services such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Amazon ECR, Azure DevOps, Docker Hub, and Harbor. It supports API, Linux, self-hosted, and web environments. Pricing is on request; there is no free plan, but a free trial is available.

Ortelius connects software inventory to deployment information so teams can trace packages and versions to the endpoints where they run. It accepts SPDX and CycloneDX SBOMs and can create an SBOM with Syft when one is missing. It checks inventory against OSV.dev for newly disclosed vulnerabilities every ten minutes, tracing affected packages through artifacts and deployments to endpoints. Its post-deployment security dashboard brings together project security signals, versioned SBOMs, live deployments and vulnerability detection, and correlates OpenSSF Scorecard results with deployed packages and versions. Ortelius describes the dashboard as continuously aligned with NIST 800-218 SSDF. The product is available as SaaS or on-premise/self-hosted software, with REST and GraphQL APIs protected by JWT middleware. A GitHub App supports installation connections and repository onboarding, but onboarding does not attach an SBOM. Ortelius OS Free costs nothing, with up to 5 components; DeployHub Enterprise costs $40 a month, billed $40 / component / month.