Anchore Enterprise vs SBOM Manager

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.

SBOM Manager is a free, MIT-licensed command-line tool for maintaining collections of Software Bills of Materials. It records components used in releases or builds and lets users check whether particular components and versions appear. Search tools include module lookup, project filtering, repository listings, and update-history views. Inputs can be SPDX 2.3 Tag/Value or JSON, CycloneDX 1.4 XML or JSON, CSV, and directory listings. Results can print to the console or go to a file in console or CSV formats. Repository archives can be exported and imported for restoration. The project describes continuous-integration and security-audit use. Vulnerability scanning requires a separately configured scanner that accepts an SPDX Tag/Value file; an example uses cve-bin-tool. The Linux tool requires Python 3.7 or later and installs with pip install sbom-manager. It cannot judge SBOM validity or completeness, or decide whether vulnerabilities require fixes.