Chainloop vs Kusari

Chainloop centralizes software delivery artifacts and evidence to support security, compliance and visibility across the delivery process. Its evidence store can hold metadata for SBOMs, QA reports, vulnerability scans and legal reviews. It connects metadata and artifacts in a graph, providing provenance and context for control gates, quality checks and compliance dashboards. The CLI and integrations capture evidence from CI/CD pipelines, including Git commit details and pipeline configuration. Documentation describes signing metadata with SLSA, in-toto, Sigstore or customer PKI such as AWS KMS or Keyfactor. Deployment options include cloud and self-managed setups, including on-premises and airgapped environments. The paid platform adds curated policies and frameworks such as SLSA, SSDF, CRA, DORA and NIS2. Community Edition costs nothing, is free and open source, and is self-hosted with community support; it has no UI or curated policy library. The enterprise Chainloop Platform has pricing available by contacting the maker and lists dedicated support.

Kusari is a software supply chain security platform that maps components across repositories, images, and pipelines in an evolving knowledge graph called the Trust Fabric. It builds that graph from source and build artifacts and enriches each node. Its Kusari Score weighs technical severity alongside reachability, exploitability, blast radius, effort to fix, ownership, and license. The platform accepts source and build artifacts, CycloneDX and SPDX SBOMs, VEX, and existing scanner output. Inspector reviews pull requests through GitHub, GitLab, or the CLI, returning a merge decision and a fix. Its checks cover vulnerabilities, transitive dependencies, secrets, typosquatted packages, licensing, unmaintained components, code weaknesses, and pipeline or image configuration. Reviews can include up to 2,000 dependency changes, with up to 1,000 high-priority changes examined in depth. Kusari lists integrations including GitHub, Jenkins, Jira, ServiceNow, Slack, and Microsoft Teams. The free plan includes unlimited public repositories and one private repository; Starter Team is $50 a month, with a 30-day free period.