DepWarden vs Eclipse Steady

DepWarden is a software composition analysis tool for checking dependency manifests against vulnerability, exploitability, supply-chain, package health and license data. It ranks findings using CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, fix availability and dependency depth, and provides a copyable upgrade command. It supports npm, PyPI, Maven, Gradle, Go, RubyGems, Cargo, NuGet, Composer, Dart and Swift. The About page also describes source scanning across 15 languages and infrastructure-as-code formats with more than 300 rules. Users can submit CycloneDX or SPDX SBOMs and export an SBOM, OpenVEX document and NOTICE license file. GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps branches can be connected for scans and scheduled email reports. The free plan provides report-only scanning and cannot fail a build; paid plans add options such as build gating, SAST and scheduled delivery. The hosted service runs in Mumbai, India, and EU or US residency is not offered for hosted use. DepWarden lists web, Linux, macOS, Windows, API and self-hosted availability. It states that it has no SOC 2, ISO 27001 or equivalent third-party attestation, and has not commissioned an independent penetration test.

Eclipse Steady is an open-source tool for analyzing Java and Python applications that depend on open-source components with known vulnerabilities. It combines static and dynamic analysis to determine whether vulnerable code is reachable or executed in an application context, using a code-focused, usage-based assessment rather than metadata alone. The project includes Java and Python client tools, server-side REST services, and web frontends. Documentation covers Java scans for Maven, Gradle, and command-line workflows, plus Python command-line scanning. Jenkins and other continuous-integration systems can automate scans. Java Maven reports can be written as HTML, XML, or JSON. Its backend runs as a Docker Compose application during scans, storing vulnerability information and results. Initial setup processes code-level vulnerability data, followed by daily delta updates. Eclipse Steady is free under Apache License 2.0; version 3.2.5 is labeled an Incubator Project.