Eclipse Steady vs Snyk Open Source

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.

Snyk Open Source analyzes software dependencies to help developers find and address security vulnerabilities and license issues. It scans dependencies in IDEs and the CLI, checks pull requests before merging, adds guardrails to CI/CD pipelines, and monitors projects for newly identified vulnerabilities. Risk scoring considers reachability, exploit maturity, and EPSS/CVSS scores, with business and application context available to refine priorities. Snyk can create pull requests with required upgrades and patches; customizable templates let organizations set titles, descriptions, and commit messages. It also supports ongoing evaluation against regulatory and internal security policies, with real-time and historical reporting and automated license policy enforcement. Listed integrations include GitHub, Jira, Bitbucket Server, and IntelliJ. Supported languages and ecosystems span C/C++, JavaScript, Python, and others, while Rust support is limited. The Free plan costs nothing for 5 projects. Team costs $25 a month, billed monthly, for up to 10 developers and 100 projects, and includes next business day support.