FOSSA vs Ortelius

FOSSA scans software projects for dependencies, vulnerabilities, and license issues across the development lifecycle. Its open-source dependency analysis covers more than 30 languages, and its policy engine can enforce organization-wide license, security, and quality requirements, including build-blocking rules. Teams can generate, import, export, and manage software bills of materials (SBOMs). Scanning options include CLI and CI/CD workflows, container analysis, snippet detection, Quick Import from code hosts, and enterprise binary and SBOM uploads. Quick Import scans source without running the build, so its results are less complete than a CLI scan. Documented integrations include Jira, GitHub, Slack, Bitbucket, GitLab, APIs, and OIDC providers. FOSSA offers web, Linux, API, and self-hosted options; customers can operate its on-premises deployment using Kubernetes and Helm. Free includes five projects, 10 contributing developers, and five imported SBOMs. Business is listed at $2,020,710 a year; Enterprise pricing is custom and not listed.

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.