FOSSA vs SBOM Manager

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.

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.