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Google Artifact Analysis vs Trivy

Google Artifact Analysis

cloud.google.com

Trivy

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FigureGoogle Artifact AnalysisTrivy
Price from—Free
Free plan—Yes
Free trial——
Open source——
WebYes—
Windows—Yes
macOSYesYes
LinuxYesYes
APIYes—
Self-hosted—Yes
Plans published21
Spec score · Container Image Scanning Tools7.7 (#10)8.2 (#6)
Spec score · Cloud Vulnerability Scanners7.8 (#13)8.1 (#12)
Spec score · Container Security Software7.8 (#14)8.1 (#9)
PurposeArtifact Analysis provides software composition analysis and metadata storage and retrieval.Trivy scans code repositories, binary artifacts, container images, and Kubernetes clusters for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.

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Google Artifact Analysis

  • Automatic scanning$0.26, paid once
  • On-Demand Scanning$0.26, paid once

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Google Artifact Analysis

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Trivy

Trivy is a free, Apache-2.0-licensed scanner for code repositories, binary artifacts, container images, and Kubernetes clusters. Its scanners cover vulnerabilities, infrastructure-as-code misconfigurations, secrets, and licenses, and it can generate software bills of materials. Vulnerability checks include operating-system and language-specific packages, some non-packaged software, and Kubernetes components. Configuration checks cover Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CloudFormation files, and users can write custom checks. Trivy supports ecosystems including Ruby, Python, PHP, Node.js, .NET, Java, Go, Rust, C/C++, Elixir, Dart, Swift, Julia, and operating-system packages. It can run as a CI/CD binary without middleware or database dependencies and can be used in air-gapped environments. Installation options include container images, release binaries, package repositories, Homebrew, and Windows downloads; official integrations include Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions. Results can be exported as JUnit XML, SARIF, and ASFF. The vulnerability scanner documentation says third-party or self-compiled packages and binaries are unsupported, and the scanner may skip third-party packages. Trivy automatically fetches and maintains the security databases it needs for scans. The project is identified as Go software under the Apache-2.0 License; Aqua Security is listed as founded in 2015 with headquarters in Boston and Ramat Gan.

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