GUAC vs SafeDep Platform

GUAC ingests software metadata, including software bills of materials, and connects it into a queryable view of supply-chain relationships. That portfolio-level view lets developers, operations and security practitioners, and Open Source Program Offices examine dependencies across software rather than one SBOM at a time. Teams can look for vulnerable, deprecated, unsupported, or duplicated dependencies and identify risky upstreams using OpenSSF Scorecard. APIs and a visualization tool support queries and exploration. GUAC documents SPDX and CycloneDX SBOM formats, with graph enrichment from OSV for vulnerability data, ClearlyDefined for license information, and Deps.dev for dependency information. Its GraphQL server can use in-memory storage or PostgreSQL for persistence. Collectors can read or watch files, storage buckets, and Git repositories; the filesystem collector is stable, while other collectors are experimental. Setup uses Docker Compose and requires Docker, Docker Compose, and jq. The project is an OpenSSF Incubating Project. GUAC is free and open source: its code is under the MIT license, and documentation content is under CC BY 4.0.

SafeDep Platform helps teams identify and govern risks in open-source dependencies, from package installation through code review and inventory. Its package monitor checks installs against threat intelligence and policy before post-install scripts can run. The platform scans dependencies, analyzes their actual use, applies policy as code, and generates SBOMs. A GitHub App scans pull requests for malware, vulnerabilities, and license issues, and can act as a required check. Its MCP server checks packages requested by AI agents and attributes each request; named supported agents include Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf. Inventory can cover coding agents, MCP servers, CLI tools, skills, scope, and version. Supported ecosystems include npm, PyPI, Maven, Go, Ruby, Rust, and PHP, along with Docker and OCI images, CycloneDX and SPDX SBOMs, GitHub repositories, and GitLab projects. The platform also provides centralized policies, organization-wide findings, audit trails, and compliance reports. The Free plan is free for up to three SDLC endpoints. Team costs $100 a month for five endpoints; Enterprise pricing is custom.