Kusari vs Socket

Kusari is a software supply chain security platform that maps components across repositories, images, and pipelines in an evolving knowledge graph called the Trust Fabric. It builds that graph from source and build artifacts and enriches each node. Its Kusari Score weighs technical severity alongside reachability, exploitability, blast radius, effort to fix, ownership, and license. The platform accepts source and build artifacts, CycloneDX and SPDX SBOMs, VEX, and existing scanner output. Inspector reviews pull requests through GitHub, GitLab, or the CLI, returning a merge decision and a fix. Its checks cover vulnerabilities, transitive dependencies, secrets, typosquatted packages, licensing, unmaintained components, code weaknesses, and pipeline or image configuration. Reviews can include up to 2,000 dependency changes, with up to 1,000 high-priority changes examined in depth. Kusari lists integrations including GitHub, Jenkins, Jira, ServiceNow, Slack, and Microsoft Teams. The free plan includes unlimited public repositories and one private repository; Starter Team is $50 a month, with a 30-day free period.

Socket is a security platform for finding and blocking vulnerable or malicious software dependencies. Its GitHub App scans dependency changes in pull requests and gives feedback before a merge; Socket Firewall intercepts package-manager requests to stop malicious direct or transitive dependencies before installation. The free Firewall supports JavaScript and TypeScript package managers, Python pip and uv, and Rust cargo. Reachability analysis uses full application analysis and can eliminate up to 90% of irrelevant CVEs. The platform supports JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Go, Java, Ruby,.NET, Scala, Kotlin, Rust, PHP, Swift, C/C++, Julia, Dart, Elixir/Erlang, and GitHub Actions. It offers a REST API, JavaScript SDK, SBOM generation, and integrations including AWS CodePipeline, Azure Pipelines, Bitbucket Pipelines, CircleCI, Jenkins, Vanta, and Drata. Socket says it analyzes dependency manifests and lockfiles, not source code. It is available through cloud deployment, web, API, extension, Linux, macOS, Windows, and self-hosted options. Open-source projects can use it free. The Free plan includes 1,000 scans per month; Team is $25 a month per developer, with a five-developer minimum.