Mend.io vs Trivy

Mend.io is a paid application-security platform covering application code, AI components and the attack surface between them. Mend AppSec combines SAST, SCA, AI-generated-code security, AI fix suggestions, dependency updates, IaC and container scanning, policy as code, SBOM management, compliance reporting and remediation workflows. Mend AI adds AI-component discovery, system-prompt hardening, automated red teaming, runtime guardrails and continuous governance. Mend Renovate Enterprise finds outdated dependencies, updates them and provides Merge Confidence ratings and workflows. Integrations include Jira, ServiceNow, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab and GitHub, while AppSec also scans code generated through Cursor, Windsurf and Copilot. Its vulnerability database covers over 200 programming languages and draws from the NVD, security advisories and open-source issue trackers. Pricing is per contributing developer without code-size, scan-count or application-count limits; add-ons may cost extra. Listed plans are Mend Renovate Enterprise at $250 a year, Mend AI at $300 a year and Mend AppSec at $1,000 a year.

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.