sbomify vs TRUSCA

sbomify is a security artifact hub for generating, managing, analyzing and sharing software bills of materials (SBOMs) and compliance documents. It supports CycloneDX and SPDX, with generation workflows for 17 ecosystems, container images, directory scans and Yocto/OpenEmbedded builds. For CI/CD, its Action supports GitHub, while documented Docker workflows cover GitLab, Bitbucket and other systems. Vulnerability analysis integrations include Google OSV and OWASP Dependency-Track. Trust Centers let teams share security materials through a custom domain, with public or private access. Supported materials include SBOMs, VEX and CBOM artifacts, security certifications, penetration test reports and compliance attestations. Trust Center content is also available programmatically through the Transparency Exchange API. The open-source platform can be self-hosted or used as a hosted service. The free Community plan limits accounts to one product, five components, public documents and one user. Business costs $159/mo (annual); Enterprise pricing is by custom quote.

TRUSCA is a free, open-source, self-hosted software composition analysis platform for CVE tracking, license compliance, and SBOM management. It uses cdxgen to detect packages across more than 30 language ecosystems, while Trivy matches components with NVD, OSV, GitHub Advisory, EPSS, and KEV data. Weekly database refreshes add new CVEs. TRUSCA imports CycloneDX or SPDX SBOMs and exports CycloneDX in JSON or XML and SPDX in JSON or Tag-Value. CI integrations include GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins examples, a REST API, and API keys; build gates can fail on Critical CVEs or forbidden licenses. License workflows classify licenses as allowed, conditional, or forbidden, generate NOTICE files, and block forbidden licenses. The platform also offers approvals, an append-only audit log, email, Slack, Teams notifications, VEX triage, and EPSS prioritization. It runs through Docker Compose or Helm. It does not analyze users’ own source code.