Category pricing · Developer security and code security
Developer security pricing — Snyk, Semgrep, GitGuardian, and every alternative
Most teams need 2-3 different vendors (SAST + SCA + secrets), and the combined per-developer bill is rarely modelled before adoption.
3 tools in this category. Every row in the table below links to the full per-tier pricing page for that vendor, with hidden fees, recommended tier by team size, and tier-jump pain spelled out.
About Developer security and code security
Developer security pricing has fragmented across SAST (Semgrep, Snyk Code, CodeQL), SCA (Snyk Open Source, Mend, Socket), secrets detection (GitGuardian, TruffleHog), and runtime security (Wiz, Lacework). The pages below cover all four layers with the per-developer or per-repo math at common team sizes. Most engineering orgs above 25 developers run multiple tools (a SAST + an SCA + a secrets scanner) because no single vendor leads on all three; the combined bill commonly lands 30-80 USD per developer per month all-in. The pricing model differences are real: Snyk prices per developer; Semgrep prices per developer with a generous free tier; Socket prices per repo; GitGuardian prices per developer with a free tier for open-source.
3 developer security and code security compared
Entry-tier price below is the cheapest paid per-seat or per-month tier each vendor publishes. Custom-quote tiers and usage-based add-ons aren't included; click any tool to see the full per-tier breakdown.
Best for
- Engineering teams adding their first SAST or SCA tooling
- Security teams sizing Snyk vs Semgrep vs Wiz
- Compliance teams hitting SOC 2 / HIPAA / FedRAMP timelines
What to evaluate
- Per-developer list and the included scan / repo ceilings
- Language and framework coverage on the analyzer
- False-positive rate (matters for adoption more than price)
- PR integration and the auto-fix capability
Frequently asked questions
Is Snyk or Semgrep cheaper for a 25-developer team?
Snyk Team is 25 USD per developer per month annual on Snyk Open Source + Snyk Code combined, so 25 developers is 625 USD per month. Semgrep Team is 40 USD per developer per month annual with a generous free tier (unlimited private repos, 30K lines of source per month on the free Semgrep Code), so 25 developers is 1,000 USD per month on paid Team. Snyk is roughly 35 percent cheaper at this team size; Semgrep wins on rule-customization flexibility (the open-source rule set is publishable, and writing custom Semgrep rules is straightforward).
Do I really need GitGuardian if I already have Snyk?
Snyk Code does not include secrets-in-Git scanning (which is what GitGuardian does — detecting credentials accidentally committed to source). They're complementary tools. GitGuardian Internal Monitoring is sales-led; the published Business tier is 14 USD per developer per month. For a 25-person team that's 350 USD per month — usually justifiable because the cost of a single leaked production credential exceeds a year of GitGuardian.
What does Wiz actually cost for a small infrastructure?
Wiz pricing is sales-led with no public list. Third-party reports consistently land Wiz at 40K-90K USD per year for small infrastructure deployments (sub-100 cloud accounts, sub-500 hosts) with multi-year commitments common. For startups under 10 cloud accounts the cheaper alternatives (Lacework, Orca Security, AWS-native Inspector + GuardDuty) typically land 15-40K USD per year for comparable runtime + posture coverage.