Snyk vs ShipIt Clean

Snyk is a developer security platform — SAST, SCA, container scanning, and IaC scanning across your entire pipeline. Think of it as a continuous security net that catches known vulnerability patterns.

ShipIt Clean is an adversarial code audit — 100+ specialized AI agents that assume your code is broken and prove where. Think of it as a red division that finds vulnerabilities no scanner has a rule for yet.

• Comprehensive security platform — five products covering code (SAST), dependencies (SCA), containers, infrastructure-as-code, and API/web testing
• Curated vulnerability database — maintained CVE/CWE database with fix guidance, not just raw alerts
• Continuous monitoring — always-on scanning in CI/CD, PRs, and IDE means vulnerabilities are caught as they're introduced
• Dependency analysis — deep SCA that finds vulnerabilities in transitive dependencies, not just direct ones
• Container scanning — analyzes Docker images and Kubernetes workloads for OS-level vulnerabilities
• IaC scanning — catches misconfigurations in Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm, and ARM templates
• Developer-friendly — IDE plugins catch issues before code even hits a PR, with inline fix guidance

• Finds what scanners miss — AI agents reason about your code's logic and context, catching vulnerabilities that don't match any known pattern or CVE
• Multi-agent adversarial approach — 100+ agents each attack from a different angle, then findings are deduplicated and consensus-ranked
• Cross-file attack chains — finds vulnerabilities that span multiple files and components, where the issue isn't in any single file
• Beyond security — 14 categories including performance, architecture, compliance, AI security, accessibility, i18n, cloud infrastructure, and data pipelines
• Business logic vulnerabilities — catches flaws in your application's logic that no pattern-based scanner can detect
• No per-seat pricing — one scan costs the same whether you have 2 developers or 200
• Zero-day thinking — AI agents reason about novel attack vectors, not just known vulnerability signatures

Snyk finds known problems. It matches your code against patterns and databases of known vulnerabilities. If a CVE exists for a library you use, Snyk will find it. If a CWE pattern matches your code, Snyk Code will flag it.

ShipIt Clean finds unknown problems. AI agents reason about your specific code — its logic, its architecture, how components interact. They find vulnerabilities that don't have a CVE yet, business logic flaws that no pattern can detect, and attack chains that span multiple files.

Pattern-based scanning catches the 80% of known vulnerabilities. AI-reasoned adversarial auditing catches the 20% that humans miss — and the zero-days that scanners can't.