Snyk vs AuditDude
The Snyk alternative for teams without a security team
Snyk is built for companies with a security team: per-developer pricing, a console to manage, a findings queue someone has to own. If that's not you, AuditDude reads your code with Claude on every push, reports what could get you breached, and costs $30 a repo. That's the whole product.
No credit card · read-only access · no seats to count
The honest part
Snyk is good. It's built for someone else.
Dependency scanning, containers, infrastructure-as-code, license compliance, policy engines. If you have a security team to run it and a budget line to fund it, Snyk earns its keep.
When you're a team of three, it's a different story. The bill multiplies by headcount, and half the platform covers infrastructure you don't have. The findings queue keeps filling either way.
A real platform — sized and priced for a security org.
The difference
Rules match patterns. Models read code.
Snyk Code is a pattern engine. It's fast and deterministic, and it finds what a rule already describes. Nobody has written a rule for your authorization logic, though. To know whether one user can fetch another tenant's export, you have to read the code.
AuditDude reads your source with Claude the way an auditor would, then verifies each finding against your real code before you see it. What doesn't hold up gets dropped silently.
Pattern engines
Find what a rule describes
Known sinks, known sources. Plus a queue of maybes for someone to triage.
AuditDude
Reads your source like an auditor
Auth checks, tenant isolation, business logic. Verified against your code, so the list stays short.
Side by side
Pick the tool shaped like your team.
| Snyk | AuditDude | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Enterprise security teams | Solo founders & small teams |
| Code analysis | Rules & trained patterns | Claude reads your source |
| Auth & business-logic bugs | Only what a rule describes | Found by reasoning over your code |
| Noise | You triage the queue | Verified findings only |
| Pricing | Per developer, per product | $30 per repo, flat |
| Dependency CVEs (SCA) | Snyk Open Source | Keep Dependabot — it's free |
| Containers & IaC | Covered | Not covered |
| Time to first finding | Platform onboarding | Minutes after GitHub connect |
If you need container and IaC scanning under one roof, Snyk is the right call. We do one thing: read your code.
Seat math
Your bill shouldn't grow when you hire.
Per-seat pricing makes every new hire a line item on your security bill. AuditDude bills the repo. Bring as many developers as you want.
Snyk
price × developers × products
Every hire raises the bill, whether or not they touch the code being scanned. Add a second product and it multiplies again.
AuditDude
$30 × repos
Unlimited scans, unlimited developers, fix PRs included. Hire your tenth engineer and the bill doesn't move.
How it works
No platform to learn. It lives in your PRs.
Connect a repo with read-only access. From then on it runs where you already work.
Scans every push
AuditDude reads your source with Claude on every push and pull request — not once a year before an audit.
Comments the exact line
Each verified finding lands as an inline comment on the vulnerable line in your PR, with the severity and the fix.
Opens the fix as a PR
Review, run your tests, merge. The vulnerability is gone before anyone files it in a queue.
FAQ
Snyk vs AuditDude, answered.
Is AuditDude a good Snyk alternative for small teams?
If the part of Snyk you need is the code scanning, yes. AuditDude scans every push with Claude, comments the exact vulnerable line in your PR, and opens the fix as a pull request, for a flat $30 per repo with no per-developer seats. If you need container scanning, IaC checks, and license compliance in one place, Snyk's platform is the better fit.
How is AuditDude different from Snyk Code?
Snyk Code is a rules-and-patterns engine: fast, deterministic, and limited to what a rule already describes. AuditDude reads your source with Claude the way a human auditor would, so it can reason about things like authorization logic and tenant isolation, where there is no pattern to match. Every finding is verified against your real code before it surfaces.
Does AuditDude scan dependencies like Snyk Open Source?
No, and you don't need to pay for it either: GitHub's Dependabot watches your dependencies for known CVEs for free. AuditDude covers the part Dependabot can't see, the code you write yourself. We wrote up the split in detail: what Dependabot doesn't catch.
How does AuditDude pricing compare to Snyk pricing?
Snyk prices per developer, per product, so the bill grows with your headcount. AuditDude is $30 per repository per month, flat: unlimited scans, unlimited developers, fix PRs included. Signing up and your first scans are free.
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