Tool Comparison
GateTest vs Snyk
Beyond Dependency Scanning in 2026
Snyk is excellent at finding known CVEs in your package.json. But the most dangerous bugs live in code you wrote — SSRF in your API handlers, N+1 queries in your loops, race conditions in your auth flows. Snyk can’t see any of that. GateTest can.
What Snyk can’t scan
Snyk scans your package.json for known CVEs. It has zero visibility into your application code. These bugs are invisible to Snyk:
SSRF: fetch(req.query.url) with no validationN+1: await db.find() inside a .map() loopRace condition: fs.exists() then fs.unlink()TLS bypass: rejectUnauthorized: false left in productionPII leak: console.log(user) in your auth handlerPrompt injection: template.replace('{input}', userMessage)Cookie vuln: httpOnly: false on session cookiesReDoS: (a+)+ regex exposed to user inputFeature Comparison
| Feature | GateTest | Snyk |
|---|---|---|
| Source code SAST | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dependency / SCA scanning | ✓ | ✓ |
| Container image scanning (OS packages / CVEs) | — | ✓ |
| Dockerfile / Compose hardening rules | ✓ | ✓ |
| IaC scanning (Terraform / K8s) | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI code review for logic bugs | ✓ | ✗ |
| Auto-fix PRs for non-dependency code bugs | ✓ | ✗ |
| Prompt injection / AI-app safety scanning | ✓ | ✗ |
| N+1 query detection | ✓ | ✗ |
| Race condition / TOCTOU detection | ✓ | ✗ |
| PII-in-logs detection | ✓ | ✗ |
| Accessibility (WCAG 2.2 automated audit) | ✓ | ✗ |
| Performance analysis | ✓ | ✗ |
| Mutation testing (via GitHub Action) | ✓ | ✗ |
| Single config, single bill across all categories | ✓ | ✗ |
| Pay per scan (not per seat) | ✓ | ✗ |
| PR / commit status integration | ✓ | ✓ |
Why GateTest goes further
Source code, not just manifests
Snyk reads package.json and compares against CVE databases. GateTest reads your actual TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, and Go — and understands what your code does. That's the difference between 'this library has a known CVE' and 'your API handler passes user input directly to fetch()'.
AI safety — the gap Snyk ignores
GateTest's promptSafety module catches the new generation of AI app vulnerabilities: browser-exposed API keys, missing max_tokens limits that enable cost DoS attacks, prompt injection surfaces, and deprecated AI models. No other security tool covers this.
Auto-fix for source code bugs
Snyk can open a PR to bump a dependency version. At the Scan + Fix tier ($199) and Forensic Scan ($399), GateTest writes a fix for the source code bug — adds the SSRF validation guard, removes the TLS bypass, restructures the N+1 query into a batched lookup — and opens the PR for your review.
One bill, 122 modules
Snyk's seat-based pricing means security costs scale with team size. GateTest is $99 for every module that applies to a repository (89 of the 122) per scan. Run it daily on a 100-person team or run it once before a major release — the price is the same.
Frequently asked questions
How does GateTest compare to Snyk's product family?
Snyk covers dependencies (Open Source), code (Snyk Code SAST), containers (Snyk Container), and IaC (Snyk Infrastructure as Code) as four separately-licensed products. GateTest unifies those four areas into a single config plus a single bill, and adds the categories Snyk does not currently ship: AI code review for logic bugs, accessibility, performance, SEO, runtime-error capture, and mutation testing / chaos-fuzz scenarios (both via the GitHub Action, which has a CI runner and headless browser to drive them).
Does GateTest also scan dependencies?
Yes — GateTest includes a polyglot dependency scanner covering npm, pip, Pipenv, Poetry, go.mod, Cargo, Bundler, Composer, Maven, and Gradle. It flags wildcard pins, 'latest' dependencies, missing lockfiles, and deprecated packages. Dependency scanning is one module out of 122.
How does GateTest pricing compare to Snyk?
Snyk charges per developer seat per month — pricing scales with headcount and enterprise contracts can reach thousands monthly. GateTest charges per scan: $99 for every module that applies to a repository (89 of the 122). No seat licensing, no annual contracts, no per-developer billing. A 100-person team pays the same per scan as a solo developer.
Does GateTest include AI-app safety scanning?
Yes. GateTest's promptSafety module catches: browser-bundled API keys (NEXT_PUBLIC_* / VITE_* with AI keys), LLM API calls without max_tokens limits (cost DoS vector), user-input interpolation in prompt templates without delimiters (injection surface), and deprecated AI model ids. Snyk does not advertise a dedicated AI / LLM safety SKU at time of writing.
Can GateTest fix vulnerabilities automatically?
Yes. The Scan + Fix tier ($199) uses AI to create pull requests with working code changes that address the issues found. Snyk can suggest fix PRs for dependency upgrades in its paid tiers; GateTest auto-fixes source code vulnerabilities — SSRF guards, TLS config fixes, cookie security flags, and more. The Forensic Scan tier ($399) adds AI-driven diagnosis on every finding, cross-finding attack-chain correlation, a board-ready CISO report, and a CTO-readable executive summary. Mutation testing and chaos / fuzz pass also ship via the GitHub Action (mutation: true / chaos: true) — runs wherever your CI runs.
Does GateTest work with private repos?
Yes. GateTest scans private repos via the GitHub App (private beta today; you install it once and scope it to the repos you choose — read access for scanning, write access only so a fix PR can push its branch), via the GitHub Action in your own CI, or via the GitHub API with a personal access token. All scans run server-side: your source is held only for the duration of the scan and never stored; the findings (message, file path, line) are kept in your scan history.
One config across every QA category.
Get 122 modules — dependencies, code, containers, IaC, AI safety, accessibility, performance, and more — in a single scan. One-time payment per scan.
Scan My Repo — From $29One-time payment per scan via Stripe — scan tiers never auto-renew. Continuous ($49/mo) and hosted MCP ($29/mo) are optional monthly plans.
This comparison is published against GateTest v1.62.0. Other tools change; if a claim here is out of date, tell us at support@gatetest.io and we will correct it.