Chainguard vs Lightwell vs Socket vs Endor Labs
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Chainguard
Secure-by-default container images and AI supply chain
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Lightwell
Signed, remediated open-source dependencies for teams that cannot patc...
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Socket
Blocks malicious npm/PyPI packages at PR time.
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Endor Labs
Application security with reachability analysis
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.2 / 10 | 6.9 / 10 | 8 / 10 | 7.5 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Enterprise | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Free Images: five images to test and deploy in production for free | — | Free: unlimited developers and repos, 1,000 scans a month | A free developer tier ("Start free" — the pricing FAQ names it); paid products are priced on request |
| Paid from | Enterprise from $19K for a team of 10 (billing period not stated) — quotes on request | — | $25/developer/month (Team, minimum 5 developers) | Not published — paid products are "Get pricing" (contact sales) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — | — | — |
| Founded | 2021 | 2026 | — | 2021 |
| Maker | — | IBM | — | — |
| Verdict | Chainguard provides hardened, minimal container images (Chainguard Images) and supply-chain tooling designed to dramatically cut CVE exposure, with signed provenance and continuous rebuilds. For platform and security tea... |
The problem is real and the shape of the answer is sensible. Signed, remediated builds of vulnerable dependencies fill a gap between waiting on volunteer maintainers and maintaining private forks, and the provenance argu... |
Socket does the thing CVE scanners can't: it reads what a package actually does, spotting install-script shenanigans, obfuscation, and network calls that signal a supply-chain attack, then flags it in your pull request b... |
Endor Labs is a strong software-supply-chain security platform whose core differentiator is reachability analysis — instead of flooding teams with every CVE in every dependency, it determines whether vulnerable code is a... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.