Socket vs Endor Labs vs Chainguard vs GitGuardian
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Socket
Catches malicious open-source packages by behaviour, before they merge
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Endor Labs
Reachability-based application security for code written by people and...
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Chainguard
Hardened open source artifacts, from container images to AI agent skil...
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GitGuardian
Secrets detection and non-human identity security
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8 / 10 | 7.5 / 10 | 7.2 / 10 | 8.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Free: unlimited developers and repos, 1,000 scans a month, 500 API calls an hour, AI analysis and malware blocking; free for open source | Developer tier: AURI scanning in AI code editors with no account, run locally; no UI, policies or scan history | Catalog Starter: up to five container images of your choice, production use allowed, no CVE SLA | Starter is free: up to 25 developers, unlimited real-time scanning, 500 historical detections, 1 GB repo capacity |
| Paid from | $25/developer/month billed monthly (Team, minimum 5 developers), up to 20% off yearly | Quoted on request (Core and Pro, seat-based per contributing developer) | Container catalog from $19K for a team of 10 (billing period not stated), other licences quoted | Growth and Enterprise are both quoted |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Founded | 2021 | 2022 | 2021 | 2017 |
| Maker | — | — | — | — |
| Verdict | Socket fills the gap CVE scanners leave: it reads package behaviour, so a freshly published malicious version can be blocked before anyone has written an advisory. AI analysis and malware blocking are on the free plan, t... |
Endor Labs is built around one useful idea, reachability: it checks whether the vulnerable function in a dependency is ever called, so a security team works a short list of exploitable findings instead of every CVE. It h... |
Chainguard is the reference product for minimal, signed, continuously rebuilt container images, and the paid SLA (7 days for critical CVEs) is a concrete thing to hand an auditor. The 2026 additions, hardened Actions and... |
GitGuardian is one of the established secrets-detection platforms. It scans repositories, CI and collaboration tools for leaked credentials and has expanded into non-human identity governance and developer-endpoint scann... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.