Parry vs. Snyk — battle-tested engines, honest pricing, reconciled verdicts.
Snyk built proprietary detection engines, wrapped them in enterprise governance, and charges per developer per month. Parry runs battle-tested open-source engines under the hood and reconciles them into one verdict per push. You pay for the verdict, not the rebranded engine.
Three reframes
Proprietary engine → transparent stack.
Snyk's named products are proprietary detectors with opaque rule sets and a marketing-bound release cycle. Parry runs widely-deployed open-source engines under the hood — battle-tested in production at every major SaaS company, pinned by digest, swappable. You can verify what we ran and how.
Per-developer pricing → per-org pricing.
Snyk charges per committer per month, with a contract for anything beyond a tiny free tier. Parry is free for public repositories, flat-priced per organization for private. No seat counting, no procurement cycle to scan ten repos.
Single-engine output → fingerprinted reconciliation.
Snyk gives you Snyk's findings. Parry gives you the reconciled view across every engine that flagged the issue, with stable fingerprints. The same secret found by two engines is one finding. A finding that disappears is marked fixed. Suppressions survive across refactors.
Dashboards to log into → verdict on the commit.
Snyk's UI is the system of record. Parry's system of record is the GitHub Check Run on the pull request — where the review is already happening. The web app exists for triage and procurement evidence, not as the place merges live.
Side by side
| Axis | Snyk | Parry AI |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Per developer / per month, contract beyond free tier | Free for public repos. Flat per-org for private. |
| Detection engines | Proprietary, opaque rule sets | Open-source, pinned by digest, auditable |
| Dependency database | Proprietary intelligence feed | The public CVE / OSV ecosystem feed — the same one GitHub, Google, and major registries publish to |
| Secrets | Proprietary ML + regex | Open-source scanning + live provider-API validation (no false positives on test fixtures) |
| Container scanning | Proprietary | Industry-standard layer-by-layer image scan |
| IaC | Proprietary | Two reconciled open engines — Terraform/CloudFormation and Kubernetes manifests |
| Supply-chain posture | Vendor-private risk score | Industry-standard open posture grade per repo — published, reproducible |
| Multi-engine reconciliation | Not applicable (single engine) | Fingerprint-keyed across every scanner we run |
| Lifecycle | Yes, in Snyk's UI | Yes, on the Check Run and in the API |
| Suppressions survive refactor | Sometimes (file-path-keyed) | Yes, keyed to content fingerprint |
| PR gating | Per-product Check Runs | One reconciled Check Run, net-new only by default |
| AI review | Built in, always on | Opt-in per org. Provider named on consent screen. Secrets stripped before transmission. |
| AI consent record | Implicit when you buy the plan | Explicit toggle, audit-logged |
| Free for open source | Limited tier | Yes, unlimited |
| Procurement SBOM | Generated per project | CycloneDX per scan, one click |
| Self-hostable | No (SaaS only — same as us) | No (SaaS only — we say so up front) |
| Source on disk after scan | Stored | Removed within seconds. See Trust page. |
| Output formats | Proprietary IDs and feeds | Standard CVE / SARIF / CycloneDX everywhere |