Dependabot AlternativesVulnerability Scanners and other similar apps like Dependabot

Apps similar to Dependabot include GitHub, which has a free version. Other options are Patchdex, Mend Renovate, CVE Lite CLI and Proscan AppSec. You can choose from more than 10 Vulnerability Scanners like Dependabot for the web, Windows, Linux, Mac and self-hosting.

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  1. GitHub icon
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    Git hosting service offering version control, collaboration, and project management tools. Provides issue tracking, code review through pull requests, wikis, and deployment workflows.

    120 GitHub alternatives

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  2. Patchdex icon
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    Patchdex is a vulnerability database and package analysis tool. It provides instant security verdicts (RED, YELLOW, GREEN), checks for active malware, flags unpatched CVEs, and monitors maintainer health (abandonware, bus factor) to help developers choose safe dependencies.

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    • Free
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    • Online
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  3. Mend Renovate icon
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    Mend Renovate is a software product that helps developers automate dependency updates by identifying new package versions and delivering them to the application's codebase. It can generate pull requests and issues in the repository with details about the updates, including...

    25 Mend Renovate alternatives

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    • Online
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    • GitHub Marketplace
    • Docker
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  4. CVE Lite CLI icon
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    Scans JavaScript and TypeScript lockfiles for vulnerabilities, distinguishes direct versus transitive issues, generates severity-grouped copy-and-run fix commands, offers HTML and CI-ready reports, supports offline use, and works without sending any data.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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  5. Unified application security platform — 12 scanners including SAST, DAST, SCA, and pen-testing in one on-premise deployment. Replaces your entire AppSec stack.

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    • Windows
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  6. Snyk icon
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    Continuously find & fix vulnerabilities in your dependencies.

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    • Online
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  7. Vulmon Alerts icon
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    Vulmon Alerts is how you proactively detect vulnerabilities. Subscribe to any query related to vulnerabilities and get alerted before hackers. Integrate vulnerability intelligence into your vulnerability management process.

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  8. Sibbell icon
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    Stay on top of open-source with personal notifications for repos you star or watch on GitHub.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Online
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  9. Depfu icon
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    Depfu continuously updates your dependencies one at a time and creates a pull request with all the info you need. You stay in control.

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    • Free Personal
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  10. AquilaX icon
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    AquilaX Ultimate is a comprehensive software security scanner, designed to detect a wide range of security vulnerabilities in the source code of any application. Is committed to change how contextual analysis is done to eliminate virtually any false positive.

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  11. NPMScan icon
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    NPMScan is a security analysis tool for the JavaScript ecosystem. It scans npm packages for malicious behavior and supply chain risks that are often invisible to developers. The scanner inspects scripts, dependencies, encoded payloads, metadata, and common attack patterns used...

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    • Free
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    • Online
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  12. depproof icon
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    Self-hosted dependency security scanner that finds vulnerable third-party dependencies across your full tree, ranks them by active exploitation, and generates a CycloneDX SBOM.

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    • Proprietary

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    • Linux
    • Docker
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