Jit vs. Snyk
Jit and Snyk both provide application security solutions. In the tables below, compare significant differences around breadth of security tools, pulling code to the cloud, and developer UX and adoption.
Key differences between Jit and Snyk
Developer experience
The Jit developer-first approach unifies all security tools into a single native dev experience with in-context, change-based, in-PR findings and remediations
"Snyk created a lot of friction with our developers, flooding them with vulnerabilities and slowing them down, which was the initial reason we were looking at Jit." (New Jit customer)
More cost-effective per module and as a platform
With Jit, you can maximize your return with a complete suite of security solutions at the cost of a single security tool
"We paid Snyk for their Code Security offering the same amount we're paying Jit for an entire SDLC security stack. Moving was a no brainer" (New Jit customer)
Wider Product Security offering
Jit offers a wide range of security controls, covering the entire SDLC: Code (including SAST, SCA, IaC, Secrets and more), CI/CD, Cloud, and WebApp Security
Snyk offers code security controls including SAST, SCA, Container Scanning and IaC security
Speed of onboarding and full coverage
Jit's platform makes it easy to onboard and get to full coverage of all resources (repos, SCM, Cloud, WebApps & APIs) across dozens of security tools in minutes
"It took our team six months to deploy Snyk, and even then, we couldn't get it to full coverage."
Code is never pulled to the cloud
Code is scanned in GH via GitHub actions and is never pulled to Jit’s cloud, so Jit never obtains a copy of your code.
Snyk pulls the customer code to their cloud, which can raise security concerns for some teams.
In-PR experience for scanning and remediation
Jit users can scan their code and see all relevant vulnerability remediation information without leaving their PR.
Snyk users must work within the Snyk UI to view vulnerability information and to initiate in-PR remediation code, which can disrupt their coding flow.
SAST accuracy (see table below for more detail)
According to our SAST benchmark, Jit outperformed Snyk in almost every language we checked. Jit leverages Semgrep for SAST.
See chart below for more details.
High-velocity and better-performing SAST
A reputable third-party security research firm (codsec.io) conducted a performance benchmark between Jit SAST (leveraging Semgrep OSS with Jit custom rules) and Snyk Code.
Here are the results:
Language/
Metric
Typescript +Javascript
Python
Java
Scala
c#
Total high-severity vulnerabilities
Exploitable (True positive)
Insights
Jit found significantly more true positives and had a better scan time
Jit ran longer but found almost 3 times more true positives
Jit reached a 100% accuracy with more true positives, less noise and much better scan time
The numbers speak for themselves
Jit's accuracy was significantly better with more true positives and better scan time
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In-PR remediations
High accuracy and efficiency, low noise
Zero friction, dev-friendly experience
Full visibility with a single-pane-of-glass centralized view
Jit enables developers to identify a wide scope of vulnerabilities at speed and scale, without hurting their velocity or requiring security domain expertise.
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