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Open-source alternatives to Sonatype Lifecycle

Sonatype Lifecycle is a commercial software composition analysis and policy product. Dependency-Track (an OWASP project) continuously analyses SBOMs across a portfolio, and Dependency-Check, Grype and OSV-Scanner scan individual builds.

Sonatype Lifecycle is a commercial product by Sonatype (official site). Category: Dependencies and SBOM (SCA).

Comparison

Tool	Licence	Stars	Last commit	Best for
Grype	Apache-2.0Open source	13k	today	Vulnerability scanner for images, file systems and SBOMs
OSV-Scanner	Apache-2.0Open source	11k	7 days ago	Dependency scanner backed by the OSV database
Syft	Apache-2.0Open source	9.7k	today	SBOM generator for images and file systems
OWASP Dependency-Check	Apache-2.0Open source	7.7k	7 days ago	Software composition analysis for known vulnerable libraries
Dependency-Track	Apache-2.0Open source	4.3k	today	Continuous SBOM analysis platform

Open-source options

Grype
Vulnerability scanner for images, file systems and SBOMs
Anchore's vulnerability scanner for container images, file systems and SBOMs, matching packages against a regularly updated vulnerability database.
Stars
13k
Forks
920
Last commit
today
Apache-2.0Open sourceDependencies and SBOM (SCA)
Alternative toSnyk Sonatype Lifecycle
OSV-Scanner
Dependency scanner backed by the OSV database
Google's vulnerability scanner that reads lockfiles, SBOMs and container images and checks the packages against the open OSV.dev database.
Stars
11k
Forks
816
Last commit
7 days ago
Apache-2.0Open sourceDependencies and SBOM (SCA)
Alternative toSnyk Sonatype Lifecycle
Syft
SBOM generator for images and file systems
CLI tool and Go library from Anchore that generates a software bill of materials from container images and file systems in SPDX and CycloneDX formats.
Stars
9.7k
Forks
1k
Last commit
today
Apache-2.0Open sourceDependencies and SBOM (SCA)
Alternative toSonatype Lifecycle Snyk
OWASP Dependency-Check
Software composition analysis for known vulnerable libraries
OWASP software composition analysis tool that identifies project dependencies and checks them for publicly disclosed vulnerabilities.
Stars
7.7k
Forks
1.4k
Last commit
7 days ago
Apache-2.0Open sourceDependencies and SBOM (SCA)
Alternative toSnyk Sonatype Lifecycle
Dependency-Track
Continuous SBOM analysis platform
OWASP platform that ingests CycloneDX SBOMs and continuously tracks component risk, vulnerabilities and licence policy across a whole portfolio.
Stars
4.3k
Forks
832
Last commit
today
Apache-2.0Open sourceDependencies and SBOM (SCA)
Alternative toSonatype Lifecycle Snyk

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