What each one looks at
Snyk looks inward: your repository and what it contains. You connect GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket (or use its command-line tool and editor extensions) and it analyzes your dependencies for versions with known vulnerabilities, your source code for flaws, your container images and your infrastructure as code. It plugs into the workflow: it comments on pull requests, opens dependency-upgrade pull requests and can stop a deployment. It is a tool for development teams that have a pipeline and look after it.
Scanaris looks outward: what your site publishes once deployed, the way a visitor or an attacker sees it. That is 47 checks across eight pillars, read-only, with no repository access and nothing to install: security headers, cookies, CORS, TLS, exposed files, secrets in the served JavaScript, email, domain, reputation, plus SEO and AI visibility, which Snyk is not interested in.
There is a small overlap worth knowing about. Scanaris detects from the outside a few dependency-related signals: outdated browser libraries with known vulnerabilities (jQuery, AngularJS, Bootstrap), a publicly reachable package.json or composer.json, exposed source maps and CDN scripts without an integrity attribute. On paid plans it can also review a GitHub repository: sensitive files committed by mistake, obvious secrets and vulnerable npm dependencies from the lockfile checked against the OSV database. That is a fraction of what Snyk does and is not meant to replace it.
How each one is used
With Snyk you create an account, connect the repository or install its command-line tool, and from then on it is part of the team's daily routine: every change goes through it. What it returns are vulnerabilities with their identifier, severity score and the version that fixes them; for dependencies it can open the upgrade pull request itself. Reading it requires knowing how to interpret a vulnerability and decide whether it really applies to your case.
With Scanaris you paste the URL and about thirty seconds later you have the report ranked by impact, with a plain-language explanation and a fix prompt for every finding to paste into Cursor, Claude or your AI editor. On the Pro plan it rescans daily without using your quota, warns you if the site goes down or the certificate expires, and the API and MCP server let you trigger a scan from your own deployment flow.
What one finds and the other does not
- Only Snyk: a vulnerability in a server-side dependency that is never visible from outside; a flaw in your code caught by static analysis; a Docker image with vulnerable packages; an insecure infrastructure configuration; a license problem.
- Only Scanaris: that your deployment serves the .env file or the .git folder; that security headers are missing or the CSP is lax; that a session cookie ships without its attributes; that a Stripe or Supabase key travels in the JavaScript; that a debug panel is open in production; that your email has no DMARC; that AI crawlers cannot read your site. None of that lives in the code: it is deployment and hosting configuration.
A concrete example with Next.js: Snyk will tell you that your version has the middleware vulnerability (CVE-2025-29927) and that you should upgrade. Scanaris will tell you that your deployed site does not send HSTS and exposes its source maps. Both are true at the same time, and neither tool sees the other half. The Next.js checklist walks through both.
Pricing (October 2026)
Snyk has a free plan with a monthly cap on tests per product, a Team plan at 25 dollars per developer per month billed annually (5 to 10 developers) and a custom Enterprise plan. It charges per "contributing developer", meaning every person who committed changes to private repositories in the last ninety days, not per scan or per project.
Scanaris charges per project, not per person: free with one scan and two or three findings unlocked, then 24, 49 and 99 euros a month for 1, 5 and 25 projects (17, 34 and 69 if you pay yearly). A five-person team pays 125 dollars a month on Snyk Team; on Scanaris Pro, 49 euros for five sites. They do not measure the same thing, so this is a comparison of models, not of value.
When to use both
If you have a repository and a pipeline, Snyk on pull requests and Scanaris after every deployment is a combination that covers both halves of the problem. If your app was generated by Lovable, Bolt or v0 and you only touch the code through prompts, Snyk will require you to export the repository and learn to read its results; Scanaris works with the URL and gives you the fix in the format you already use, a prompt. The per-stack guides explain what to review in each case.
Frequently asked questions
Does Scanaris replace Snyk?
No. Snyk analyzes code, dependencies, containers and infrastructure with a depth Scanaris does not have and does not aim for. Scanaris covers what Snyk does not look at: the published site, its configuration and its visibility.
Does Snyk see the same things as Scanaris?
Its core products make no requests to your published site: they work on the code. Snyk sells, as a separate product, dynamic testing of APIs and web applications aimed at security teams, a more intrusive and more expensive approach than Scanaris's read-only checks.
Is Snyk free for a personal project?
Its free plan covers a small project with a limited number of tests per month. If all you want to know is whether your deployed site has something serious, Scanaris's free scan answers that in thirty seconds; the two free plans coexist without any problem.