Sentrytex vs Snyk
Last updated: April 2026
TL;DR
Snyk and Sentrytex sit on opposite sides of your application boundary. Snyk scans the dependencies inside your codebase — npm packages, container images, IaC files — for known vulnerabilities. Sentrytex monitors the SaaS vendors your team depends on externally — Vercel, Supabase, Stripe, GitHub — for breaches and CVEs. Snyk catches a vulnerable library in your repo. Sentrytex catches a breach at your hosting provider. They're complementary tools and most security-conscious teams want both.
Comparison at a glance
| Feature | Sentrytex | Snyk |
|---|---|---|
| Primary use case | Vendor breach and CVE alerts for your SaaS stack | Vulnerability scanning of your code, dependencies, containers, and IaC |
| What it monitors | External SaaS vendors via CISA KEV, NVD, GHSA, and vendor disclosure feeds | Your code repos, package manifests, Docker images, Terraform, Kubernetes manifests |
| Alert latency | Under 60 minutes from verified disclosure | On every scan (commit, PR, scheduled) |
| Pricing | Solo $9/mo, Team $29/mo. 7-day trial. | Free tier available. Paid Team plan: $25/developer/month (min 5 devs). [verified May 2026] |
| Free tier | 7-day trial, then paid | Yes, free tier for individual developers and small open-source use |
| Best for | Teams that want to know when a vendor in their stack is compromised | Teams that want to find and fix vulnerabilities in code they ship |
What each tool monitors
Snyk reaches into your codebase. It parses your package.json, your requirements.txt, your Dockerfile, your Terraform — and matches what it finds against vulnerability databases. The signal source is the code you wrote or pulled in.
Sentrytex monitors the platforms your code runs on top of. We poll vendor security disclosures, CISA KEV, the NVD, and the GitHub Advisory Database every 30 minutes. The signal source is the security ecosystem around the SaaS tools you depend on, not the dependencies inside your repo.
A vulnerable lodash version in your package.json is a Snyk event. A breach at GitHub itself is a Sentrytex event. The tj-actions/changed-files supply chain incident in March 2025 was a Sentrytex event for anyone using that action; if you also vendored the action's code locally, Snyk might have caught it on the next scan.
Alert latency
Snyk runs on a schedule and on triggers — every PR, every push, every nightly scan. You learn about a vulnerability the next time the scanner runs against your code.
Sentrytex polls external feeds every 30 minutes and notifies you within 60 minutes of verifying a signal that affects a vendor in your registered stack. There's nothing to scan because the signal isn't in your repo — it's in the world.
Pricing
Sentrytex is two plans: Solo at $9/month, Team at $29/month. Both include a 7-day free trial. Prices exclude VAT and sales tax.
Snyk has a free developer tier that's genuinely useful for individuals and open-source projects, then a paid Team plan at $25/developer/month with a 5-developer minimum (a $125/month floor). [verified May 2026] Snyk's pricing scales with seats and feature tier; Sentrytex's pricing is flat.
Coverage overlap (and where they don't)
There's almost no overlap. Snyk catalogues vulnerabilities in code and dependencies. Sentrytex catalogues breach and CVE events at external SaaS vendors. The closest the two get is when a vendor publishes a CVE against an SDK or library — in that case both tools might surface it, but Snyk surfaces it via your code while Sentrytex surfaces it via the vendor advisory.
The gaps each leaves the other to cover are huge. Snyk won't tell you when Vercel has a supply chain breach. Sentrytex won't tell you when a transitive dependency three layers deep in your tree has a fresh CVE.
When to pick Snyk
Pick Snyk if your problem is the code you ship. You want vulnerability scans on every PR, license compliance checks, container image hardening, IaC misconfiguration detection. Sentrytex doesn't scan your code; that's not what it's for.
When to pick Sentrytex
Pick Sentrytex if your problem is the platforms you ship on. You want to know the moment a vendor in your stack — your hosting provider, your database provider, your auth provider, your payments provider — has a security incident. Snyk has no visibility into vendor-side events.
If you ship a product, you almost certainly want both. They cost less together than most teams spend on a single SaaS subscription.
Get started
Sentrytex is $9/month for Solo, $29/month for Team, with a 7-day free trial on either. See pricing for the current breakdown, or join the waitlist if you're still scoping.
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