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HCL AppScanvsSnyk AI Security Platform

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HCL AppScan

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Developers starting with free SAST in code-review workflows
Small and midsize teams buying hosted SAST, DAST, or SCA scans as needed

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Buyers requiring complete public pricing for every AppScan product and service
Teams expecting the 14-day trial to remain available as a free plan

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Snyk AI Security Platform

Consider when

Developer-led AppSec programs standardizing security checks in IDE, repository, pull-request and CI/CD workflows
Organizations consolidating SAST, SCA, container and IaC testing under one plan level while retaining module selection

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Buyers requiring one fully public all-module price with a published commitment and renewal schedule
Teams assuming DAST, API testing, secrets, IAST, Evo, human validation or runtime protection are in every Snyk platform plan

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Dimension	HCL AppScan	Snyk AI Security Platform
Pricing and trial	CodeSweep $0 USD · per downloadable application · Developers at any skill level Professional $29.99 USD · per scan · per usage unit · Limited single-scan offer · promotional · minimum 1 scan · Professional credit-card purchase in a listed country; 1 to 100 scans per order $299 USD · per scan · per usage unit · Displayed regular reference price · reference · Professional plan reference price displayed beside the limited offer $699 USD · per 50-scan pack · per usage unit · Limited 50-scan pack · promotional · Professional credit-card purchase in a listed country; maximum two packs per order Enterprise Requires quote · custom quote · Midsize and large organizations purchasing through HCL AppScan sales Professional scan credits provide DAST, SAST, or SCA access for a stated one-year SaaS subscription, and unused scans expire when that subscription period ends. Enterprise is quote-based and adds broader technologies and deployment choices. Public payment timing, renewal price, taxes, implementation cost, support price, and minimum Enterprise purchase are not stated. Product-specific user, floating-user, application, and concurrent metrics are separate routes rather than additional core plans. HCL AppScan Marketplace: Direct download, scan-credit checkout, or sales-assisted purchase for the retained CodeSweep, Professional, and Enterprise plan ladder. HCL AppScan on Cloud direct sales: Hosted AppScan procurement by application, concurrent capacity, or scan through HCL sales; these metrics are routes, not additional plan names. HCL AppScan 360: Separate cloud-native, self-managed platform for on-premises, private, public, sovereign, air-gapped, or hybrid deployment. HCL AppScan Standard on AWS Marketplace: Separate AWS Marketplace AMI route for the AppScan Standard DAST product; it is not a Professional or Enterprise core-plan offer. HCL AppScan API Security: Separate sales-assisted product for continuous API discovery, testing, and posture governance beyond ordinary API scan ingestion. Full profile	Free $0 USD · per contributing developer · per month · Individual developers and small teams Team $25 USD · per contributing developer · per month · starting at · Development teams purchasing one or more Snyk products at the Team plan level Ignite $1260 USD · per contributing developer · per year · starting at · Organizations with fewer than 50 developers Enterprise Requires quote · custom quote · Organizations purchasing selected Snyk products and Enterprise capabilities through Snyk sales Free is a permanent zero-cost entry with SAST, SCA, IaC and Container access subject to separate product test limits. Team and Ignite are public starting prices, not complete multi-module totals. Enterprise requires a quote. Payment timing, minimum commitment, renewal price, taxes, module quantities, overages and implementation costs are not publicly bound to the retained direct offers. DAST/API testing, Evo, premium success services and professional services are excluded from the platform starting price. Direct Snyk subscription: Free self-service signup, Team checkout, or sales-assisted Ignite and Enterprise purchase from the current Snyk plan ladder. Snyk Developer Security Platform on AWS Marketplace: A distinct AWS Marketplace SaaS route for the free Snyk Developer Security Platform listing; it does not establish paid module, Ignite, Enterprise or add-on pricing. Snyk API & Web: Separate Free and Enterprise product ladder for DAST, API discovery, web application scanning and API security testing. Evo by Snyk: Separate AI-security platform layer for agentic development security, AI security posture management and continuous offensive security; no inclusion in the retained platform prices is assumed. Full profile
Best for	Developers starting with free SAST in code-review workflows Small and midsize teams buying hosted SAST, DAST, or SCA scans as needed Enterprise AppSec programs needing multiple testing technologies, centralized governance, and deployment choice	Developer-led AppSec programs standardizing security checks in IDE, repository, pull-request and CI/CD workflows Organizations consolidating SAST, SCA, container and IaC testing under one plan level while retaining module selection Teams that value reachability, exploitability and application context for prioritization
Not for	Buyers requiring complete public pricing for every AppScan product and service Teams expecting the 14-day trial to remain available as a free plan Buyers unwilling to map AppScan product, deployment, metric, and add-on boundaries during procurement	Buyers requiring one fully public all-module price with a published commitment and renewal schedule Teams assuming DAST, API testing, secrets, IAST, Evo, human validation or runtime protection are in every Snyk platform plan Organizations that require a completely self-hosted Snyk scanning backend rather than SaaS, Broker or contracted Private Cloud
Source check	97/100	98/100
Key features	SAST, DAST, SCA, IAST, API, secrets, container, and IaC coverage across the family IDE, source-control, CI/CD, API, and automation workflows AI-assisted finding analysis, prioritization, correlation, and remediation guidance Central dashboards, policies, reporting, compliance mapping, and risk governance Managed SaaS and self-managed on-premises, cloud, hybrid, sovereign, and air-gapped options	Snyk Code build-free SAST across IDEs, pull requests, repositories and CI/CD Snyk Open Source SCA with transitive dependency analysis, license analysis and SBOM workflows Snyk Container scanning with base-image recommendations and Kubernetes context Snyk IaC scanning for Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Helm and ARM templates Risk and priority scoring using reachability, exploit maturity, EPSS or CVSS and application context
Cons	The $29.99 Professional rate and $699 pack are explicitly promotional offers Unused Professional scans expire at the end of the subscription period Professional credit-card checkout is limited to the countries listed by HCL	Team and Ignite amounts are starting prices total cost varies by selected products and contributing developers All purchased Snyk products must use the same plan level, which can make one module's higher-tier requirement an account-wide packaging decision
Category buying score	81	83Higher category-fit score
Rank	#2	#1
Context	Security & Privacy / Application Security Testing Software	Security & Privacy / Application Security Testing Software
Accuracy and validation	80Facilitates finding correlation and prioritization using AI-driven analytics, while actual false-positive rates remain unverified by public documentation.	79The facts support reachability, exploit maturity, EPSS or CVSS, and application-context prioritization, but they do not confirm manual validation or every language-specific analysis detail, so accuracy support is meaningful but bounded.
Testing scope and depth	88Testing scope includes SAST, DAST, SCA, IAST, API, secrets, container, and IaC across the family, with Professional focused on hosted SAST, DAST, or SCA credits and Enterprise expanding technologies and unlimited-scan entitlement under quote.	86Provides comprehensive scanning depth for open-source dependencies, base images, infrastructure-as-code files, and application code, though DAST is a separate product.
Developer workflow	85The AST offering includes IDE, source-control, CI/CD, API, and automation workflows, which can fit developer-centered security checks. The boundary is that the specific integration set and behavior depend on the chosen AppScan product and deployment route.	90The AST workflows extend across IDE, pull request, repository, CLI, and CI/CD, which gives strong developer-side touchpoints for scanning and review without requiring a separate security-only process.
Remediation quality	79AI-assisted remediation guidance can shorten fix planning for developers, while separate RapidFix or advisory services may still need distinct entitlement confirmation before assuming packaged remediation help.	86Automated dependency pull requests, inline remediation, and eligible Snyk Agent Fix workflows provide concrete remediation support, but the facts do not promise the same fix depth for every stack or issue type.
Risk prioritization	81Prioritizes vulnerabilities based on centralized policy rules and AI-assisted triage metadata managed through the platform dashboard.	87Reachability, exploit maturity, EPSS or CVSS, and application context give the product clear risk-ranking inputs, which helps buyers prioritize the issues most relevant to their software and exposure.
Governance and integrations	82Delivers centralized compliance reporting and dashboard consolidation, though mapping these tools into local ticketing workflows requires custom scoping.	81Enterprise Broker, regional hosting, API automation, and RBAC support governance and operational integration needs, but the facts require order-level confirmation for some enterprise capabilities and do not establish all integration boundaries.
Support and total cost	62The entry cost is low via a free tier, but overall TCO is impacted by expiring scan credits, high reference pricing step-ups, and unquoted enterprise rates.	63The pricing model uses per-contributing-developer tiers with product-specific pricing, all purchased products must share the same plan, and public amounts are starting prices rather than complete totals, which makes total cost and support packaging less predictable.
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Comparison summary

Most material score differences

These are the stored dimension rationales returned with each score. They explain the buyer conditions behind the gap without speculating about hidden model reasoning.

Remediation quality

7 pts

HCL AppScan · 79/100: AI-assisted remediation guidance can shorten fix planning for developers, while separate RapidFix or advisory services may still need distinct entitlement confirmation before assuming packaged remediation help.
Snyk AI Security Platform · 86/100: Automated dependency pull requests, inline remediation, and eligible Snyk Agent Fix workflows provide concrete remediation support, but the facts do not promise the same fix depth for every stack or issue type.

Risk prioritization

6 pts

HCL AppScan · 81/100: Prioritizes vulnerabilities based on centralized policy rules and AI-assisted triage metadata managed through the platform dashboard.
Snyk AI Security Platform · 87/100: Reachability, exploit maturity, EPSS or CVSS, and application context give the product clear risk-ranking inputs, which helps buyers prioritize the issues most relevant to their software and exposure.

Developer workflow

5 pts

HCL AppScan · 85/100: The AST offering includes IDE, source-control, CI/CD, API, and automation workflows, which can fit developer-centered security checks. The boundary is that the specific integration set and behavior depend on the chosen AppScan product and deployment route.
Snyk AI Security Platform · 90/100: The AST workflows extend across IDE, pull request, repository, CLI, and CI/CD, which gives strong developer-side touchpoints for scanning and review without requiring a separate security-only process.

Research basis

This page uses stored product facts, official evidence, and category scoring rationales. It is not an account-based hands-on test, and third-party user ratings are not folded into the category buying score.

HCL AppScan: Fact confidence: 97% · Fact checked: 2026-08-10
Snyk AI Security Platform: Fact confidence: 98% · Fact checked: 2026-08-12

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