Socket vs DependabotLess Noise + Real-time Protection Against Emerging Threats
Socket detects and blocks supply chain attacks in real time, while Dependabot focuses solely on known vulnerabilities (CVEs). Unlike Dependabot, Socket intervenes directly in pull requests, warning or blocking issues before dependencies are merged. Our analysis goes beyond CVEs, identifying risks like malicious code, hijacked packages, and license violations, offering centralized visibility and customizable policies for security teams.
Feature comparison
 Drag horizontally | Socket | Dependabot |
|---|---|---|
| Detected Known Vulnerabilities | ||
| Intervene in developers' own PRs | ||
| Warns or blocks PRs on detected attacks and issues | ||
| Detects issues beyond known vulnerabilities | ||
| Wide range of warnings against potentially malicious code or malicious package updates | ||
| Centralized view to quickly locate and address vulnerable dependencies across your org | ||
| License Enforcement | ||
| Web Extension - spot malicious packages on the web | ||
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Developers love Socket
Socket is built by a team of prolific open source maintainers whose software is downloaded over 1 billion times per month. We understand how to build tools that developers love. But don’t take our word for it.
Nat Friedman
CEO at GitHub
Congrats to @feross and the hard-working team behind @SocketSecurity on today's launch!
Suz Hinton
Senior Software Engineer at Stripe
heck yes this is awesome!!! Congrats team 🎉👏
Matteo Collina
Node.js maintainer, Fastify lead maintainer
So awesome to see @SocketSecurity launch with a fresh approach! Excited to have supported the team from the early days.
DC Posch
Director of Technology at AppFolio, CTO at Dynasty
This is going to be super important, especially for crypto projects where a compromised dependency results in stolen user assets.
Luis Naranjo
Software Engineer at Microsoft
If software supply chain attacks through npm don't scare the shit out of you, you're not paying close enough attention.
@SocketSecurity sounds like an awesome product. I'll be using socket.dev instead of npmjs.org to browse npm packages going forward
Elena Nadolinski
Founder and CEO at Iron Fish
Huge congrats to @SocketSecurity! 🙌
Literally the only product that proactively detects signs of JS compromised packages.
Joe Previte
Engineering Team Lead at Coder
Congrats to @feross and the @SocketSecurity team on their seed funding! 🚀 It's been a big help for us at @CoderHQ and we appreciate what y'all are doing!
Josh Goldberg
Staff Developer at Codecademy
This is such a great idea & looks fantastic, congrats & good luck @feross + team!
We help security teams work more efficiently
Cut through the noise and focus on real threats.
Get actionable alerts for the supply chain risks that matter. Socket highlights risky dependencies directly within the developer workflow.