Socket vs SnykProactive Supply Chain Protection Beyond Known Vulnerabilities
Choose Socket — a robust security tool that developers love. Unlike Snyk, which primarily identifies known vulnerabilities (CVE), Socket goes further by proactively addressing emerging dependency risks such as supply chain attacks, malicious dependencies, typosquats, and low-quality packages.
With more precise and in-depth analysis, Socket eliminates the noise of low-value alerts to focus on real threats, providing comprehensive dependency management, license enforcement, and proactive supply chain protection.
Feature comparison
 Drag horizontally | Socket | Snyk |
|---|---|---|
| Detected Known Vulnerabilities | ||
| Content-Based Dependency Analysis | ||
| Detect and block malicious packages (typosquats, malicious install scripts) | ||
| Educate developers about dependency risk throughout the SDLC ("Dependency Overview") | ||
| Organization-Wide Dependency Search | ||
| License Enforcement | ||
| Prevent attacks during local development (npm CLI wrapper) | ||
| REST API | ||
| 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.