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Sentrint vs Snyk: which one for a small team shipping an AI-built app (2026)

Pick Snyk if your team wants security checks running in the IDE, the CLI and every pull request; its Free plan includes 100 Snyk Code tests a month and Team starts at $25 a month. Pick Sentrint if you want an occasional whole-repo check with a fix prompt; it costs $10 for 6 scans.

Gourab Dasgupta Founder, Sentrint 5 min read

Put plainly: a team that wants findings in the editor and on every pull request should use Snyk, which is free to start, with a Team plan from $25 a month. A founder who wants an occasional plain-English look at the whole repository should start with Sentrint's free scan, then buy 6 scans for $10.

Every price and plan detail on this page was read from Snyk's and Sentrint's own pages on 11 November 2026. Plans change often, so check the linked pages in the Sources list before you buy.

How they compare

Snyk is a platform a team works inside every day, through editor plugins, a CLI and pull request checks. Sentrint scans one pushed commit when you ask it to. Most differences below follow from that:

Snyk Sentrint
Entry price Free, then Team from $25 a month Free, then $10 for 6 scans
Free tier 100 Snyk Code tests a month, 5 projects 1 scan a month
Scan model Continuous: IDE, CLI, pull requests On demand, one pushed commit
Covers Code, dependencies, IaC, containers Code, secrets, dependencies, database rules
MCP Local server through the Snyk CLI Hosted server plus npx bridge
Fixes Auto-fix pull requests Fix prompt for your coding agent
Leaves out DAST and pentesting below Enterprise Running app, logins, cloud, IDE

Choose Snyk if

  • Several people commit daily and you want problems flagged in the editor before a push.
  • You ship container images or infrastructure as code and want one vendor for all of it.
  • You want a check on every pull request, not a scan you remember to run.
  • You expect to buy web, API or AI pentesting later, which Snyk sells on Enterprise credits.
  • Your volume fits inside 100 Snyk Code tests a month, which costs nothing.

Choose Sentrint if

  • You are one person or a small team and want a full read of the repository before launch.
  • You would rather read a plain-English report than set up and tune a dashboard.
  • You want each finding to come with a prompt you can paste into your coding agent. The sample report shows what that looks like.
  • You want your agent to call a hosted MCP server at https://sentrint.com/mcp without installing a CLI, or through npx -y @sentrint/mcp.
  • You prefer paying per scan over a monthly plan.

Pricing, as each vendor lists it

Snyk's Free plan is $0 a month and covers 5 projects, with test limits counted per product: Open Source 200, Code 100, IaC 300 and Container 100. The Team plan is listed as "starting at" $25 a month, for teams of up to 10 developers, and raises the limits to 100 projects and 1,000 Snyk Code tests a month, with Jira integration and next business day support. The plans page does not say whether that $25 is per developer, so we have not assumed it is.

Above Team, Snyk sells credits through sales, at 1 credit = $1. Snyk Code draws 1 credit per active contributor per day. Snyk's own FAQ says coding agent security and AI pentesting require an Enterprise Platform Subscription, so neither is on Free or Team.

Sentrint has three plans on its pricing page. Free is 1 scan a month for a GitHub account at least 30 days old. Top-up is $10 for 6 scans with no subscription. Founder is $22 a month for 36 scans across 15 repositories. The MCP server and the REST API come with every plan, Free included, and only the scan allowance limits them.

Where Sentrint is worse

Volume is the obvious gap. Snyk's free plan gives you 100 Snyk Code tests a month and ours gives you one scan, so a team that scans on every push uses up Sentrint's free tier on the first day.

Sentrint also has no editor plugin and no pull request checks. It reads a commit after you push it, while Snyk can flag a problem as it is typed. Snyk scans container images and infrastructure files as products of their own, and Sentrint does not scan built images at all.

Then there is scope. Sentrint is a code scan, not a pentest: nothing is executed, no login is tested, and your cloud account and running site are never touched. There are no custom rules, no SSO or enterprise compliance reporting, and it reads GitHub repositories only. If any of those is a requirement, Snyk is the closer fit.

Using both

They do not exclude each other. A small team can keep Snyk on pull requests and run a whole-repo scan before a launch or a security questionnaire. If that is you, run the free Sentrint scan on the repository you already have Snyk on and compare what each one tells you.

Is Snyk free for a solo developer?

Yes, within limits. The Free plan is $0 a month with 5 projects and 100 Snyk Code tests a month, plus separate limits for open source, IaC and container tests, and it includes the IDE, CLI and source control integrations.

Does Snyk have an MCP server?

It does, and it runs locally through the Snyk CLI, started with npx -y snyk@latest mcp -t stdio. Snyk's documentation says it does not offer a hosted remote scanning MCP server. Sentrint's is hosted, so an agent can call it without anything installed, and the npx bridge is there for clients that only speak to local servers.

Is Sentrint a Snyk alternative?

For a solo founder who wants an occasional full check and a fix prompt, it can be. For a team that needs scanning in the editor, on every pull request and across containers, it is not.

Does either tool test my live site?

Sentrint does not. It reads the code in your repository and never sends traffic to your app. Snyk lists API and web testing and AI pentesting on its Enterprise rate card, priced in credits.

Sources

Read on 11 November 2026:

  • Snyk plans and pricing: https://snyk.io/plans/
  • Snyk Studio getting started (MCP): https://docs.snyk.io/agent-security/agentic-security-with-snyk-studio/getting-started-with-snyk-studio
  • Snyk deployment recommendations (auto-fix PRs): https://docs.snyk.io/developer-tools/integrations/scm-integrations/deployment-recommendations
  • Sentrint pricing: https://sentrint.com/pricing
  • Sentrint sample report: https://sentrint.com/sample
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