Comparison

Custodia vs Snyk

Snyk excels at dependency scanning and traditional OWASP vulnerabilities. But if you're building with LLMs, it's blind to prompt injection, insecure output handling, excessive agency, and every AI compliance framework.

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15
AI-specific security checks
Snyk has 0
6
Compliance frameworks
OWASP, EU AI Act, SOC 2, NIST, ISO, HIPAA
$39
Flat monthly rate
vs $25/dev/mo (team of 10 = $250)

Feature-by-Feature Comparison

Traditional Security
Feature
Custodia
Snyk
OWASP Top 10 / CVE scanning
✓
✓
Dependency CVE scanning (OSV.dev)
✓
✓
Secrets detection
✓
✓
Infrastructure-as-code scanning
—
✓
Container image scanning
—
✓
AI & LLM Security
Feature
Custodia
Snyk
OWASP LLM Top 10 coverage
✓ All 10
✗
Prompt injection detection
✓
✗
Insecure output handling (LLM02)
✓
✗
Excessive agency detection (LLM08)
✓
✗
AI-specific security checks (15 checks)
✓
✗
Deep code review (behavioral patterns)
✓
✗
Compliance & GRC
Feature
Custodia
Snyk
EU AI Act (Articles 9, 13, 14, 52)
✓
✗
NIST AI RMF mapping
✓
✗
SOC 2 / HIPAA / PCI DSS
✓
✗
ISO 27001
✓
✗
GRC gap analysis report
✓
✗
Compliance evidence export (PDF)
✓
✗
Developer Experience
Feature
Custodia
Snyk
CLI scanner
✓
✓
GitHub Actions integration
✓
✓
MCP — scan from Claude/Cursor
✓
✗
IDE agent prompts (Cursor/Copilot)
✓
~
Fix guide (dep bumps + AI-ready fix doc)
✓
~
Monthly email posture report
✓
✗
Public badge + certified report
✓
✗
Pricing
Feature
Custodia
Snyk
Free tier
✓ 3 scans/mo
✓ Limited
Starting paid price
$39/mo
$25/dev/mo
Per-seat pricing
✗ Flat rate
✓ Per developer
Team of 10 cost
$39–249/mo
$250+/mo
✓ Full support · ~ Partial/plugin · ✗ Not supported · — Not applicable
Choose Custodia If
  • Your app calls LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain)
  • You need OWASP LLM Top 10 coverage
  • You need EU AI Act, SOC 2, or NIST AI compliance
  • You want flat pricing, not per-seat
  • You want AI-native fix guides and MCP integration
Choose Snyk If
  • You need container image scanning
  • You need infrastructure-as-code analysis
  • Your app doesn't use any LLM or AI features
  • You're already integrated into a Snyk enterprise workflow
  • You need license compliance for open-source deps

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