Compare the Top Free Software Composition Analysis (SCA) Tools as of November 2025

What are Free Software Composition Analysis (SCA) Tools?

Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools help organizations identify and manage open source and third-party components within their software applications. They scan codebases to detect licenses, vulnerabilities, outdated libraries, and compliance risks associated with external dependencies. SCA tools provide detailed reports and alerts to support secure software development and supply chain risk management. Integration with development environments and CI/CD pipelines enables automated checks throughout the software lifecycle. By enhancing transparency and governance over software components, SCA tools reduce security threats and legal liabilities. Compare and read user reviews of the best Free Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    GitGuardian

    GitGuardian

    GitGuardian

    GitGuardian is an end-to-end NHI security platform that empowers software-driven organizations to enhance their Non-Human Identity (NHI) security and comply with industry standards. With attackers increasingly targeting NHIs, such as service accounts and applications, GitGuardian integrates Secrets Security and NHI Governance. This dual approach enables the detection of compromised secrets across your dev environments while also managing non human identities and their secrets lifecycle. The platform supports over 450+ types of secrets, offers public monitoring for leaked data, and deploys honeytokens for added defense. Trusted by over 600,000 developers, GitGuardian is the choice of leading organizations like Snowflake, ING, BASF and Bouygues Telecom for robust secrets protection.
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    Starting Price: $0
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    Debricked

    Debricked

    Debricked

    Debricked's tool enables for increased use of Open Source while keeping associated risks at bay, making it possible to keep a high development speed while still staying secure. The service runs on state of the art machine learning, allowing the data quality to be outstanding as well as instantly updated. High precision (over 90% in supported languages) in combination with flawless UX and scalable automation features makes Debricked one of a kind and the way to go for open source management. Recently, debricked released their new platform by the name of Open Source Select where open source projects can be compared, evaluated and monitored to ensure high quality and community health.
    Starting Price: Free
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    Contrast Security

    Contrast Security

    Contrast Security

    Modern software development must match the speed of the business. But the modern AppSec tool soup lacks integration and creates complexity that slows software development life cycles. Contrast simplifies the complexity that impedes today’s development teams. Legacy AppSec employs a one-size-fits-all vulnerability detection and remediation approach that is inefficient and costly. Contrast automatically applies the best analysis and remediation technique, dramatically improving efficiencies and efficacy. Separate AppSec tools create silos that obfuscate the gathering of actionable intelligence across the application attack surface. Contrast delivers centralized observability that is critical to managing risks and capitalizing on operational efficiencies, both for security and development teams. Contrast Scan is pipeline native and delivers the speed, accuracy, and integration demanded by modern software development.
    Starting Price: $0
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    JFrog Xray
    DevSecOps Next Generation – Securing Your Binaries. Identify security vulnerabilities and license violations early in the development process and block builds with security issues from deployment. Automated and continuous governance and auditing of software artifacts and dependencies throughout the software development lifecycle from code to production. Additional functionalities include: - Deep recursive scanning of components drilling down to analyze all artifacts and dependencies and creating a graph of relationships between software components. - On-Prem, Cloud, Hybrid, or Multi-Cloud Solution - Impact analysis of how an issue in one component affects all dependent components with a display chain of impacts in a component dependency graph. - JFrog’s vulnerabilities database, continuously updated with new component vulnerability data, includes VulnDB, the industry’s most comprehensive security vulnerability database.
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    SCANOSS

    SCANOSS

    SCANOSS

    SCANOSS believes now is the time to reinvent Software Composition Analysis with a goal of ‘start left’ and a focus first on the foundation of reliable SCA, the SBOM. An SBOM that does not require a small army of auditors to make it usable. So, SCANOSS provides an SBOM that that is ‘always on’. SCANOSS released the first entirely Open Source SCA software platform for Open Source Inventorying, specifically designed for modern development (DevOps) environments. SCANOSS also released the first Open OSS Knowledge Base, free to the community. Our architecture is API-centric, built for developers. The “shift left” paradigm brings license compliance validation to the earliest possible stage in a development process. We can go as left as intercepting a CTRL-V in your IDE before undeclared Open Source is pasted. The first Open Source Inventorying engine built specifically for modern development and DevOps teams of all sizes.
    Starting Price: $0
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    ActiveState

    ActiveState

    ActiveState

    ActiveState delivers Intelligent Remediation for vulnerability management, which enables DevSecOps teams to not only identify vulnerabilities in open source packages, but also to automatically prioritize, remediate, and deploy fixes into production without breaking changes, ensuring that applications are truly secured. Existing tools overwhelm DevSecOps teams with excessive vulnerability data, false positives, and a lack of prioritization, often leading to inaction and increased exposure to exploits. ActiveState’s solution provides your DevSecOps with a comprehensive view of open source vulnerability status across your application portfolio, enabling them to prioritize the vulnerabilities that matter, assess the risk of updates, and choose recommended remediation paths. The ActiveState platform centers on open source languages packaged as runtimes that can be deployed in various form factors. Low-to-no CVE container images are also available for plug-in and play needs.
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