COMPARISON · SNYK
vibecheck vs Snyk
Snyk is built for engineering teams with existing CI/CD pipelines and a security backlog. vibecheck is built for solo devs shipping apps from Cursor, Lovable, Bolt, and v0 who need a straight answer before they hit deploy: is this safe to ship, yes or no.
The short version
Snyk is enterprise-grade and priced like it. It wants a repo, a pipeline, and usually a security champion to triage results. If you're one person vibe-coding a SaaS over a weekend, Snyk is overkill — and most solo devs never finish setting it up.
vibecheck is a single scan you run before you deploy. No seats, no SSO, no dashboard you have to learn. Connect your GitHub repo and get a plain-English report of exposed secrets, insecure defaults, and AI-generated footguns — hardcoded API keys, open Supabase tables, missing auth checks — that Cursor, Lovable, and Bolt commonly leave behind.
Side by side
| vibecheck | Snyk | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Solo devs / small teams shipping AI-coded apps | Engineering orgs with existing security process |
| Setup time | Under 2 minutes — GitHub OAuth, instant results | Hours — SSO, policies, integrations, CI workflow |
| Focus | Pre-deploy sanity check for AI-generated code | Continuous dependency + SAST vuln management at scale |
| AI-code specific checks | Yes — Supabase RLS, unauth routes, NEXT_PUBLIC_ secrets, AI prompt injection | No — generic SCA/SAST, not AI-pattern aware |
| Output | Plain-English report with fix-it-now priorities | Dashboards, tickets, severity scoring for teams |
| Free tier | Free for 2 repos, unlimited scans | Free tier for open-source and limited private scanning |
| Paid pricing | Solo £12/mo · Indie Stack £27/mo — flat, no seats | Seat-based, scales to enterprise contracts |
Why solo devs pick vibecheck instead
You didn't write the code — an AI did.
Snyk excels at known CVEs in dependencies. It won't flag that your AI assistant hardcoded an API key in a config file, left a Supabase table with RLS disabled, or forgot to check session tokens on an API route. vibecheck checks for exactly the mistakes AI coding tools make.
You need an answer today, not a backlog.
Snyk generates findings designed to be triaged over sprints in a team dashboard. You're shipping tonight. vibecheck gives you a prioritised go/no-go list in plain English.
You're not hiring a security team.
You're one or two people. vibecheck's whole UX assumes that — no policies to configure, no severity SLAs, no integration with your ticketing system.
When Snyk is the right call
If you're a team of 20+ engineers with a real CI/CD pipeline, open-source dependency sprawl, and compliance requirements — use Snyk. It's a mature, serious tool for that job. vibecheck isn't trying to replace it there. Many teams use both: Snyk for ongoing dependency management, vibecheck for the AI-code-specific checks Snyk doesn't cover.
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