Lumstep vs Snyk
Snyk is the market leader in developer-first security, with strong SCA depth and first-class IDE integrations. SBOM export, EU data residency, and advanced compliance reports are Enterprise-only. The 10-developer cap on the Team plan creates a sharp pricing jump the moment engineering teams grow.
The SCA benchmark. Not a security platform.
Lumstep covers secrets, SAST, SCA, SBOM quality scoring, and trust scores in one scanner - with EU hosting on every plan and no Enterprise contract required. Snyk is deeper on SCA alone; Lumstep is broader across the whole security surface.
Feature comparison
| Feature | Lumstep | Snyk |
|---|---|---|
| Vulnerability Detection | ||
| Dependency scanning (SCA)Known CVEs in third-party packages | ||
| Secret detectionWorking tree and git history | ||
| SAST - own codeInjection, XSS, insecure deserialization | ||
| Enrichment & Prioritization | ||
| KEV enrichment (CISA actively exploited) | ||
| EPSS scores (exploit probability) | ||
| Reachability analysisDirect vs indirect dependency depth | ||
| Remediation | ||
| Opens fix PR automaticallyBot creates and opens the pull request | ||
| Code fix suggestions (SAST) | ||
| SBOM & Supply Chain | ||
| SBOM generation (CycloneDX / SPDX) | ||
| SBOM quality scoring (A–F grade) | ||
| Open-source trust scoresSecurity Scorecards + deps.dev | ||
| Platform & Compliance | ||
| EU data residency | ||
| Source code never stored | ||
| GitLab support | ||
| Language coverage | 8 major | ~20 |
| Container / image scanning | ||
| IDE plugin | ||
Deep dives
Lumstep opens the PR. Snyk waits for your approval.
When Lumstep finds a vulnerable dependency, the remediation worker calculates the safe version, creates a branch, and opens a pull request - automatically on every scan, no monitoring setup required. Snyk also opens fix PRs automatically, but only on its daily scan schedule and only for issues above a priority threshold. Your developer still reviews and merges. Lumstep's remediation runs as part of every scan with zero configuration.
Dep fixes open as PRs. SAST findings create Linear tickets. Secret leaks trigger alerts.7 findings that need action. Not 280.
Snyk's Risk Score is genuinely multi-factor - it combines CVSS, EPSS, reachability, and exploit maturity. The problem is volume: a typical codebase accumulates hundreds of open issues, all with scores, and teams still spend hours triaging rather than fixing. Lumstep gates its alert list on confirmed or probable exploitation: CISA KEV (actively exploited in the wild) and EPSS threshold. If it is not being exploited and exploitation is not statistically likely, it goes to the backlog. The result is a short list of findings your team can clear in a sprint.
EU-only infrastructure. Not a setting, not an add-on.
Snyk is a US company with US-primary data storage (GCP, United States). EU residency (Frankfurt, AWS) requires an Enterprise contract - unavailable on Free, Team, or Ignite tiers. Even on Enterprise, billing data, analytics, and authentication logs stay in the US. Lumstep runs on EU infrastructure for every customer from day one - no contract negotiation, no upcharge. Source archives are processed in-memory and never persisted.
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