Mend.io vs Black Duck
AppSec Battle: Is Black Duck slowing you down?
Mend.io’s AppSec platform—including securing AI components—is an easy-to-deploy platform that empowers developers and eliminates the need for professional services.
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Why enterprises are switching from Black Duck to Mend.io
One platform. One price. Full coverage.
Mend.io offer one platform that includes SAST, SCA, Renovate, Container security, and securing AI components—with optional DAST and API scanning.
You can get full visibility across your codebase with no bundles, no upsells, and no hidden costs. One platform. One price. Zero friction.
Black Duck takes a different approach—selling separate tools with separate licenses and often relying on services just to get started. That adds complexity, cost, and blind spots you can’t afford.
Built to empower developers
Mend.io takes a repo-centric approach that integrates with your developers’ workflow.
It notifies developers on commit, showing differential scan results, prioritizes vulnerabilities based on reachability & exploitability, and delivers remediation guidance—all directly in the repo. It’s fast, focused, and built to help developers fix, not just find.
Black Duck’s developer experience? It feels like a platform that’s changed hands one too many times.
Focus on reachable, exploitable risks
Mend.io brings reachability analysis to both your code and container layers—going beyond what’s technically vulnerable to show what’s actually in use.
Developers see these insights directly in the repo, with prioritized results that make triage faster and remediation more focused. It’s a smarter way to cut through the noise and act on what matters.
Enterprise-grade dependency updates
Mend Renovate automates dependency updates by detecting new package versions and generating update PRs directly in your code. With the Mend AppSec Platform, customers get access to the full Renovate Enterprise experience—giving teams more control, scalability, and security.
Securing AI powered applications
Mend.io gives you visibility into the AI models, agents and RAGs in your applications, detects risks (including red teaming behavioral analysis), and helps enforce AI policies.
Black Duck? No comparable capability. It’s just not built for today’s AI-powered apps.
We’ve got you covered. No services required.
Black Duck is known for its reliance on professional services—slowing teams down and driving up cost.
Mend.io is a true SaaS platform: up and running fast, with no hidden service layers or onboarding headaches.
Mend and Black Duck comparison
|
Feature |
Mend.io |
Black Duck (Synopsys) |
|---|---|---|
 Deployment |
Fast, cloud-based, no services needed |
Often service-heavy onboarding |
 Platform Coverage |
SAST, SCA, Container, IaC, AI |
SAST, SCA, IAST, DAST, Fuzz |
 AI Component Security |
Yes. |
No AI security capabilities |
|
Automated Dependency Updates |
Yes. |
No. |
 Remediation |
Yes. |
Manual, guidance only |
 Developer Experience |
Developer tool integrations, real-time feedback |
Clunky UI, slower workflows |
|
Reachability-based Prioritization |
Yes |
Limited |
 Pricing Model |
One platform, one price |
Complex, multi-tool licensing |
 Time to Value |
Hours |
Weeks |
 Professional Services Requirement |
Not needed |
Often required |
Don’t just take our word for it: Why teams choose Mend.io
Snyk:
“The security analysis is very primitive and often flags false positive which has to be fixed with manual override or skipping the PR validation check.”
Mend.io:
“The accuracy of vulnerability detection is impressive, and we have rarely encountered false positives.”
Snyk:
“Snyk is an expensive solution.”
Mend.io:
“The pricing is reasonable and scalable, making it a good fit for our growing business.”
Don’t just take our word for it: Why teams choose Mend.ioSnyk:
“Too much unnecessary false positives, policy overrides, hard and complex to manage and track alerts.”
Mend.io:
“The user interface is intuitive and easy to navigate, even for non-technical users.”
Snyk:
“Integrations with other systems and platforms, such as Bamboo and JFrog Artifactory, have proven challenging and need enhancement.”
Mend.io:
“The integration with our existing tools (like JIRA and Jenkins) was seamless, saving us a lot of time and effort.”
Snyk:
“Customer support is slow to respond, usually not helpful and ended up escalating to a developer, that’s when we lost all contact and did not get a solution to a clear bug that prevents us from using the product.”
Mend.io:
Don’t just take our word for it: Why teams choose Mend.io“The customer support team is knowledgeable and responsive, and the documentation is thorough and easy to understand.”
Snyk:
“The security analysis is very primitive and often flags false positive which has to be fixed with manual override or skipping the PR validation check.”
Mend.io:
“The accuracy of vulnerability detection is impressive, and we have rarely encountered false positives.”
Snyk:
“Snyk is an expensive solution.”
Mend.io:
“The pricing is reasonable and scalable, making it a good fit for our growing business.”
experience
Don’t just take our word for it: Why teams choose Mend.ioSnyk:
“Too much unnecessary false positives, policy overrides, hard and complex to manage and track alerts.”
Mend.io:
“The user interface is intuitive and easy to navigate, even for non-technical users.”
Snyk:
“Integrations with other systems and platforms, such as Bamboo and JFrog Artifactory, have proven challenging and need enhancement.”
Mend.io:
“The integration with our existing tools (like JIRA and Jenkins) was seamless, saving us a lot of time and effort.”
Snyk:
“Customer support is slow to respond, usually not helpful and ended up escalating to a developer, that’s when we lost all contact and did not get a solution to a clear bug that prevents us from using the product.”
Mend.io:
Don’t just take our word for it: Why teams choose Mend.io“The customer support team is knowledgeable and responsive, and the documentation is thorough and easy to understand.”
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No matter your application, Mend.io has you covered
Proactive AppSec. One price.
$1,000
per developer • per year
Volume pricing available.
Frequently asked questions
What makes Mend.io better than Black Duck for developers?
Mend.io was built with devs in mind. That’s why our platform is repo-centric and shows developers results on commit and differential (only results from your last commit). In addition, we also understand that auto-updating open source dependencies can prevent issues and include the enterprise version of Mend Renovate.
Does Mend.io require professional services to get started?
No. Mend.io was designed to be SaaS-native and ready to roll. You can be scanning in hours—not weeks. Black Duck, by contrast, often requires service-heavy implementation.
What about support for AI components in applications?
Mend.io is the only AppSec platform with built-in AI security capabilities—including detecting AI models, agents and RAGs, analyzing AI component risks, and behavioral testing (red teaming). Black Duck has no comparable functionality.
How does pricing compare?
Mend.io is priced as a single platform—no separate licenses for SAST, SCA, or Renovate. Pricing scales based on the number of contributing developers, with no limits on scans or repos. One contract.
For teams under 10 developers, pricing starts at $1,000 per contributing developer. Larger teams get volume discounts, and pricing scales as you grow.
Does Mend.io have any scan limits or restrictions I need to know about?
No. The platform is designed to scale with your organization’s needs.
