Hyrax vs Snyk
Snyk finds vulnerabilities: it scans dependencies, identifies CVEs, and creates tickets, with Agent Fix patching single files. Hyrax audits the whole codebase, writes the fix, verifies it against your tests, and opens the PR you merge.
Hyrax runs on roughly 400 of our own repositories.
Free plan: full access, up to 100 PR reviews a month for free, a $30 starter credit, and $10/month ongoing.
Detection is solved. Remediation is the bottleneck.
| Capability | Snyk | Hyrax |
|---|---|---|
| Vulnerability detection | Scans dependencies, containers, IaC, and code for CVEs and security issues. | Scans the codebase for security issues as one of six audit domains. |
| Code quality analysis | Focuses on security, not quality. | Security, correctness, architecture, performance, and more in one audit. |
| Automatic fix generation | Agent Fix patches single files; Fix PRs upgrade dependencies. | Writes fixes across the codebase and opens a merge-ready pull request. |
| Verified against your tests | No test-suite validation before the fix lands. | Each fix runs your tests, your build, and your lint before the PR exists. |
| Convention-matched PRs | Patches follow the vulnerability template. | Learns your codebase patterns so the diff reads like your team wrote it. |
| You approve every merge | Fix PRs can be configured; monitoring is the default posture. | Hyrax creates the PR. A person reviews and merges it, every time. |
The fix is checked before the pull request exists.
- 1
A failing test first
For a real finding, Hyrax writes a test that reproduces the problem and fails, so the fix has something concrete to satisfy.
- 2
Your tests, your build, your lint
Hyrax runs your existing test suite, your build, and your linter the same way CI does, so nothing regresses.
- 3
A second review pass
A separate review checks the change for correctness and scope while the work is still inside the isolated job.
- 4
Then the pull request
Only after those checks pass does Hyrax create the pull request. You review the diff and merge.
Built to run on private code
Isolated jobs
Every job runs in its own isolated environment. Nothing carries over between runs.
Scoped keys
Access is scoped per repository per run, so a job can only reach what it needs while it runs.
AWS Bedrock with guardrails
Models run on AWS Bedrock with guardrails applied to every request.
No training on your code
Your code is never used to train models.
A human merges
Hyrax creates the pull request. A person reviews and merges it. Hyrax never touches main on its own.
Every change is reviewable
Each fix arrives as a diff with the finding, the test, and the results attached.
Common questions
Yes. Many teams use Snyk for dependency vulnerability monitoring and Hyrax for autonomous remediation. Snyk excels at continuous monitoring across your dependency tree. Hyrax excels at writing the fix and creating the PR, so the only engineer step left is review and merge.
Hyrax includes security scanning as part of its Audit capability, but it's not primarily a security tool. Clean code in, clean PRs out. It audits issues of all types (security, quality, architecture) and opens PRs with the fix for you to review and merge.
For some teams, yes. If your primary pain point is that Snyk detects issues but they sit in a backlog because no one has time to fix them, Hyrax solves that problem by executing fixes autonomously. If you need deep dependency tree analysis and continuous monitoring, Snyk remains valuable.
Snyk pricing is based on developers and projects, and a seat buys access. Hyrax is free to start with full access and starter credits; paid seats are $30/user/mo, and each paid user gets $30/month of credits. For teams where issue remediation is the bottleneck, Hyrax typically delivers higher ROI.
Both tools can help with compliance. Snyk provides vulnerability reporting and remediation tracking. Hyrax provides audit logs and the actual remediation - not just the report that something needs to be fixed.
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Clean code, ready to merge.
Hyrax is free to start. Full product, $30 starter credit, $10/month of credits. No credit card.