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24 alternatives to SOOS

Developer security, license, compliance and testing platform

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. SOOS launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1AV

    Black Duck delivers True Scale Application Security — SAST, SCA, DAST, and AI-powered AppSec — to help security and development teams detect vulnerabilities, manage open source license risk, and secure the software supply chain. Trusted by 4,000+ organizations.

    2014 · tinfoilsecurity.com · its alternatives →

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    Open Source Feature Flags, Experimentation, and Product Analytics - growthbook/growthbook

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

  3. 3PV

    Hey HN, My name is Jack Naglieri. I’m the founder of Panther Labs - an SF-based cybersecurity startup. Prior to Panther, I was an engineering manager at Airbnb. Before that a security engineer/analyst/forensic analyst. Today, I’m excited to announce Panther v1.0, an open source, cloud-native SIEM: http://github.com/panther-labs/panther Teams can use Panther as an alternative to traditional SIEMs like Splunk. Panther is the culmination of our team’s experience building security tools at scale, including StreamAlert at Airbnb and critical internal monitoring…

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    SonarQube provides advanced SAST, SCA & secrets detection to secure your SDLC. Scan 40+ languages for vulnerabilities. Start your free trial today.

    2016 · dependencyci.com · its alternatives →

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    A curated list of free OSS developer-first security tools

    2022 · its alternatives →

  6. 6BO

    Hi HN, we’re the co-founders of Bearer, and today we launch an open-source alternative to code security solutions such as Snyk Code, SonarQube, or Checkmarx. Essentially, we help security & engineering teams to discover, filter and prioritize security risks and vulnerabilities in their codebase, with a unique approach through sensitive data (PII, PD, PHI). Our website is at https://www.bearer.com and our GitHub is here: https://github.com/bearer/bearer We are not originally Security experts but have been software developers and engineering leaders for over 15…

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    FOSSA secures the software supply chain with automated SBOM generation, software composition analysis, license compliance, and vulnerability management.

    2017 · fossa.io · its alternatives →

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    Develop faster, eliminate complexity, protect your secrets

    2022 · 1password.com · its alternatives →

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    The AI-powered AppSec platform that identifies vulnerabilities with comprehensive penetration tests and provides actionable remediation insights.

    2024 · beaglesecurity.com · its alternatives →

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    A lightweight web app security scanner for your CI pipelines

    2022 · portswigger.net · its alternatives →

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    Compliance intelligence for app developers

    2022 · checks.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Open safety reasoning models with custom safety policies

    Oct 2025 · openai.com · its alternatives →

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    Automate app security with OSS vulnerability management

    2020 · fossa.com · its alternatives →

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    Black Duck delivers True Scale Application Security — SAST, SCA, DAST, and AI-powered AppSec — to help security and development teams detect vulnerabilities, manage open source license risk, and secure the software supply chain. Trusted by 4,000+ organizations.

    2011 · tinfoilsecurity.com · its alternatives →

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    All-in-One Cybersecurity Platform: 12 Tools in 1 Dashboard

    2021 · info.havocshield.com · its alternatives →

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    GenPT▲60

    One-click AI-native security testing for web apps

    Jan 2026 · siemba.io · its alternatives →

  17. 17PR

    See metrics from all of your apps, tools & services in one place with Datadog’s cloud monitoring as a service solution. Try it for free.

    2012 · datadoghq.com · its alternatives →

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    Democratising Cybersecurity

    2025 · thefirewall.org · its alternatives →

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    k6 is an open-source tool and cloud service that makes load testing easy for developers and QA engineers.

    2017 · k6.io · its alternatives →

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    Synthetic Monitoring for Developers by Developers

    2024 · checks.dev · its alternatives →

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    hey guys, wanted to show one of my side projects i just made public. the idea is basically another osint tool for pentesters and bug bounty hunters. it watches certificate transparency logs and checks newly-seen domains for exposed stuff like .env files, open .git dirs, config files, db dumps and so on, and puts whatever it finds into a searchable db. you just search a domain (or part of one) and see what's exposed. it's read-only and free. one thing i've been thinking about adding is a way to register for certain keywords and get notified when something new shows up for that search. would…

    Jul 2026 · search.cerast-intelligence.com · its alternatives →

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    Open Source Feature Flags, Experimentation, and Product Analytics - growthbook/growthbook

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An awesome list of OSS developer-first security tools - boxyhq/awesome-oss-devsec

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Linux Foundation survey says 70-90% of modern software constitute OSS code. Yet we are stuck with tools that scan only for vulnerabilities in 3rd party libraries and that too with high degree of false positives. I built `vet` for policy and data driven analysis of 3rd party packages that goes beyond only vulnerability and allows codifying organisational policies related to OSS consumption. https://github.com/safedep/vet Looking forward to feedback and suggestions from HN :)

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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