Both guard the AI agent. The difference is your business rules.

Snyk Studio brings Snyk scans into Claude Code, Cursor and GitHub Copilot, and Evo tests running apps for business-logic flaws. CybeDefend checks each change against the business rules your team wrote, while the agent is still writing it.

What Snyk does well

World-class SCA with reachability, solid SAST with AI fixes that are re-scanned before they are offered, a comprehensive vulnerability database, IDE plugins, an AI-BOM, and Snyk Studio, which brings scans into AI coding agents and, through hooks announced in early access, makes the agent fix what it introduced.

Where it stops

Snyk looks for vulnerability classes, secrets and risky dependencies. Nothing Snyk announces checks a change against the business rules your team wrote, and its business-logic testing, Evo, attacks a running application rather than reading the change while the agent writes it.

Feature by feature

22 features, checked on Snyk's own site and documentation in September 2026.

Feature	CybeDefend	Snyk
Detection
Agent-time scanning	Yes	Yes
SAST	Yes	Yes
SCA	Yes	Yes
IaC scanning	Yes	Yes
Container scanning	Yes	Yes
Secret detection	Yes	Yes
Business logic flaws	Yes	Partial
Reachability analysis	Yes	Yes
AI-BOM: AI component inventory (EU AI Act + NIST AI RMF)	Yes	Yes
Prompt injection & LLM-misuse scanner (OWASP LLM Top 10)	Yes	Yes
AI & Agent
Agent-time (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf…)	Yes	Yes
IDE security copilot	Yes	Yes
AI-generated verified patches	Yes	Yes
Auto-fix → ready-to-merge PR	Yes	Yes
Security Code Knowledge Graph	Yes	No
VibeDefend: security rules distributed to AI coding agents	Yes	Partial
Coding agent sandbox policy (allow/deny/warn before every write)	Yes	Partial
Operations
CI/CD pipeline gate	Yes	Yes
Low false-positive rate	Yes	Partial
Fast self-serve setup	Yes	Yes
CybeRisk Score: 0-100 score + AI-generated weekly Top 10 brief	Yes	No
EU/US sovereign deployment	Yes	Partial

Yes NoPartial

Where we win

Where both sit in the agent loop

Snyk Studio connects Snyk to Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex CLI and Gemini CLI, and its hooks, announced in early access in May 2026, keep the agent from finishing until it fixes the vulnerabilities it introduced. CybeDefend works at the same moment. The question worth testing is what each one checks the change against.

SQL injection, found while the agent writes

CWE-89

const id = parseInt(req.query.id, 10)

PR opens clean

Business logic: tested live or checked at write time

Snyk Evo finds business-logic flaws such as broken object-level authorization by attacking a running application. That is real coverage, once the code runs. Nothing in Snyk's announcements checks a change against a rule your team wrote down, such as who may approve a refund. 43% of API vulnerabilities exploit business logic (Wallarm, 2026 API ThreatStats); CybeDefend checks those rules while the agent is still writing the change.

Logic Flow Tracerbypass detected

POST /api/admin
Auth check
Role required?skip
Admin action
Sensitive data

Bypass caught by CybeDefend

Your rules in the agent's context

Snyk Studio pushes its own directives into the agent, such as running a Snyk scan on new code, and can distribute Studio configuration and policy files to developer workstations. VibeDefend distributes your organisation's own security rules into the agent's context before generation, so Claude Code, Cursor and Copilot write to your constraints from the first line.

VibeDefend: rule broadcastactive

Claude CodeRules served
CursorRules served
GitHub CopilotRules served
OpenAI CodexRules served

Both products now sit in the agent loop. Snyk checks the change against what attackers exploit; CybeDefend also checks it against what your business allows.

Pricing at a glance

Our platform is free to self-host, or priced per active developer on Cloud. VibeDefend is free to try, then priced with you after a pilot.

CybeDefend

CommunityFree, on your servers
CloudPriced per active developer
EnterpriseOn quote
VibeDefendFree to try, then a price set with you

See full pricing

Snyk

Team10 users$3,000/year
Ignite10 users$12,600/year
EnterpriseContact sales

Competitor prices: the lowest annual list price published for the plan shown, taken from the vendor's website or its own marketplace listing and checked in September 2026. Always verify before purchasing.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I use CybeDefend alongside Snyk?

Yes. Both can run inside the agent, but they check different things: Snyk looks for vulnerabilities, secrets and risky dependencies, and CybeDefend adds checks against your business rules. Teams that keep Snyk for its vulnerability database and fix pull requests can add CybeDefend for the business-rule layer.

Does CybeDefend replace Snyk's SCA?

CybeDefend includes SCA as part of its Security Knowledge Graph, with reachability scoring that shows whether a vulnerable dependency is actually called by your code. Snyk offers reachability too, for Java, JavaScript, TypeScript and Python. For teams already invested in Snyk's SCA workflows, CybeDefend adds the business-rule layer on top.

How does pricing compare?

Snyk's free plan caps the number of tests each month, and its Team plan starts at $25 per contributing developer per month, priced per product. CybeDefend Platform is free to self-host or priced per active developer on Cloud, and VibeDefend is free to try, no card, then priced with you after a pilot.

Install VibeDefend

One command wires every coding agent on this machine to your rules and your guards.

npx -y @cybedefend/vibedefend@latest install