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.
But:
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.
CybeDefend vs Snyk
| Feature | CybeDefend | Snyk |
|---|---|---|
Detection× 10 | ||
| Agent-time scanning | ✓ | ✓ |
| SAST | ✓ | ✓ |
| SCA | ✓ | ✓ |
| IaC scanning | ✓ | ✓ |
| Container scanning | ✓ | ✓ |
| Secret detection | ✓ | ✓ |
| Business logic flaws | ✓ | ~ |
| Reachability analysis | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI-BOM: AI component inventory (EU AI Act + NIST AI RMF) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Prompt injection & LLM-misuse scanner (OWASP LLM Top 10) | ✓ | ✓ |
AI & Agent× 7 | ||
| Agent-time (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf…) | ✓ | ✓ |
| IDE security copilot | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI-generated verified patches | ✓ | ✓ |
| Auto-fix → ready-to-merge PR | ✓ | ✓ |
| Security Code Knowledge Graph | ✓ | ✗ |
| VibeDefend: security rules distributed to AI coding agents | ✓ | ~ |
| Coding agent sandbox policy (allow/deny/warn before every write) | ✓ | ~ |
Operations× 5 | ||
| CI/CD pipeline gate | ✓ | ✓ |
| Low false-positive rate | ✓ | ~ |
| Setup under 5 minutes | ✓ | ✓ |
| CybeRisk Score: 0-100 score + AI-generated weekly Top 10 brief | ✓ | ✗ |
| EU/US sovereign deployment | ✓ | ~ |
✓ = Yes - ✗ = No - ~ = Partial
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.
Agent writes code
CybeDefend scans
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.
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.
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
Transparent pricing is a core CybeDefend value. See how we compare.
CybeDefend
- Developer€204/year
- Team · 5-10 users€2,148/year - €3,348/year
- Scale · 15-25 users€6,588/year - €8,988/year
- EnterpriseContact sales
Snyk
- Team · 10 users$3,000/year
- Ignite · 10 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 publishes its plans, with a free plan of 50 AI credits and 10 static scans, no card required.
Install VibeDefend in 5 seconds.
One command wires every coding agent on your machine to CybeDefend: your business rules, your compliance frameworks, and guards that block destructive calls before they fire.
npx -y @cybedefend/vibedefend@latest install
Claude Code
Cursor
OpenAI Codex
Windsurf
VS Code Copilot