What Socket does
Socket detects malicious packages, typosquatting, and supply chain attacks in your npm, PyPI, and Go dependencies before they enter your codebase. Runs on every PR. Caught thousands of real malicious packages targeting developers.
How Socket compares with its closest alternatives
All 5 closest alternatives have a free plan, as Socket does. Among the 3 that list a starting price, the cheapest is Auth0 at $23 a month and the median is $25. Socket starts at $33 a month, above that median. All 5 offer an API, as Socket does. Socket offers a web app and a command-line tool. Of the alternatives, all 5 offer a web app and 3 offer a command-line tool. Socket was founded in 2020; the alternatives were founded between 2008 and 2021, 4 of them earlier. Socket is based in San Francisco, United States; all the 4 alternatives with a known headquarters are in the United States too.