Free
Free
per contributing developer per month
Best for: Individual developers and small side projects
- SCA
- SAST
- IaC and container scanning
- 5 projects
- 100 Snyk Code tests a month
- real-time code scanning
- IDE
- CLI and source control integrations
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Snyk pricing in 2026: the Free plan, Team at USD 25 and the Enterprise credit model
What counts as a contributing developer, why the tenth developer is a hard stop, and how the Enterprise credit pool turns a seat price into a usage forecast.
The short answer
Snyk Team starts at USD 25 per contributing developer a month and caps at 10 developers, so a 10-developer team pays about USD 3,000 a year. The Free plan covers 5 projects and 100 code tests a month. Enterprise is quote-based on prepaid credits worth USD 1 each.
- Cheapest paid optionTeam from USD 25 per contributing developer a month, capped at 10 developers.
- What larger teams needEnterprise, which is a prepaid credit pool and not a seat plan.
- Biggest hidden costThe 90-day contributor window, which keeps contractors and leavers in the count.
- Best way to saveAudit the contributing developer list and model the credit pool yourself at USD 1 a credit.
Written by Procurement VMS Editorial Team · Reviewed by Michael, Procurement Advisor Expert · Price data dated · 11 minute read
Snyk plans and prices
Snyk sells to developers, and the pricing shows it. The free tier works, the scanner runs in the IDE and CLI, and Team costs about what a team lead can approve without a business case. It gets into companies through a pull request and not a procurement cycle.
Then the model changes shape. Team stops at ten contributing developers, the definition of a contributing developer is wider than most people expect, and Enterprise is priced as a pool of prepaid credits and not per seat. This guide covers all three with the arithmetic shown.
Prices below were recorded on 17 October 2026. The headline figure is the lowest price you can get for that plan. Check the official page before you buy, because vendors change prices without notice.
Team
Not published
per contributing developer per month, billed yearly
Billed monthly: USD25
Best for: Development teams of up to 10 developers
- Everything in Free
- plus 100 projects
- 1,000 Snyk Code tests a month
- Jira integration and next business day support
Enterprise
Custom
per contributing developer per month
Best for: Organizations past 10 developers, or needing API, web and AI security testing
- Prepaid platform credits at 1 credit per USD 1
- Code and Open Source at 1.0 credit per active contributor per day
- Secrets 0.66
- IaC 0.33
- Container 0.33 per monitored image per day
- API and Web 3.0 per provisioned target per day
- Evo AI Pentesting 4,000 credits per assessment
How billing works
Snyk's billing turns on one definition and one model change. The definition: a contributing developer is someone who made a commit to the default branch of a private repository Snyk monitors in the last 90 days, counted once across every integration and identified by the author email in their local Git config. Public repositories are excluded. That 90-day window means a contractor who committed once in February still counts in April. The model change: Enterprise is a prepaid platform subscription where 1 credit equals USD 1 and each capability burns credits at its own daily rate per active contributor, monitored image or provisioned target. Credits are bought upfront and valid for the contract term, usage beyond the pool is tracked as on-demand and invoiced in arrears, and you can top up mid-contract. Team is capped at 10 developers, and the plans page shows monthly billing only.
The tier trap
Team's ten-developer cap is the trap, and it is enforced by a 90-day commit window and not by who is on your payroll. Hire an eleventh engineer, or let a contractor push one commit, and there is no larger self-service plan to move to. The next step is an Enterprise credit contract with a sales call attached.
Read this first. Medium confidence, and the reason matters. Snyk's plans page states Team as "Starting at USD 25 / month" for up to 10 developers but does not say the USD 25 is per developer, and its developer-counting FAQ is empty on the page. The per-developer unit comes from a February 2026 SAST pricing survey. If USD 25 is a plan floor and not a per-developer price, the headline numbers here are wrong by up to 10 times, so confirm with Snyk sales. The contributing developer definition and 90-day window are official, from docs.snyk.io. Enterprise credit rates are from the plans page rate card. The USD 7,300 and USD 9,709 figures are arithmetic from those daily rates at USD 1 a credit, before any negotiated discount, and assume 365 days of activity as an upper bound.
Snyk cost calculator
Move the slider to see what each plan costs at your size. The figures use the list prices on this page and leave out tax, add-ons and any discount you negotiate.
What 10 contributing developers cost on Team and on Enterprise credits
Ten developers show how the Team seat price compares with the credit model at published daily rates.
| Scenario | Cost per year | Against the headline |
|---|---|---|
| Team, 10 contributing developers, billed monthly for 12 months | USD3,000 | Headline price |
| Enterprise credits for Code plus Open Source, 10 active contributors at 2.0 credits per contributor per day for 365 days, USD 1 per credit | USD7,300 | +USD 4,300 |
| Same, plus container scanning for 20 monitored images at 0.33 credits per image per day for 365 days | USD9,709 | +USD 6,709 |
What each Snyk plan includes
Compare the plans side by side. Where a cell says Check page, the vendor's pricing page was not specific enough for us to fill it in.
| Feature | Free | Team | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | USD 0 | From USD 25 per contributing developer a month | Custom, prepaid credits at USD 1 each |
| Developer limit | Not stated | Up to 10 | Credit-based, no stated cap |
| Projects | 5 | 100 | Credit-based |
| Snyk Code (SAST) tests a month | 100 | 1,000 | Credit-based |
| Support | Community | Next business day | Custom |
| API and web testing, Evo AI Pentesting | Check page | Check page | ? at published credit rates |
Features we could not place by plan: SCA, SAST, IaC and container scanning, IDE, CLI and source control integrations, Jira integration. Check the official page for which plan includes each one.
Which Snyk plan should you pick?
Free
Pick it if you have 5 projects or fewer and want scanning in the IDE and CLI at no cost.
Team
Pick it if you have 10 or fewer contributing developers and want 100 projects, Jira and next business day support.
Enterprise
Pick it if you are past 10 developers, or need API and web testing, secrets scanning or AI pentesting.
Free plus a competitor
Pick it if you only need SAST at scale, where a per-committer competitor may price better than a credit pool.
Our view
Snyk is worth it for a team that ships fast and wants the finding in the pull request and not in a quarterly report. Free is unusually generous for a security tool, and Team at USD 25 a developer is reasonable for up to ten people. Enterprise takes real work, because the credit model makes the bill a function of contributors, images and targets at once, which is harder to forecast than a seat count.
You may be overpaying if
Your contributor count is inflated by contractors and former team members inside the 90-day window, or you prepaid credits for capabilities like API testing and AI pentesting that no team has adopted.
How to pay less for Snyk
Audit the contributing developer list
Snyk counts anyone who committed to a monitored private repo in the last 90 days, identified by Git author email. Disconnect archived repositories and check the list for contractors and leavers before it sets your bill.
Stop monitoring repositories you do not act on
Only connected private repositories and their default branches generate contributors. Archived and experimental repos add developers to the count and nothing to your security posture.
Model the credit pool before you prepay
Credits are USD 1 each at published daily rates. Code plus Open Source for 10 contributors is 7,300 credits a year, and container scanning for 20 images is another 2,409. Build the number yourself.
Buy capabilities in stages
The credit model lets you top up mid-contract. Start with Code and Open Source, then add Secrets, Container or API testing once a team uses the findings.
Hold a per-committer competing quote
A February 2026 SAST pricing survey reports GitHub Code Security at USD 30 per active committer a month and Semgrep Team at about USD 40 per contributor a month. Named per-seat alternatives are bargaining power against a credit pool.
Watch the monthly test ceilings
Team includes 1,000 Snyk Code tests a month. Scanning only on merge to the default branch and not on every push can keep a growing team inside the plan it already has.
What other buyers report
A February 2026 SAST pricing survey records Snyk Team at USD 25 a month per contributing developer with a maximum of 10 developers, alongside GitHub Code Security at USD 30 per active committer a month and Semgrep Team at about USD 40 per contributor a month. Source
Renewal email you can copy
Fill in the brackets and send it about 90 days before the renewal date. It works best next to your renewal tracker.
Subject: Snyk renewal on [renewal date] Hi [account manager], Our Snyk [plan] subscription renews on [renewal date]. Over the last 90 days, [active contributing developers] of the [paid contributing developers] we pay for used it. We would like to renew with [target contributing developers] on a [term] term. Before we sign, please send: 1. The current list price and the price you are offering us, line by line. 2. The cap on any price increase at the next renewal. 3. The notice period if we want to cut contributing developers or move to another plan. We are comparing this against [alternative] and plan to decide by [decision date]. If you can offer [target discount] percent off list, or a lower price for a longer term, we are ready to talk this week. Thank you, [name] [company]
Free PDF and Excel
Snyk pricing sheet and cost model
A one page summary of every plan, plus an Excel model that adds up your own seat count.
- All plans and prices on one page
- Excel model with your seat count and yearly cost
- Renewal checklist and the email above, ready to edit
- Date of the price data and the source links
Snyk alternatives and what they cost
If this vendor does not fit, these are the closest options and what they charge.
| Alternative | Starting price | Pick it when |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub Code Security | USD30 per active committer per month | Your code already lives in GitHub and you want one bill Read our GitHub pricing guide |
| Semgrep Team | About USD 40 per contributor per month | You need custom rules and want a per-seat price above 10 developers |
| SonarQube Cloud | From EUR 30 per month, priced by lines of code | Your unit is codebase size rather than developer count |
Keeping Snyk spend under control
Contributor counts drift with contractors and reorganizations. Reconcile the list every quarter and keep the renewal date somewhere other than one engineer's calendar.
- Set budgets and alerts. Usage bills grow without anyone signing anything. Set a monthly budget and an alert at 80 percent of it.
- Tag cost to a team. Give every project an owner so a bill can be traced. Our spend management software guide covers the controls to look for.
- Review commitments before renewal. Committed spend discounts only pay off if you use the commitment. Compare 12 months of real use with the plan before you renew, using a renewal tracker.
- Count the full cost, not the list price. Support, egress, extra seats and add-ons change the real figure. Our total cost of ownership guide shows how to add it up.
Bottom line. Stay on Free while you have five projects, use Team under ten developers, and enter an Enterprise credit contract only with the pool modeled yourself at USD 1 a credit. Confirm the per-developer unit with Snyk before you budget.
Snyk pricing questions
How much does Snyk cost per developer?
Snyk Team starts at USD 25 a month per contributing developer and is limited to 10 developers, so a full ten-developer team costs about USD 3,000 a year on monthly billing. Enterprise replaces per-developer pricing with prepaid credits worth USD 1 each, burned at published daily rates.
Is there a free version of Snyk?
Yes, and it is a permanent plan and not a trial. Snyk Free includes SCA, SAST, IaC and container scanning across 5 projects with 100 Snyk Code tests a month, plus IDE, CLI and source control integrations and community support. No credit card is required.
How much does Snyk Enterprise cost?
Snyk does not publish a price. Enterprise is a prepaid platform subscription where 1 credit equals USD 1. Code and Open Source each cost 1.0 credit per active contributor per day, so those two for 10 contributors over a year is 7,300 credits, which is USD 7,300 at list.
Can you get a discount on Snyk?
Snyk publishes no discount. The levers are usage and not price: audit the contributing developer list inside the 90-day window, disconnect repositories you do not act on, and buy capabilities in stages, since credits can be topped up mid-contract and not prepaid all at once.
Is Snyk cheaper billed annually?
Snyk's plans page shows monthly billing only and publishes no annual rate or annual discount for Team, so there is nothing to compare. On Enterprise the commitment works differently: credits are prepaid for the full contract term, and usage beyond the pool is invoiced in arrears.
What is the cheapest alternative to Snyk?
For SAST at scale, a February 2026 pricing survey records GitHub Code Security at USD 30 per active committer a month and Semgrep Team at about USD 40 per contributor. SonarQube Cloud starts from EUR 30 a month priced by lines of code, which suits large codebases with few committers.
Sources
How we put this page together
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