SlopGrade vs Snyk
Both catch security problems in your pipeline. Snyk is a broad platform — SCA, SAST, containers, IaC — that analyzes your code and dependency graph in its cloud. SlopGrade is one sharp thing: a deterministic gate that reads each PR on your own runner and returns pass or block, without sending your source by default.
Snyk shines when you want one vendor across dependency vulnerabilities, license compliance, container and IaC scanning, with a rich dashboard and fix PRs. That breadth comes with a cloud that ingests your code, per-developer seat pricing, and SAST findings you triage rather than a hard gate. SlopGrade is deliberately narrow: it does not scan dependencies or containers — it blocks the high-severity leaks AI writes into application code (cross-tenant queries, injection, secrets, broken crypto) on every PR, deterministically, with your source staying on the runner by default. On private repos the deep scan (heisen-slop) is a paid opt-in.
SlopGrade vs Snyk
Pick Snyk when dependency and container security across many vendors is your main need and a cloud analysis is acceptable. Pick SlopGrade — or run it alongside Snyk — when you want a hard, deterministic gate on the leaks AI writes into your application code, with your source staying in your runner by default and one flat Team price with unlimited users. The opt-in Deep Scan (heisen-slop) is the exception.
Does SlopGrade replace Snyk?
Not entirely — they overlap little. Snyk's core strength is dependency (SCA) and container/IaC scanning; SlopGrade does not do those. SlopGrade replaces the SAST-triage part with a deterministic gate on application-code leaks, and adds cross-tenant isolation, which Snyk does not treat as a first-class class. Many teams run both.
Does my code leave the runner with SlopGrade?
Not by default. Extraction runs on your GitHub Actions runner; only a structural fingerprint ({file, line, kind}) is posted for classification. The deep scan (heisen-slop), a paid opt-in on private repos and on by default on public repos, sends at most 80 sink files, analysed in memory and dropped. A free private repo never sends source. This is the key architectural difference from a cloud SAST.