If you feel like the value of your Snyk deployment isn't keeping up with price increases, you're not alone. Some teams have seen their Snyk pricing double or even triple at renewal.
But rising costs haven't come with more ROI. Instead, your deployment provides less value over time as developers ignore the findings and your backlog keeps growing. What are you really getting for your spend?
Snyk sold you "developer-first" security. In practice it keeps developers in a constant state of context-switching and alert fatigue. Snyk Code flags every suspicious data path without the runtime context to know whether any of it is exploitable, and leaves your engineers to sort it out.
They can't, so they bulk-close findings to keep the pipeline moving. Instead of building a security culture, you're paying a premium for a tool that trains your developers to ignore alerts. What started as developer-first security became an expensive compliance checklist, an untracked ignore list your AppSec team has to audit, and a little less trust between security and engineering every quarter.
Rollout depended on those same developers. Snyk required Mattel's Head of AppSec to insert a manual command into each of his 700 pipelines before it would show him anything. He worked on that for years.
“Some developers did it right away. But others ignored the instructions, so we had to call them again and again to move forward, and no progress was being made.”
Your team connects Boost at the source control level with a service account and an API key. Nobody needs to insert a command, edit a pipeline, or ask a developer for a favor. On connection, Boost maps your full repository footprint, including the shadow repos and archived projects you can't see today, and it picks up new repositories automatically the moment engineers create them. Your code stays in your environment.
The Head of AppSec at Mattel connected all 700 repositories in a single afternoon. He now runs the program with half his time.
“It never changes in security: some teams follow instructions, other teams may not. But at Boost, we don't need them. We can do it by ourselves.”
When Jillian Rodriguez set out to consolidate Travelport's AppSec stack, she evaluated Snyk and Boost side by side. “From what I could see, functionality-wise it was 1:1 between Boost and Snyk,” she said. She chose Boost on price: “If I can cut costs in scanners, I'd rather do that than cut people.” Her team of three migrated 6,000 repositories in under 90 days, and a year later she had the cost conversation with her boss already won: “I can say we've already consolidated enough. Boost gives us everything we need.”
Feature for feature, Travelport's side-by-side evaluation found nothing in Snyk that Boost didn't match.
A three-person team migrated Travelport's full footprint off Snyk in under 90 days.
Boost traces call paths with environmental context and suppresses findings in code nothing can reach. Your team sees the vulnerabilities attackers can exploit, which gives you the confidence to move from notification mode to blocking mode.
When Boost finds a flaw, it writes the contextual fix and pushes it to the pull request. Your engineers review and merge it in the same place they review everything else. Demandbase called the inline PR comments the defining factor in their rollout: “The comments don't have a lot of fluff. The content itself is actionable and easy to find.”
Snyk scans inside the pipeline. Boost also checks the pipeline itself for the tag-pinning and workflow misconfigurations TeamPCP exploited to compromise Trivy, and it governs the coding agents on the developer's machine: it validates MCP servers, inventories the agents and IDE extensions in use, and feeds your secure coding standards into the agent's context before it generates a line. Both are part of the platform, on one contract.
You keep Snyk running. We connect Boost alongside it in Silent Mode, where the platform scans everything and alerts no one. Your team compares Boost's findings against Snyk's on your own code, tunes policies, and decides what enforcement should look like before a single developer sees a comment. When you're ready, you flip on enforcement and let Snyk lapse at your renewal date, with your compliance evidence continuous the whole way through.
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Book a call and we'll set up Silent Mode together. You'll see Boost's findings on your own repositories next to what Snyk reports today, and a Boost quote next to your Snyk renewal, so you can make the switching case with your own data.
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