What is Wiz?
Wiz is both an Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) and Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), purpose-built to secure the full lifecycle–from code to cloud to runtime. Its agentless-first architecture connects directly via APIs to cloud environments. Similarly, it integrates with version control systems (VCS) and CI/CD pipelines to extend security into the developer infrastructure.
By integrating its core modules, Wiz Code and Wiz Cloud, organizations can unify application security with runtime context and cloud posture. This enables teams to secure code, CI/CD pipelines, and developer infrastructure while correlating findings with runtime exposures, identities, data sensitivity, and network configurations. The result is a single, contextual view of attack paths that might otherwise be missed if tools remain siloed.
Key features
Code-to-cloud correlation to validate real exploitability across layers
Comprehensive code scanning with SCA, SAST, malware, IaC, sensitive data, etc..
Secrets scanning enriched with validation, plus IAM and cloud context
Full CI/CD and developer infrastructure security posture management
Comprehensive CNAPP capabilities: CSPM, CIEM, DSPM, vulnerability management, AI-SPM
Wiz Security Graph: Correlates risks across code, workloads, identities, data, and networks to identify "toxic combinations" and actual attack paths, which reduces alert fatigue.
Broad third-party ecosystem support for developer and security workflows (200+ integrations)
Use cases
Cloud-native application protection
Application security testing
Software supply chain security
Cloud infrastructure security with IaC and CSPM
Data security and compliance oversight
Identity and access management visibility
Attack path analysis and threat detection
Governance for AI copilots and GenAI tools
Considerations
Wiz was designed for cloud-first and hybrid environments, where teams need fast deployment and contextualized risk management. Organizations that are primarily on-premises may find Wiz less aligned to their immediate needs, though hybrid teams still benefit from its broad coverage and integrations.
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What is Snyk?
Snyk is a developer-focused application security platform designed to help teams identify and remediate risks early in the software lifecycle. It has become a popular option among DevSecOps teams, surpassing $300 million in ARR in 2024, and is widely used for its strong scanning capabilities across code and dependencies.
Snyk’s core strengths lie in static application security testing (SAST), software composition analysis (SCA) for open-source libraries, container image scanning, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) validation. These capabilities embed directly into developer workflows, enabling teams to secure applications without leaving their existing tools and pipelines.
Snyk’s strengths are centered on application-layer security. For organizations that also require runtime, identity, or infrastructure visibility, Snyk is often paired with complementary cloud-native platforms to provide broader context and prioritization across multi-cloud environments.
Key features
AI-driven application security powered by extensive vulnerability databases
SAST, DAST, SCA, and IaC scanners for comprehensive application-layer coverage
Integrations with IDEs, CI/CD platforms, container registries, and third-party security tools
Automated SBOM generation for compliance and supply chain transparency
Use cases
Application security for development teams
Open-source dependency and license compliance
Container security integrated into CI/CD workflows
IaC misconfiguration detection and validation
Shift-left security practices embedded into developer pipelines
Application-layer controls for AI adoption
Considerations
Snyk is a powerful tool for developer-led security focused primarily on application artifacts. Many teams complement Snyk with additional platforms that provide cloud and runtime context to validate and prioritize findings. Without this broader context, developers may spend time addressing issues that ultimately aren’t exploitable in production.
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Comparing Snyk vs. Wiz
In this section, we’ll see how Snyk and Wiz stack up when it comes to critical cloud security requirements.
Security coverage and scope
Snyk is a development-focused platform, with its primary strengths in application security. It provides scanning across code, dependencies, containers, and IaC – giving developers the tools they need to secure applications earlier in the lifecycle. For organizations looking to extend security beyond development, such as mapping risks across runtime, identity, or data, Snyk is often paired with complementary cloud security platforms to create a more complete picture.
Wiz, meanwhile, was built for holistic code-to-cloud coverage. It provides agentless visibility across infrastructure, workloads, identities, and data, and connects these layers back to source code through the Wiz Security Graph. This graph-based correlation highlights toxic combinations and real attack paths that can form in distributed environments. By linking posture management with runtime and identity context, Wiz helps security teams focus on risks that pose the greatest real-world impact.
Developer experience
Snyk integrates directly into developer workflows with an AppSec-first approach. It provides plugins, extensions, and policy-based guardrails that embed security into IDEs, CI/CD pipelines, and container registries. This makes it a natural fit for development teams who want to scan code and dependencies without leaving their existing tools. Ensuring consistency across different interfaces and workflows is key for maximizing developer adoption and minimizing friction.
Wiz makes security accessible to both development and cloud teams. With Wiz Code, security is extended across the software development lifecycle. Like Snyk, Wiz integrates into IDEs, version control systems such as GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, and IaC frameworks like HCP Terraform, enabling developers to detect and fix issues earlier while maintaining velocity.
Operationalization
Snyk connects to CI/CD pipelines through native plugins, CLI tools, and container registries, making it straightforward for developers to adopt within existing workflows. It provides security guardrails during build and deployment, helping teams catch issues before production. Its operational coverage is strongest at the application layer, with a focus on code, dependencies, containers, and IaC.
Wiz extends operationalization across the broader cloud estate. By connecting directly to cloud service APIs, Wiz provides visibility across infrastructure, workloads, identities, and data. Security policies can also be enforced in CI/CD pipelines to block risky images or misconfigurations before they reach production. With agentless posture and vulnerability scanning – and an optional lightweight eBPF sensor for runtime protection – Wiz minimizes operational overhead while extending coverage across containers, VMs, serverless, and PaaS resources.
Risk prioritization and context
Snyk applies a risk-based approach to vulnerabilities across the development process. It helps developers identify issues in code, dependencies, and containers, and provides prioritization guidance to fix them efficiently. Its prioritization is optimized for application-layer risks, giving development teams actionable direction early in the lifecycle.
Wiz extends risk prioritization into the cloud environment by correlating signals across misconfigurations, identities, network exposure, data sensitivity, and runtime activity. Through the Wiz Security Graph, security teams can uncover “toxic combinations” – such as exposed secrets, reachable vulnerabilities, or over-permissioned identities – that together form real attack paths. This broader context reduces noise and highlights the risks most likely to be exploited in production.
Pricing and TCO
Snyk uses a seat-based pricing model, which means costs are tied to the number of contributing developers. This can be predictable for smaller teams, but as development organizations grow, costs can scale with team size. Because Snyk focuses on application security, organizations often pair it with complementary platforms for broader cloud coverage, which factors into overall TCO.
Wiz offers a hybrid pricing approach. The core Wiz Cloud (CNAPP) platform is typically priced based on cloud assets (e.g., workloads or resources), providing predictability as infrastructure scales. The Wiz Code (ASPM) module, meanwhile, uses a billing metric based on the number of active developers, similar to Snyk’s model. Since Wiz consolidates multiple capabilities (CSPM, CIEM, DSPM, ASPM, etc.) into one platform, many enterprises find it can streamline operations and provide cost efficiencies over time.
Compliance management
Snyk helps organizations address developer-centric compliance needs, such as license compliance, code-related policies, and security guardrails within the development lifecycle. Its focus makes it a good fit for teams that want to integrate compliance directly into developer workflows, with coverage centered on application and dependency layers.
Wiz takes a broader approach to compliance, extending beyond code. The platform automates posture assessments and continuous compliance monitoring across identities, workloads, infrastructure, and data. Wiz supports more than 140 pre-built frameworks (SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, NIST, and more) and also allows organizations to define custom compliance baselines. Wiz also provides built-in compliance frameworks and reports for OWASP TOP 10 CI/CD, CIS GitHub Benchmark, CIS GitLab Benchmark, and OpenSSF Source Code Management Best Practices.
By unifying posture and compliance into a single platform, Wiz helps teams streamline evidence collection and maintain alignment across complex, multi-cloud environments.
Third-party support
Snyk offers strong extensibility for developer environments, with integrations into popular tools like GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Jira, and numerous CI/CD platforms. This enables developers to embed security directly into their existing workflows with minimal disruption.
Wiz provides wide-ranging third-party integrations that extend beyond development environments into SIEMs, SOAR platforms, ticketing systems, and compliance tools. These integrations support not only data ingestion but also cross-layer correlation and contextual analysis across infrastructure, identities, workloads, and applications. This makes Wiz a good fit for enterprises that need consistent risk reduction and context across a diverse multi-vendor stack.
Platform Architecture: Unified vs. Acquired
The difference in user experience between Wiz and Snyk can be traced back to their foundational architectures. Wiz was built from the ground up as a unified platform, designed to provide a cohesive security experience with a single policy engine and a consistent data model across all modules.
Snyk, by contrast, began with a strong SCA capability and expanded over time by acquiring companies for SAST, DAST, ASPM, and most recently, AI Security. This acquisition-driven growth has broadened Snyk’s feature set.
Snyk vs. Wiz: Which is the right fit?
Both Snyk and Wiz bring valuable strengths to the table, but they’re designed with different priorities in mind. Snyk is well-suited for organizations that want a developer-first approach to application security, with strong coverage for code, dependencies, and containers.
Wiz takes a broader, cloud-native view. By connecting posture, data, identity, and runtime insights into a single graph, Wiz helps security and engineering teams understand how risks interact across their environment and focus on the ones that matter most.
For many enterprises, the best approach isn’t “either/or” but deciding where each solution fits best. Some teams rely on Snyk to strengthen developer workflows while turning to Wiz for unified cloud security and context. For organizations seeking an all-in-one platform that spans code to cloud, Wiz may provide a more comprehensive option.
Can these solutions coexist?
Yes. Many organizations use Snyk and Wiz side by side, with each playing to its strengths. Development teams often keep Snyk in place for SCA, SAST, and license compliance inside CI/CD pipelines, while adopting Wiz to provide the cloud-wide context that ties those findings to real attack paths and business risk.
Some organizations also choose to gradually shift code security into Wiz Code for a single-pane, code-to-cloud view, while others prefer to keep the tools complementary. Ultimately, whether you consolidate or run them together depends on your priorities – but integrating Wiz and Snyk can help you get more value out of the latter.
How Wiz helps secure cloud-native applications with unified visibility
Modern cloud environments are dynamic and distributed, spanning workloads, identities, data stores, APIs, and ephemeral resources. Securing them requires more than point tools — it takes a platform that connects risks across layers and prioritizes the ones that matter most.
That’s where Wiz stands out. By unifying application, cloud, identity, and data security into a single platform, Wiz delivers full code-to-cloud context. The Wiz Security Graph correlates misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, permissions, and data exposure into clear attack paths, helping teams filter noise and focus on real exploitability.
With its agentless-first design, Wiz onboards in minutes to provide broad posture coverage. Optional lightweight eBPF sensors extend visibility into runtime, offering depth where needed without adding operational overhead. The result: a consistent, contextual view of risk that empowers both security and development teams.
For organizations ready to bridge AppSec and CloudSec, Wiz offers a unified path forward — reducing tool sprawl, accelerating remediation, and helping future-proof cloud security strategies.
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