Zolt SecurityAI code review
Zolt vs Snyk · Dependency scanning

Snyk knows your dependencies. Zolt knows your code.

Snyk watches the packages you import and flags their CVEs. Zolt reads the code you wrote, follows every input from where it enters to where it could do damage, and rules on what’s actually exploitable. You need both worries answered — one tool does both here.

Zolt
A code reader: first-party flaws, reachable CVEs, exploitability verdicts — dependencies judged in context.
Snyk
A supply-chain specialist: manifests, containers, advisories — strong opinions about your dependencies.
Head to head

The whole argument, row by row.

Capability
Snyk
Zolt
What it reads
Manifests, containers, IaC — your supply chain
Your first-party code, plus its dependencies in context
The core question
Is there a known CVE in this tree?
Can an attacker reach damage through this change?
Reachability
Advisory metadata and confidence hints
Traced — input to sink, with the path attached to the finding
First-party flaws
Not the tool’s territory
The tool’s whole territory — authz, IDOR, injection, logic abuse
SCA and SBOM
Strong — this is Snyk’s home turf
Covered, generated from the same model of your app
Secrets and IaC
Per-module add-ons
Same review, same agent
Pentesting
No
Agents map, researchers confirm — credits, retest included
Pricing shape
Per developer, per module — they stack
$30 a seat; pentests by the credit
Where Snyk stops

Three things it structurally can’t do for you.

◇ Reachability, proven
A CVE counts when input can walk to it. Zolt traces the walk and shows you, instead of quoting a score at you.
◇ First-party flaws covered
Authorization bugs, IDOR, injection chains — the flaws no advisory ever mentions are the ones Zolt hunts.
◇ The pentest in the building
Scanners describe what could go wrong. The pentest shows what an attacker does — agents map, researchers confirm.
Questions

Asked before you ask them.

Snyk says it does reachability too. How is this different?
Snyk checks whether a vulnerable function appears in your call paths. Zolt traces attacker-controlled input through your routes, auth and handlers to actual damage — first-party logic included. Different depth, different answer.
Do we lose dependency scanning if we switch?
No. SCA and SBOM are part of the same review — and each dependency finding gets the treatment Snyk can’t give: is this code path actually reachable in your app?
Our CVE backlog is huge. Will Zolt help?
Most backlogs are full of findings that can’t be reached. Zolt separates the ones an attacker can walk from the ones that merely look scary, so the queue becomes work instead of archaeology.
We use Snyk for containers and IaC.
Keep it while you like it — Zolt covers IaC and secrets inside the PR review, and the pentest will test what the scanners only describe.
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Dependency alerts tell you what could go wrong somewhere. Zolt tells you what an attacker does with your code. Ship with the second one.

Point Zolt at your next pull request.

Connect a repo and the first PR gets reviewed — path, verdict, patch. Public repositories are free forever.