Dependabot is free, native, and excellent at opening dependency-update PRs on GitHub. It's a remediation pipeline, not a security platform — no SAST, no IaC, no container scanning, no runtime, no signed evidence, no install-time enforcement. dpndncY does what Dependabot does — and the eleven things it doesn't.
Full AppSec platform with enforcement and signed evidence.
Self-hosted. SCA + SAST + IaC + secrets + container + runtime + firewall, with a single signing root. Auto-fix PRs with pre-flight breaking-change analysis. Cross-tenant trend snapshots. Multi-platform (GitHub, GitLab, self-hosted).
GitHub-native dependency-update bot.
Free with GitHub. Opens version-bump PRs from advisory data. Scoped to GitHub repos. No SAST, no IaC, no runtime, no signed evidence layer, no install-time enforcement, no policy gating.
Same set of capabilities. Different stack.
| Capability | dpndncY | Dependabot |
|---|---|---|
Pre-install enforcement (Dependency Firewall) | ||
eBPF Runtime Agent (4 kernel hooks) | ||
Signed evidence per decision | ||
Offline verifier binary | ||
Multi-signal exploit fusion (KEV+EPSS+ExploitDB) | ||
Trust-delta gating | ||
SCA across 17 ecosystems Solid ecosystem coverage; GHSA-driven | ||
Native SAST (400+ rules) | ||
IaC scanning | ||
Container image scanning (OCI) | ||
Secrets detection (high-precision + entropy) | ||
Attack-path graph | ||
Auto-fix PRs with breaking-change analysis Bumps work; pre-flight analysis varies | ||
Self-hosted / air-gapped Dependabot runs in GitHub Actions; not air-gapped | ||
Multi-platform (GitHub + GitLab + self-hosted) GitHub-only |
Read every decision. Verify it offline.
dpndncY is self-hosted. No portal you have to log into to defend a decision three years from now.