Snyk MCP

Snyk spans source code, open-source packages, containers, infrastructure as code, secrets, and API or web testing. Vendor pages name Snyk Code, Open Source, Container, IaC, API & Web, and Secrets. Its MCP server supplies compatible agents with authorized security and remediation context, useful when a developer wants a finding explained against the current change.

Current pricing

Free is $0 per month per contributing developer and includes SCA, SAST, IaC, and container scanning with IDE, CLI, and source-manager integrations. Team starts at $25 monthly per contributing developer, adding increased test limits, Jira, and next-business-day support. Ignite starts at $1,260 yearly per contributing developer and advertises unlimited code tests, custom rules, and risk-based prioritization. Enterprise is quote-based. Forty Ignite contributors at the published starting price equal $50,400 yearly before implementation.

A pull request can be checked for code flaws, a vulnerable npm package, an unsafe container base image, and Terraform errors under one platform. Compare review conversation with CodeRabbit, delivery controls with Harness AI, and agent-specific controls with Agent Security Suite. Follow AI agent security best practices.

Honest assessment

Breadth and a useful free tier support a realistic pilot. However, results need deduplication, exploitability review, and an owner. Product limits vary, and the Team-to-Ignite price jump is material. Generated patches can break behavior or treat symptoms. Pilot 10–20 repositories with known code, package, container, and IaC defects. Measure recall, top-50 true-positive rate, scan latency, triage time, and accepted-fix rate. Verify who can ignore findings, when exceptions expire, what data reaches Snyk, and whether audit logs include agent activity.

Practical evaluation

Run a two-week pilot on one bounded workflow before granting broad access. Use at least 30 representative tasks, including invalid input, permission failures, stale records, provider timeouts, and recovery cases. Record completion rate, factual or technical correctness, p50 and p95 latency, human review minutes, and total cost per accepted result. Start with read-only scopes and a test workspace where possible. Inspect the exact tools exposed to an agent, then add write access only after an owner defines approval, audit, and rollback procedures. Confirm retention, regional processing, subprocessors, data export, rate limits, support terms, and whether customer content is used for model training.

Build an annual cost model from real volume. Include subscriptions, metered usage, implementation, identity administration, monitoring, reviewer labor, and incident response. Add a 25% volume buffer and test cancellation or export before committing. A purchase is justified when the measured time and risk reduction exceed those costs; a polished demo alone is not evidence of production value.