About
Socket is a software supply chain security platform that scans dependencies and package updates for malicious behavior, vulnerabilities, license issues, and other risk signals across major package registries. It provides products such as GitHub integration, firewall blocking at install time, a CLI, certified patches, dependency search, reachability analysis, and browser extension scanning.
The service is aimed at developers and security teams that want dependency risk detection in CI, pull requests, and local installs. The free plan includes unlimited developers and repositories, 1,000 scans per month, 3 members, 1 repository label, and automated blocking of malicious dependencies.
- Unlimited developers and repositories
- 1,000 scans per month
- 3 members, 1 repository label
- Malware and vulnerability detection
- Automatic malicious dependency blocking
- AI analysis of dependency behavior
Free Tier Value
This free tier is genuinely usable: it includes the core security workflow, unlimited developers and repositories, and a monthly allowance of 1,000 scans, but it caps collaboration and labels. The cheapest paid plan is Team at $25 per developer per month, and the free tier delivers roughly 40% of that plan’s scan volume plus most of the same core features, so about $25/month is a fair value estimate. No credit card is required to start, and the offer is perpetual but capped.
What's included in the free tier
- Unlimited developers and repositories.
- 1,000 scans per month.
- Up to 3 members.
- 1 repository label.
- Detection of 70+ risk types.
- Automatic blocking of malicious dependencies.
- AI analysis for hidden dependency behavior.
See Socket pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Team
- scans per month
- 5,000
- members
- 10
- repository labels
- 3
- All Free features
- 5,000 scans per month
- 10 members
- 3 repository labels
- Precomputed reachability analysis
- Priority scoring
- Slack alerts for new malware or vulns
Business
- members
- Unlimited
- repository labels
- Unlimited
- scans
- Unlimited
- All Team features
- Unlimited members
- Unlimited repository labels
- Unlimited scans & API quota
- Compliance integrations
- SBOM import/export
- SSO/SAML & webhook automation
- Scan GitHub Actions and AI models
Enterprise
- members
- Unlimited
- repository labels
- Unlimited
- scans
- Unlimited
- All Business features
- Full application function-level reachability
- Integrations for GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, and self-hosted repos
- SCIM provisioning
- Audit logs
- IP restrictions
- Private Slack channel
- Named account manager
Pricing extracted from Socket's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
