Mend SCA
Mend SCA helps development, security, and legal teams identify, prioritize, and remediate security and license risks in open source components.
What Mend SCA is
Mend SCA helps development, security, and legal teams identify, prioritize, and remediate security and license risks in open source components. Its reachability analysis traces code through direct and transitive dependencies to assess whether vulnerable functions are invoked. Risk prioritization combines CVSS 4.0 severity ratings and EPSS exploitability data with reachability analysis. Teams can set license policies and respond to violations with alerts, automated remediation, or blocks. The product generates SPDX and CycloneDX SBOMs, ingests third-party SBOMs, and uses VEX data. Mend says it detects malicious packages, including typosquats, dependency-confusion attacks, and packages with data-exfiltration or backdoor code. It supports more than 200 programming languages and frameworks, plus container layers, infrastructure-as-code, and AI frameworks. Workflow integrations connect with IDEs, repositories, registries, and CI/CD pipelines; listed integrations include GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, Jira, ServiceNow, Jenkins, Docker, and JFrog Artifactory. Mend SCA is available on API, Linux, macOS, web, and Windows, with hybrid deployment options.
Good
- Analyzes reachability across direct and transitive dependencies.
- Generates SPDX and CycloneDX SBOMs.
- Includes license policies and violation responses.
- Supports more than 200 languages and frameworks.
- Offers hybrid deployment options.
Watch out
- No free plan is listed.
- The listed price is billed up to $1,000 per developer per year.
Who it suits
Mend SCA suits developers and security and legal teams managing open source security and compliance risks. It is relevant to teams that need dependency reachability analysis, license controls, and SBOM workflows.
Verdict
Mend SCA combines vulnerability prioritization, license controls, and SBOM capabilities for open source component management. Its paid pricing and broad workflow coverage make it worth considering for teams with those needs.
Plans and prices
From Mend SCA's own pricing page, checked 15 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Mend Renovate Enterprise | $250 a year | Enterprise automated dependency management · up to $250 per contributing developer per year |
| Mend AI | $300 a year | AI-BOM and Shadow AI discovery · AI behavior testing · prompt hardening · automated red teaming · runtime guardrails · up to $300 per contributing developer per year |
| Mend AppSec | $1,000 a year | SAST · SCA · containers · AI-generated code security · AI-powered fix suggestions · automated dependency updates · up to $1,000 per contributing developer per year |
The facts
Each one read from Mend SCA's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API
- Mend API 3.0 is REST-based, uses organization JWT tokens that expire after 30 minutes, supports cursor pagination and has searchable REST documentation.checked 15 Oct 2026
- API versions
- The API documentation hub lists Platform API 3.0, Developer Platform API 1.0, SCA API 2.0 and legacy SCA APIs.checked 15 Oct 2026
- CLI
- The Mend CLI scans local projects for CVEs, malicious packages and policy violations and can run without uploading full source code.checked 15 Oct 2026
- CLI operating systems
- Documented CLI downloads cover Linux Intel, macOS Intel and Apple Silicon, and Windows Intel; Windows 10/11 and Server 2016 or newer are listed prerequisites.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Data protection
- Mend says customer data storage and backups are encrypted at rest and in transit.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Deployment options
- Software Advice describes Mend.io as deployable as cloud SaaS, on-premises or hybrid.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Developer workflows
- The product integrates with IDEs, repositories, registries and CI/CD pipelines to provide automated risk remediation and policy enforcement.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Development integrations
- The integrations catalog lists Jira, ServiceNow, Jenkins, TeamCity, Docker, JFrog Artifactory, Amazon ECR, Azure Container Registry and Google Container Registry.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation depth
- Public documentation includes setup, CLI configuration, repository integrations, scan-result analysis, reachability, policy findings, APIs and release notes.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Funding
- Startup Nation Central reports $121 million in cumulative funding across five rounds and 201–500 employees.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The integrations page lists GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, Jira, ServiceNow, Jenkins, Docker, JFrog Artifactory and several IDEs.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- Mend positions SCA for developers and security and legal teams managing open source security and compliance risks.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Language coverage
- The SCA service states support for more than 200 languages and frameworks, including npm, Python, Java, .NET, Go, Ruby, PHP, Rust and Swift ecosystems.checked 15 Oct 2026
- License compliance
- Organizations can define license policies, receive alerts and block policy-violating licenses before code enters the repository.checked 15 Oct 2026
- License controls
- Teams can define license policies and receive alerts, automated remediation, or blocks for policy violations.checked 4 Oct 2026
- License model
- Mend’s terms say the platform is licensed rather than sold and that Mend retains intellectual-property rights, so the product is proprietary rather than open source.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: Gartner scale and documentation
- Gartner reviewers report scalability and UI/reporting tuning challenges, slow priority-ticket follow-up, outdated documentation and manual effort for transitive dependency scanning.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company headquarters and size
- LinkedIn lists Boston, Massachusetts headquarters and 201–500 employees, with a 2011 founding year.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company history
- Mend says its predecessor WhiteSource was founded in 2011 to automate tasks around open source software use and security.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Company legal name
- Crunchbase identifies the legal name as Mend Ltd. and lists WhiteSource as an alternative name.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 2011checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Givatayim, Israelchecked 28 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- GitHub app
- Mend for GitHub.com continuously scans repositories, reports findings in security checks and issues, and can open remediation pull requests.checked 15 Oct 2026
Money
- Limit: G2 cost and integration issues
- G2’s review themes cite expense, pricing issues, integration problems and limited cloud integration.checked 15 Oct 2026
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