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Alternatives to Cosign
22 cybersecurity tools sit alongside Cosign in this directory. Below is what separates each from Cosign on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 22
- With a free tier
- 3
- Cheaper to start
- -
- Cosign starts at
- Free
Why people look past Cosign
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Cosign entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
There is only one tier
Cosign publishes a single plan, Cosign at Free. There is no smaller tier to drop to if the fit is wrong or the budget moves.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Free public signing and transparency infrastructure for open source artifacts
- Sold on a Open source, public instance free to use model rather than Open source, no licence fee.
- 2 tiers to Cosign's 1.
Generates a software bill of materials from images, filesystems and archives
- 2 tiers to Cosign's 1.
Free TOTP two-factor authentication app that gained optional cloud sync in 2023
- Sold on a Free, no in-app purchases model rather than Open source, no licence fee.
Real-time transaction fraud and financial crime detection for banks and payment processors
- No free tier, where Cosign has one.
- Sold on a quote model rather than Open source, no licence fee.
Workforce and customer authentication from a certificate authority
- No free tier, where Cosign has one.
- Publishes an entry price of $2/month, where Cosign does not.
- Sold on a Per user per month model rather than Open source, no licence fee.
- 2 tiers to Cosign's 1.
Adaptive behavioural analytics for payment fraud and financial crime
- No free tier, where Cosign has one.
- Sold on a quote model rather than Open source, no licence fee.
Every Cosign alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cosign (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | |
| SigstoreThe wider project, if the question is the infrastructure rather than the client | Free | Open source, public instance free to use | 2 | vs Cosign |
| SyftA different job entirely: what is inside the artifact rather than who signed it | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 2 | vs Cosign |
| Google Authenticator | Free | Free, no in-app purchases | 1 | vs Cosign |
| Feedzai | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Cosign |
| Entrust Identity as a Service | $2/month | Per user per month | 2 | vs Cosign |
| Featurespace ARIC Risk Hub | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Cosign |
| Dahua Technology | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Cosign |
| Genetec Security Center | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Cosign |
| Envysion | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Cosign |
| IDnow | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Cosign |
| Delinea | On request | Quote | 3 | vs Cosign |
| DTiQ | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Cosign |
| Hanwha Vision | On request | One-time purchase | 1 | vs Cosign |
| BeyondTrust | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Cosign |
| HID Global | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Cosign |
| Fenergo | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Cosign |
| iDenfy | On request | Per verification | 1 | vs Cosign |
| March Networks | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Cosign |
| Jumio | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Cosign |
| Eagle Eye Networks | On request | Per camera per month | 1 | vs Cosign |
| Camio | $4.99/month | Per camera per month | 2 | vs Cosign |
| Beyond Identity | On request | Quote | 1 | vs Cosign |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Cosign badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
Free to start (3)
These publish a tier that costs nothing, so they can be evaluated before any money changes hands.
- Sigstore , Free
- Syft , Free
- Google Authenticator , Free
What you would be giving up
Cosign is most often brought in for signing container images in a build pipeline without managing long-lived private keys, attaching a signed bill of materials to a release so consumers can verify its provenance, meeting a customer or regulatory requirement for signed artifacts, verifying third-party images before they enter an internal registry. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Cosign is broadly right and the question is cost, the Cosign pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Cybersecurity category lists everything the directory holds, and best cybersecurity tools ranks them.
Cosign runs on macos, linux, windows, docker. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Cosign alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Cosign?
- 22 other cybersecurity tools are listed in this directory, led by Sigstore, Syft, Google Authenticator, Feedzai. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Cosign?
- 3 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Sigstore, Syft, Google Authenticator.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Cosign?
- On the figures on record, one thing stands out: there is only one tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Cosign?
- Cosign is most often brought in for signing container images in a build pipeline without managing long-lived private keys, attaching a signed bill of materials to a release so consumers can verify its provenance, meeting a customer or regulatory requirement for signed artifacts, verifying third-party images before they enter an internal registry. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Cosign?
- None of the cybersecurity tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these Cosign alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Cybersecurity, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Cosign against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Cosign covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every cybersecurity tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Cybersecurity category, 22 tools beside Cosign. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.