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MyRec.com vs Syft

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MyRec.com

Government

Recreation management for small parks departments, priced on your annual revenue with no contract

From
On request
Free plan
No
Full reviewWebsite
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Syft

Cybersecurity

Generates a software bill of materials from images, filesystems and archives

From
Free
Free plan
Yes
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Only Syft has a free tier, so it costs nothing to try first.
  • Each has a real cost: MyRec.com the annual fee scales with department revenue, so a successful department pays more for the same software as its programme income grows.; Syft lockfile parsing can drop packages silently. An open issue filed in August 2026 reports the yarn v1 cataloguer returning 118 of 745 packages with no error raised, which means a complete bill of materials and an 84 percent incomplete one look identical to the caller.
  • They diverge on capability: MyRec.com covers Revenue-based annual fee, Syft covers Multi-format output.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which MyRec.com and Syft actually diverge.

Attributes where MyRec.com and Syft differ
AttributeMyRec.comSyft
Starting priceOn requestFree
Pricing modelPer year by department annual revenueOpen source, no licence fee
Free tierNoYes
PlatformsWebmacOS, Linux, Windows, Docker
CategoryGovernmentCybersecurity

Identical on both: user rating (Not yet rated).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in MyRec.com

  • Revenue-based annual fee
  • Programme registration
  • Facility reservations
  • Point of sale
  • League scheduling
  • Everything included

Only in Syft

  • Multi-format output
  • Broad ecosystem coverage
  • Binary classifiers
  • In-toto attestations
  • Library and CLI
  • Pairs with Grype

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

MyRec.com

  • A town recreation department of one or two staff moving off paper registration forms and a shared spreadsheetnot Syft
  • A department that wants to choose its own payment processor rather than accept the software vendor ratenot Syft
  • Replacing a system that charges per module, where every new programme type triggered an upsellnot Syft
  • A department needing field permits and league scheduling without buying a facilities management suitenot Syft

Syft

  • Producing a bill of materials for a customer or regulator that requires onenot MyRec.com
  • Feeding an inventory into a vulnerability scanner rather than scanning images directlynot MyRec.com
  • Recording what shipped in a build so a future disclosure can be answered quicklynot MyRec.com
  • Public sector work where an SBOM is a contractual deliverablenot MyRec.com

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

MyRec.com

  • The annual fee scales with department revenue, so a successful department pays more for the same software as its programme income grows.
  • It is built for small and mid-sized departments and lacks the permitting, aquatics and multi-facility depth a large city requires.
  • Credit card processing is explicitly excluded from the fee, so the total cost depends on a merchant agreement the department must source and negotiate itself.
  • Integration surface is thin, with no meaningful connection to municipal ERP or finance systems, meaning revenue reconciliation is a manual export.
  • The vendor is small, so there is limited third-party consulting capacity and a narrow bench for support during peak registration periods.

Syft

  • Lockfile parsing can drop packages silently. An open issue filed in August 2026 reports the yarn v1 cataloguer returning 118 of 745 packages with no error raised, which means a complete bill of materials and an 84 percent incomplete one look identical to the caller.
  • Fidelity varies sharply by ecosystem. Conan for C and C++, Haskell and Terraform get cataloguer support with no licence data, no dependency relationships and no file ownership, so a C and C++ shop gets the least from it.
  • Binary classification yields no licence or dependency metadata, and vendored or statically linked code is exactly where supply chain risk hides, so the blind spot and the risk overlap.
  • Incorrect CPE values and CPE collisions are recorded as open issues, and since Grype matches on CPE and PURL, an inventory error becomes a false negative in the security report downstream.
  • An inventory is not a risk assessment. Even a perfect bill of materials says a vulnerable version is present, never that the vulnerable function is called, and the triage burden lands entirely on the reader.

Pricing, plan by plan

MyRec.com

On request
  • MyRec.com$undefined/year
    • Single annual fee calculated from department annual revenue
    • Third parties report entry around 2,850 to 3,445 USD per year
    • Site build, onboarding and training included

Syft

Free
  • SyftFree
    • Apache-2.0
    • No usage limits
    • Community support
  • Anchore Enterprise$undefined/year
    • Policy enforcement and reporting
    • Federal and commercial tiers
    • Pricing not published, quoted on request

Which should you pick?

Choose MyRec.com if

  • You need revenue-based annual fee.
  • You also want programme registration.
MyRec.com review

Choose Syft if

  • You need multi-format output.
  • You want to start without paying.
  • You work on macOS, Linux, Windows, Docker.
  • You also want broad ecosystem coverage.
Syft review

Questions people ask

Is MyRec.com or Syft better?
Neither clearly leads. MyRec.com starts at On request and Syft at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, MyRec.com or Syft?
Syft has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at On request for MyRec.com and Free for Syft.
Does MyRec.com or Syft run on more platforms?
MyRec.com runs on Web. Syft runs on macOS, Linux, Windows, Docker.
Can I use Syft for free?
Yes. Syft has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. MyRec.com starts at On request.
What is MyRec.com best used for?
MyRec.com is most often used for a town recreation department of one or two staff moving off paper registration forms and a shared spreadsheet, a department that wants to choose its own payment processor rather than accept the software vendor rate, replacing a system that charges per module, where every new programme type triggered an upsell, a department needing field permits and league scheduling without buying a facilities management suite. Of those, a town recreation department of one or two staff moving off paper registration forms and a shared spreadsheet and a department that wants to choose its own payment processor rather than accept the software vendor rate are not what Syft is typically brought in for.
What can MyRec.com do that Syft cannot?
MyRec.com covers Revenue-based annual fee, Programme registration, Facility reservations, Point of sale. Syft covers Multi-format output, Broad ecosystem coverage, Binary classifiers, In-toto attestations.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

MyRec.com: How is MyRec priced?

A single annual fee calculated from your department annual revenue, using a calculator on the MyRec site. Third parties report entry around 2,850 to 3,445 USD a year.

Syft: Does Syft find vulnerabilities?

No. It produces an inventory. Grype, from the same company, matches that inventory against vulnerability feeds. They are separate tools and the distinction is frequently lost.

MyRec.com: Is there a setup fee?

No. Site build, onboarding and training are included in the annual fee.

Syft: Does anything in the Anchore stack do reachability analysis?

No. Neither Syft, Grype nor the commercial Anchore platform performs call graph or reachability analysis, so none of them tells you whether a vulnerable code path is actually invoked.

MyRec.com: Are card fees included?

No. Credit card processing is separate and you arrange your own merchant account.

Syft: Is it a CNCF or OpenSSF project?

No. It is single-vendor open source owned by Anchore, with no foundation governance. That is a different licence risk profile from Sigstore.

MyRec.com: Is there a contract?

No long-term contract is required, which is unusual in municipal software.

Syft: What does Anchore Enterprise cost?

Not published. The pricing page is contact-sales only, with named but unpriced commercial and federal tiers.

Syft: How do I know my SBOM is complete?

You largely cannot, which is the honest answer. Silent partial parsing is a known open defect, so a bill of materials used for compliance should be spot-checked against a known dependency list.

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