Cybersecurity · pricing
Grype pricing
Grype publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the cybersecurity tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open source, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Grype plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grype | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where Grype stops being free
Grype, Free
- Full functionality
- No usage limits
- Community support
No paid tier on record
Grype lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Grype feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Image and filesystem scanning
- SBOM-driven
- Wide ecosystem coverage
- Pipeline friendly
People bring Grype in for re-scanning stored sboms as new cves are published, without rebuilding images, failing ci when a build introduces a known vulnerability, auditing what is actually installed inside a third-party image. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Grype are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Cybersecurity
Too few cybersecurity tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grype (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Authelia | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Grype |
| Ory Kratos | Free | Open-source self-hosted, with a paid managed network | - | vs Grype |
| authentik | Free | Open-source core with a paid enterprise tier | - | vs Grype |
| Trivy | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Grype |
| Aikido | Free | Subscription with free tier | - | vs Grype |
| Chainguard | Free, then $19000/year | Licensing by artifact type and team size | - | vs Grype |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Grype badges page.
Before you pay for Grype
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Grype runs on linux, macos, windows, docker, and is published by Anchore of Santa Barbara, California, United States. The full record is on the Grype review, and the rest of the category is under best cybersecurity tools.
Grype pricing questions
- How much does Grype cost?
- Grype publishes a single tier, Grype, at Free.
- Does Grype have a free plan?
- Yes. The Grype tier costs nothing and covers full functionality, no usage limits, community support.
- Which cybersecurity tools can I use without paying?
- 7 of the 8 cybersecurity tools listed alongside Grype have a free tier: Authelia, Ory Kratos, authentik, Trivy, Aikido.
- What am I actually paying for with Grype?
- The record lists 4 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for re-scanning stored sboms as new cves are published, without rebuilding images, failing ci when a build introduces a known vulnerability, auditing what is actually installed inside a third-party image.
- Does Grype charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Grype prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Grype against before paying?
- The closest cybersecurity tools in this directory are Authelia, Ory Kratos, authentik, Trivy. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Grype covering price, platforms and features.