Semgrep Review, Pricing & Features

See what Semgrep costs in 2026, how its static analysis engine works, and whether the Free, Team, or Enterprise plan fits your AppSec workflow.

Category
Security
Pricing
Freemium (free open-source scanner plus paid Team and Enterprise tiers), from Free for up to 10 repositories and 10 contributors; paid Team plan starts at $30 per contributor per month
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Last updated
July 19, 2026
Founded
2017
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Free PlanAPIAIFreemium

Overview

Semgrep is a static application security testing tool built to find bugs, vulnerabilities, and hardcoded secrets directly inside source code before it reaches production. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company built Semgrep around a simple idea: security rules should look like the code they are scanning, so developers, not just security specialists, can write and maintain them.

The platform now spans three connected products, Semgrep Code for SAST, Semgrep Supply Chain for dependency risk, and Semgrep Secrets for credential leaks, all sharing a single scanning engine, rule registry, and dashboard so security and engineering teams can manage findings from one place.

Key Features

Semgrep's core differentiator is cross-file and cross-function analysis that traces how data flows through an application, which lets it catch multi-step vulnerabilities that simple single-file pattern matching would miss. It ships with more than 20,000 Pro rules curated by Semgrep's research team, on top of a public rule registry contributed to by the open-source community.

Semgrep Supply Chain applies reachability analysis to open-source dependency scanning, surfacing only the vulnerable packages that are actually invoked by application code, which meaningfully cuts down on the alert fatigue common with traditional CVE scanners. AI-powered triage and autofix features, gated behind a per-plan AI-credit allowance, help teams prioritize and resolve findings faster.

Pricing

Semgrep offers a free Community edition covering up to 10 repositories and 10 contributors with both Code and Supply Chain included. The Team plan starts at $30 per contributor per month for up to 500 private repositories, with the Secrets product available as a $15 per month add-on.

Enterprise pricing is custom and scales with the number of developers, deployment model (cloud, self-hosted, or hybrid), and required features, and typically involves a direct sales conversation for large or regulated organizations that need on-premise source-code management support.

Key Features

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Free and open-source core scanner with a genuinely usable free tier for small teams
  • Fast, lightweight scanning that fits naturally into CI/CD pipelines
  • Custom rules use familiar code-like syntax instead of a complex query language
  • Reachability analysis in Supply Chain reduces alert fatigue from irrelevant dependency CVEs
  • Broad language coverage across 30-plus languages suits polyglot codebases

Cons

  • Team and Enterprise pricing is per-contributor, which can get expensive for large engineering organizations
  • Secrets detection is a separate paid add-on rather than bundled into the base Team plan
  • Enterprise pricing is custom and opaque, requiring a sales conversation for larger deployments
  • Some advanced Pro rules and cross-file analysis depth are limited on the free tier
  • Like most SAST tools, tuning is needed to minimize false positives on large legacy codebases

Pricing

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Semgrep used for?

Semgrep is used for static application security testing, scanning source code to find bugs, security vulnerabilities, vulnerable dependencies, and hardcoded secrets before code reaches production.

Is Semgrep free?

Yes, Semgrep has a free Community edition covering up to 10 repositories and 10 contributors with Code and Supply Chain scanning included. Larger teams need the paid Team or Enterprise plans.

What is the difference between Semgrep Code, Supply Chain, and Secrets?

Semgrep Code is the SAST engine for finding bugs and vulnerabilities in first-party code, Supply Chain is software composition analysis for open-source dependency risk, and Secrets detects hardcoded credentials and API keys.

How much does Semgrep Team cost?

The Team plan starts at $30 per contributor per month for up to 500 private repositories, with the Secrets product available as a $15 per month add-on.

What programming languages does Semgrep support?

Semgrep supports more than 30 languages, with Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Go, C, C++, Ruby, PHP, Rust, C#, and Kotlin at general availability.

Who founded Semgrep and when?

Semgrep was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Can Semgrep be self-hosted?

Yes, Enterprise customers can deploy Semgrep in the cloud, self-hosted, or in a hybrid model, including support for on-premise source-code management systems.

Does Semgrep integrate with CI/CD pipelines?

Yes, Semgrep integrates with GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, and IDEs such as VS Code so scans can run automatically on pull requests or before commits.

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