Mend.io
Unified governance for the software you write and the AI you build.
By Mend.io · HQ Givatayim, Israel · 4.0/5 Value-Position score (estimate)
Positioning guardrails
Best for
- Enterprise AppSec teams unifying SCA, SAST, container scanning and dependency risk in one platform
- Security teams that must inventory, red-team and monitor AI models, agents and prompts in production
- Compliance and GRC teams producing SBOM/AI-BOM evidence for the EU AI Act, CRA, EO 14028, NIST and ISO 42001
- Engineering organisations wanting automated dependency upgrades with confidence-rated merge workflows
Ideal size: 100-5,000 contributing developers people · Enterprise or scale-up with a dedicated AppSec or product-security program
Not for
- Small teams looking for a free or low-cost self-serve code scanner
- Buyers wanting a chat-style AI coding assistant or code generation tool
- Teams that need only GRC workflow and case management, not technical evidence
- Organisations unwilling to integrate scanners into repositories and CI/CD pipelines
Value metrics scorecard
Time-to-Value
1-2 weeks
~14 days to first production value
Total Cost of Ownership
$100,000/yr
Starts at $250 · Per contributing developer, billed annually; no per-GB, per-scan or per-application fees
Implementation Friction
2/5
Engineering + admin effort required
Value-Position score
out of 5 · model estimate
Full cost breakdown
Mandatory implementation fee
None
Seat tiers
Priced per contributing developer; no seat minimum published
Add-on costs
- Mend AI Premium
- DAST
- API Security
- End-of-Life (EOL) support for open source projects
- Hosting, services and custom agreements may be additional charges
Company & support
Who is behind Mend.io, and how your team gets help once it is live.
Company
- Founded
- Not recorded
- Headquarters
- Givatayim, Israel
How you get support
- PhoneNot listed
- EmailNot listed
- Live chatNot listed
- Support portal / ticketsPlan not stated
- Community forumNot listed
- Help centre / docsNot listed
- Dedicated account managerEnterprise only
- In person / on-siteNot listed
- Hours
- Not recorded
- Response time
- Not stated
Tech support is reached through the support.mend.io portal. Mend Renovate Enterprise includes dedicated support from Mend's experts.
“Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention that channel, not that it is unavailable. Ask about it during evaluation.
Market position
Where Mend.io sits against its closest alternatives. Pick any two of cost, speed, friction and buyer score, and up to 9 companies to compare.
Quadrant view
Typical annual cost × Time-to-value
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Stack fit signal
Compatibility with standard B2B ecosystems.
No supported MCP path today, so it cannot be driven from an AI client.
AI & MCP readiness
What Mend.io ships in AI, and what it asks of your ecosystem.
AI features shipped
Sources describe AI-BOM and shadow-AI discovery, system prompt hardening, automated red teaming, in-app runtime guardrails and AI-SPM governance, plus AI-powered fix suggestions and scanning of AI-generated code from tools such as Cursor, Windsurf and Copilot. No source names the model providers used, how keys are supplied, or whether customer data trains models.
Your data & models
- Trains on your data
- Not recorded — ask the vendor
- Runs on
- Not recorded
- AI pricing
- Paid add-on
In your ecosystem
- AI connection
- Not supported
- Model key
- Not recorded
- AI usage audit
- Not recorded
Compliance attestations
* IAPP AIGP certifies individuals, not products. It means named staff hold the credential — not that the platform does.
Bottom line
Mend.io unifies application and AI security: SCA, SAST, container and secrets scanning, reachability analysis and automated dependency updates, plus AI-layer controls such as AI-BOM and shadow-AI discovery, system prompt hardening, automated red teaming, runtime guardrails and AI-SPM governance. It exports SBOM/AI-BOM and audit evidence mapped to the EU AI Act, CRA, EO 14028, NIST SSDF/AI RMF, OWASP LLM Top 10 and ISO 42001. Pricing is per contributing developer, billed annually.
Frequently asked questions
How is Mend.io priced and what does it cost?
Mend prices per contributing developer, billed annually, with no per-GB, per-scan or per-application charges. Published rates are up to $1,000 per developer per year for Mend AppSec, up to $300 for Mend AI and up to $250 for Mend Renovate Enterprise. Mend AI can be bought as an add-on to Mend AppSec or standalone, and add-ons such as Mend AI Premium, DAST, API Security and EOL support, plus hosting, services or custom agreements, may cost extra.
How long does Mend.io take to implement and show value?
Mend is available as SaaS or self-hosted and connects through repository, CI/CD, IDE and issue-tracking integrations. One customer reported scanning its first product in about half an hour and described the tool as click-and-play; another cut a week-long open source audit to roughly 15 minutes. Most teams see actionable findings in the first weeks rather than after a long professional-services engagement.
What AI security capabilities does Mend.io include?
Mend AI discovers and inventories AI components, models, agents, RAGs and system prompts, including shadow AI, in an AI-BOM. It hardens system prompts, runs automated red teaming for prompt injection, data leakage and bias risks, and enforces in-app runtime guardrails with AI-SPM governance. Mend AppSec adds scanning of AI-generated code from assistants such as Cursor, Windsurf and Copilot, plus AI-powered fix suggestions.
Does Mend.io help with EU AI Act, CRA and EO 14028 compliance?
Yes. Mend maps its capabilities to those frameworks and produces the supporting artifacts: machine-readable AI-BOMs and SBOMs (CycloneDX, SPDX), red team reports tagged to the OWASP LLM Top 10, posture reports, control mappings to NIST SSDF, NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001 and ISO 27001, and an immutable audit log. Findings and artifacts export into GRC platforms such as ServiceNow, OneTrust, Drata and Vanta.
Can Mend.io be self-hosted for regulated or sovereign-cloud requirements?
Yes. Mend states that it supports both SaaS and self-hosted deployments to meet data residency, sovereign-cloud and regulated-industry requirements, and directs buyers to sales for specific deployment models. Its trust page also notes pseudonymisation of contributing developers' email addresses and GDPR-aligned data protection practices.