Snyk Evo Continuous Offensive Security
by Snyk
Autonomous AI pentesting and agent red teaming that attacks your apps continuously, not once a year
Snyk Evo Continuous Offensive Security is an AI-native offensive testing product that continuously pentests applications and red-teams AI agents, returning validated proof of exploitable findings. It is built for enterprise AppSec and product security teams who already run scanners but cannot afford annual-only manual pentests, and who now have LLM agents in production that signature-based tools cannot assess.
Snyk Evo Continuous Offensive Security (COS) reached general availability on 4 August 2026 at Black Hat USA, extending Snyk's developer-security platform from scanning into autonomous offensive testing. Rather than a point-in-time engagement, Evo COS attacks an application continuously as it changes and returns validated proof of what an attacker could actually exploit. It bundles three engines. AI pentesting scopes an application, reasons about its intent, plans a multistage attack, coordinates specialised agents and tools, and surfaces architectural and business-logic flaws that signature-based scanners structurally miss. Agent red teaming, also GA on the same date, simulates prompt injection, tool and agent abuse, goal hijacking and data exfiltration against running AI agents and LLM-integrated applications. Dynamic application security testing exhaustively exercises endpoints for conventional classes such as cross-site scripting and SQL injection. Every confirmed finding ships with a runnable proof of concept and the reasoning trace behind the result, which is the mechanism intended to cut the triage burden that dogs traditional scanners. Evo COS sits inside a wider four-stage model Snyk markets as discover, remediate, validate and prevent: upgraded AI security posture management inventories models, agents and MCP servers; the Evo Agentic AppSec remediation agent, in public preview, works down inherited vulnerability backlogs; COS validates exploitability; and Snyk Secrets, also GA, blocks leaked credentials and malicious packages. Snyk was founded in 2015 out of Tel Aviv and London, is headquartered in Boston and employs roughly 1,550 people, so Evo COS reads as an incumbent's answer to autonomous-pentest challengers rather than a greenfield product.
The head of application or product security at an enterprise already running Snyk for SCA and SAST, who needs exploitability proof between annual pentests and has LLM agents shipping to production.
Continuous, validated evidence of what is actually exploitable — each finding arriving with a runnable proof of concept instead of another unranked scanner alert.
At a Glance
- Category
- Governance & Security
- Pricing
- Subscription, Freemium, Contact for pricing
- Target Market
- CISOs, CTOs, Enterprise Developers, Security Engineers, VPs of Engineering
- Deployment
- Cloud-only, API-based, Multi-cloud
- Founded
- 2015
- Headquarters
- Boston, United States
- Team Size
- 500+
Key Features
- ✓AI pentesting
Scopes the application, plans a multistage attack and coordinates specialised agents to find architectural and business-logic flaws scanners miss.
- ✓Agent red teaming
Attacks running AI agents and LLM applications with prompt injection, tool abuse, goal hijacking and data exfiltration attempts.
- ✓Validated proof of concept
Each confirmed finding ships with a runnable exploit plus the reasoning trace, so triage starts from evidence rather than a severity score.
- ✓Dynamic application security testing
Exhaustively exercises application endpoints for conventional classes such as cross-site scripting and SQL injection alongside the AI-driven testing.
- ✓AI security posture management
Discovers and inventories the organisation's AI attack surface including models, agents and Model Context Protocol servers.
- ✓Snyk Secrets
Generally available alongside COS, it detects and blocks leaked credentials that AI-generated code has made markedly more common.
- ✓Evo agentic remediation
A public-preview agent that autonomously works down inherited vulnerability backlogs instead of only reporting them to developers.
Capabilities
Use Cases
- •Continuous exploitability validation
Security teams get pentest-grade coverage across the roughly 350 days a year when no manual engagement is running against the application.
- •Securing an LLM agent before launch
Product teams red-team a customer-facing agent for prompt injection and data exfiltration before it is exposed to real users.
- •Prioritising a legacy vulnerability backlog
Instead of ranking thousands of alerts by CVSS, teams triage the subset that COS has proven to be genuinely exploitable in context.
- •Auditing shadow AI in the SDLC
AI-SPM discovery inventories models, agents and MCP servers developers have introduced, giving security a real map of the AI attack surface.
- •Evidence for compliance and customer security reviews
Reasoning traces and runnable proofs of concept provide auditable artefacts that a scanner report alone cannot supply to assessors.
Ideal For
Best For
- ✓Validating exploitability continuously between scheduled manual penetration tests
- ✓Red-teaming production LLM agents for prompt injection, goal hijacking and data exfiltration
- ✓Finding business-logic and architectural flaws that signature-based SAST and SCA cannot reach
- ✓Inventorying an organisation's AI attack surface across models, agents and MCP servers
- ✓Cutting AppSec triage load by shipping proofs of concept rather than raw alert volume
Not Ideal For
- ✗Teams that require published, self-serve list pricing — Evo COS is not in Snyk's public tier table and needs a sales conversation
- ✗Organisations needing fully air-gapped or on-premise deployment; Snyk is delivered as SaaS with regional hosting rather than customer-hosted
- ✗Small engineering teams with no dedicated AppSec function to action offensive findings, where the free or Team scanning tiers already cover the realistic threat model
- ✗Buyers who want independent third-party benchmarks today — Snyk is still constructing its own AI pentesting benchmarks from design-partner environments
Integrations
Deployment
Market Analysis
Pros
- ✓Genuinely addresses AI agent risk classes — prompt injection, goal hijacking, data exfiltration — that signature-based tooling cannot evaluate
- ✓Proof-of-concept-per-finding directly attacks the alert-fatigue problem reviewers most often raise about Snyk's scanners
- ✓Strong existing distribution: teams already running Snyk get offensive testing without adopting a new vendor
- ✓Mature compliance posture with SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and ISO 27017, plus EU regional hosting in Frankfurt
Cons
- ✗False positives are the single most consistently cited complaint about Snyk in G2 and Capterra reviews, with Snyk Code (SAST) described as less mature than the SCA side
- ✗Capterra reviewers report that enterprise pricing escalates sharply for medium and large organisations, and some describe the sales team as aggressive
- ✗Support responsiveness draws recurring criticism, with reviewers reporting slow escalation and unresolved tickets
- ✗No independent performance validation of the AI pentesting claims exists yet; Snyk is still building its own benchmarks from design-partner environments
- ✗Snyk's own credibility took a public hit when one of its security researchers published malicious npm packages targeting Cursor — a story that drew 574 points and over 300 comments on Hacker News
- ✗Evo COS pricing is unpublished, making cost modelling impossible without engaging sales
Pricing
Free
$0
- ✓SCA, SAST, IaC and container scanning
- ✓5 projects
- ✓Capped monthly test limits
Team
From $25/mo
- ✓Per contributing developer
- ✓100 projects
- ✓Jira integration
- ✓Next business day support
Ignite
From $1,260/yr
- ✓Per contributing developer, organisations under 50 developers
- ✓Unlimited code tests
- ✓Custom security rules
- ✓Risk-based prioritisation
- ✓RBAC
Enterprise
Contact for pricing
- ✓Unified AppSec control
- ✓Full SDLC automation
- ✓EU data residency
- ✓Zero-day risk prevention
Snyk publishes list pricing for its scanning tiers, metered per contributing developer: Free at $0, Team from $25 per developer per month, and Ignite from $1,260 per developer per year for organisations under fifty developers. Evo COS itself is not in that public tier table — it is presented as a featured solution requiring a custom quote, so budgeting means a sales conversation. Capterra reviewers repeatedly flag that enterprise pricing escalates steeply for mid-size and large organisations, and EU data residency in Frankfurt is gated behind the Enterprise plan.
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