Endor Labs vs JFrog

JFrog customers: catch malware faster, for one flat price.

JFrog is deprecating Xray’s Block Download for remote repositories through November 2026, making paid Curation the only option. Endor Labs flags new malicious packages in about 10 minutes, blocks them wherever they enter, from Artifactory to developers’ machines, and charges one flat price per developer.

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Since switching from our previous SCA tool, Endor Labs has cut the findings we send to developers by 95%, which returned time to ship features faster, and helped us remediate exploitable vulnerabilities quickly with precise reachability and clear upgrade guidance.

Shreyas Sriram

Security Engineer, Robinhood

Why customers choose Endor Labs over JFrog

Malware detection in minutes

Endor Labs analyzes 65,000+ newly published packages a day and flags new malicious packages in about 10 minutes, with unclear findings checked by our security research team. JFrog takes 2 hours to 3 days when a package goes to manual review. In the axios attack, two malicious releases appeared 39 minutes apart.

Protection everywhere packages enter

Curation only sees packages that flow through Artifactory. Endor Labs Package Firewall works with Artifactory and can also sit between the package manager and the registry, or run on the developer's machine through MDM. Developers and AI coding agents that install straight from npm or PyPI are covered without rerouting their traffic.

One flat price per developer

Getting the same coverage from JFrog means buying several different SKUs on top of Artifactory. Endor Labs Package Firewall is one product at a flat price per developer. No artifact repository required, no usage meter, and adding AI agents does not change the bill.

How Endor Labs compares to JFrog

JFrog

Package protection: Endor Labs Package Firewall vs. JFrog Curation

Deployment and enforcement

Integrates with Artifactory, Nexus, and Google Artifact Registry. Also runs with the package manager directly or on the developer's machine through MDM.

Curation enforces inside the Artifactory request path.

Malware detection and intelligence

65,000+ newly published packages analyzed a day, scored on 150+ signals, with unclear findings checked by our security research team. New malicious packages flagged in about 10 minutes.

2 to 4 hours for automated detections, 1 to 3 days with manual review. Continuous scanning of new packages covers npm, PyPI, OpenVSX, and Hugging Face; other ecosystems get known-malicious coverage only.

Policies and decision logs

Policies for known malware, suspicious behavior, CVEs, licenses, cooldown periods on new versions, and custom risk signals. Every allow or block is logged with the reason.

Metadata policies (malicious, CVE, license, package age), with an audit log of requests and blocks.

Packaging

Sold standalone, priced per developer, no artifact repository required.

Several SKUs on top of an Artifactory subscription.

Vulnerability prioritization: Endor Labs SCA vs. JFrog Xray and Advanced Security

Reachability coverage and evidence

Function-level reachability across direct and transitive dependencies, with the call path shown on every finding. 20,000+ CVEs annotated, at every severity.

Contextual Analysis uses hand-built scanners for 1,600+ CVEs, focused on critical and high. A CVE without a scanner is marked not covered.

Transitive reachability

Included.

Available on JFrog's top security tier.

Patches when upgrading isn't practical

Endor Patches are backported fixes built and tested by Endor Labs, so you can fix a CVE without a major upgrade. Availability varies by package and version.

Zero-Touch Remediation swaps in partner-built patched versions for what Xray detects.

Upgrade impact analysis

Shows likely breaking changes before you upgrade, so developers can choose between an upgrade and a patch with evidence.

Suggests fixed versions. No check for breaking changes before you upgrade.

Platform

Code scanning (SAST)

AI-assisted analysis of application context and business logic, with evidence for each finding.

Static analysis engine inside Advanced Security.

AI coding agent governance

Governs what coding agents use (MCP servers, skills, models) and reviews the code they write.

AI Catalog governs what agents can pull (models, MCP servers, skills, plugins) through Artifactory.

“Endor Labs reduced our SCA alerts by 76%, which let us give back 11,424 development hours.”

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Principal Product Security Engineer, Five9

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Keep Artifactory. Add Package Firewall.

Package Firewall integrates with Artifactory and extends the same protection to the package manager and developer machines. Artifactory stays where it is.

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What security teams say

Endor Labs' native Bazel integration is the best on the market. It’s eliminated the previous complexity, delivering the confidence required to shift left and reliably identify/remove unused dependencies."

Kevin Vaughan

Sr. Manager Information Security, Rubrik

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Security teams don't scale linearly with engineering. If your operating model requires a security engineer in the loop on every finding, you've already lost the velocity argument before the conversation starts. Our job is to put evidence directly in front of the developer with enough fidelity that they can act on it without our involvement. Reachability analysis is the piece that made that credible at our scale.”

Dawid Balut

VP of Security @ Egnyte

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Endor Labs is like noise canceling headphones for vulnerability management and AppSec. We're able to focus only on the signal and avoid the noise. Our engineering team stays focused on shipping great products, security focuses on mitigating risk, and the company is focused on being a profitable company.”

Joshua Domagalski

CISO, Astronomer

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We’re excited to partner with Endor Labs as we continue to strengthen our security posture in this AI era. Their focus on actionable insights and seamless integration aligns with our commitment to building secure, reliable products for our customers."

Mark Turner

Head of Product Security, Atlassian

As a fast-growing AI company, we prioritize feature velocity without compromising security. Endor Labs’ unique reachability-based analysis and native integrations into our AI-native software development stack keep our developers focused on rapidly finding and fixing real risks in the SDLC, so we ship faster with confidence."

Sunil Agrawal

CISO, Glean

FAQs

Do I need to replace Artifactory to use Endor Labs?

No. Endor Labs does not make an artifact repository. Package Firewall is complementary to Artifactory: it integrates with Artifactory and can also be set up in supported package clients and on developer and CI machines, so you are not locked into Artifactory as the only place protection runs. You keep your repository, caches, and workflows.

Where does Package Firewall run?

Three places you can combine: with your artifact repository (JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus, and Google Artifact Registry today, with more repositories being added); in supported package clients with no repository needed; and on developer and CI machines through MDM or CI configuration, including machines running AI coding agents.

What is changing with Xray's Block Download?

JFrog is deprecating Xray's Block Download for remote repositories, in phases through November 2026. After that, blocking for remote repositories is only available in Curation. Xray scanning continues, and Xray still blocks on local repositories. If you relied on remote-repository blocking, this is a good time to compare Curation with Package Firewall for the same job.

How does Endor Labs reachability compare to JFrog Contextual Analysis?

Both aim to cut noise. The difference is coverage. JFrog Contextual Analysis has scanners for about 1,600 CVEs, mostly critical and high, and a CVE without a scanner gets no answer. Endor Labs has function-level reachability for 20,000+ CVEs at every severity, computed from your code's call graph across direct and transitive dependencies, with the call path on each finding. Run both on your codebase and count how many findings come back with an answer.

How is Package Firewall sold and priced?

Package Firewall is a standalone product priced per developer, with no artifact repository required and no consumption charges. For an existing Artifactory customer, the useful comparison is the SKUs you would add on the JFrog side versus adding Package Firewall. SCA, patches, and other Endor Labs products are priced separately.

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