MagSolutionsAIMagAudit vs Socket
Written by the people who make one of the two. Read it with that in mind.
If dependencies are your whole problem, use Socket
Socket analyses what a package does — install scripts, network and filesystem access, obfuscated code, secret theft. We do not: we look at how old a package is and how many people use it. When the Axios compromise happened, Socket flagged the malicious dependency within six minutes (their account).
And it is free. Socket's free plan covers unlimited developers and repositories, up to 1,000 scans a month, and blocks malicious dependencies automatically (socket.dev/pricing). A small team whose only worry is the supply chain has no reason to pay us for that half.
Where we are different
Socket's own feature list describes a product built around dependencies. It does not advertise scanning your code for hardcoded credentials, or your Dockerfiles, workflows and Terraform (socket.dev/features). That is the other half, and it is where most of what we find lives: on about one public pull request in fifteen, what we flag is a credential or an injection, not a package.
| Socket | MagAudit | |
|---|---|---|
| Malicious package behaviour (install scripts, network, obfuscation) | Yes | No |
| New, barely used packages flagged before any advisory | Yes, with far more signals | Yes — age and adoption, PyPI and npm |
Hardcoded credentials, and keys shipped to the browser (NEXT_PUBLIC_, VITE_) | Not advertised | Yes |
| Dockerfiles, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Kubernetes | Not advertised | Yes |
| Injection and unsafe defaults in your code | Not advertised | Yes, by pattern |
| Scans the code already in the repository at install | — | Yes, a sample: up to 5 repositories, 40 files each |
| What it reads, and where | Your dependency manifests; a US company | Your code, on one server in Finland; never sent to an AI model |
| Price on private repositories | Free plan above; Team $25 per developer per month, minimum five | Flat per organisation: €29, €69 or €149 a month |
How to decide
Only dependencies: Socket's free plan. Dependencies and credentials and configuration in one check, at a price that does not grow with each hire, analysed in the EU: that is what we built. Plenty of teams would be well served by running both.
About the advisory window, precisely
We measured it on the 100 most recent npm malware advisories. The median gap between the package appearing and the advisory was zero days — most are caught the same day. But 30% took more than a day and the longest took 95 days, and 95% of those packages were under 30 days old when the advisory landed. Age and adoption are visible from the first second; that is the signal we use.
Last reviewed: 27 September 2026. Figures about Socket are theirs, linked where they appear, as published on that date. Figures about us are our own measurement and reproducible against our public endpoint and our error record.