--- title: FOSSA Reviews meta\_title: 'FOSSA Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 15 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how FOSSA works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.2 review\_count: 15 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: "DevSecOps\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t" url: https://www.g2.com/categories/devsecops --- # FOSSA Reviews & Product Details Open source is a critical part of your software. In the average modern software product, over 80% of the source code shipped is derived from open source. Each component can have cascading legal, security, and quality implications for your customers, making it one of the most important things to manage correctly. FOSSA helps you manage your open source components. We plug into your development workflow to help your team automatically track, manage, and remediate issues with the open source you use to: - Stay compliant with software licenses and generate required attribution documents - Enforce usage and licensing policies throughout your CI/CD workflow - Monitor and remediate security vulnerabilities - Flag code quality issues and outdated components proactively By enabling open source, we help development teams increase development velocity and decrease risk. * * * Seller [FOSSA](https://www.g2.com/sellers/fossa) Discussions [FOSSA Community](https://www.g2.com/products/fossa/discuss) Languages Supported English Overview by Abdullah Baig Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 1 month [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/fossa/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Mend.io](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mend.io") Mend.io 4.3/5(124) ](https://www.g2.com/products/mend-io/reviews) [ ![Wiz](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Wiz") Wiz 4.7/5(842) ](https://www.g2.com/products/wiz-wiz/reviews) [ ![GitLab](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "GitLab") GitLab 4.5/5(901) ](https://www.g2.com/products/gitlab/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/fossa/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 15 real user reviews. Implementation Time 1 month [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) EM Elvis M. System Engineer Associate Mechanical or Industrial Engineering Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 9/7/2023 ""The FOSSA Experience"" 5/5 What do you like best about FOSSA? The product is effective and efficient and it has aspects that enable automated scans of emails and licenses which are quite amazing. The product is also easy and simple to use and also integrates quite easily with other applications which awesome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about FOSSA? The performance of the product is amazing except that sometimes the system is sluggish though not often. Amazing product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FOSSA solving and how is that benefiting you? It is through this platform that we are able to monitor and ensure all legal and licenses compliances to avoid any issues during our sales and marketing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite YN Yatur N. Sales Manager Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 7/25/2023 "The FOSSA Effect." 5/5 What do you like best about FOSSA? This product is easy and simple to use and integrates very well with other applications like Gitlab. I like how effective and efficient with multiple build systems and its vulnerability. Another aspect is the automated scans of emails and licences which are quite amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about FOSSA? The system is sometimes slow though not quite often. This can be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FOSSA solving and how is that benefiting you? It is through this platform that we have ensured there's license compliance and avoided any issues when we're doing our sales and marketing of our products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![kanti b.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "kanti b.") KB kanti b. Senior Relationship Manager Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/31/2022 "Helped me find major problems in my code" 5/5 What do you like best about FOSSA? Using Fossa I was able to import my project from GitHub, run a scan and immediately it pointed out all the licensing problems in my code. It discovered several dependencies that I was not legally allowed to use without a license! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about FOSSA? While Fossa discovered 3 major problems and suggested a way to resolve them, it also found 8 problems with unclear resolution that need a manual review. Since I am not a legal expert, the vague error is hard to understand and resolve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FOSSA solving and how is that benefiting you? Since I am a Node developer, I use `npm` packages all the time. My app has many dependencies which themselves have many more. I cannot manually go and check out the licenses of all these hundreds of OSS packages. Fossa is useful for me as it identifies the main 10 or so dependencies that I need to check and can assume my project is legally using the rest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism") IL Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/21/2022 "FOSSA REVIEW" 4.5/5 What do you like best about FOSSA? FOSSA stands for Free and Open Source Software Analysis which automates the management of open source compliance and security. Up to 90% of the code in software development is subject to open-source licensing, and it is susceptible to plenty of security and legal issues. FOSSA takes care of this issue with its security management toolkit that alerts enterprises if they are at risk by looking into the known vulnerabilities and license management in the open-source code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about FOSSA? The UI of FOSSA loads slowly, and even though it is claimed that FOSSA scans in real-time, the speed with which the scan is done can be drastically improved for an overall better user experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FOSSA solving and how is that benefiting you? Once FOSSA was implemented, the developer team had much more time on hand than before since many hours were put into open-source compliances previously. FOSSA seamlessly integrated into the development workflow and drove open-source brilliance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite EI Eric I. Paving advisor Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/31/2022 "For competence and due diligence use this product!!" 4.5/5 What do you like best about FOSSA? They are very comprehensive and thorough in their evaluations and send info when needed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about FOSSA? While I am no engineer, I d have some background, but these guys and girls are brilliant, sometimes too brilliant for me and I need to dumb it down. But, no complaints as of now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FOSSA solving and how is that benefiting you? Risk management comes to mind. I don't feel as vulnerable as I was in the past. They came through and laid a plane out for security and to keep things safe and secure. The only issue I have had was lag in my internet, which is not on them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Umesh Kumar J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Umesh Kumar J.") UJ Umesh Kumar J. d Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/2/2022 "Best SaaS for License Scanning & Automation" 4.5/5 What do you like best about FOSSA? The automated scans of email and licenses attracted me the most. Overall as of now I found Fossa is the best solution in the market for the scanning and verification of licences. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about FOSSA? The interface of the application is slow, and the speed of the scans is also plodding and needs improvement. Apart from these, everything works great !! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is FOSSA solving and how is that benefiting you? We use FOSSA to keep the check over our software so that the licenses we use to create any software are okay and we can distribute it without legal complications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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