anchore/grype vs quay/clair
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, grype and clair both show healthy maintenance signals. grype was committed to 2 weeks ago with 17+ active contributors, while clair was committed to 2 weeks ago with 12+ active contributors. Both use the Apache-2.0 license. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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anchore/grype
Healthy across all four use cases
No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No blocking repository-level signals were found; deployment review is still required.
- ⚠9 moderate-severity advisories on direct dependencies
- ✓Last commit 1d ago
- ✓17 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 42% of recent commits)
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
quay/clair
Strong maintenance signals
dependency CVE scan unavailable
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10; dependency CVE scan unavailable
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 71% of recent commits
- ✓Last commit 1d ago
- ✓12 active contributors
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| grype | clair | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 12,824 | 11,054 |
| Last commit | 14d ago | 14d ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Open issues | 405 | 61 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 84% | 37% |
| Dependency CVEs | 0 critical · 0 high · 9 moderate · 0 low | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
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