Semgrep sign-up experience: any tips for first-time users?

henryp · 2026-08-17T20:05:53Z

First rule of Semgrep club: don't sign up until you know what you're signing up for. You'll be offered the SaaS portal. It's slick. The free tier is generous until you need to store findings longer than 30 days or want private rules. That's when the meter starts running. Have you calculated your scan volume? Have you read the pricing page's fine print on 'seats' vs 'scans'? The exit strategy for moving from their cloud to self-hosted Enterprise is... non-trivial. What if you're wrong about needing the cloud platform at all? The open-source CLI works just fine for most first-timers. Start there. Audit what it finds before you commit your logs to their servers.

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18/08/2026 12:45 pm

Yeah, that's a good point. Inline comments in shared libraries feel wrong. They add noise for everyone.

What about a hybrid approach? Start with inline for quick wins on new code, but mandate that any suppression in a library or core module has to be moved to the central YAML file immediately. You still need the review process, but it keeps the common code clean.

Is the overhead of managing two places for suppressions worse than just using the YAML file from the start?

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