SBOM generators

Generate software bills of materials in SPDX or CycloneDX from source trees, images and binaries.

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SBOM generators
Tool	Stars	Licence	Terms	Self-hosted	Language	Latest	Last push
Syft	9.6k	Apache-2.0	Open source	No	Go	v1.54.1	2026-10-06
SBOM Tool	2.1k	MIT	Open source	No	C#	v4.1.5	2026-09-21
cdxgen	1.1k	Apache-2.0	Open source	No	JavaScript	v13.3.0	2026-10-06

3 tools

Syft

CLI tool and library for generating a Software Bill of Materials from container images and filesystems

Language: Go
Licence: Apache-2.0
Stars: 9.6k
Latest: v1.54.1
Last push: 2026-10-06

SBOM Tool

The SBOM tool is a highly scalable and enterprise ready tool to create SPDX 2.2 compatible SBOMs for any variety of artifacts.

Language: C#
Licence: MIT
Stars: 2.1k
Latest: v4.1.5
Last push: 2026-09-21

cdxgen

Creates CycloneDX Bill of Materials (BOM) for your projects from source and container images. Supports many languages and package managers. Integrate in your CI/CD pipeline with automatic submission to Dependency Track server

Language: JavaScript
Licence: Apache-2.0
Stars: 1.1k
Latest: v13.3.0
Last push: 2026-10-06