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Aikido vs Dependabot

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Aikido vs Dependabot

How Aikido compares to Dependabot

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Open Source Dependency Scanning (SCA)
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Static Code Analysis (SAST)
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Infrastructure as Code Scanning (IaC)
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Container Image Scanning
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Surface Monitoring (DAST)
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Cloud Posture Management (CSPM)
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Malware Detection in Dependencies
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Reachability Analysis
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Secrets Detection
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Team based access rights
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Self-hosted git org support
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Reporting
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Open Source Dependency Scanning (SCA)
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SAST (Enterprise only)
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Infrastructure as Code Scanning (IaC)
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Container Image Scanning
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Surface Monitoring (DAST)
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Cloud Posture Management (CSPM)
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Malware Detection in Dependencies
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Reachability Analysis
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Secrets Detection (Enterprise Only)
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Team based access rights (Enterprise Only)
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Reporting (Enterprise Only)
Features

Everything You Wish Security Tools Actually Did

All-in-one security

Detecting vulnerabilities (CVEs) is just the tip of the iceberg. Aikido combines tools like cloud misconfiguration detection, secrets detection, SAST, IaC, surface monitoring (DAST), and more.

all-in-one security

Static Code Analysis

Aikido performs static analysis (SAST) by scanning the source code to identify potential security vulnerabilities without executing the code. It works out-of-the-box and supports all languages. Create your own custom SAST rules.

Aikido reachability analysis SAST

Authenticated DAST

Authenticated DAST logs in as a user before a DAST scan, to test as much of the application as possible. Note: It is advised to never run these scans on a production server.

Toxic combination analysis

When you link domains to your repo’s, Aikido will check for toxic combo’s. Toxic combo’s are known vulnerabilities that, combined, are dangerous and critical to fix.

Toxic Combination Analysis

End-of-life Runtimes

Protect your application from outdated runtimes that could be vulnerable. Outdated runtimes are typically a forgotten issue, but could pose big security risks.

End-of-life runtimes

CI/CD Integration

Automatically scan for vulnerabilities within the CI/CD during build and test your running environments to keep new vulnerabilities out.

CI CD Integration

Integrated into your IDE

Detect vulnerabilities in base image dependencies, Dockerfile commands, and Kubernetes workloads while coding, so you can fix issues early.

IDE integration

Malware detection

The npm ecosystem is susceptible to malicious packages being published because of its open nature.Aikido identifies malicious code that may be embedded within JavaScript files or npm packages. Powered by Phylum. (Scans for backdoors, trojans, keyloggers, XSS, cryptojacking scripts and more.)

Aikido malware detection

Automated triaging

Why Look for Dependabot Alternatives

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Dependabot is handy — until the PR spam kicks in. Devs often disable it after getting flooded with version bumps that don’t actually fix anything. It doesn’t scan code or assess real risk — it just updates packages blindly. That’s not enough for teams that want signal over noise.

Why Devs Pick Aikido Over Dependabot

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Context-aware updates:

Aikido prioritizes real vulnerabilities, not just old versions.

Less PR noise:

Get one focused PR, not 10 for minor bumps.

Broader coverage:

Aikido checks your code, cloud, and config too.

Flexible integrations:

GitHub, GitLab, Slack, JIRA — your choice.

Fix support:

One-click fixes and full context, not just "there’s a newer version."

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G2G2

"We’ve seen a 75% reduction in noise using Aikido so far"

Supermetrics now runs a developer-first AppSec workflow that’s faster, cleaner, and easier to manage. With 75% less noise, instant integrations, and automation across Jira, Slack, and CI/CD, security now scales as smoothly as their data operations.

See more  ↓
Otto Sulin, Supermetrics
Mid-Market (201-500 employees)
G2G2

"In just 45 minutes of training, we onboarded more than 150 developers."

Aikido is perfectly integrated with our CI/CD tool, like Azure DevOps. Even if someone has zero DevOps experience, they can start being productive in a few clicks

See more  ↓
Marc Lehr, GEA
Enterprise (10K+ employees)
G2G2

"With 92% noise reduction, we got used to ‘the quiet’ quickly."

With 92% noise reduction, we got used to ‘the quiet’ quickly. Now I wish it was even quieter! It’s a massive productivity and sanity boost.

See more  ↓
Cornelius, n8n
Enterprise (501-2000 employees)
G2G2

"Great disruptor in the security tooling ecosystem"

Aikido's biggest benefit is their ease-of-use. You can literally get started in 2 minutes. Findings are actually useful and have a good resolve advise.

See more  ↓
Brenden C
Small business
G2G2

"Quick to setup and packed with the right features"

Aikido was quick and easy to deploy and delivers clear, relevant alerts without adding complexity. It connects multiple security tools, making them seamless and more efficient to use.

It has all the necessary integrations, covers key security needs like SAST, container, and infrastructure scans and the auto-triage with intelligent silencing is a game changer. The UI is intuitive, support has been extremely responsive, and pricing is fair. I also appreciate their participation in the open-source community.

Overall, it helps us stay ahead of security issues with minimal effort.

See more  ↓
G2 Reviewer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
G2G2

"Effective and fair priced solution"

Compared to well known competitors like Snyk, Aikido is much more affordable, more complete and most importantly much better at presenting the vulnerabilities that are actually reaching your systems. They use many popular open source libraries to scan your code, as well as propriatary ones, giving you a good mix

See more  ↓
G2 Reviewer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
G2G2

"Excellent Security Software & Company"

We were looking for a cheaper alternative to Snyk and Aikido fills that role fantastically. Good software, easy UI and most important of all very easy to talk to with feedback.

Everything was really simple to set-up and onboarding of team members a breeze.

See more  ↓
G2 Reviewer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
G2G2

"Scan Github repo in realtime for security issues/improvements"

Aikido is very easy to implement, in less then 10 minutes we had our first report.

The reports are very to the point while mentioning all the necessary information so our devs can easily plan and update the system.

We contacted support for one minor issue and got a reply in less then 4hours.

Today we use Aikido at least once a week to check if there are any new improvements to be made.

See more  ↓
G2 Reviewer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
G2G2

"Swiss army knife for security teams"

Aikido is a highly scalable and easy to use solution, which aggregates multiple controls in one place and integrates seamlessly with IDEs and CI/CD pipelines. The support team is responsive and made quick adjustments in our environment. Additionally, it efficiently filters out obvious false positive alerts, which saved us many MD.

See more  ↓
G2 Reviewer
Mid-Market (501-1000 employees)
G2G2

"about as good as it gets"

I really like the unintrusiveness of their service. It's a webapp where you register your code, container, IaC,... repositories and they scan them regularly pointing out the issues they found via statical analysis. There's integration to easily/automatically create follow up actions (tickets) aso. The app is great, you get up and running quite quickly.

Sometimes you need support, and that's great too (even if it's really technical).

See more  ↓
Romain S.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
G2G2

"A Game Changer in Cybersecurity"

We’ve been using Aikido Security for several months now, and I can confidently say that it has transformed how we manage and mitigate security risks within our organization. From day one, the onboarding process was seamless, and the platform’s intuitive interface made it incredibly easy to integrate with our existing infrastructure.

What truly sets Aikido apart is its proactive approach to comprehensive coverage. The real-time alerts give us a clear advantage, helping us stay ahead of potential security issues. Their support team is also top-notch. Whenever we had a question or needed assistance, their response was swift and thorough.

If you’re looking for a comprehensive, reliable, and forward-thinking security solution, I highly recommend Aikido Security. It’s a game changer for any organization serious about their security.

See more  ↓
G2 Reviewer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
G2G2

"A wonderful security tool loved by engineers and developers"

Aikido allowed us to implement a security by design process smoothly and quickly. My team loves the integration with Jira and how it feels a tool tailored on their needs of engineers (not security experts), no less and no more. Working with Aikido's team has been great, both in supporting us in the selection process and receiving our feedback - many times resulting is a rapid development of new features!

Given the affordable price for me it's a not brainer for any small-medium sized company.

See more  ↓
G2 Reviewer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
G2G2

"A promising new AppSec tool"

Our organization implemented Aikido as our main Application Security app to take care of SCA, SAST, Container/Secret Scanning within our code base. Overall, we are very happy with Aikido's performance and ease of use. The deployment was quick and easy thanks to the Bitbucket Cloud integration.

I think the game changing features of Aikido is the auto-ignore capability and the reachability analysis. It helps our development team save time triaging false positives as well as prioritising issues that need to be addressed quickly.

The support we have received from the Aikido team has been top notch.

See more  ↓
Yohann B., Smokeball
Mid-Market (201-500 emp.)
G2G2

"Accessible & affordable security"

Their transparancy, ease of use, they're improving their tool all the time.

Affordable price with stellar results. Typical competitors have steep pricing that scales with the number of repo's / number of instances running.

Aikido helps us stay ahead of the curve. It educates us about possible liabilities, and it engages the whole engineering team.

See more  ↓
Gregory C.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
G2G2

"Out-of-the box instant security"

Aikido Security is very easy to setup and delivers its first results in mere minutes. It combines all the essential security scanning such as repo scanning, cloud security, credential leakage, ... in one package that's easy to use by any development team.

See more  ↓
Pieter S.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
G2G2

"Best developer-centric security platform"

Aikido has been instrumental in keeping our application secure. The platform integrates smoothly with popular CI/CD pipelines and other security tools, facilitating a more streamlined vulnerability management process.

See more  ↓
Gertjan D.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
G2G2

"Aikido makes security accessible & easy"

Aikido is primarily based on already available tools, making it feasible to replicate the basic technical functionalities it offers. This means they aren't introducing any novel security scanning features. They're also very open about this by providing some references to how and with which tool a certain finding was found.

Aikido was initially implemented to meet some ISO standards. We already did some (manual) periodic scanning ourselves but Aikido was a great addition since it did the scanning automatically, more frequently and it would provide the necessary reporting to management and auditors.

See more  ↓
Ajdin L.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
G2G2

"A developer first security platform that enables your business"

Our teams have been able to quickly deploy and get value out of Aikido where our previous solution was noisey and cumbersome. The fact that we get all the code coverage we need with SAST+, SCA, IaC, Secrets Detection, Licensing, etc.

The all in one product is amazing and makes it easy for our engineering teams to see problem areas and fix them quickly. The other major feature of auto-triage has been such a time saver for our teams, telling us if we are actually using those libraries or certain modules in libraries and excluding them if they aren't relevant is so huge for us.

This enables our business to focus on fixing critical issues, ignoring irrelevant ones and delivering product to our customers.

See more  ↓
G2 Reviewer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
G2G2

"Direct Insights on Vulnerability Management"

Aikido Security stands out for its ability to deliver comprehensive, actionable security insights in a user-friendly manner. I was impressed with how quickly and seamlessly it could integrate into existing BitBucket, GitLab and GitHub repositories, and the simplicity of connecting our cloud environment (Google Cloud in this case) was commendable. One of the strongest points about Aikido is its ability to cut through the noise and deliver important, actionable vulnerabilities instead of flooding you with trivial issues or false positives.

See more  ↓
Michael V.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
G2G2

"Aikido helps us catch the blind spots that we couldn’t fully address before"

Trying to reduce the noise that othertools actually generate – diving into the signal-to-noise ratio – is a nightmare. Aikido nailed that for us. They also solve Visma’s previous problematic pricing model pain with its unlimited users enterprise plan: a flat rate that is known upfront. No unknown costs = a huge advantage for budgeting."

See more  ↓
Nicolai Brogaard, Visma
10.000+ employees
G2G2

"Aikido helps us deliver more security value in less time."

What made Aikido stand out was that it felt like it was built by developers, for developers. Aikido’s reachability analysis helps us filter out irrelevant findings so we can focus on real, exploitable issues. We can now get more security work done in less time, which benefits our clients directly. You can tell the Aikido team genuinely cares and is building a better product every day. It’s refreshing.

See more  ↓
Marcus Döllerer, TechDivision
Mid-Market (51-200 employees)
G2G2

"Best security platform around"

We tried Checkmarx and Snyk, but Aikido was faster, more actionable, and easier to work with.

See more  ↓
Ega Sanjaya, Faspay
Small Business (51-200 employees)
G2G2

"Fast Fixes"

The fastest time we fixed a vulnerability was just 5 seconds after detection. That is efficiency.

See more  ↓
Aufar, Petrosea
Enterprise (5k-10K employees)
G2G2

"Upgrade after using Snyk"

"After two years of struggling with Snyk, Aikido had our developers smiling within 10 minutes."

See more  ↓
Jesse Harris, Dental Intelligence
Mid-Market (201-500 employees)
G2G2

"We’ve seen a 75% reduction in noise using Aikido so far"

Supermetrics now runs a developer-first AppSec workflow that’s faster, cleaner, and easier to manage. With 75% less noise, instant integrations, and automation across Jira, Slack, and CI/CD, security now scales as smoothly as their data operations.

See more  ↓
Otto Sulin, Supermetrics
Mid-Market (201-500 employees)
G2G2

"In just 45 minutes of training, we onboarded more than 150 developers."

Aikido is perfectly integrated with our CI/CD tool, like Azure DevOps. Even if someone has zero DevOps experience, they can start being productive in a few clicks

See more  ↓
Marc Lehr, GEA
Enterprise (10K+ employees)
G2G2

"With 92% noise reduction, we got used to ‘the quiet’ quickly."

With 92% noise reduction, we got used to ‘the quiet’ quickly. Now I wish it was even quieter! It’s a massive productivity and sanity boost.

See more  ↓
Cornelius, n8n
Enterprise (501-2000 employees)
G2G2

"Great disruptor in the security tooling ecosystem"

Aikido's biggest benefit is their ease-of-use. You can literally get started in 2 minutes. Findings are actually useful and have a good resolve advise.

See more  ↓
Brenden C
Small business
G2G2

"Quick to setup and packed with the right features"

Aikido was quick and easy to deploy and delivers clear, relevant alerts without adding complexity. It connects multiple security tools, making them seamless and more efficient to use.

It has all the necessary integrations, covers key security needs like SAST, container, and infrastructure scans and the auto-triage with intelligent silencing is a game changer. The UI is intuitive, support has been extremely responsive, and pricing is fair. I also appreciate their participation in the open-source community.

Overall, it helps us stay ahead of security issues with minimal effort.

See more  ↓
G2 Reviewer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
G2G2

"Effective and fair priced solution"

Compared to well known competitors like Snyk, Aikido is much more affordable, more complete and most importantly much better at presenting the vulnerabilities that are actually reaching your systems. They use many popular open source libraries to scan your code, as well as propriatary ones, giving you a good mix

See more  ↓
G2 Reviewer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
G2G2

"Excellent Security Software & Company"

We were looking for a cheaper alternative to Snyk and Aikido fills that role fantastically. Good software, easy UI and most important of all very easy to talk to with feedback.

Everything was really simple to set-up and onboarding of team members a breeze.

See more  ↓
G2 Reviewer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
G2G2

"Scan Github repo in realtime for security issues/improvements"

Aikido is very easy to implement, in less then 10 minutes we had our first report.

The reports are very to the point while mentioning all the necessary information so our devs can easily plan and update the system.

We contacted support for one minor issue and got a reply in less then 4hours.

Today we use Aikido at least once a week to check if there are any new improvements to be made.

See more  ↓
G2 Reviewer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
G2G2

"Swiss army knife for security teams"

Aikido is a highly scalable and easy to use solution, which aggregates multiple controls in one place and integrates seamlessly with IDEs and CI/CD pipelines. The support team is responsive and made quick adjustments in our environment. Additionally, it efficiently filters out obvious false positive alerts, which saved us many MD.

See more  ↓
G2 Reviewer
Mid-Market (501-1000 employees)
G2G2

"about as good as it gets"

I really like the unintrusiveness of their service. It's a webapp where you register your code, container, IaC,... repositories and they scan them regularly pointing out the issues they found via statical analysis. There's integration to easily/automatically create follow up actions (tickets) aso. The app is great, you get up and running quite quickly.

Sometimes you need support, and that's great too (even if it's really technical).

See more  ↓
Romain S.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
G2G2

"A Game Changer in Cybersecurity"

We’ve been using Aikido Security for several months now, and I can confidently say that it has transformed how we manage and mitigate security risks within our organization. From day one, the onboarding process was seamless, and the platform’s intuitive interface made it incredibly easy to integrate with our existing infrastructure.

What truly sets Aikido apart is its proactive approach to comprehensive coverage. The real-time alerts give us a clear advantage, helping us stay ahead of potential security issues. Their support team is also top-notch. Whenever we had a question or needed assistance, their response was swift and thorough.

If you’re looking for a comprehensive, reliable, and forward-thinking security solution, I highly recommend Aikido Security. It’s a game changer for any organization serious about their security.

See more  ↓
G2 Reviewer
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
G2G2

"A wonderful security tool loved by engineers and developers"

Aikido allowed us to implement a security by design process smoothly and quickly. My team loves the integration with Jira and how it feels a tool tailored on their needs of engineers (not security experts), no less and no more. Working with Aikido's team has been great, both in supporting us in the selection process and receiving our feedback - many times resulting is a rapid development of new features!

Given the affordable price for me it's a not brainer for any small-medium sized company.

See more  ↓
G2 Reviewer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
G2G2

"A promising new AppSec tool"

Our organization implemented Aikido as our main Application Security app to take care of SCA, SAST, Container/Secret Scanning within our code base. Overall, we are very happy with Aikido's performance and ease of use. The deployment was quick and easy thanks to the Bitbucket Cloud integration.

I think the game changing features of Aikido is the auto-ignore capability and the reachability analysis. It helps our development team save time triaging false positives as well as prioritising issues that need to be addressed quickly.

The support we have received from the Aikido team has been top notch.

See more  ↓
Yohann B., Smokeball
Mid-Market (201-500 emp.)
G2G2

"Accessible & affordable security"

Their transparancy, ease of use, they're improving their tool all the time.

Affordable price with stellar results. Typical competitors have steep pricing that scales with the number of repo's / number of instances running.

Aikido helps us stay ahead of the curve. It educates us about possible liabilities, and it engages the whole engineering team.

See more  ↓
Gregory C.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
G2G2

"Out-of-the box instant security"

Aikido Security is very easy to setup and delivers its first results in mere minutes. It combines all the essential security scanning such as repo scanning, cloud security, credential leakage, ... in one package that's easy to use by any development team.

See more  ↓
Pieter S.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
G2G2

"Best developer-centric security platform"

Aikido has been instrumental in keeping our application secure. The platform integrates smoothly with popular CI/CD pipelines and other security tools, facilitating a more streamlined vulnerability management process.

See more  ↓
Gertjan D.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
G2G2

"Aikido makes security accessible & easy"

Aikido is primarily based on already available tools, making it feasible to replicate the basic technical functionalities it offers. This means they aren't introducing any novel security scanning features. They're also very open about this by providing some references to how and with which tool a certain finding was found.

Aikido was initially implemented to meet some ISO standards. We already did some (manual) periodic scanning ourselves but Aikido was a great addition since it did the scanning automatically, more frequently and it would provide the necessary reporting to management and auditors.

See more  ↓
Ajdin L.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
G2G2

"A developer first security platform that enables your business"

Our teams have been able to quickly deploy and get value out of Aikido where our previous solution was noisey and cumbersome. The fact that we get all the code coverage we need with SAST+, SCA, IaC, Secrets Detection, Licensing, etc.

The all in one product is amazing and makes it easy for our engineering teams to see problem areas and fix them quickly. The other major feature of auto-triage has been such a time saver for our teams, telling us if we are actually using those libraries or certain modules in libraries and excluding them if they aren't relevant is so huge for us.

This enables our business to focus on fixing critical issues, ignoring irrelevant ones and delivering product to our customers.

See more  ↓
G2 Reviewer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
G2G2

"Direct Insights on Vulnerability Management"

Aikido Security stands out for its ability to deliver comprehensive, actionable security insights in a user-friendly manner. I was impressed with how quickly and seamlessly it could integrate into existing BitBucket, GitLab and GitHub repositories, and the simplicity of connecting our cloud environment (Google Cloud in this case) was commendable. One of the strongest points about Aikido is its ability to cut through the noise and deliver important, actionable vulnerabilities instead of flooding you with trivial issues or false positives.

See more  ↓
Michael V.
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
G2G2

"Aikido helps us catch the blind spots that we couldn’t fully address before"

Trying to reduce the noise that othertools actually generate – diving into the signal-to-noise ratio – is a nightmare. Aikido nailed that for us. They also solve Visma’s previous problematic pricing model pain with its unlimited users enterprise plan: a flat rate that is known upfront. No unknown costs = a huge advantage for budgeting."

See more  ↓
Nicolai Brogaard, Visma
10.000+ employees
G2G2

"Aikido helps us deliver more security value in less time."

What made Aikido stand out was that it felt like it was built by developers, for developers. Aikido’s reachability analysis helps us filter out irrelevant findings so we can focus on real, exploitable issues. We can now get more security work done in less time, which benefits our clients directly. You can tell the Aikido team genuinely cares and is building a better product every day. It’s refreshing.

See more  ↓
Marcus Döllerer, TechDivision
Mid-Market (51-200 employees)
G2G2

"Best security platform around"

We tried Checkmarx and Snyk, but Aikido was faster, more actionable, and easier to work with.

See more  ↓
Ega Sanjaya, Faspay
Small Business (51-200 employees)
G2G2

"Fast Fixes"

The fastest time we fixed a vulnerability was just 5 seconds after detection. That is efficiency.

See more  ↓
Aufar, Petrosea
Enterprise (5k-10K employees)
G2G2

"Upgrade after using Snyk"

"After two years of struggling with Snyk, Aikido had our developers smiling within 10 minutes."

See more  ↓
Jesse Harris, Dental Intelligence
Mid-Market (201-500 employees)

Has Aikido itself been security tested?

Yes — we run yearly third-party pentests and maintain a continuous bug bounty program to catch issues early.

Does Aikido require agents?

No! Unlike others, we're fully API based, no agents are needed to deploy Aikido! This way you're up & running in mere minutes & we're way less intrusive!

I don’t want to connect my repository. Can I try it with a test account?

Of course! When you sign up with your git, don’t give access to any repo & select the demo repo instead!

What happens to my data?

We clone the repositories inside of temporary environments (such as docker containers unique to you). Those containers are disposed of, after analysis. The duration of the test and scans themselves take about 1-5 mins. All the clones and containers are then auto-removed after that, always, every time, for every customer.

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