The #1 Semgrep Alternative
One platform for next-gen code review — quality code and code security.
- SAST, SCA & Code Quality
- Automated autofixes
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How Aikido compares to Semgrep
Semgrep does SAST & SCA. Aikido does that — plus DAST, Cloud, and Runtime, affordably priced.
- SAST AI Autofix
- Multi-file Analysis
- Taint Analysis
- Custom SAST Rules
- SAST Issues Directly in IDE
- Experimental
- Reachability Analysis
- Malware Detection in DependenciesAikido has extensive malware detection for many systems
- AutoFix For SCAAikido has extensive AutoFix language coverage and works in SCA, Containers & IaC.
- License Compliance
- SBOM Support
- License PR Release Gating
- Noise Reduction (False Positive Filtering)
- Limited (Js & Python)
- Limited (Js, Python, Go)
- Noisy (Reported by user reviews)
Reinventing Traditional SAST Scanning
Traditional SAST scanning falls short
- Lots of false positives: Legacy tools like Snyk or Sonar tend to be very noisy
- No multi-file analysis: Limited context on how you’re using the code.
- No SAST Autofixes: Fixing issues takes lots of work.
Aikido’s SAST scanner: Less false positives and one click fixes.
- High-false positive reduction: Aikido’s SAST scanner reduces false positives by up to 95%
- Multi-file analysis: Track tainted user input from top-level controllers to other files.
- AutoFix: Generate SAST issue fixes & code quality fixes with AI in just a few clicks.
Covers all major languages and version control providers
Everything You Wish Security Tools Actually Did
Get Rid of False Positives
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Custom Rules for Custom Risks
Create custom rules to focus on risks specific to your codebase. This way, you can detect vulnerabilities that regular SAST solutions might fail to identify.
Context-Aware Severity Scoring

TL;DR advice
Aikido gives you the info you need, and nothing more: What is the issue, does this affect me & how do I fix it?Straightforward remediation advice, throughout the development lifecycle.
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Reachability Analysis
Aikido checks if you're using the vulnerable function. If not, it's clearly a false positive and it's automatically triaged.

Create automated fix PRs
Get instant code fix suggestions including confidence level. Some fixes are powered by deterministic workflows and some hard fixes are preformed by agentic AI.
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Instant Warnings in Your IDE
Catch vulnerabilities as you code. Fix issues early—before they ever reach a pull request.
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Secure Every Pull Request
Stop insecure code before it merges. Gate pull requests based on severity and type. Aikido adds inline comments so developers get instant, line-level security feedback.

Trusted by thousands of developers at world’s leading organizations
"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.
"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.
"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
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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).
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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."
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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).
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"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."
"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.
Here’s how Aikido compares to Semgrep.
Based on user reviews.
Next-gen code reviews
Improve your team's code quality and security posture in one platform.
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FAQ
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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