Aikido, the #1 Snyk Alternative
Protect your code, cloud & containers against vulnerabilities with Aikido Security. All-round protection, no false positive alerts.
How Aikido compares to Snyk
More coverage, lower cost. What you see is what you pay.
- Reachability AnalysisAikido covers full reachability for all languages out of the box. Snyk offers limited language support.
- Malware Detection in Dependencies
- SCA Autofix
- License Compliance
- SBOM Support
- License PR Release Gating
- Noise Reduction (False Positive Filtering)
- Limited language support
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- SAST AI AutofixSnyk's "DeepCode Al" only suggests auto-fixes in the IDE, in enterprise plan.
- Multi-file Analysis
- Taint Analysis
- Custom SAST Rules
- SAST Issues Directly in IDE
- API Discovery/API Fuzzing
- Authenticated DAST
- Automated Swagger Creation
- IDOR detection
- Attack Surface Management
- Infrastructure as Code ScanningSnyk IaC is priced separately, per developer
- Virtual Machine Scanning
- Cloud and K8s Posture management
- Asset Inventory Management
- Attack Path Analysis
- Extended Lifetime SupportProvides security-maintained container base images with ongoing updates and patches beyond standard support periods.
- AI Autofix for Containers
- Team based access rights
- Custom user roles
- Reporting
How it works
How Aikido works
Connect your code, cloud & containers
It doesn't matter on which tool stack you are. Aikido connects with most popular stacks and scans continuously for issues.
Get relevant security & code quality alerts
No need to sift through hundreds of alerts. Only few of them really matter. Aikido auto-triages notifications.
Features that you'll love
Static Code Analysis

DAST & API Security
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Software Composition Analysis
Container Security
Scan your container operating system for packages with security issues.
- Checks if your containers have any vulnerabilities (Like CVEs)
- Highlights vulnerabilities based on container data sensitivity.
- AutoFix your container images with pre-hardened base images

Infrastructure as code (IaC)
Scans Terraform, CloudFormation & Kubernetes Helm charts for misconfigurations.
- Detect issues that leave your infrastructure open to attack
- Identify vulnerabilities before they're committed to the default branch
- Integrated in CI/CD Pipeline

Cloud & K8s posture management
Detect cloud infrastructure risks across major cloud providers.
- Scans Virtual Machines (AWS EC2 instances) for vulnerabilities.
- Scan your cloud for misconfigurations and overly permissive user roles/access
- Automate security policies & compliance checks for SOC2, ISO27001, CIS & NIS2
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.)

Protection at Runtime
Block zero-day vulnerabilities. Zen by Aikido detects threats as your application runs and stops attacks in real-time, before they ever reach your database. Block users, bots, countries & restrict IP routes.
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Orchestrate security follow-up

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 Snyk.
Based on user reviews.
Why Look for Snyk Alternatives?
According to G2, developers often find that Snyk can overwhelm them with noise – too many “vulnerabilities” that turn out to be false positives, and an alert UI that’s hard to manage day-to-day. Others cite frustrations with Snyk’s overlapping product modules and high costs once you go beyond the free tier, making it tricky to get full coverage without breaking the budget.
Why Devs Pick Aikido Over Snyk
Fewer False Alarms:
Snyk’s scans often require triaging a flood of issues (many low-priority or false positives). Aikido emphasizes only surfacing real risks – so devs spend less time on “noise” and more time fixing real problems.
All-in-One Simplicity:
Snyk is actually a bundle of separate tools (Snyk Code, Snyk Open Source, etc.), which means multiple setups and UIs. Aikido rolls SAST, SCA, container, and cloud scans into one platform, one setup – way simpler.
Faster Setup & CI Integration:
Getting Snyk fully integrated across repos and CI pipelines can be a hassle. Aikido plugs into your CI/CD and repos with minimal fuss, scanning from Day 1 without the lengthy configuration Snyk might require.
Transparent Pricing:
Many teams outgrow Snyk’s free plan quickly and discover steep pricing (with add-ons for each module). Aikido’s pricing is straightforward and flat – no surprise charges for adding projects or users.
On-Prem Ready:
Snyk is cloud-only (no on-premises option), which is a deal-breaker for some compliance-focused companies. Aikido offers an on-premise scanner for those who need it, without sacrificing functionality.
FAQ
Can I use Aikido to replace both Snyk and other tools like StackHawk or Invicti?
Yes. Aikido covers what most teams need from SAST, SCA, DAST, API security, and more—reducing tool sprawl.
Why are devs switching from Snyk to Aikido?
Snyk users report clunky UX, high costs, too much noise, and limited coverage. Aikido fixes all of that.
Do you charge extra for recursive scans or open source dependencies?
No. Aikido doesn’t nickel-and-dime you for scanning transitive dependencies.
Is Aikido suitable for large teams?
Yes. Aikido scales well across large organizations and consolidates tools to reduce dev and security overhead.
Will I get support if I don’t spend $20k?
Yes. Unlike Snyk, Aikido provides real support no matter your contract size. No tiered nonsense.
Is it hard to switch from Snyk to Aikido?
No. Teams switching typically get up and running in a day. We support rip-and-replace workflows and have already replaced Snyk at companies like Visma and OTHER EXAMPLE.
How does Aikido handle false positives?
Aikido uses advanced filtering and reachability analysis to reduce false positives by ~85%, so developers spend less time triaging noise.
Does Aikido offer better coverage than Snyk?
Yes. Aikido includes DAST, API scanning, CSPM, and malware scanning by default—whereas Snyk often requires separate tools or lacks full coverage.
How does Aikido’s pricing compare to Snyk’s?
Aikido charges a flat, transparent fee. Snyk pricing scales aggressively by developer count, adds-on features (like CI/CD), and typically requires a $20k+ spend for support.
Why would I choose Aikido over Snyk?
Aikido is easier to use, delivers fewer false positives, covers more of the SDLC, and has a transparent pricing model that doesn’t punish you for scale.
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!
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