Aikido Security vs Hostile Review
An honest comparison. The all-in-one AppSec platform meets adversarial AI auditing with 100+ hostile agents.
Aikido is a unified security platform — SAST, SCA, DAST, CSPM, secrets detection, IaC scanning, container scanning, runtime protection, and AI pentesting in one dashboard. Claims to replace 15+ specialized tools. Trusted by 50K+ organizations.
Hostile Review is an adversarial code audit — 100+ specialized AI agents that assume your code is broken and prove where. Deeper on code-level analysis across 14 categories, lighter on infrastructure and runtime.
| Aikido | Hostile Review | |
|---|---|---|
| Approach | Unified AppSec (code + cloud + runtime) | Adversarial multi-agent AI audit |
| Detection Method | SAST + SCA + DAST + CSPM + runtime firewall | 100+ AI agents reasoning adversarially |
| Runtime Protection | ✓ In-app firewall (Zen) | ✗ Source-level only |
| Cloud Posture | ✓ CSPM + VM scanning | ✗ |
| AI Pentesting | ✓ Automated pentests | Adversarial audit (code-level) |
| Noise Reduction | 95% alert deduplication | Consensus deduplication across 100+ agents |
| Pricing | Freemium + paid tiers | Pay per scan, no seats |
| Free Tier | ✓ No credit card | ✓ Demo scans (20 files) |
| Scope Beyond Security | Security + compliance | 14 categories (perf, arch, compliance, AI, a11y, i18n, cloud...) |
- True all-in-one — SAST, SCA, DAST, CSPM, IaC, container scanning, secrets, malware detection, runtime firewall, and AI pentesting in a single platform
- Runtime protection — Zen in-app firewall blocks injection attacks, bots, and rate-limit abuse in production. Not just detection — active defense
- 95% noise reduction — contextual alert deduplication and prioritization based on reachability and environment
- AI pentesting — automated penetration tests that complete in hours vs. weeks for manual engagements
- AutoFix at scale — generates reviewable PRs across code, dependencies, and infrastructure with one-click bulk fixing
- 40+ integrations — GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, AWS, Azure, GCP, Jira, Slack, Vanta, Drata, and more
- SOC 2 + ISO 27001 — platform itself is compliance-certified with read-only repo access and ephemeral scan containers
- 100+ specialized agents — each attacks from a different angle across 14 categories, then findings are deduplicated and consensus-ranked
- Beyond security — performance, architecture, compliance (GDPR/HIPAA/PCI), AI & LLM security, accessibility, i18n, cloud infrastructure, data pipelines
- Business logic vulnerabilities — AI agents reason about application logic, catching flaws no scanner has a rule for
- Cross-file attack chains — finds vulnerabilities that span multiple files where the issue isn't in any single file
- AI & LLM security — 7 dedicated agents for prompt injection, model poisoning, denial-of-wallet — the emerging attack surface
- No per-seat pricing — a solo developer and a 200-person team pay the same rate per scan
- Zero-day thinking — AI agents reason about novel attack vectors, not just patterns from a vulnerability database
| Category | Aikido | Hostile Review |
|---|---|---|
| Static Analysis (SAST) | ✓ OpenGrep engine | ✓ AI-reasoned |
| Dynamic Testing (DAST) | ✓ API fuzzing + web | ✗ Source-level only |
| Runtime Firewall | ✓ Zen WAF | ✗ |
| Cloud Posture (CSPM) | ✓ AWS/Azure/GCP | ✗ |
| Container Scanning | ✓ | ✗ |
| Dependency Vulnerabilities | ✓ SCA + malware | ✓ Supply + Provenance agents |
| Secrets Detection | ✓ | ✓ Vault + Gatekeeper + Specter |
| Business Logic Flaws | ✗ | ✓ AI-reasoned per codebase |
| Performance & Scaling | ✗ | ✓ Turbo + Shard + Profiler |
| Architecture & Design | ✗ | ✓ Blueprint + Typesmith |
| AI & LLM Security | ✓ AI monitoring | ✓ 7 dedicated agents |
| Compliance (GDPR, HIPAA, PCI) | ✓ Via Vanta/Drata | ✓ 6 compliance agents |
| Accessibility & i18n | ✗ | ✓ Accessible + Rosetta + Glyph |
Aikido goes wide. Code, cloud, containers, runtime, APIs, dependencies, secrets, IaC — one platform covers the entire surface area. Breadth is the value proposition.
Hostile Review goes deep. 100+ AI agents reason adversarially about your source code across 14 categories. Business logic flaws, cross-file attack chains, architectural weaknesses, AI security risks — the things scanners can't express as rules.
Aikido secures your stack. Hostile Review stress-tests your code.
Aikido
Free: Generous free tier, no credit card
Paid: Tiered plans (pricing on request)
Enterprise: Custom
Platform model covering code, cloud, and runtime. Replaces multiple point solutions. Pricing scales with team size and feature set.
Hostile Review
Free: Demo scans (20 files, no account needed)
Credits: Pay per scan, 5 quality tiers
Subscribers: 50% off all scans
Pay-per-scan model. No seats, no contracts. You choose agents, tiers, and files — cost estimate shown live before you scan.