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We let you track 5x the amount of repos for free.
20-30% fewer false positives
Stronger reachability analysis
Built for enterprise-scale
Don’t hold your developers back with Aikido
1. Noisy, outdated software
As Aikido is built on one of our outdated OSS engines, developers face 20-30% more false positives.
2. Impossible to scale
Technical audits reveal their scanner often times out or fails on repositories with as few as 100-300 files.
3. All breadth, no depth
It spreads investment thin across nine products in its suite, so you’re paying for cheap tools that don’t drive results.
Aikido dabbles in 15 dev tools. Semgrep masters what matters.
Fewer false positives. Higher baseline accuracy.
Semgrep Pro's Deep Interfile Taint Analysis reduces false positives by 20% on day one. Then, it learns from triage decisions to continually cut your workload, and offer more accurate findings.
See exactly what you need to focus on
Semgrep presents only reachable findings so developers can focus on the most important issues, and see the exact lines of code with the vulnerability.
Built for enterprise scale
Whereas Aikido is unstable for mature organizations or monorepos, Semgrep is built to handle enterprise scale well. Your team can move fast, without slow scans and failures.
Let’s go head to head
Why security teams love Semgrep
8+ hours saved per week
On average, security engineers cut eight hours of time spent on code triage.
30+ minutes saved per finding
Semgrep helps you spot-check auto-generated code snippets in minutes, saving hours on research.
96% agree rate
After analyzing over 6 million security findings, Semgrep has a 96% agreement rate from users and security researchers.
We make triage easy as 1, 2, 3
Semgrep Assistant detects the false positives that static analysis misses by understanding the mitigating context around a finding.
Filter out the false positives
1
Engineers and developers get tailored, remediation guidance in their PRs, with the reasoning to build their knowledge on secure design practices.
Get step-by-step directions
2
Semgrep learns your organization-specific context as you build, reducing the number of future alerts without custom rules.
3
Never triage the same issue twice
FAQs
Aikido is an all-in-one bundle of security tools built on Opengrep (a fork of Semgrep OSS). It lacks deep reachability analysis, and AI-powered detection. They also wrap a lot of other OSS tools like their DAST solution which runs on Nuclei. By comparison, Semgrep dramatically reduces false positives by 20-30%, cutting down on time that AppSec teams would otherwise need to spend investigating manually.
Semgrep supports prioritization via AI-powered detection, reachability analysis and EPSS filtering, presenting only exploitable, high-priority issues to developers. By contrast, Aikido has longer scan times and more time-outs. Head-to-head tests show they generate 30% more false positives than Semgrep. That noise breaks developer trust and slows your team down.
Aikido is an SMB/MM specialist with few public enterprise references. Technical audits reveal their scanner often times out or fails on repositories with as few as 100-300 files, making it unstable for mature organizations or monorepos. Semgrep has proven enterprise-grade analysis (Reachability and Interfile) that reduce false positive noise by 20-30% compared to Aikido’s open-source wrapper.
They use the open source engine, but Aikido lacks Pro Reachability Analysis, which is what filters out the noise. In a live POV, ask them to find a vulnerability that spans three files in a complex class hierarchy. They usually fail where Semgrep Pro succeeds, as it actually has native Interfile Taint, not just an unreliable AI version of it.
With Aikido, you get 9 tools, but none are sharp enough for a complex engineering team. Semgrep is the scalpel built specifically for the code layer where 80% of breaches happen.
The license is cheaper, but the 'Developer Tax' is higher. If the tool generates 30% more noise and developers ignore alerts, the effective price per fixed vulnerability is infinite. Semgrep optimizes for the lowest Total Cost of Remediation.
Why settle for less? Our free plan gives you more.
10 repositories
Enough to get started, not enough to get serious.
2 users
Barely enough for a pair of devs.
2 AI autofixes/month
Hit the cap on day one and you're on your own.
Single-file engine only
Scans one file at a time. Misses bugs that span across your codebase.
Fair usage limits apply
This is a fancy way of saying “we decide when you've had enough”.
50 repositories
5x more coverage from day one.
10 contributors
Your whole team can start scanning today.
Unlimited AI autofixes
Fix as much as you want.
Pro engine with cross-file analysis
Traces vulnerabilities across files. Catches what single-file engines miss.
No fair usage limits
No hidden limits. No fine print.
Just 50 repos and 10 contributors, free.