Best AI Security Tools 2026

Free (limited: 200 open source tests/month); Team plan $25/developer/month · Freemium

AI-enhanced developer security platform for finding and fixing vulnerabilities in code, dependencies, and containers.

Aqua Security AI

Aqua Security

AI-powered cloud native security platform for containers and serverless

Custom pricing · Paid

Wiz AI

Wiz

AI-powered cloud security platform for vulnerability and misconfiguration detection, now part of Google Cloud

Custom pricing · Paid

Checkmarx

Custom pricing (typically ~$8K–$50K+/year depending on developers, modules, and term) · Enterprise

Checkmarx One is a unified, AI-powered application security platform providing SAST, SCA, DAST, API security, IaC and container scanning across the SDLC. Its 2026 hybrid SAST engine pairs deterministic rules with a tuned LLM and a Finding Analysis Engine to cut false positives.

Veracode

Veracode is a comprehensive application security testing platform spanning static analysis, dynamic analysis, and software composition analysis. Its 2025 Phylum acquisition added ML-powered malicious-package detection for software supply chain security.

Prisma Cloud

Palo Alto Networks

Prisma Cloud is Palo Alto Networks’ cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP). It is being merged into Cortex Cloud, the company’s unified real-time cloud security offering.

Lacework

Lacework Inc.

Lacework (now Lacework FortiCNAPP) is a cloud security platform that provides continuous monitoring, threat detection, and compliance management for cloud environments. It was acquired by Fortinet in 2024.

Orca Security

Contact for pricing (typical annual contracts roughly $36,000–$60,000/year) · Paid

Orca Security is a cloud security platform that provides agentless, workload-deep visibility and risk assessment across cloud environments.

Socket.dev

Socket Inc.

Free tier available, paid plans from $25/seat/month · Freemium

Socket.dev is a supply chain security platform that protects against malicious packages and vulnerabilities in open source dependencies.

Bearer

Bearer Inc.

Free tier available · Freemium

Bearer is a static application security testing (SAST) tool that specializes in discovering and mitigating data security and privacy risks in source code. It was acquired by Cycode in 2024 and integrated into the Cycode ASPM platform.

SonarQube

SonarSource

Free self-hosted Community Build; SonarQube Cloud Team from ~$34/month (usage scales by lines of code) · Freemium

SonarQube is a comprehensive code quality and security analysis platform that continuously inspects code to detect bugs, vulnerabilities, and code smells.

Semgrep

Semgrep Inc.

Free (full Team plan free for up to 10 contributors and 10 private repos); Team from $35/contributor/month beyond that · Freemium

Semgrep is a static analysis tool that finds bugs, security vulnerabilities, and enforces code standards across multiple programming languages.

Endor Labs

Free AURI tier for developers; Core/Pro tiers are quote-based (priced per code contributor/year) · Freemium

Endor Labs is an AI-powered software supply chain security platform that helps organizations identify, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities across their open-source dependencies and first-party code.

Aikido Security

Free tier (2 users, 10 repos); Basic $300/month (10 users, 100 repos); Pro $600/month · Freemium

Aikido Security is a comprehensive DevSecOps platform that provides real-time security monitoring, vulnerability management, and threat detection for...

Torq

Free Community Edition; Professional and Enterprise tiers via sales (quote-based, commonly starting around $24K/year with a six-figure floor for larger mid-market deployments) · Freemium

Torq is an AI-driven security hyperautomation and SOAR platform (now the Torq AI SOC Platform) that automates incident response and SecOps workflows with agentic AI.

Oxeye

Oxeye was a cloud-native application security platform for runtime protection and vulnerability detection; its technology is now part of GitLab.

Rezilion

Rezilion was a dynamic software composition analysis (SCA) platform focused on runtime vulnerability management; its assets were acquired by GitLab.

Traceable AI

Traceable, Inc.

Free plan ($0/API endpoint/month); Team $10/API endpoint/month; Enterprise custom · Freemium

An AI-powered API security platform (real-time threat detection, API discovery, and security analytics) now part of Harness, where it is offered as Harness API Security.

Xygeni

Xygeni Inc.

No free tier — 7-day free trial (no credit card); Standard from ~$2,160/year; Premium and Enterprise quote-based · Paid

Xygeni is an AI-powered, all-in-one AppSec/ASPM platform covering the full SDLC — code, dependencies, secrets, builds, IaC, containers, and CI/CD — with AI SAST, Auto-Fix, and the Xygeni Bot to prioritize exploitable risk.

Arnica

Free tier available; paid plans from $300/year (Core Business), Core Enterprise from $600/year · Freemium

Arnica is an application security platform that provides real-time code analysis and vulnerability detection for development teams.

Doppler

Free Developer plan for up to 3 users, then $8/user/month; Team plan $21/user/month · Freemium

Doppler is a secrets management platform that helps developers securely store, manage, and sync environment variables and configuration data across...

Indent

Free tier available · Freemium

Indent has pivoted from just-in-time access provisioning toward an AI 'artificial coworker' agent that helps with code review, coding, data analysis, and alert triage across your laptop, Slack, and GitHub.

Gitleaks

Zachary Rice (Open Source)

Free open source tool · Free

Gitleaks is a SAST tool for detecting hardcoded secrets, passwords, and sensitive information in Git repositories.

Allstar by OpenSSF

Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF)

Free and open source · Free

Allstar is a GitHub App that continuously monitors GitHub organizations and repositories for adherence to security best practices and policies.

Cycode

Usage-based pricing tied to active developer count and AI usage (free trial available; no permanent free tier) · Freemium

Cycode is a complete Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) platform covering code security (SAST, SCA, container, IaC), software supply chain security, secrets detection, AI/agentic-development security, and posture management.

Nightfall AI

Per-user/year pricing across DDR, DEX, Complete, and Complete + AI Agent Security plans (7-day proof-of-value; no free tier) · Freemium

Nightfall AI is an AI-native data security platform spanning DLP, Data Detection & Response (DDR), Data Exfiltration Prevention (DEX), and AI-agent security (MCP discovery, IDE hooks, Claude Code/Enterprise monitoring).

RunReveal

Free Community tier (20GB/mo storage); Teams $200/month (100GB); Enterprise from $2,000/month — storage-based pricing (no ingest fees) · Freemium

RunReveal is a cloud-native security data lake platform that helps organizations centralize, analyze, and investigate security logs and events.

Salt Security

Custom pricing · Enterprise

AI-powered API and agentic security platform that discovers APIs, MCP servers, and LLM endpoints, detects and stops attacks in real time, and provides analytics to prevent breaches.

Swimlane Turbine

Swimlane

From ~$47,250/year (action-volume based pricing) · Enterprise

Agentic AI security automation platform (SOAR) handling SOC triage, vulnerability management, and GRC workflows.

Sysdig

Custom pricing; Sysdig Secure typically ~$50–100/host/month (no free tier) · Paid

CNAPP with Sysdig Sage — an AI security analyst providing natural language cloud security queries, AI-guided vulnerability remediation, and threat...

Kubescape

ARMO

Free (open source) · Open Source

Open-source CNCF Kubernetes security platform covering IDE, CI/CD, and cluster scanning for vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and runtime threat...

Apiiro

Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) platform using a risk graph to prioritize code-level security risks based on developer behavior and asset...

Legit Security

Application Security Posture Management platform securing the full software supply chain from developer workflows to production with runtime prevention...

StackHawk

Free tier; paid plans from $5/contributor/month · Freemium

Developer-first Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) tool for APIs with tight CI/CD integration and fast, actionable developer-facing...

ZeroThreat.ai

Free (1 scan/month); Professional $100/month per target; pay-per-scan $25/credit · Freemium

AI-powered web application and API pentesting platform that delivers adaptive, attacker-style security testing with live exploit validation and zero-day...

OX Security

Active ASPM platform with VibeSec (prevents insecure AI-generated code), AI Security Agent, SBOM management, and pipeline-to-runtime correlation.

Manifest Cyber

Automated SBOM generation platform with AI Risk Transparency for securing AI supply chains, scanning model vulnerabilities, provenance, and training...

JFrog

Free tier; Pro from $150/mo · Freemium

End-to-end software supply chain platform with AI-powered agentic CVE remediation, ML model registry with security scanning, and AI-native software...

Jit.io

Jit

Free starter / $50/developer/month · Freemium

Agentic DevSecOps platform with AI agents (SERA and COTA) that autonomously triage, prioritize, and remediate security vulnerabilities across the SDLC.

Lineaje

Custom pricing · Enterprise

AI-powered software supply chain security platform with autonomous BOMbots that continuously analyze SBOMs, detect vulnerabilities, and suggest...

Plexicus

Free tier; results-based pricing scaled by repos scanned and vulnerabilities fixed (no per-seat fee) · Freemium

AI-powered ASPM platform that goes beyond vulnerability detection to automatically explain, prioritize, and generate code fixes for security issues...

Flarehawk

Vigilbase Labs

Free tier available, paid plans from $299/month · Freemium

Autonomous SOC platform that ingests cloud telemetry, detects threats with ML-driven behavior analysis, and uses its Aegis AI to turn alerts into...

XBOW

Pentest On-Demand from $6,000 per test (self-serve, ~5 business days) · Paid

Autonomous AI penetration testing platform that runs full web application pentests on demand.

Bytebase

Free (self-hosted Community, up to 20 users); Pro from $20/user/month (cloud-only); self-hosted paid features require Enterprise · Freemium

Open-source database DevSecOps platform — often described as GitHub for databases.

Intruder AI Pentesting

Intruder

$149/month (Essential plan); AI pentesting on Cloud, Pro and Enterprise plans · Paid

Intruder's AI pentesting agents replicate the methodology of a human penetration tester to actively investigate vulnerability findings on demand,...

DryRun Security

30-day free trial (no credit card); per-developer pricing by quote, reported around $19/user/month · Paid

An AI-native SAST and code security platform that reasons about code intent and exploitability in pull requests instead of pattern-matching for vulnerabilities. Designed to cut the false-positive noise that plagues traditional scanners.