Top 5 Hacktron alternatives

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Hacktron is an AI security platform with three products. Review checks each pull request for exploitable vulnerabilities, using a model that reasons over call graphs, and also looks for leaked secrets and IaC exposures. Whitebox runs AI pentests from your source code, with optional testing of the deployed application, and proves each finding. Red is continuous red teaming of a whole organisation. Researchers validate the findings from Whitebox and Red.

Hacktron can also open tested fix pull requests, paid in automation credits, and syncs findings with Jira and Linear in both directions. Review Pro starts at $40 per developer a month with 50 pull requests per developer, and Review is free for qualifying open-source repositories. Whitebox is priced per pentest by lines of code, at about $500 per 100,000 lines, with one free retest included. Red is priced per organisation.

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Hacktron does a lot well, but teams usually start looking elsewhere for one of three reasons.

1. There is no free plan. Review has a 14-day trial with no card and is free for qualifying open-source repositories, but private code has no free tier. Dependency checking is a CVE check from lock files through Slack, and secrets and IaC exposures are looked for in pull request reviews rather than across the whole repository. Teams that want baseline scanning of everything they already have usually run another tool alongside it.

2. Each product is priced differently. Review is billed per developer each month with a pooled allowance of pull requests, $1 for each extra one when overage is on, and bots that open reviewed pull requests take a seat. Whitebox is billed per pentest by lines of code from prepaid credits, fix runs use automation credits whose rate is not published, and Red is priced by quote. Teams that use more than one product need to budget for each one separately.

3. Black-box testing is a custom engagement. Testing a running application from the outside, without its source code, is part of Red, which is custom-priced red teaming for a whole organisation. Teams that want to pentest one web application or API on their own schedule may find that a larger commitment than they need.

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Here is how the leading alternatives compare, starting with the one we build.

#1 AISafe Labs

AISafe Labs is an application security platform that uses AI agents to test your code and your running application the way an attacker would. It runs code audits, black-box and white-box pentests, pull request reviews and continuous monitoring from one place, and its free plan includes a full SAST suite.

Like Hacktron, AISafe Labs uses AI agents to read your code and to test your live application. Its agents build a model of your codebase and trace user input from where it enters to where it reaches a sensitive operation, which is how they find broken access control between teams and business-logic errors. A separate triage pass confirms each finding, merges duplicates that share a root cause and shows its reasoning. The difference is in how the pieces fit together: free scanning, code audits, pentests and monitoring sit on one plan and are paid from one balance of credits.

Key features

• Code Audit: AI agents review the whole repository and report evidence-backed findings with exact code locations, the path user input takes, and remediation guidance.
• Code Scan, free: SAST, AI SAST, dependency scanning, secrets detection, licence risk and IaC scanning on the free Basic plan, with no card required.
• Black-box and white-box pentests: agents probe your live application over HTTP and in a browser, and white-box tests combine source access with live confirmation, so findings come with evidence you can replay.
• Pull request security review: every pull request is reviewed for security defects, using what earlier audits learned about the project.
• Endpoint monitoring: AISafe re-runs the proof of each fixed finding against your live application on a schedule and alerts you when a fix regresses.
• Fix verification (beta): check a patched source revision against the original finding before you deploy it.
• Built for coding agents: findings, remediation guidance and fix verification are available through the AISafe API, so your own coding agent can read a finding, write the patch and start the verification itself.
• Fits your workflow: export findings to Jira or Linear, get alerts in Slack or Teams, and run AISafe on your own infrastructure if you need to.

Why AISafe Labs stands out as a Hacktron alternative

• Everyday scanning is free. The Basic plan covers SAST, AI SAST, dependencies, secrets, licence risk and IaC across the whole repository, so you have a baseline before you pay for deeper work.
• One balance pays for the deeper work. Code audits, pentests and continuous work all draw on the same Pro credits, and the price of a code audit is shown before it runs.
• Black-box pentests without a custom engagement. Agents can test a live web application from the outside on the Pro plan, and endpoint monitoring keeps checking that fixed issues stay fixed.

Pricing

The Basic plan is free and includes the full SAST suite. Pro starts at $40 a month and includes the same number of credits, which pay for code audits, pentests and continuous work; the price of a code audit depends on the size of the codebase and is shown before you start.

Ideal for: Teams that want scanning, code audits and pentests in one place: engineering and security teams that need to find logic and access-control flaws, test the running application, and close the loop from finding to verified fix, without moving to an enterprise contract.

#2 XBOW

XBOW is an autonomous AI pentesting platform that attacks running web applications and APIs, proves each finding with a working exploit and retests fixes. You can upload source code, API specs and documents as optional context to guide its testing.

XBOW focuses on pentesting, so it does not audit source code, scan dependencies or review pull requests. It is sold by quote as packages of Attack Credits, which each assessment draws down, and it does not publish prices on its website.

Key features

• Black-box pentests of web applications and their APIs
• A validated exploit with reproduction steps for each finding
• Free, unlimited retests of a deployed fix
• Source code, API specs and documents as optional context
• An API that can start a pentest on merge or from your own scheduler
• Self-hosted deployment through sales

Ideal for: Security teams that want autonomous, exploit-backed pentesting of running web applications and APIs, and buy through a usage-based contract.

#3 Aikido

Aikido is an all-in-one security platform that covers code, dependencies, cloud and runtime from one dashboard. AI SAST is included on the free plan, and AI Code Analysis and AI pentests are billed in credits.

Key features

• SAST, dependency, secrets, IaC and container scanning
• AutoFix pull requests, with 10 a month on the free plan
• Cloud posture management for AWS, GCP and Azure
• Zen, an in-app firewall that blocks attacks at runtime
• AI Code Analysis and AI pentests, paid in credits
• Jira and Linear sync from the Basic plan

Ideal for: Teams that want one vendor for code, cloud and runtime security.

#4 CodeRabbit

CodeRabbit is an AI code review tool that comments on pull requests, in the IDE and in the CLI. It runs linters and security scanners such as Semgrep, Betterleaks and Checkov and uses their results as input to the model.

CodeRabbit Security adds dedicated pull request security review on the Advanced plan, at $90 per developer a month, and Deep Scan, a usage-billed scan of a whole repository for exploitable vulnerabilities and exposed secrets. It reviews code rather than live applications.

Key features

• AI review of every pull request, plus reviews in the IDE and CLI
• Results from Semgrep, OSV-Scanner, Betterleaks, Checkov and Trivy as input to the review
• Deep Scan of a whole repository, billed separately in credits
• Fix with AI, which opens a pull request
• Sandbox runs that reproduce findings, in beta on GitHub
• Team features free for open-source repositories

Ideal for: Teams that want an AI reviewer on every pull request for code quality and security, with a whole-repository scan when they need one.

#5 Codex Security

Codex Security is OpenAI's code security agent. It scans connected GitHub repositories in Codex and monitors new commits, and its plugin, open-source CLI and SDK scan code locally or in CI and propose patches.

Key features

• Hosted scans of connected GitHub repositories
• Open-source CLI and SDK that run locally or in CI
• A proof of concept or reproducer when practical, and custom validation that can test a running app
• Suggested patches or draft pull requests
• Export findings to Jira, Linear and GitHub Issues
• Pull request security reviews on Pro, Business, Edu and Enterprise

Ideal for: Teams on ChatGPT Business or Enterprise that want AI code scanning they can also run on their own machines or in CI. Eligible accounts get $500 in free scanning credits to try it.

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The right choice depends on what you need your security tooling to catch and how your team works. When you compare options, check:

• Which vulnerabilities matter most. If access control, authentication and business logic are your biggest risks, look for a tool that reasons about your application and shows how it validated each finding.
• Whether you need to test the running application. Code review and live testing find different problems. Decide whether you need pentests, with or without source code, and which plan includes them.
• What you need to scan every day. Check whether dependencies, secrets and infrastructure as code are scanned across the whole repository, and whether that is included for free.
• How fixes get done. Look at whether the tool writes patches, guides your own coding agent, and verifies that a fix works.
• What it costs as you grow. Compare billing models: per developer, per pentest, per line of code or per credit, and whether you can see the cost of a scan before it runs.

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Hacktron is a capable choice for AI pull request review and source-led pentests checked by researchers. As your application grows, AISafe Labs helps you go further: free everyday scanning, AI agents that find logic and access-control flaws, pentests that prove them on your live application, and fix verification that closes the loop.

You can start on the free Basic plan, which includes the full SAST suite, and run your first code audit in minutes. Start for free↗.