Aikido alternative for AI-native engineering teams
Aikido secures the stack.
Hyrax evaluates six domains.
Aikido consolidates code, dependency, container, cloud and secrets scanning into one security platform with strong noise reduction. Hyrax covers security as one of six domains, and verifies every fix against the project test suite before a pull request opens.
Hyrax audits roughly 400 of its own repositories.
Free plan: full access, up to 100 PR reviews a month, a $30 starter credit, and $10/month ongoing.
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Why teams switch
What changes when Hyrax runs above the tools.
Six domains, not one
Aikido covers its own scanning domain well. Hyrax evaluates security, correctness, maintainability, performance, architecture and operations together.
Verified against the project tests
A rules engine confirms a change satisfies its own rules. Hyrax runs the project test suite and build, so a fix is proven against the real system.
Context that compounds
The map of the codebase lives in the repository and improves with every merge, so the next decision starts from everything learned before it.
Comparison
How Hyrax and Aikido make decisions.
Read how Aikido describes itself: www.aikido.dev(opens in a new tab)
Workflow
Comments on a diff, or a verified pull request.
- 01Aikido scans the project against its rule set.
- 02Findings arrive as a list to triage, with severity attached.
- 03The team decides what is worth fixing, makes the edits, and merges.
- 01Maps the codebase and keeps the map in the repository
- 02Applies architectural judgment across six domains
- 03Opens a verified pull request that a human merges
Getting started
From install to the first verified pull request.
Install the GitHub App
Grant read access to the repositories in scope. No card is required to start.
Hyrax maps the repository
Discovery writes HYRAX.md and .hyrax/discovery into the repository, so humans and AI tools read the same context.
Review the first pull request
Approved improvements arrive as verified pull requests. A human merges every one.
The honest verdict
Both tools solve real problems.
Choose Aikido if
The requirement is consolidated application and cloud security with compliance reporting. Aikido covers a wider security surface than Hyrax does, and the two coexist.
Choose Hyrax if
The concern is the health of the codebase, not only its exposure. Hyrax evaluates six domains together and delivers fixes proven against the project test suite.
Free plan, then priced per developer with platform add-ons.
Free plan with a $30 starter credit and $10/month ongoing. Paid is $30 per user per month, and each paid user gets $30/month of credits.
FAQ
Questions about Aikido and Hyrax.
Yes, and most teams run both. Aikido keeps doing its job. Hyrax works at the level of the whole codebase, decides what is worth changing, and delivers verified pull requests. Nothing about the Aikido setup has to change.
Discovery writes HYRAX.md and a .hyrax/discovery directory, which document the architecture, conventions and risk areas of the codebase. Everything else arrives as a normal pull request on its own branch. Hyrax has no write access to the default branch.
The free plan includes full access, a $30 starter credit and $10/month of credits ongoing, with no card required. The paid plan is $30 per user per month, and each paid user gets $30/month of credits. Pull request reviews are included on every plan.
Installing the GitHub App and granting access to a repository takes a few minutes. Hyrax maps the codebase, then runs the first audit and returns findings ranked by severity and effort. The first verified pull requests follow once an audit is approved.
Build what you're proud to ship.
GitHub-native. Human-controlled. Verified before merge.