Quick to set up and callable from the agent. Your business rules are the difference.
Aikido is one of the easiest security platforms to adopt, and its MCP server lets Cursor, Claude Code and other agents scan new code for vulnerabilities and secrets when their rules tell them to. CybeDefend checks each change automatically, including against the business rules your team wrote.
What Aikido does well
Excellent UX, broad coverage (SAST, SCA with reachability, secrets, IaC, containers, cloud), AI code analysis that looks for broken authorization and IDOR, AI pentesting, AutoFix pull requests, an MCP server for AI coding agents, a free plan and published prices, and first results in about 30 seconds.
But:
In the agent, Aikido's scan runs when the agent calls its MCP tool, and it covers SAST and secrets. Its business-logic analysis is an on-demand, credit-based scan rather than a check on every change, and nothing Aikido announces checks a change against the business rules your team wrote.
CybeDefend vs Aikido
| Feature | CybeDefend | Aikido |
|---|---|---|
Detection× 10 | ||
| Agent-time scanning | ✓ | ~ |
| SAST | ✓ | ✓ |
| SCA | ✓ | ✓ |
| IaC scanning | ✓ | ✓ |
| Container scanning | ✓ | ✓ |
| Secret detection | ✓ | ✓ |
| Business logic flaws | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reachability analysis | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI-BOM: AI component inventory (EU AI Act + NIST AI RMF) | ✓ | ~ |
| Prompt injection & LLM-misuse scanner (OWASP LLM Top 10) | ✓ | ~ |
AI & Agent× 7 | ||
| Agent-time (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf…) | ✓ | ~ |
| IDE security copilot | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI-generated verified patches | ✓ | ~ |
| Auto-fix → ready-to-merge PR | ✓ | ✓ |
| Security Code Knowledge Graph | ✓ | ✗ |
| VibeDefend: security rules distributed to AI coding agents | ✓ | ~ |
| Coding agent sandbox policy (allow/deny/warn before every write) | ✓ | ~ |
Operations× 5 | ||
| CI/CD pipeline gate | ✓ | ✓ |
| Low false-positive rate | ✓ | ✓ |
| Setup under 5 minutes | ✓ | ✓ |
| CybeRisk Score: 0-100 score + AI-generated weekly Top 10 brief | ✓ | ✗ |
| EU/US sovereign deployment | ✓ | ~ |
✓ = Yes - ✗ = No - ~ = Partial
When the check runs
Aikido and CybeDefend both aim for simplicity, and both reach the AI agent. Aikido's IDE plugins add rules asking the agent to call its MCP scan on new code, so the agent decides when the scan happens. CybeDefend runs its checks on the change itself, inside the loop, without waiting for the agent to ask.
Agent writes code
CybeDefend scans
PR opens clean
Logic flaws: scanned on demand or checked on every change
Aikido's AI code analysis looks for broken authorization, IDOR and subscription-tier bypasses by reasoning about what the code is meant to do, and its AI pentests probe the running app. Both run on demand and use credits. CybeDefend's Knowledge Graph maps ownership and authorization flows, and checks each change against the business rules your team wrote while the agent is still writing it.
Your rules, not just a scan instruction
Aikido's IDE plugins add rules to each repository asking the agent to scan new code with Aikido. VibeDefend distributes your organisation's own security rules into every AI coding agent before a line is written, so the agent codes to your constraints instead of only reporting what went wrong.
Both are quick to set up. CybeDefend checks each agent change automatically, runs dependency and IaC checks in the loop as well, and holds the change against the business rules your team wrote.
Pricing at a glance
Transparent pricing is a core CybeDefend value. See how we compare.
CybeDefend
- Developer€204/year
- Team · 5-10 users€2,148/year - €3,348/year
- Scale · 15-25 users€6,588/year - €8,988/year
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Aikido
- Basic · 10 users€3,240/year
- Pro · 10 users€6,480/year
- Advanced · 10 users€9,720/year
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Competitor prices: the lowest annual list price published for the plan shown, taken from the vendor's website or its own marketplace listing and checked in September 2026. Always verify before purchasing.
Frequently Asked Questions
Both tools claim easy setup. What's the real difference?
Aikido starts from your Git provider: connect it and first results arrive in about 30 seconds, with IDE plugins and an MCP server for agents on top. CybeDefend starts from the agent: one install wires your AI coding tools in under 5 minutes. CybeDefend is built around an AI agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf) in your workflow.
Does CybeDefend have a free tier like Aikido?
Yes. CybeDefend's free plan includes 50 AI credits and 10 static scans, with no card and no time limit. Aikido's free Developer plan covers 2 users. Aikido's paid plans come in bundles starting at 10 users, while CybeDefend's start with a single-developer plan, so compare both against your team size.
Can CybeDefend and Aikido be used together?
Yes. Aikido in CI and across your cloud, with CybeDefend in the agent loop, is a layered setup. Issues caught before the pull request never reach the CI scan, which keeps its backlog shorter.
Install VibeDefend in 5 seconds.
One command wires every coding agent on your machine to CybeDefend: your business rules, your compliance frameworks, and guards that block destructive calls before they fire.
npx -y @cybedefend/vibedefend@latest install
Claude Code
Cursor
OpenAI Codex
Windsurf
VS Code Copilot