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.
Where it stops
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.
Feature by feature
22 features, checked on Aikido's own site and documentation in September 2026.
| Feature | CybeDefend | Aikido |
|---|---|---|
| Detection | ||
| Agent-time scanning | Yes | Partial |
| SAST | Yes | Yes |
| SCA | Yes | Yes |
| IaC scanning | Yes | Yes |
| Container scanning | Yes | Yes |
| Secret detection | Yes | Yes |
| Business logic flaws | Yes | Yes |
| Reachability analysis | Yes | Yes |
| AI-BOM: AI component inventory (EU AI Act + NIST AI RMF) | Yes | Partial |
| Prompt injection & LLM-misuse scanner (OWASP LLM Top 10) | Yes | Partial |
| AI & Agent | ||
| Agent-time (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf…) | Yes | Partial |
| IDE security copilot | Yes | Yes |
| AI-generated verified patches | Yes | Partial |
| Auto-fix → ready-to-merge PR | Yes | Yes |
| Security Code Knowledge Graph | Yes | No |
| VibeDefend: security rules distributed to AI coding agents | Yes | Partial |
| Coding agent sandbox policy (allow/deny/warn before every write) | Yes | Partial |
| Operations | ||
| CI/CD pipeline gate | Yes | Yes |
| Low false-positive rate | Yes | Yes |
| Fast self-serve setup | Yes | Yes |
| CybeRisk Score: 0-100 score + AI-generated weekly Top 10 brief | Yes | No |
| EU/US sovereign deployment | Yes | Partial |
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Where we win
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.
SQL injection, found while the agent writes
CWE-89const id = parseInt(req.query.id, 10)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.
- POST /api/admin
- Auth check
- Role required?skip
- Admin action
- Sensitive data
Bypass caught by CybeDefend
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.
Claude CodeRules served
CursorRules served
GitHub CopilotRules served
OpenAI CodexRules served
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
Our platform is free to self-host, or priced per active developer on Cloud. VibeDefend is free to try, then priced with you after a pilot.
CybeDefend
- CommunityFree, on your servers
- CloudPriced per active developer
- EnterpriseOn quote
- VibeDefendFree to try, then a price set with you
Aikido
- Basic10 users€3,240/year
- Pro10 users€6,480/year
- Advanced10 users€9,720/year
- EnterpriseContact sales
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?
Does CybeDefend have a free tier like Aikido?
Can CybeDefend and Aikido be used together?
Install VibeDefend
One command wires every coding agent on this machine to your rules and your guards.
npx -y @cybedefend/vibedefend@latest install