Orca scans your deployed cloud. CybeDefend secures what builds it.

Orca's agentless approach to cloud security is elegant and mature, and its code scanning now reaches the IDE, pull requests and pipelines. CybeDefend works one step earlier, inside the AI agent writing the code.

What Orca Security does well

Agentless cloud scanning plus the Orca Sensor for runtime protection, excellent CSPM and CWPP, vulnerability prioritization based on cloud attack paths and code reachability, AI security posture management with an inventory of models and AI packages, code scanning (SAST, SCA, IaC, secrets) in the IDE, on pull requests and in CI/CD, and an MCP server that brings Orca findings into AI assistants.

Where it stops

Orca's code scanning runs in the IDE, on pull requests and in CI/CD. Its MCP server lets AI assistants such as Cursor and VS Code pull Orca findings and draft fixes when asked, but it does not check code on its own while the agent writes it. Business-logic flaws are not part of its announced scope. No public price list: one SKU, priced on the number of cloud workloads, and no free plan.

Feature by feature

22 features, checked on Orca Security's own site and documentation in September 2026.

Feature	CybeDefend	Orca Security
Detection
Agent-time scanning	Yes	No
SAST	Yes	Yes
SCA	Yes	Yes
IaC scanning	Yes	Yes
Container scanning	Yes	Yes
Secret detection	Yes	Yes
Business logic flaws	Yes	No
Reachability analysis	Yes	Yes
AI-BOM: AI component inventory (EU AI Act + NIST AI RMF)	Yes	Yes
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	Partial
AI-generated verified patches	Yes	Partial
Auto-fix → ready-to-merge PR	Yes	Partial
Security Code Knowledge Graph	Yes	No
VibeDefend: security rules distributed to AI coding agents	Yes	No
Coding agent sandbox policy (allow/deny/warn before every write)	Yes	No
Operations
CI/CD pipeline gate	Yes	Yes
Low false-positive rate	Yes	Partial
Fast self-serve setup	Yes	Partial
CybeRisk Score: 0-100 score + AI-generated weekly Top 10 brief	Yes	No
EU/US sovereign deployment	Yes	Partial

Yes NoPartial

Where we win

Already written vs being written

Orca's agentless model is powerful: no sensors, no performance impact, full cloud visibility, and code scanning on what developers and agents have already written. CybeDefend operates at code generation time, inside the AI agent writing the Terraform, the Dockerfile, the application code. The earlier the check, the fewer issues ever reach a pull request or the cloud.

SQL injection, found while the agent writes

CWE-89

const id = parseInt(req.query.id, 10)

PR opens clean

Complementary security layers

Orca and CybeDefend are strongest on different surfaces. Orca: cloud runtime, posture, deployed workloads, plus code scanning on pull requests and in pipelines. CybeDefend: the AI agent's output as it is written, business logic, and fixes inside the agent loop. Together they cover the path from the first prompt to the running production workload.

Logic Flow Tracerbypass detected

POST /api/admin
Auth check
Role required?skip
Admin action
Sensitive data

Bypass caught by CybeDefend

Fixed before the pull request

Orca surfaces runtime risks and cloud misconfigurations, and its AI can suggest code fixes as one-click pull requests. CybeDefend acts before that loop starts: it rewrites the unsafe application or IaC line inside the agent, before the PR is opened, so fewer issues ever reach the cloud.

Claude Code is writingapi/users.ts

router.post("/api/users", async (req, res) => {
  const { id } = req.body;
  const user = await db.query(
    "SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = ?", [id]
  );
  return res.json(user);
});

Parameterise every query that mixes user input.

OWASP Top 10

Ready to merge

Orca sees vulnerabilities in your running cloud. CybeDefend prevents the AI agent from writing the code that creates them.

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

See full pricing

Orca Security

EnterpriseContact sales

Orca Security does not publish public pricing. Contact their sales team for a quote.

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

Should teams use both Orca and CybeDefend?

Yes, if budget allows. Orca is strongest on cloud security, with code scanning on pull requests and in pipelines; CybeDefend secures the code the AI agent writes, at agent-time, before any commit. They overlap on code scanning but act at different moments, which makes them complementary rather than redundant.

Does Orca do any code scanning?

Yes. Orca offers SAST, SCA, IaC and secrets scanning, run on pull requests, in CI/CD pipelines and through VS Code and IntelliJ extensions. CybeDefend runs those checks inside the AI agent, while the code is being written.

What is Orca's pricing model?

Orca sells a single SKU priced on the number of cloud workloads you protect. It publishes no price list and no free plan, so quotes go through its sales team. CybeDefend Platform is free to self-host, and VibeDefend is free to try, with no card.

Install VibeDefend

One command wires every coding agent on this machine to your rules and your guards.

npx -y @cybedefend/vibedefend@latest install