CybeDefend vs Orca Security

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.

Agent-timeAuto-fix PR

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.

But:

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

CybeDefend vs Orca Security

Feature	CybeDefend	Orca Security
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

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.

agent runtime

Agent writes code

const id = req.query.id, unsanitized

agent-time check

★

CybeDefend scans

SQLi detected, injecting fix…

auto-fix applied

✓

PR opens clean

parseInt(req.query.id, 10)ready to merge

Where we win

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.

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Where we win

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.

cybedefend.patch+1 fix

12router.post('/api/users', async (req, res) => {

13 const { id } = req.body

14−const sql = `SELECT * WHERE id=${id}`

14+const sql = db.query('SELECT * WHERE id=?', [id])

15 return res.json(await sql)

−1+1line changedReady to merge

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

Pricing

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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Orca Security

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* 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.

FAQ

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 publishes its plans and has a free plan: 50 AI credits and 10 static scans, no card.

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.

Install in 5 secondsNode 18.17+

npx -y @cybedefend/vibedefend@latest install

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