How we make this list: we compare pricing pages, product documentation and public user reviews. Ratings come from G2, Capterra or Trustpilot, with the date we checked them.
Key takeaways
- Wiz is the default enterprise shortlist entry for cloud wide risk ranking, now owned by Google and still sold for AWS and Azure estates.
- Snyk and Aikido serve smaller teams better, with free tiers and pricing a startup can read without a sales call.
- Prisma Cloud, sold as Cortex Cloud, suits firms already deep in Palo Alto Networks contracts.
- Every enterprise platform here prices by quote, so model the workload count before you sign, because that number sets the bill.
Quick comparison
| Tool | Best for | Starting price | Free plan |
|---|
 Wiz | Enterprise cloud wide risk ranking | See website | No |
 Snyk | Developer first code and dependency scanning | $25 per developer/month | Yes |
 Prisma Cloud (Cortex Cloud) | Palo Alto shops consolidating cloud security | See website | No |
 Orca Security | Agentless scanning for mid sized estates | See website | No |
 Aqua Security | Container and Kubernetes security | See website | No |
 Cycode | Pipeline and application security posture | See website | No |
 GitGuardian | Secrets detection in code and pipelines | See website | Yes |
 Aikido Security | All in one scanning at published prices | $350 per month | Yes |
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#1Wiz
Best for: Enterprise cloud wide risk ranking4.7/5 on
G2 (863 reviews, checked Oct 2026)
Visit wiz.io
Starting priceSee website
Free planNo
Wiz reads a cloud estate through its APIs, builds a graph of how resources connect, and ranks the combinations that actually expose data: a public workload, a known flaw, an over wide identity, sensitive data in reach. That ranking is the product. Security teams drowning in scanner output buy Wiz to find the twenty fixes that matter.
Google closed its $32 billion acquisition of Wiz in March 2026, and Wiz now sits inside Google Cloud while continuing to support rival clouds. Pricing is quoted per cloud resource; third party estimates put small deployments near $24,000 a year and median buyer spend above $100,000, none of it official list pricing. Treat those figures as negotiation context, not quotes.
What we like- Agentless scanning across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, attack path ranking turns thousands of findings into a short fix list, code scanning through Wiz Code ties cloud flaws back to the repo
Watch out for- Quote only pricing scaled by cloud resources, buyer reported medians run to six figures a year, depth aimed at enterprises is wasted on a two account startup
#2
Snyk
Best for: Developer first code and dependency scanning
Visit snyk.io
Starting price$25 per developer/month
Free planYes
Snyk made its name by putting security inside the tools developers already open: the IDE, the repo and the pull request. Its dependency scanning and fix pull requests remain the benchmark, and the platform has widened into code scanning, container images, infrastructure as code and an application risk layer.
Pricing needs care. Current reporting puts the Team tier at $25 per developer per month, while G2's pricing page lists the Team tier at $98 per month, and Snyk's own structure has shifted more than once. The free tier is real, with monthly test allowances across its scanners, so start there, measure your test volume, and confirm the live tier price before budgeting a rollout.
What we like- Developers actually use it, which settles half the adoption fight, fix pull requests for dependency upgrades, free tier covers useful test volumes for small teams, scans code, open source, containers and infrastructure as code
Watch out for- Per developer pricing climbs steeply at scale, cloud posture depth trails the CNAPP platforms, published figures conflict across sources, so the real tier price needs a live check
Starting priceSee website
Free planNo
Prisma Cloud was assembled from acquired specialists: Twistlock for containers, RedLock for posture, Bridgecrew for infrastructure as code scanning. Palo Alto Networks now markets the result inside Cortex Cloud, its broader security operations brand. The capability is genuinely wide, spanning posture, workloads, identities, data and code.
The trade is commercial complexity. Pricing runs on credits that map to protected resources and enabled modules, and buyer reported per credit figures vary by module. Firms already spending heavily with Palo Alto can often fold this into an existing agreement; everyone else should demand a worked credit model against their real resource count before signing.
What we like- The widest module set in this list, built from Twistlock, RedLock and Bridgecrew lineage, deep container and Kubernetes coverage, credit pricing can bundle with wider Palo Alto contracts
Watch out for- Sold under the Cortex Cloud brand, which confuses buyers comparing older Prisma reviews, credit maths is hard to forecast, quote only with annual or multi year contracts
Starting priceSee website
Free planNo
Orca's pitch is simplicity: connect the cloud accounts, and its SideScanning approach reads workloads from the side, with no agents to install or maintain. One edition covers posture, workload scanning, identity risk and data checks, which suits mid sized firms that cannot staff a platform team.
The cost is still enterprise shaped. Pricing is per cloud asset under an annual negotiated contract, and buyer reported medians cluster around $95,000 to $100,000 a year. Orca wins deals where deployment speed matters more than the last layer of runtime defence, and loses where a SOC wants deep in workload telemetry.
What we like- Purely agentless model deploys in hours rather than months, single edition keeps the buying decision simple, strong fit for mid market teams without agent management staff
Watch out for- Quote based per cloud asset, buyer reported median spend still lands near six figures, runtime protection depth trails agent based rivals, no published pricing at any tier
Starting priceSee website
Free planNo
Aqua is the container specialist. It scans images, watches running containers, enforces runtime policy in Kubernetes and tracks the build pipeline that produced the image. Its open source scanner Trivy is one of the most widely used security tools anywhere, which keeps Aqua's detection engine tested at unusual scale.
Buy Aqua when containers are the estate. A firm running mostly serverless functions and managed databases will use a fraction of it and should look at the broader platforms instead. Pricing is quoted per environment and workload; expect an enterprise sales cycle and an annual contract.
What we like- Deep container and Kubernetes specialism from image scanning to runtime rules, strong software supply chain tooling, the open source Trivy scanner gives its engine a huge user base
Watch out for- Quote only enterprise pricing, cloud posture breadth trails Wiz and Prisma, best value appears in container heavy estates, less so elsewhere
Starting priceSee website
Free planNo
Cycode focuses on how software gets built: the repos, the CI pipelines, the secrets that leak into both, and the dependencies pulled along the way. Its posture view connects a risky pipeline setting to the production system it feeds, which is the connection point scanners miss when they look at code and cloud separately.
It fits organisations whose worry is supply chain attack rather than cloud misconfiguration. Pricing is by quote, sized on repositories and contributors. Run it against a short list of your real pipelines during evaluation, because its value shows in findings about your build system, not in a demo tenant.
What we like- Built for the software factory, covering code, pipelines, secrets and dependencies in one risk view, native scanning engines plus ingestion from other tools, strong pipeline integrity checks
Watch out for- Quote only pricing, younger brand than the platform giants, overlap risk if you already own Snyk or a CNAPP, posture views need engineering time to act on
Starting priceSee website
Free planYes
Most cloud breaches still begin with a credential, and GitGuardian exists to find credentials before attackers do. It scans repos, commit history and developer tooling for secrets, and its public monitoring watches open source code for leaks tied to your organisation, free of charge.
Treat it as a specialist layer beside a broader platform, not a replacement for one. Internal monitoring pricing is quoted, typically per developer. The real work starts at detection: every live secret it finds must be rotated, and its history checked, because a key that sat in a public repo for a week should be assumed copied.
What we like- Best in class detection of leaked keys, tokens and passwords across repos and history, free monitoring for public open source projects, honeytoken tooling that plants decoy credentials to catch attackers
Watch out for- One job done deeply rather than a full platform, internal monitoring is quote priced per developer, a found secret still needs a human to rotate it and check for misuse
#8
Aikido Security
Best for: All in one scanning at published prices
Visit aikido.dev
Starting price$350 per month
Free planYes
Aikido bundles the scanner stack, code, dependencies, secrets, infrastructure as code, containers and cloud checks, into one product with published flat rate pricing. The free Developer plan covers 2 users and 10 repositories. Paid platform fees are reported at $350 per month for Basic with 10 users included, though one October 2026 comparison put Basic at $300, so confirm the live figure.
For a startup or a small platform team, Aikido replaces three or four separate subscriptions and the integration work between them. That simplicity is the product. Larger firms will test its depth against Snyk and the CNAPP platforms, but for teams without a dedicated security engineer it is the most practical start on this list.
What we like- One flat platform fee covers code, cloud, containers, secrets and more, published pricing with a free Developer plan for 2 users, aggressive filtering cuts duplicate and unreachable findings
Watch out for- Paid tiers start around $300 to $350 per month depending on the source, which is real money for a tiny team, younger platform than Snyk, enterprise depth still maturing
How we chose
We required each tool to operate inside the delivery path, in code, pipelines or cloud accounts, rather than only reporting on finished systems, and to sell actively to cloud building teams in 2026. The list spans the real shapes of the market: enterprise CNAPP platforms, developer first scanners, deep specialists and one published price consolidator. Prices come from vendor pages and current dated reporting; where figures conflicted, the entry says so. We did not claim hands-on testing, and no tool here was credited with making any cloud secure on its own.
A DevSecOps platform earns its money in the first month if it does one thing: shorten the list. Raw scanner output runs to thousands of findings, most of them unreachable, unexploitable or sitting on systems with nothing worth stealing. Rank by exposure, what is public, what identity it carries, what data it can reach, and fix the combinations. Every platform above claims this ranking; test it against your own estate during the trial, with your own known bad configuration planted if you can.
Then assign owners. Findings routed to a shared inbox die there. The tools that work in practice push a ticket with a named repo owner and a deadline into the system engineers already use, and re-scan to confirm the fix. Ask each vendor to show you that loop end to end, not the dashboard.
Know the limits too. Scanners see configuration and known flaws. They do not see a logic error in your own code that lets one customer read another customer's data, they do not fix an over permissive identity that a business team insists it needs, and they do not patch anything. Runtime tools catch some attacks in progress; none stops a determined attacker holding a valid credential. Budget for the fixing work, not just the finding tool, because the licence is usually the smaller half of the programme cost.
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between DevSecOps tools and a CNAPP?
A CNAPP watches the cloud estate: posture, workloads, identities and data. DevSecOps tools start earlier, in code and pipelines, scanning commits, builds and infrastructure definitions before anything deploys. Wiz and Prisma span both; Snyk and GitGuardian live mainly in the earlier half.
How much do these tools cost a small team?
Smaller teams can start free with Snyk, GitGuardian's public monitoring or Aikido's Developer plan. Aikido's paid platform starts around $300 to $350 per month. Enterprise CNAPP contracts are quoted and buyer reported medians run from roughly $95,000 to above $100,000 a year.
Do I still need these tools if my cloud provider has security features?
Yes, usually. Native tools such as AWS Security Hub cover one cloud well but stop at its border, and they rarely connect a cloud flaw back to the code and pipeline that created it. Third party platforms earn their price on multi cloud estates and on ranking.
Can a scanner replace a security engineer?
No. These tools find and rank issues; they do not decide risk appetite, fix code or rotate a leaked key's history. A small team can cover more ground with a good tool, but somebody still owns the findings.
What changed with Wiz and Prisma Cloud in 2026?
Google completed its $32 billion purchase of Wiz in March 2026; Wiz keeps its brand and multi cloud support inside Google Cloud. Palo Alto Networks folded Prisma Cloud into its Cortex Cloud brand, so current quotes and contracts use the newer name.
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