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Aikido Security vs Contrast Security Assess comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.8
Aikido Security increased efficiency, reduced costs, and expedited compliance, enhancing productivity and automating tasks significantly for organizations.
Sentiment score
6.8
Contrast Security Assess improves code quality, reduces costs, and enhances security by automating vulnerability identification and resolution.
Aikido Security caught a critical remote code execution vulnerability in my Python machine learning pipelines before it reached production.
Product Manager at Zidio development
Since we got rid of that, our productivity has increased, I believe, by thirty-two percent.
SecOps Engineer at IriusRisk
We were expecting to complete the compliance in a month, but I figured out Aikido Security could do it within a week for all our 13 repositories.
Co-Founder & CTO at Mango Giraffe
Contrast has probably saved us a couple hundred hours over the past six years.
Threat & Vulnerability Management Senior Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
In the past, my company employed five security engineers, but with Contrast Security Assess, we only have two people.
Dev Ops Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
The speed of fixing issues is significantly improved due to the vast amount of information provided by Contrast Security Assess, making it quite essential for finding the root cause of problems in the source code.
Management Of Quality Managers at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.5
Aikido Security's customer support is efficient, technically robust, with quick responses, proactive onboarding, and transparent communication valued by users.
Sentiment score
8.4
Contrast Security Assess offers highly responsive, detailed customer support, praised for swift resolutions and commitment to continuous improvement.
Aikido Security was the easiest to use, the easiest to onboard, and the one with the most active customer support.
SecOps Engineer at IriusRisk
Their team proactively reached out after signup to ensure we were set up correctly.
Product Manager at Zidio development
Customer support is good; if you raise a query, hardly within a day, your issues get resolved.
Security Researcher at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
They go out of their way to respond quickly and very knowledgeably.
Threat & Vulnerability Management Senior Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Customer support is one of the strongest points of Contrast Security Assess, as they are really responsive and answer tickets in less than one hour.
Management Of Quality Managers at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Contrast Security's customer support is very active and overall incredible.
Dev Ops Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
Aikido Security scales efficiently with excellent integration, minor peak delays, and occasional display issues after updates, supporting multiple teams.
Sentiment score
8.0
Contrast Security Assess scales well across environments, with flexible licensing and integration, though automation and developer engagement remain challenging.
That kind of reliability becomes invisible when it works well, which is exactly what you want from a security tool running in your CI/CD pipelines.
Product Manager at Zidio development
Aikido Security scales well by supporting multiple projects, repositories, and development teams on a single platform.
Full Stack Developer at Sri Krishna Arts and Science
You can deploy it on your team, and if you have a large team, it works very well.
Security Researcher at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
It is fairly simple to install the agents for Contrast Security Assess and keep them updated.
Threat & Vulnerability Management Senior Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Contrast Security Assess's scalability is not an issue at all.
Management Of Quality Managers at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.7
Aikido Security is highly stable and reliable, with consistent operation and minimal delays affecting user workflows and releases.
Sentiment score
7.9
Contrast Security Assess is stable and reliable, with accurate assessments, easy maintenance, but may impact resources in production.
The platform has been reliable and provides accurate security findings.
Full Stack Developer at Sri Krishna Arts and Science
It remains stable even when generating a large amount of code.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Publicis Sapient
Contrast Security Assess is genuinely more accurate than most tools I have worked with because it uses instrumentation from inside the application.
Dev Ops Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
We opened a ticket to customer support and experienced four weeks of disruption due to the extension malfunctioning in some of the .NET servers running Contrast Security Assess.
Management Of Quality Managers at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Aikido Security needs improved integrations, customization, monitoring, documentation, speed, automation, AI, and pricing to enhance user experience.
Contrast Security requires AI enhancements and improved support for integrations, documentation, reporting, and more intuitive functionalities.
I would love to see a Terraform module for Aikido Security.
SecOps Engineer at IriusRisk
I had a certain object with a UUID that was being considered as a private secret key or API key, which was not the case.
Co-Founder & CTO at Mango Giraffe
Aikido Security tells you what is vulnerable, but sometimes the fix suggestions are generic.
Product Manager at Zidio development
Regarding Contrast Security Assess's AI capabilities, I think they are missing a huge opportunity because they could lead the way in automatic testing and AI security testing.
Management Of Quality Managers at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
I would love to see more customizable, out-of-the-box reporting that speaks to both technical and non-technical people without extra configuration.
Dev Ops Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Contrast support has been great in fixing any issues or getting back to us with questions.
Threat & Vulnerability Management Senior Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Setup Cost

Contrast Security Assess offers tiered licensing from $20,000 to $100,000 annually, appreciated for simplicity and industry-standard pricing.
I used the free trial, which was sufficient for evaluating the platform and its core features.
Full Stack Developer at Sri Krishna Arts and Science
Aikido Security has a plan for $4,200 annually for up to 10 users.
Technical leader at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that the pricing is reasonable and based on the repository; they charge accordingly.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Publicis Sapient
The annual licensing for Contrast Security Assess costs about $20,000 to $100,000 per year, and per application, it costs about $5,000 to $15,000 per year.
Dev Ops Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Licensing costs are fairly high compared to other DAST and SAST tools, but it seems to be worth the money.
Threat & Vulnerability Management Senior Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
 

Valuable Features

Aikido Security provides an intuitive dashboard, seamless integrations, accurate scanning, and actionable insights to enhance security and workflow efficiency.
Contrast Security Assess is praised for integration, real-time detection, accuracy, and collaboration, enhancing security with IAST and CI/CD support.
We were able to get all codebase vulnerability fixes within a week for all our 13 or 14 repositories that we had.
Co-Founder & CTO at Mango Giraffe
Security shifted left, meaning issues were caught during development rather than after deployment.
Product Manager at Zidio development
My favorite feature is the dependency vulnerability scanning because it quickly identifies the risk in third-party packages, which saves me time in finding vulnerabilities.
Full Stack Developer at Sri Krishna Arts and Science
The real-time detection feature of Contrast Security Assess helps us very well compared to traditional SAST tools. Traditional tools scan from the outside and guess where problems might be. Contrast Security Assess works from the inside because it is embedded into the application.
Dev Ops Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
The ability to see what is going on and what has been going on in a given application and basically get to see what is coming across it in real time is helpful in finding vulnerabilities to remediate before production deployments.
Threat & Vulnerability Management Senior Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Instead of fixing each vulnerability reported independently, you can group them and fix them in a single point in the source code, resolving several vulnerabilities at once.
Management Of Quality Managers at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Aikido Security
Ranking in Application Security Tools
13th
Ranking in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
8th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
Web Application Firewall (WAF) (22nd), Container Security (22nd), Software Composition Analysis (SCA) (8th), Static Code Analysis (8th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (16th), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) (6th), DevSecOps (7th), Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) (6th)
Contrast Security Assess
Ranking in Application Security Tools
25th
Ranking in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
21st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Static Application Security Testing (SAST) category, the mindshare of Aikido Security is 1.9%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Contrast Security Assess is 1.3%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Aikido Security1.9%
Contrast Security Assess1.3%
Other96.8%
Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
 

Featured Reviews

Tarun Goswami_ - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Manager at Zidio development
Security has shifted left and now catches vulnerabilities early in our development workflow
There are a few areas for improvement. The first is scan speed. For large repositories, initial scans can be slow. Incremental scanning helps, but full scans still take considerable time. The second thing is the false positive rate. While Auto-Triage is good, it is not perfect. Occasionally, genuine issues get filtered out and real false positives slip through. The third one is remediation guidance. Aikido Security tells you what is vulnerable, but sometimes the fix suggestions are generic. More specific, actionable remediation steps would save developer time. The fourth one is IDE integrations. It currently works best in CI/CD pipelines. A proper VS Code or JetBrains plugin for real-time scanning while coding would be a significant improvement. From a customer point of view, the following things could change. The first thing is documentation for custom rules. Aikido Security allows you to create custom scanning rules, but the documentation for this feature is surprisingly thin. I spent considerable time in community forums and with trial and error just to configure basic custom rules. Step-by-step guides with real-world examples would make this feature much more accessible. The second thing is better Slack and communication integrations. Currently, security alerts come through email and dashboard notifications, but our team lives in Slack. A more configurable Slack integration that sends contextual alerts directly to the relevant developer, not just a generic channel notification, would dramatically improve response time. The third one is historical trend reporting. While Aikido Security shows current vulnerability status well, generating historical reports showing security posture improvement over time is limited. For presenting security progress to management or stakeholders, better exportable trend reports would be very valuable.
Eucharia Okafor - PeerSpot reviewer
Dev Ops Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Continuous in-app security has transformed our development workflow and has reduced manual checks
Contrast Security Assess changes how the team thinks about security. Instead of us waiting for a security audit at the end of any sprint, vulnerabilities surface as developers are writing and testing code. That shift is significant because fixing a bug in development costs more than fixing it later. It captures everything right there and remediates it because it catches vulnerability and remediates immediately while the application is running. It improves our collaboration between development and security teams, as developers get clear actionable findings immediately. We get continuous visibility into our application risk posture. Ultimately, it helps us to shift fast and save money, which is usually a trade-off, but Contrast Security Assess makes both possible. The feature that stands out most to me in Contrast Security Assess is the ability to capture vulnerability while the application is running. Another standout feature is the real-time detection that finds vulnerabilities as code runs. It has fewer false positives and works continuously in the application; you install it and it is there. It captures issues during development quickly and is easily integrated with a CI/CD pipeline, especially if you are using GitLab or GitHub. The real-time detection feature of Contrast Security Assess helps us very well compared to traditional SAST tools. Traditional tools scan from the outside and guess where problems might be. Contrast Security Assess works from the inside because it is embedded into the application. The agent lives inside the running application, allowing it to see exactly what is happening in real-time. This means we are getting accurate alerts instead of a long list of potential issues that require manual investigation. When it comes to the CI/CD pipeline, Contrast Security Assess really shines for our daily work, as it plugs directly into tools like Jenkins, GitHub, or Azure DevOps. When a developer commits code and triggers a build, Contrast Security Assess is already testing it in the background. If there is any vulnerability, the pipeline automatically flags or stops the application before bad code reaches production. This means security becomes everyone's responsibility, not just the security team's, and it gives us real-time, accurate security that fits into how our team already works.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Construction Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise5
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise10
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Aikido Security?
Aikido Security could be improved by allowing us to scan the entire network, not just the applications, but also devices such as computers and servers, to have all vulnerability reports for my enti...
What is your primary use case for Aikido Security?
My main use case for Aikido Security is vulnerability scanning of our internal applications. We have a development department, and we scan those applications for vulnerabilities and other security ...
What advice do you have for others considering Aikido Security?
My advice for others looking into using Aikido Security is to take into account that they will get a robust solution with AI capabilities and a perspective aligned with a security framework, which ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Contrast Security Assess?
Regarding pricing, setup cost, and licensing, the annual licensing for Contrast Security Assess costs about $20,000 to $100,000 per year, and per application, it costs about $5,000 to $15,000 per y...
What needs improvement with Contrast Security Assess?
Contrast Security Assess could improve in the reporting and the dashboard experience. While the data is there, pulling together an executive-level summary requires too much manual work. I would lov...
What advice do you have for others considering Contrast Security Assess?
The biggest production gain from Contrast Security Assess is the reduced costs and overhead within my company. Security feedback comes to developers instantly with Contrast Security Assess, reducin...
 

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Contrast Assess
 

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Sample Customers

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