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Aikido Security vs Contrast Security Assess comparison

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ROI

Sentiment score
7.5
Aikido Security improved efficiency by reducing vulnerabilities, review time, and costs while increasing productivity and profitability through streamlined processes.
Sentiment score
6.8
Contrast Security Assess improves code quality, reduces costs, and streamlines workflows by detecting vulnerabilities early, enhancing efficiency.
Aikido Security caught a critical remote code execution vulnerability in my Python machine learning pipelines before it reached production.
GEN AI Engineer at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
Since we got rid of that, our productivity has increased, I believe, by thirty-two percent.
SecOps Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 501-1,000 employees
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
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
7.3
Aikido Security's efficient, responsive support and helpful resources lead to high satisfaction, though some desire 24/7 availability.
Sentiment score
8.4
Contrast Security Assess support is responsive and knowledgeable, with efficient issue resolution and high user satisfaction despite customization challenges.
Aikido Security was the easiest to use, the easiest to onboard, and the one with the most active customer support.
SecOps Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 501-1,000 employees
Their team proactively reached out after signup to ensure we were set up correctly.
GEN AI Engineer at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
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
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Aikido Security efficiently scales with organizational growth, handling increased workloads and maintaining fast performance with minor adaptability challenges.
Sentiment score
8.0
Contrast Security Assess offers scalability across platforms but faces challenges with change management and limited technology support.
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.
GEN AI Engineer at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
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 provides stable, reliable operation with seamless integration and efficient updates, consistently meeting user needs despite occasional delays.
Sentiment score
7.9
Contrast Security Assess is highly stable and reliable, with occasional environment-related issues and limited ColdFusion support.
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
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 better tool integration, detailed guidance, interface simplification, customizable reporting, and improvements in speed and support.
Contrast Security Assess offers effective automation but requires better documentation, integration, reporting, support, pricing flexibility, and AI enhancements.
I would love to see a Terraform module for Aikido Security.
SecOps Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 501-1,000 employees
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.
GEN AI Engineer at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
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
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
Contrast Security Assess can be improved as it checks the code and asks to fix the code that is vulnerable, and in that way, we can prevent potential hacking or attempts for people to inject malicious code.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at a program development consultancy with 1-10 employees
 

Setup Cost

Aikido Security offers competitive pricing, minimal setup costs, and flexible plans, including a valuable free version and trial.
Contrast Security Assess offers scalable pricing based on application size and environment, ranging from $20,000 to $100,000 annually.
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
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 simplifies vulnerability scanning with a unified dashboard, strong automation, and integrations, enhancing security and compliance.
Contrast Security Assess offers real-time vulnerability detection with minimal false positives, enhancing security through CI/CD integration and proactive measures.
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.
GEN AI Engineer at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
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 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
Contrast Security Assess has positively impacted my organization by improving the security features of our application.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at a program development consultancy with 1-10 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Aikido Security
Ranking in Application Security Tools
13th
Ranking in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
4th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
Web Application Firewall (WAF) (11th), Container Security (16th), Software Composition Analysis (SCA) (6th), Static Code Analysis (4th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (12th), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) (4th), DevSecOps (6th), Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) (5th)
Contrast Security Assess
Ranking in Application Security Tools
25th
Ranking in Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
12th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Static Application Security Testing (SAST) category, the mindshare of Aikido Security is 2.0%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Contrast Security Assess is 1.4%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Aikido Security2.0%
Contrast Security Assess1.4%
Other96.6%
Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
 

Featured Reviews

Tarunn Goswami - PeerSpot reviewer
GEN AI Engineer at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
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.
Ryan Flake - PeerSpot reviewer
Threat & Vulnerability Management Senior Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Real-time assessments have improved remediation speed and reduced time spent on authentication issues
I do find that here and there with Contrast Security Assess there are user interface issues, particularly with how they work with libraries. The way that it works is people have access to library data for all applications, not just the applications that they should have access to. However, they are trying to fix that. The way the libraries are handled with Contrast Security Assess could use some work. I know that there is an additional service tier that allows for more in-depth library data. These are small things. Contrast support has been great in fixing any issues or getting back to us with questions. They seem to really be dedicated to the product.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise11
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Aikido Security?
One area I think Aikido Security could improve is the depth of their reporting and remediation guidance; sometimes, the platform flags a vulnerability but the suggested fix lacks detail, requiring ...
What is your primary use case for Aikido Security?
My main use case for Aikido Security is to consolidate all our application security scanning into one platform, primarily to manage multiple tools more efficiently. I use it to scan our code for vu...
What advice do you have for others considering Aikido Security?
My advice for anyone considering Aikido Security is to proceed and try it as the onboarding process is straightforward and can be completed within a day. Start by connecting critical repositories a...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Contrast Security Assess?
I was not involved in the negotiation of pricing for Contrast Security Assess, but I am somewhat familiar with setup cost and licensing. Licensing costs are fairly high compared to other DAST and S...
What needs improvement with Contrast Security Assess?
I don't use Contrast Security Assess anymore, so I cannot comment on how it can be improved; I stopped using it four years ago, but at the time, I think the UI could be improved to be more friendly...
What advice do you have for others considering Contrast Security Assess?
I don't remember specific metrics regarding the outcomes we saw, but I can tell that the false positive rate was a third compared to a static analysis scanner; we used to have automation testing ex...
 

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Sample Customers

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