How much does Aikido cost?

Aikido publishes 4 tiers, from Free for Developer up to On request for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.

What is the difference between Developer and Pro on Aikido?

Pro costs $600/month against Free, and adds up to 10 users, all basic features, on-premise scanning, vm scanning.

Is the Enterprise plan on Aikido worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is custom pricing for tailored modules, dedicated account management, custom slas, advanced integration support. It costs On request against $600/month for Pro. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.

Which cybersecurity tools can I use without paying?

7 of the 8 cybersecurity tools listed alongside Aikido have a free tier: Authelia, Grype, Ory Kratos, authentik, Trivy.

Does Aikido charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these Aikido prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare Aikido against before paying?

The closest cybersecurity tools in this directory are Authelia, Grype, Ory Kratos, authentik. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Aikido covering price, platforms and features.

Cybersecurity · pricing

Aikido pricing

Aikido publishes 4 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

Entry price: Free
Model: Subscription with free tier
Tiers: 4
Free tier: Yes

Aikido plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

Aikido pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Developer	Free	7	Entry tier
Pro	$600/month	9	+$600/month, 9 more features
Advanced	$600/month	10	+$0/month, 9 more features
Enterprise	On request	4	Priced on request

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Developer

Free

The entry tier. It covers up to 2 users, dependency scanning (sca), sast and ai sast, secrets detection, cloud scanning, license risk detection.

Pro

$600/month

Over Developer, this tier adds:

Up to 10 users
All Basic features
On-premise scanning
VM scanning
Attack surface monitoring
Malware detection
Same-day support
100 advanced AI credits per month
Limits: 200 repos, 100 container images, 10 domains, 10 cloud accounts, 20M protected requests per month

Advanced

$600/month

Over Pro, this tier adds:

All Pro features
Broker for internal apps
Private registry proxy
Higher API rate limits
FIPS base images
Priority Slack and Teams support
FedRAMP ATO
200 advanced AI credits per month
Limits: 500 repos, 200 container images, 20 domains, 20 cloud accounts, 50M protected requests per month

Enterprise

On request

Over Advanced, this tier adds:

Custom pricing for tailored modules
Dedicated account management
Custom SLAs
Advanced integration support

Where Aikido stops being free

Developer, Free

Up to 2 users
Dependency scanning (SCA)
SAST and AI SAST
Secrets detection
Cloud scanning
License risk detection
Fair-usage limits: 10 repos, 2 container images, 1 domain, 1 cloud account

Pro, $600/month

The first thing you pay for:

Up to 10 users
All Basic features
On-premise scanning
VM scanning
Attack surface monitoring
Malware detection
Same-day support
100 advanced AI credits per month
Limits: 200 repos, 100 container images, 10 domains, 10 cloud accounts, 20M protected requests per month

What the product covers

The full Aikido feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.

Code Security

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

Remediation

AutoFix

Secrets

Secrets detection

Cloud Security

Cloud Security Posture Management

Attack Testing

AI-powered penetration testing

Runtime Protection

Device protection

Other

False positive reduction

People bring Aikido in for developer-friendly security integrated into pr workflows, automated vulnerability remediation with context-aware alerts, consolidation of fragmented security tools across development lifecycle, cloud infrastructure security posture monitoring, supply chain attack prevention and malware detection. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Aikido are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Cybersecurity

Too few cybersecurity tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.

Aikido entry price against other Cybersecurity tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Aikido (this page)	Free	Subscription with free tier	-
Authelia	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Aikido
Grype	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Aikido
Ory Kratos	Free	Open-source self-hosted, with a paid managed network	-	vs Aikido
authentik	Free	Open-source core with a paid enterprise tier	-	vs Aikido
Trivy	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Aikido
Chainguard	Free, then $19000/year	Licensing by artifact type and team size	-	vs Aikido

Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Aikido badges page.

Before you pay for Aikido

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 4 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

Aikido runs on web, ci/cd, ide, and is published by Aikido of Ghent, Belgium (EU HQ) and San Francisco, CA (US HQ). The full record is on the Aikido review, and the rest of the category is under best cybersecurity tools.

Aikido pricing on the vendor's own site

Aikido pricing questions

How much does Aikido cost?: Aikido publishes 4 tiers, from Free for Developer up to On request for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Aikido have a free plan?: Yes. The Developer tier costs nothing and covers up to 2 users, dependency scanning (sca), sast and ai sast. Paying starts at $600/month for Pro.
What is the difference between Developer and Pro on Aikido?: Pro costs $600/month against Free, and adds up to 10 users, all basic features, on-premise scanning, vm scanning.
Is the Enterprise plan on Aikido worth it?: That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is custom pricing for tailored modules, dedicated account management, custom slas, advanced integration support. It costs On request against $600/month for Pro. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
Which cybersecurity tools can I use without paying?: 7 of the 8 cybersecurity tools listed alongside Aikido have a free tier: Authelia, Grype, Ory Kratos, authentik, Trivy.
What am I actually paying for with Aikido?: The record lists 8 features across 7 areas: code security, remediation, secrets, cloud security, attack testing, runtime protection, other. In practice it is brought in for developer-friendly security integrated into pr workflows, automated vulnerability remediation with context-aware alerts, consolidation of fragmented security tools across development lifecycle.
Does Aikido charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
Are these Aikido prices current?: They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
What should I compare Aikido against before paying?: The closest cybersecurity tools in this directory are Authelia, Grype, Ory Kratos, authentik. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Aikido covering price, platforms and features.