Legit Security alternatives

We build CRACI, so weigh that in; we describe every option from its own documentation and say when another tool fits better.

Why teams look beyond Legit Security

Legit Security calls itself an AI-native ASPM platform. It connects to your source control, CI, registries and scanners, keeps an inventory of SDLC systems, pipelines and the security controls on them, and enforces hundreds of policies across them. It adds native SAST and SCA with reachability, secrets detection in code, Git history, build logs and tools such as Slack and Confluence, VibeGuard for AI-generated code in the IDE, and SBOMs with signed attestations. It does not publish prices.

Teams still compare alternatives, usually for one of these reasons:

• A different ASPM. Other platforms weigh architecture context, pipeline posture or a supply chain graph differently.
• Less platform, more scanning. A smaller team may want strong scanners and published prices rather than a governance layer.
• Everything is already on GitHub. When code and CI live in one place, GitHub's own security features may cover enough.
• Evidence from the build, not the configuration. A posture platform reads settings and scanner output through APIs. It can flag a risky pipeline, but it does not see what a job actually downloaded, and it cannot stop a connection while the job runs.

What to look for

• Breadth or depth: one layer over many tools, or a deeper view of one point such as the build.
• Whether you need native SAST, SCA and secrets scanning, or will connect scanners you already own.
• CI/CD posture: which pipeline settings and workflow risks the tool checks, and on which CI systems.
• Where the SBOM and provenance come from: code analysis, connected tools, or the build itself.
• Control during the build: whether anything limits what a job can reach.
• Whether the vendor publishes prices, and what it counts.

The options

1. CRACI (our product)

CRACI is a GitHub Actions runner. You change runs-on to craci, and while each job runs, a package-aware proxy records what it fetches from package sources, including packages restored from CI caches and hidden dependencies that no lockfile lists, such as code downloaded by npm install hooks. Each SBOM states its completeness per job and per cache. An egress policy, validated before the job starts, fails closed, so a build reaches only the sources you allow. CRACI keeps re-evaluating the SBOMs of what shipped, aggregates findings across builds and repositories, and lets security teams triage them and route each one to the team that owns the fix.

Best for: teams on GitHub Actions whose supply chain question is what went into each release, and who want the runner, the SBOM and the vulnerability tracking in one place. Consider if: you can do without what makes Legit a posture platform. CRACI has no SAST, secrets scanning, reachability analysis or CI/CD posture checks, no SDLC inventory and no scanner aggregation. It supports GitHub Actions only today, with GitLab CI and Jenkins on the roadmap. CRACI vs Legit Security

2. Apiiro

Apiiro is an ASPM platform that now positions itself around securing agentic development. Deep Code Analysis maps your architecture from code to runtime, and the Risk Graph correlates findings from Apiiro's own scanners and third-party tools into "toxic combinations". Its supply chain module inventories repositories and pipelines, including shadow pipelines, and flags weak branch protection and abnormal commits. It connects through APIs and needs no CI changes.

Best for: large AppSec programs that want risk ranked by what the code does and where it runs. Consider if: architecture context matters more to you than breadth of CI coverage; Apiiro lists Jenkins and GitHub Actions for pipeline posture. CRACI vs Apiiro

3. OX Security

OX Security is an ASPM platform with its own SAST, SCA, secrets, IaC and container scanning, aggregation of findings from tools such as Checkmarx, Snyk and Black Duck, and CI/CD posture policies that flag unpinned actions, excessive workflow permissions and risky webhooks. Its Pipeline Bill of Materials (PBOM) is a signed record per build of pipeline definitions, runner identity, build arguments and artifact signatures.

Best for: posture policies and pull request gating across several CI systems. Consider if: you run GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, Azure Pipelines or CircleCI. OX prices per contributing developer and publishes no list prices (as of September 2026). CRACI vs OX Security

4. Cycode

Cycode calls itself an agentic development security platform and grew out of ASPM. It sells SAST, SCA with reachability, container and IaC scanning, CI/CD security, secrets and code leak detection, and posture management with more than 100 connectors. Its build runtime piece, Cimon, is an eBPF agent inside your CI jobs that monitors processes, network egress and file access, and produces a runtime-observed SBOM.

Best for: teams that want an ASPM platform with runtime protection for the build. Consider if: you want Cimon on runners you keep; Cycode says Cimon is free and open source. Cycode does not list prices; its pricing page says pricing is based on active developers and AI usage (as of September 2026). CRACI vs Cycode

5. Kusari

Kusari comes from the team that co-created GUAC, the OpenSSF graph for supply chain metadata. It builds a knowledge graph from your SBOMs, VEX documents and scanner output, shows the blast radius of a new vulnerability, analyzes reachability and opens AutoFix pull requests. Kusari Inspector reviews pull requests on GitHub and GitLab for transitive vulnerabilities, secrets, typosquatted packages and insecure GitHub Actions workflows.

Best for: one graph across many SBOM sources and scanners. Consider if: your posture concerns are mostly dependencies and workflows. Inspector is free for solo developers and open-source projects, and Inspector for teams starts at $25 per developer per month (as of September 2026). CRACI vs Kusari

6. Checkmarx One

Checkmarx One is a broad AppSec platform: SAST, SCA, secrets, IaC, API security, DAST, containers and malicious package protection, with a posture management layer on top. Its SCA uses exploitable path analysis, and policies can break builds.

Best for: organizations that want one vendor for application security testing. Consider if: scanning depth matters more to you than an SDLC map. Pricing is by quote. CRACI vs Checkmarx One

7. Aikido

Aikido is a broad AppSec suite in one dashboard. Every plan lists SCA, SAST, secrets, IaC, cloud posture, container scanning, DAST, license scanning and SBOM generation. Its SCA uses function-level reachability, and AutoFix opens pull requests.

Best for: smaller teams that want most scanning in one tool with published prices. Consider if: you do not need an SDLC governance layer. There is a free plan, Basic is $350 per month and Pro $600 per month, with Enterprise priced on request (as of September 2026). CRACI vs Aikido

8. GitHub Advanced Security

GitHub sells its security features as two add-ons. Secret Protection covers secret scanning with push protection, and Code Security adds CodeQL code scanning and dependency review. The dependency graph and Dependabot alerts come with every GitHub plan, and GitHub Actions can produce artifact attestations.

Best for: organizations whose code and CI all live on GitHub. Consider if: you can do without coverage of other source control and CI systems. As of September 2026, Secret Protection is $19 and Code Security $30 per active committer per month, on a GitHub Team or Enterprise plan. CRACI vs GitHub Advanced Security

9. StepSecurity

StepSecurity secures GitHub Actions from the inside. Harden-Runner is an agent on the runners you already use, including GitHub-hosted ones: it ties every outbound connection, process and file write to the workflow step that caused it, can audit first to build a baseline, and then blocks egress outside an allowlist. StepSecurity also offers actions governance and Maintained Actions, and covers GitLab CI and Azure DevOps.

Best for: teams whose main CI/CD risk is GitHub Actions workflows and runners. Consider if: you want runtime control on runners you keep. The Community tier is free for public repositories and Enterprise is $16 per contributing developer per month (as of September 2026). CRACI vs StepSecurity

Side by side

ASPM platforms and build security tools, compared with Legit. Checkmarx One, Aikido and GitHub Advanced Security are scanners and are described above. "Not stated" means the vendor pages we cite do not say either way.

When to stay with Legit Security

• You run many source control and CI systems and need one governance layer over all of them.
• You want existing scanners orchestrated, correlated and de-duplicated into one queue.
• You need secrets found beyond source code, in build logs and tools such as Slack, Confluence and Jira.
• You report posture against frameworks such as ISO 27001, SSDF, SLSA and SOC 2 from one place.

If a record of each build is on your list, book a demo, or read about egress policy for GitHub Actions, build-time SBOM generation and software supply chain security tools compared.

Legit Security alternatives FAQ

Short answers to the questions teams ask when they compare

What are the best Legit Security alternatives?

For another ASPM platform, look at Apiiro, OX Security or Cycode. Kusari builds one graph from your SBOMs and scanners. For scanning without a posture layer, look at Checkmarx One or Aikido, and if all your code is on GitHub, GitHub Advanced Security. StepSecurity focuses on GitHub Actions: runner hardening and CI/CD posture. CRACI replaces the GitHub Actions runner itself and records what each build fetched.

How much does Legit Security cost?

Legit Security does not publish prices. As of September 2026, its site links to plans and packages and to sales, with no figures. Among the alternatives, Aikido, StepSecurity, GitHub Advanced Security and Kusari Inspector publish prices, while Apiiro, OX Security, Cycode and Checkmarx do not.

Is there a free alternative to Legit Security?

For parts of it. Legit's own Legitify is an Apache 2.0 open-source tool that finds insecure GitHub and GitLab settings. StepSecurity's Community tier is free for public repositories, Aikido has a free plan, Kusari Inspector is free for solo developers and open-source projects, and GitHub turns on code scanning and secret scanning for public repositories at no cost. None of them is a free ASPM platform with Legit's breadth.

Legit Security vs Apiiro vs OX Security: which one?

All three are ASPM platforms that connect to your source control, CI and scanners. Apiiro leads with architecture context from Deep Code Analysis and its Risk Graph. OX Security leads with CI/CD posture policies and a signed Pipeline Bill of Materials per build. Legit leads with a map of the whole SDLC, hundreds of policies across it, and secrets detection that reaches build logs, Slack, Confluence and Jira. None of them runs your builds.

Does CRACI replace Legit Security?

In part. For software built on GitHub Actions, CRACI replaces the build evidence side: it is the runner, so it records what each build fetched, enforces an egress policy and keeps monitoring the SBOMs of what shipped. It does no SAST, secrets scanning, reachability analysis or CI/CD posture checks, has no SDLC inventory and does not aggregate other scanners, and it supports GitHub Actions only today, with GitLab CI and Jenkins on the roadmap. Teams that need those keep a scanner or posture tool for them.