Comparisons
Honest side-by-side writeups vs Snyk, Semgrep, SonarQube, Checkmarx, Bearer, Burp Suite, and GitHub Advanced Security — with pricing, detection approach, and where each tool legitimately wins. On the public self-authored benchmark, XploitScan scores 97.0% recall on 615 fixtures.
Start here: the best SAST for AI-generated code
A buyer guide comparing XploitScan, Semgrep, Snyk, and Bearer on a third-party benchmark — and which one fits which job.
Three places to catch AI-code bugs — XploitScan scans the source before deploy
XploitScan is a source-code security scanner (SAST) built for AI-written apps: it scans the source before you deploy and catches RLS-bypass, IDOR, and client-side-auth holes before they go live — live-URL scanners can only test them once the app is deployed. It sits alongside the runtime and in-editor tools, not against them.
Scan the code itself before you ship it. Catches the RLS-bypass, IDOR, missing-auth, hardcoded-key, and client-side-auth holes the moment they land in the repo — before anything is deployed.
Probe the running app from the outside after it's deployed. Catches issues only visible at runtime. Complementary to source scanning, not a replacement — run both.
Flag suggestions as the AI writes them, inside the IDE. Great as a first line of defense; a full source pass before deploy still catches what slips through.
XploitScan vs Semgrep
General-purpose static analyzer with community rulesets. XploitScan is purpose-built for AI-generated patterns and publishes a head-to-head benchmark on the same corpus.
XploitScan vs Snyk
Broad developer-security platform — SAST (Snyk Code) plus dependency, container, and IaC scanning — with Free, Team, and Enterprise plans. XploitScan is a narrower scanner tuned for AI-generated JS/TS/Python, at flat pricing.
XploitScan vs GitHub Advanced Security
GitHub's native code scanning (CodeQL) and secret protection, billed per active committer on GitHub Team or Enterprise. XploitScan works on any Git host at a flat price and ships plain-English fix guidance with every finding.
XploitScan vs SonarQube
Mature, broad code-quality and security platform covering 30+ languages, self-hosted or as SonarQube Cloud. XploitScan is the lighter, AI-code-tuned, flat-priced alternative you run in one command.
XploitScan vs Bearer
Source-available SAST for sensitive-data flow and privacy/compliance, with broad language coverage. XploitScan is the lighter, AI-code-tuned alternative. On a third-party test set it caught 8/16 when each case was first added, vs Bearer 1.50.0's 9/16, and catches 16/16 now that we've fixed the rules behind its misses.
XploitScan vs Checkmarx
Sales-led enterprise AppSec platform (SAST + DAST + SCA + ASPM) with quote-based pricing. XploitScan is the lighter, flat-priced, self-serve, AI-code-tuned scanner you run in one command — no demo, no quote.
XploitScan vs Burp Suite
The de facto tool for manual, dynamic web pentesting of a running app. XploitScan is the complementary static scanner that reads your source code before deploy — tuned for AI-generated JS/TS/Python.
The detection benchmark
Our Semgrep and Bearer comparisons are grounded in a shared corpus of 615 labeled fixtures. The corpus, the runners, and the scoring code are all open-source — run the numbers yourself.
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