Comparison
Code Guard compared with GitHub Advanced Security, Snyk, SonarQube and Aikido.
Price, free offer, data location, scope and architecture review side by side. The values of the other vendors are those on their own pages; the sources are below.
As of
| Criterion | NEXT Code Guard | GitHub Advanced Security | Snyk | SonarQube | Aikido |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price (entry, net) | €49 a month (up to 3 repositories) | Secret Protection USD 19, Code Security USD 30 per active committer and month | Team from USD 25 a month | Cloud Team from USD 34 a month (up to 100,000 lines); Server on request | Basic €300 a month (10 users) |
| Billing | per plan or repository, not per developer | per active committer; only with GitHub Team or Enterprise | per contributing developer; Enterprise through credits | by lines of code | flat fee per tier, 10 users included |
| Free offer | 14 days of the full report with architecture review and PDF | free for public repositories; Dependabot for everyone; one-off secret risk assessment | Free: 5 projects, limited tests a month (about 100 code tests) | Cloud Free up to 50,000 lines in private projects; Team 14-day trial | Developer free forever: 2 users, 10 repositories, 10 AutoFixes a month |
| Data location | servers in Austria; AI review through Anthropic (USA) without data retention | Enterprise Cloud with EU data residency available | Free and Team in the USA; EU (Frankfurt) with Enterprise only; no on-premises | Cloud in the EU (Frankfurt) by default; Server can be self-hosted | EU (default), USA, Australia, Middle East; on-premises scanning from Pro |
| Secrets incl. Git history | yes, whole history | yes, incl. history and push protection | Enterprise only (Snyk Secrets) | yes; history coverage not stated | yes; history optional |
| Dependencies (SCA) | yes, with Dependabot alerts | Dependabot and dependency review | yes | only with the Advanced Security add-on | yes |
| Code analysis (SAST) | AI review of changes | CodeQL | yes | yes, the core product with code quality | yes, AI-assisted too |
| Repository hygiene | yes: branch protection, public repos, failing pipelines, stale PRs | settings in GitHub itself, no evaluation in the add-on | no | no | no |
| Architecture review | yes, monthly, with measured coverage | no | no | no | no |
| Fix suggestions | ready-to-run Claude Code command per finding | Copilot Autofix | Snyk Agent Fix | AI CodeFix (Cloud Team and Enterprise) | AI AutoFix |
| Report for management | PDF every month | dashboards (security overview) | dashboards | portfolios and compliance reports (Enterprise) | reports from Basic; pentests sold separately |
How to read this
The other tools are strong at what they were built for: GitHub Advanced Security inside GitHub, Snyk and Aikido as broad security platforms, SonarQube for code quality. Code Guard is built for organisations without their own security team that want one report for the whole GitHub organisation, an architecture review every month and a ready fix for every finding. Prices of the others are list prices in their currency and can differ by contract.
Sources
- GitHub Advanced Security: https://github.com/security/plans
- GitHub Advanced Security: https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin/data-residency/about-github-enterprise-cloud-with-data-residency
- Snyk: https://snyk.io/plans/
- Snyk: https://snyk.io/platform/deployment-options/
- SonarQube: https://www.sonarsource.com/plans-and-pricing/
- SonarQube: https://www.sonarsource.com/plans-and-pricing/sonarqube/
- SonarQube: https://docs.sonarsource.com/sonarqube-cloud/getting-started/choosing-your-region
- Aikido: https://www.aikido.dev/pricing
- Aikido: https://help.aikido.dev/getting-started/setting-up-your-account/aikido-never-stores-your-code