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Aikido Security vs CAST Highlight comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
7.9
Companies achieved time and cost savings with Aikido Security, improving efficiency, compliance, and vulnerability management through automation and tool consolidation.
Sentiment score
9.4
CAST Highlight users saved time and costs significantly, boosting productivity by doubling report output without extra resources.
Aikido Security caught a critical remote code execution vulnerability in my Python machine learning pipelines before it reached production.
Product Manager at Zidio development
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
In terms of time saved, it went from approximately 3.5 hours per insight report to around 40 minutes, which is 80% faster.
Senior Data Engineer at LTM
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.7
Aikido Security provides quick, friendly support with practical guidance, earning high praise from users for integration and technical help.
Sentiment score
7.8
CAST Highlight's customer service receives mixed reviews, with effective technical support but issues in problem resolution and knowledge gaps.
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.
Product Manager at Zidio development
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
Some support team members are helpful, and others lack in-depth knowledge of the tool, which might cause challenges.
Technical Associate Manager at Accenture
I interacted with customer support regarding one of my project results related to vulnerabilities and license risks, and they explained everything clearly, leaving me very satisfied.
Senior Data Engineer at LTM
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
8.1
Aikido Security excels in scalability, seamlessly integrating projects and teams with minimal performance issues, enhancing developer-focused security.
Sentiment score
7.3
CAST Highlight efficiently handles large codebases, supports many users, and seamlessly manages complex tasks across different environments.
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.
Product Manager at Zidio development
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
The processing time per new report stays consistent, experiencing no slowdowns even when we had over 200 new reports dropped in a week.
Senior Data Engineer at LTM
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.8
Aikido Security is praised for its reliability, smooth integration, and accurate security findings with no major downtime issues.
Sentiment score
8.0
CAST Highlight is reliable with minor bugs, facing challenges in data transfer and complex .NET framework compatibility.
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
CAST Highlight proves reliable in nature.
Senior Data Engineer at LTM
 

Room For Improvement

Users seek enhanced integrations, customization, and performance improvements, with focus on documentation, language support, and real-time tools.
CAST Highlight users seek better configuration, support, reporting, and integration while desiring enhanced abstraction, descriptions, and language insights.
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.
Product Manager at Zidio development
Understanding only the OS-specific blockers means I would avoid resolving irrelevant issues, thus saving time.
Technical Associate Manager at Accenture
CAST Highlight's deduplication is great for avoiding spam, but sometimes we want two similar quotes if they are from very different company sizes, such as SMB versus enterprise perspectives on pricing.
Senior Data Engineer at LTM
 

Setup Cost

CAST Highlight charges by scan number with optional support upgrades; costs vary in perception and are often compared to CAST AIP.
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
 

Valuable Features

Aikido Security offers ease of use, integration, and a unified dashboard, enhancing productivity and security with minimal false positives.
CAST Highlight excels in user-friendliness, integration, fast automation, and insightful code analysis, enhancing productivity with intuitive tools.
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.
Product Manager at Zidio development
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
Smart deduplication groups similar quotes and picks the strongest and most significant one. It stops insights from showing eight variations of great UI, giving diverse voices instead of repetition.
Senior Data Engineer at LTM
In cloud migration, I use CAST highlight to identify blockers, which are the negative road patterns, and also the boosters, which are positive code patterns.
Technical Associate Manager at Accenture
 

Categories and Ranking

Aikido Security
Ranking in Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
8th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
Application Security Tools (15th), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (8th), Web Application Firewall (WAF) (22nd), Container Security (22nd), Static Code Analysis (8th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (16th), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) (6th), DevSecOps (8th), Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) (6th)
CAST Highlight
Ranking in Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
16th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Software Composition Analysis (SCA) category, the mindshare of Aikido Security is 2.5%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CAST Highlight is 1.3%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Software Composition Analysis (SCA) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Aikido Security2.5%
CAST Highlight1.3%
Other96.2%
Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
 

Featured Reviews

Tarun Goswami_ - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Manager at Zidio development
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.
Nishant Chauhan - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Data Engineer at LTM
Automated code insights have improved security checks and made review workflows more consistent
If I talk about improvements for CAST Highlight, I would suggest three things. The first is better understanding or niche understanding. Right now, the intent matching is strong for general topics such as ease of use, but for niche B2B terms such as HIPAA compliance or multi-tenant architecture, it sometimes misses context. Improving the domain-specific models would make highlights more accurate for these verticals. The second improvement is more control over the deduplication logic. CAST Highlight's deduplication is great for avoiding spam, but sometimes we want two similar quotes if they are from very different company sizes, such as SMB versus enterprise perspectives on pricing. A slider to adjust deduplication strictness would help. The third suggestion I would like to give is deeper sentiment and outcome tagging. While it has core sentiment capabilities, it does not tag outcomes automatically. For instance, if a quote mentions saved $50,000 per year, tagging that as cost savings $50,000 would let us build ROI charts instantly instead of reading each quote manually. Regarding user experience, integrations, and reporting, I think there is room to enhance those aspects. Regarding user experience, I would suggest improving user actions in terms of bulk actions and keyboard shortcuts. Day-to-day analysts review 50-plus suggested quotes, and currently it is mostly clicking to approve one by one. Adding bulk approve or reject options and keyboard shortcuts would significantly reduce the time taken. A small UX change can lead to a big speed boost. The second point is integrations when pushing to the CMS and Slack alerts. Right now, we export approved highlights manually from CAST Highlight. If CAST Highlight could push directly to our CMS or send Slack alerts for high-strength quotes that hit trending topics, it would close the loop faster, reducing copy-pasting. The third improvement relates to reporting, specifically custom insight dashboards. The tool displays which topics have the most highlights, but we cannot build custom dashboards yet. For example, showing all security quotes from healthcare companies with more than 1,000 employees over the last 90 days would enable better filtering, and exportable dashboards would streamline quarterly reviews.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Comms Service Provider
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Government
8%
Educational Organization
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise5
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise6
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Aikido Security?
Aikido Security could be improved by allowing us to scan the entire network, not just the applications, but also devices such as computers and servers, to have all vulnerability reports for my enti...
What is your primary use case for Aikido Security?
My main use case for Aikido Security is vulnerability scanning of our internal applications. We have a development department, and we scan those applications for vulnerabilities and other security ...
What advice do you have for others considering Aikido Security?
My advice for others looking into using Aikido Security is to take into account that they will get a robust solution with AI capabilities and a perspective aligned with a security framework, which ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CAST Highlight?
The pricing of CAST Highlight was not considered expensive or cheap, and no specific comment was made about the setup cost.
What needs improvement with CAST Highlight?
If I talk about improvements for CAST Highlight, I would suggest three things. The first is better understanding or niche understanding. Right now, the intent matching is strong for general topics ...
What is your primary use case for CAST Highlight?
I have been using CAST Highlight for the last four years. In my company, we use CAST Highlight to perform testing for our code to find vulnerabilities and license risks. We also use CAST Highlight ...
 

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Sample Customers

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