Pharon and Aikido
Updated November 2, 2026
Pharon and Aikido in short
Aikido is a broad security platform: it scans code, dependencies, container images, virtual machines and cloud accounts, opens AutoFix pull requests, and can block malicious packages on developer devices. Pharon is narrower and focused on incidents: it uploads only component names and versions, alerts you when something you already run is compromised, exploited, breached or retired, including vendors and SaaS, and tells you which secrets to rotate.
Side by side
| Aikido | Pharon | |
|---|---|---|
| What it scans | Lockfiles through source-control integrations, a local scanner, CLI and IDE plugins; container registries and images; virtual machines; AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and other cloud accounts; Kubernetes clusters | Lockfiles, manifests, Dockerfiles, compose and workflow files, runtime version files and your cloud CLI, read on your machine or in your CI |
| Malicious packages | Yes, on Pro plans and above: 15 ecosystems including npm, PyPI, Maven, NuGet, Go, Rust, Packagist, Ruby and GitHub Actions, plus container images | Yes, from OSV.dev and OpenSSF's malicious-packages reports, for npm, PyPI, Go, crates.io, RubyGems, Packagist, Maven, NuGet and GitHub Actions |
| Vulnerabilities | Yes, from NVD, the GitHub Advisory Database, Aikido Intel and Linux distribution feeds; CVEs on CISA's exploited list get a higher severity | High and critical advisories from the last 30 days, and any vulnerability on CISA's exploited list |
| End-of-life runtimes and services | Yes, for runtimes and frameworks across repositories, containers and virtual machines, from endoflife.date | Yes, for runtimes, databases, Kubernetes, EKS and RDS, from endoflife.date |
| Vendor and SaaS breaches | Not documented | Yes, from security news and vendor bulletins |
| Was this machine affected? | With Device Protection (an agent on each device), it shows how many devices have each package installed and blocks known malware at install time | Yes: a read-only local check reports, per location, whether the bad version is or was installed |
| Secrets to rotate | Finds secrets leaked in code and git history and checks whether they are still live; secrets exposed by a malicious install: not documented | Yes, by name, never their values |
| Fix pull requests | Yes (AutoFix), for dependencies, containers, infrastructure-as-code and code | No |
| Where alerts go | A dashboard feed, Slack and Microsoft Teams alerts, a weekly Slack digest, email forwarding by severity, and tickets in Jira, Linear and other trackers | Email, Slack, webhooks, Claude Code sessions, a GitHub pull request check and a dashboard |
| Access to your code | Read-only repository access; code is wiped after analysis; the local scanner keeps code on your machines | None: only names and versions are uploaded |
Facts about Aikido come from its documentation, checked on November 2, 2026. "Not documented" means we couldn't find the feature in its docs.
What Aikido does that Pharon doesn't
- Scans your own source code, cloud configuration and Kubernetes clusters for security issues
- Opens fix pull requests with AutoFix
- Blocks malicious packages at install time on developer devices and in CI
Using both
Use Aikido to find and fix issues in your code, cloud and dependencies. Add Pharon for incident alerts on the vendors and cloud services you depend on, and for a read-only check of which machines installed a bad release and which secrets to rotate.
Sources
- Malware detection in open-source dependencies and containers (opens in a new tab)
- Runtimes & Frameworks report (opens in a new tab)
- What is Device Protection (opens in a new tab)
- Device Protection: browsing packages (opens in a new tab)
- Safe Chain: prevent malware installs (opens in a new tab)
- Exploit intelligence with KEV and EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- Connect GitHub (opens in a new tab)
Also compared: Dependabot, Snyk, Socket and OSV-Scanner. Read the docs to try Pharon.