--- title: How Aikido finds more vulnerabilities than Claude... description: Aikido Security ran a head-to-head benchmark comparing its Code Security Audit product against Anthropic's Claude Security (running on the Mythos model)... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-aikido-finds-more-vulnerabilities-than-claude-security-at-half-the-cost-skipw7yww twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How Aikido finds more vulnerabilities than Claude Security at half the cost | daily.dev og:description: Aikido Security ran a head-to-head benchmark comparing its Code Security Audit product against Anthropic's Claude Security (running on the Mythos model)... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-aikido-finds-more-vulnerabilities-than-claude-security-at-half-the-cost-skipw7yww og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/sKIPw7yWw.png og:image:alt: How Aikido finds more vulnerabilities than Claude Security at half the cost og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How Aikido finds more vulnerabilities than Claude Security at half the cost **[Aikido Security](https://daily.dev/sources/aikido-security)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Aikido Security ran a head-to-head benchmark comparing its Code Security Audit product against Anthropic's Claude Security (running on the Mythos model) against a private benchmark app with 89 known vulnerabilities. Aikido found 68 vulnerabilities (76%) for $75, while Claude Security found 60 (67%) for $157. The post argues the difference comes from harness design rather than model capability: Aikido uses a swarm of smaller, cheaper models to explore more hypotheses broadly, reserving expensive frontier reasoning for critical stages, while Claude Security applies its sophisticated pipeline more uniformly and provides no upfront cost estimate, leaving users unsure of final cost until a scan completes. Aikido highlights catching a critical cross-tenant authorization flaw and a timestamp-format mismatch that Claude Security missed. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How does Aikido Code Security Audit compare to Claude Security in vulnerability detection accuracy? Aikido Code Security Audit found 68 of 89 known vulnerabilities (76%) in a benchmark repository, compared to 60 of 89 (67%) found by Claude Security running on the Mythos model. Aikido caught 8 more vulnerabilities, including 1 critical cross-tenant authorization flaw and 3 high severity issues that Claude Security missed, while costing $75 versus $157.06. _daily.dev helps security engineers compare AI code audit tools before betting a budget on one._ ### Does Claude Security show a cost estimate before running a scan? No, Claude Security does not provide a cost or scope estimate before a scan runs; the total cost only becomes clear after the scan finishes, at a flat rate that came to $157.06 on a benchmark repository of about 15,000 lines of code. Aikido instead estimates cost upfront based on repository size and complexity, letting users adjust coverage before committing. _Engineers weighing scan costs against budget can track pricing changes like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Claude Code Security Catches Vulnerabilities While You Write Code](https://daily.dev/posts/claude-code-security-catches-vulnerabilities-while-you-write-code-wpwsyxj3h) · DevOps.com · 30 upvotes · 6 comments - [Is Claude Security The Death of Application Security Tools?](https://daily.dev/posts/is-claude-security-the-death-of-application-security-tools--nx5fmngri) · ITNEXT · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Claude Code Security Crashed the Market Because We’re Defending the Wrong Thing](https://daily.dev/posts/claude-code-security-crashed-the-market-because-we-re-defending-the-wrong-thing-d8bawhg3w) · Security Boulevard · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#ai-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-coding), [#claude](https://daily.dev/tags/claude), [#appsec](https://daily.dev/tags/appsec) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-aikido-finds-more-vulnerabilities-than-claude-security-at-half-the-cost-skipw7yww) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"How Aikido finds more vulnerabilities than Claude Security at half the cost","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-aikido-finds-more-vulnerabilities-than-claude-security-at-half-the-cost-skipw7yww","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-aikido-finds-more-vulnerabilities-than-claude-security-at-half-the-cost-skipw7yww"},"datePublished":"2026-08-24T12:33:52.658Z","dateModified":"2026-08-24T12:34:15.756Z","description":"Aikido Security ran a head-to-head benchmark comparing its Code Security Audit product against Anthropic's Claude Security (running on the Mythos model)...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/1c2fc4e3a0de54414b14abbefff01518?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/1c2fc4e3a0de54414b14abbefff01518?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Aikido Security","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Aikido Security","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--vJDqDYv_--/f_auto,q_auto/v1774959928/logos/aikido-security?_a=BAMAMiWQ0","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/aikido-security"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-aikido-finds-more-vulnerabilities-than-claude-security-at-half-the-cost-skipw7yww","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"security,ai-coding,claude,appsec","timeRequired":"PT5M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Aikido Security","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/aikido-security"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"How Aikido finds more vulnerabilities than Claude Security at half the cost"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-aikido-finds-more-vulnerabilities-than-claude-security-at-half-the-cost-skipw7yww#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"How does Aikido Code Security Audit compare to Claude Security in vulnerability detection accuracy?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Aikido Code Security Audit found 68 of 89 known vulnerabilities (76%) in a benchmark repository, compared to 60 of 89 (67%) found by Claude Security running on the Mythos model. 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