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PkgRadar vs Aikido
Aikido is a popular dev-first AppSec platform that consolidates SAST, SCA, secrets, container, and cloud scanning, and ships an install-time firewall for package managers. PkgRadar is narrower and deeper on one job: a deterministic malware gate across nine ecosystems that publishes its own accuracy and a dated record of flagging malware before the public advisory.
Where PkgRadar is strong
- A single deterministic CI/CLI gate across nine ecosystems — npm, PyPI, RubyGems, Cargo, Maven, NuGet, Composer, Go, and Pub — on every plan, one shared quota.
- Published, auditable accuracy: our precision/recall and a dated “flagged before the public OSV advisory” record are open on the site — we don’t just quarantine brand-new releases and hope, we show that we flagged the specific package, and when.
- Static-only artifact analysis with version-diff: no source or lockfile contents leave your machine, only package@version strings — and it isn’t fooled by the prompt-injection-in-package payloads now used to defeat AI-assisted scanners.
- A public evidence page for every flagged release, plus named-campaign correlation across shared payloads, hashes, and publisher bursts.
When Aikido may fit better
- You want a single all-in-one platform spanning SAST, SCA, secrets, containers, and cloud posture — not only a malware gate.
- You’re consolidating several AppSec tools with one dev-first vendor and want everything in one console.
Bottom line
Aikido is a strong all-in-one AppSec platform; PkgRadar is the focused, transparent malware gate. If you specifically want to block novel malicious packages across many ecosystems — with published accuracy and a dated flagged-first record rather than a black-box feed — PkgRadar is built for exactly that, and pairs cleanly alongside a broader platform.