Every free security tier that clears our bar in 2026: 24 offers meet the criteria and 27 offers are demoted with a named reason. Recorded changes and a published ranking method. We could not confirm today's terms for 31 of them: on 25 the page we cite did not answer, and on 6 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why.
A login security API to detect fraudulent and suspicious logins and notify your customers. Free for 1,000 logins per month.
Free plan with 5 scan hours/month for web application and API vulnerability scanning, up to 3 users, full API access. No credit card required.
AI-powered development security platform (rebranded from PyUp). Free: 1 codebase, 100 scans/month, 1 user. Safety says the free plan is "designed for non-commercial use, individual developers, and education use cases". Uses public vulnerability databases (Safety's proprietary 4x database requires paid plan). Email support with 48-hour response.
A free mobile-friendly tool that offers a variety of randomly generated keys and passwords you can use to secure any application, service, or device.
Privacy and cookie policies and consent management. The free tier offers limited privacy and cookie policy as well as cookie banners.
Open source (AGPL-3.0) automated dependency update bot. Supports 90+ package managers. Available as self-hosted CLI or free hosted GitHub/GitLab App by Mend. The page we cite for Renovate names a plan but states no amount, so these limits come from our own record rather than from that page.
Device identification and fraud prevention — Free: Web and mobile device identification. $0 /month up to 1,000 API calls per month. Includes: 14 day free trial of Pro Plus plan, Fingerprint Identification, Android Smart Signals, 500k Android API calls/mo
Pareto Cloud is free for up to 5 devices, with no credit card required. The free tier includes the cloud dashboard, alerts to email, Slack and Teams, and the API. Paid Team and Business plans are priced per device per month. The macOS, Linux and Windows apps are open source.
Secrets detection for up to 25 developers — 550+ secret types, unlimited real-time scanning, 500 historical scan detections, CLI (ggshield) for pre-commit hooks, VSCode extension, 10K API calls/month
Secure Enterprise-grade platform for managing environment variables and secrets — Free plan includes 1 organization, 3 apps per organization, 2 environments per app, 50 variables per environment, 2 secure files per environment, and 2 API keys.
Free autonomous security platform that finds, validates and fixes insecure code and packages across +20 languages and frameworks. Free plan for up to 2 team members and 10 repositories, with 10 PR scans a month and 10 SAST auto fixes. Features: AI SAST, Logic/Auth Scanning, Dependency Scanning, Secrets Detection, Container Scanning, IaC Scanning.
CNCF Graduated (Apache 2.0) runtime security tool. Monitors Linux syscalls and Kubernetes events to detect threats in containers, hosts, and cloud environments in real time.
Static analysis (SAST) and software composition analysis (SCA) — Free Edition: Cross-file analysis with Pro rules, AI-powered detection, triage, and remediation, 60 AI credits included, Fast CI/CD deploy via Semgrep infrastructure, Scan up to 10 repositories, Maximum 10 contributors, Authentication via GitHub/GitLab
Developer security scanning. Free: up to 5 projects, with 200 Snyk Open Source (SCA) tests, 100 Snyk Code (SAST) tests, 300 IaC tests and 100 Container tests a month (Snyk's usage docs say 400 Open Source tests). Team is $25/month for teams of up to 10 developers, with 100 projects and 1,000 Snyk Code tests a month. Snyk Evo (AI pentesting, coding-agent security) needs an Enterprise subscription.
Open source license compliance and software composition analysis (SCA). Free tier: 5 projects, 10 contributing developers, 1 release group, 5 dependency levels for scans, 1 quality check (outdated packages), 5 imported SBOMs, container scanning, SBOM export, API access
All-in-one appsec platform covering SCA, SAST, CSPM, DAST, Secrets, IaC, Malware, Container scanning, EOL,... Free plan includes two users, scanning of 10 repos, 1 cloud, 2 containers & 1 domain.
Consent management and privacy framework tool — Full-Feature Consent Management at $0/month. No credit card, no limits on jurisdictions or customization.
Zero trust network access — Starter plan is free and includes up to 5 users and up to 50 Resources.
CertKit automates SSL/TLS certificate issuance and renewal, deploys certificates through an agent, monitors domains' SSL certificates, and searches Certificate Transparency logs. The Homelab plan is free for personal, non-commercial use only, with 2 certificates, 1 agent, 1 seat and 3 domain SSL monitors. Businesses evaluating CertKit get a free 30-day trial instead, with no credit card. Homelab allows one account per person or organization. Note — 2026-08-18: CertKit renamed its free plan Homelab and limited it to personal, non-commercial use between 2026-07-15 and 2026-08-18. Its limits stayed at 2 certificates, 1 agent and 1 seat. Source ↗
URL and website security scanner API — free tier: 50 private scans/day, 1,000 unlisted scans/day, 5,000 public scans/day, 1,000 search requests/day, 10,000 result requests/day
Mesh VPN with WireGuard — 6 users, unlimited devices, MagicDNS, exit nodes, subnet routing. Free Personal plan.
Socket.dev is a supply chain security tool for open source dependencies. The Free plan includes 1 dev seat, unlimited dashboard users and repositories, 1,000 scans a month, and 500 API requests an hour. Team starts at $25 per dev seat a month from 5 seats. Open-source projects can ask for a free Team account. Note — effective between 2026-10-10 and 2026-10-19: By October 19, 2026, Socket.dev's Free plan covers 1 dev seat, which Socket defines as an active developer who contributes code to your repositories. Its pricing page read "Unlimited developers & repos" for the Free plan on October 10. Source ↗
Monitor Java, Javascript, .NET, Scala, Ruby, and NodeJS projects for security vulnerabilities in dependencies. Free for one private project, unlimited projects for open source. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-11, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
High confidence Indicator of Compromise(IOC) targeting public cloud infrastructure, A portion is available on github (https://github.com/unknownhad/AWSAttacks). Full list is available via API. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-11, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Helps implement privacy by design via audits and continuous workflows so that organizations comply with GDPR and other regulations. The free tier is limited to smaller teams and the SaaS version only. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-14, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Scan your Django site for security flaws with this free, automated checkup tool. Forked from the Pony Checkup site. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-11, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Open source (AGPL-3.0) secret scanner for git repos, Docker images, S3, Slack, and 20+ sources. Detects 800+ credential types with active API verification. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-14, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
REST API for fetching information on data breaches. Free web search; API requires subscription for some endpoints. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-11-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Find web app vulnerabilities, audit for OWASP Risks. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-11, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Open Source CLI tool to prevent Kubernetes misconfigurations by ensuring that manifests and Helm charts follow best practices as well as your organization’s policies. We could not read the page we cite for this offer when we last looked, on 2026-11-10, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Open source (Apache 2.0) multi-target vulnerability scanner for container images, filesystems, git repos, IaC, Kubernetes, SBOMs, and cloud resources. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-14, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Open source (Apache 2.0) IaC static analysis. Scans Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Helm, Dockerfile, and 10+ frameworks for misconfigurations. No usage limits. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-14, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
GitHub semantic code analysis engine. Free for all public repositories with no scan limits. Supports JS/TS, Python, Java, C#, C/C++, Go, Ruby. Integrated into GitHub Actions. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-14, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Free automated dependency updates and vulnerability alerts for all GitHub repos. Generates pull requests for updates across 30+ ecosystems (npm, pip, Maven, Go, Docker, etc.). The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-14, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Open source (Apache 2.0) vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems. Covers 20+ language ecosystems with daily-updated CVE database. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-14, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Intense analysis of the configuration of any SSL web server. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-11, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Test for modern Internet Standards like IPv6, DNSSEC, HTTPS, DMARC, STARTTLS and DANE. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-11, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Cloud-first, developer-friendly security platform prevents data breaches in .NET and Java applications. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-11-04, we found no earlier figure of ours for the page to have narrowed, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Open source (Apache 2.0) web application security scanner. Passive/active scanning, AJAX spider, fuzzing, manual interception, CI/CD integration. No usage limits. The page we cite for this offer does not name it when we last looked, on 2026-10-14, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
HTTP security header testing tool. Now integrated into MDN as HTTP Observatory. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-11, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
A simple, intuitive web app for analyzing and decoding/encoding data without dealing with complex tools or programming languages. Like a Swiss army knife of cryptography & encryption. All features are free to use, with no limit. Open source if you wish to self-host. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-11, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Free website security check and malware scanner. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-11, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Malware and URL analysis API (Google) — free community tier: 500 requests/day, 4 requests/minute. Scan files, URLs, domains, IPs against 70+ antivirus engines. Non-commercial use only. We could not read the page we cite for this offer when we last looked, on 2026-11-09, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Open source (MIT) secret scanner for git repositories, files, and directories. CLI tool is free with no limits. The GitHub Action needs no license key on personal accounts; repositories owned by a GitHub organization need a free license key from gitleaks.io. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-14, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Screen an order transaction for credit card payment fraud. This REST API will detect all possible fraud traits based on the input parameters of an order. The Free Micro plan has 500 transactions per month. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-10, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Code quality and security analysis, free for open-source projects and for private projects up to 50k lines of code: SonarSource lists the "SonarQube Team Plan, free for your private projects up to 50k LOC. No card, no expiry." 40+ languages and frameworks, CI/CD integration. Formerly SonarCloud.
Test an SSL/TLS service for secure server configuration, certificates, chains, etc. Not limited to HTTPS. We could not read the page we cite for this offer when we last looked, on 2026-11-08, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Sync your .env files, quickly & securely. Stop sharing your .env files over insecure channels like Slack and email, and never lose an important .env file again. Free for up to 3 teammates. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-11, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Open source (MIT) vulnerability scanner with YAML-based template system. 9,000+ community templates for web apps, APIs, networks, DNS, SSL. No usage limits. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-10-24, we found the same terms as an earlier read we had declined to record, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
| Vendor | Free Tier | Key Limits | Durability | Read / catalogue date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LoginLlama | Free | A login security API to detect fraudulent and suspicious logins and notify your customers. Free for 1,000 logins per mon... | stable | 2026-10-25 |
| Probely | Free | Free plan with 5 scan hours/month for web application and API vulnerability scanning, up to 3 users, full API access. No... | stable | 2026-10-29 |
| Safety | Free | AI-powered development security platform (rebranded from PyUp). Free: 1 codebase, 100 scans/month, 1 user. Safety says t... | stable | 2026-10-28 |
| RandomKeygen | Free | A free mobile-friendly tool that offers a variety of randomly generated keys and passwords you can use to secure any app... | stable | 2026-11-05 |
| Iubenda | Free | Privacy and cookie policies and consent management. The free tier offers limited privacy and cookie policy as well as co... | stable | 2026-11-13 |
| Virgil Security | Free | Start free , pay $0.02/month per user beyond 250 users. | stable | 2026-11-11 |
| Renovate | Open Source | Open source (AGPL-3.0) automated dependency update bot. Supports 90+ package managers. Available as self-hosted CLI or f... not confirmed · page names a plan, no amount · 2026-11-03 | stable | 2026-11-03 |
| Fingerprint | Free | Device identification and fraud prevention — Free: Web and mobile device identification. $0 /month up to 1,000 API calls... | stable | 2026-10-31 |
| Pareto Security | Free | Pareto Cloud is free for up to 5 devices, with no credit card required. The free tier includes the cloud dashboard, aler... | stable discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown |
2026-11-05 |
| GitGuardian | Free | Secrets detection for up to 25 developers — 550+ secret types, unlimited real-time scanning, 500 historical scan detecti... | stable | 2026-11-07 / 2026-10-15 |
| Smart Grow Vault | Free | Secure Enterprise-grade platform for managing environment variables and secrets — Free plan includes 1 organization, 3 a... | stable | 2026-10-31 |
| Corgea | Free | Free autonomous security platform that finds, validates and fixes insecure code and packages across +20 languages and fr... read found the page different · 2026-11-12 |
stable | 2026-11-12 / 2026-09-25 |
| Falco | Open Source | CNCF Graduated (Apache 2.0) runtime security tool. Monitors Linux syscalls and Kubernetes events to detect threats in co... | stable | 2026-11-13 |
| Semgrep | Free | Static analysis (SAST) and software composition analysis (SCA) — Free Edition: Cross-file analysis with Pro rules, AI-po... read found the page different · 2026-10-26 |
watch effective between 2025-12-23 and 2026-05-08 |
2026-10-26 / 2026-10-03 |
| Snyk | Free | Developer security scanning. Free: up to 5 projects, with 200 Snyk Open Source (SCA) tests, 100 Snyk Code (SAST) tests, ... | stable | 2026-10-24 |
| FOSSA | Free | Open source license compliance and software composition analysis (SCA). Free tier: 5 projects, 10 contributing developer... read found the page different · 2026-11-09 |
stable | 2026-11-09 / 2026-10-19 |
| aikido.dev | Free | All-in-one appsec platform covering SCA, SAST, CSPM, DAST, Secrets, IaC, Malware, Container scanning, EOL,... Free plan ... | stable | 2026-11-11 |
| letsencrypt.org | Free | Free SSL Certificate Authority with certs trusted by all major browsers | stable | 2026-11-10 |
| Ketch | Free | Consent management and privacy framework tool — Full-Feature Consent Management at $0/month. No credit card, no limits o... | stable discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown |
2026-10-29 |
| Twingate | Free | Zero trust network access — Starter plan is free and includes up to 5 users and up to 50 Resources. | improving discovered 2026-09-07 · effective date unknown |
2026-11-07 |
| CertKit | Free | CertKit automates SSL/TLS certificate issuance and renewal, deploys certificates through an agent, monitors domains' SSL... | volatile effective 2026-08-18 |
2026-11-08 |
| URLscan.io | Free | URL and website security scanner API — free tier: 50 private scans/day, 1,000 unlisted scans/day, 5,000 public scans/day... | stable | 2026-11-06 |
| Tailscale | Personal | Mesh VPN with WireGuard — 6 users, unlimited devices, MagicDNS, exit nodes, subnet routing. Free Personal plan. Tailscale says the Personal plan is only suitable for non-commercial use. (From https://tailscale.com/pricing, read 2026-10-04.) A tailnet created with a custom email domain counts as business use and starts a free trial instead of the Personal plan. (From https://tailscale.com/pricing, read 2026-10-04.) | improving effective 2026-04-08 |
2026-10-28 |
| Socket.dev | Free | Socket.dev is a supply chain security tool for open source dependencies. The Free plan includes 1 dev seat, unlimited da... read found the page different · 2026-11-10 |
watch effective between 2026-10-10 and 2026-10-19 |
2026-11-10 / 2026-10-19 |
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 24 free security offers that clear our bar, each listed with the terms we publish and the date we last read them. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
24 offers meet our criteria for this category. Of those, 19 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, 3 a recorded narrowing, and 2 a recorded widening. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page.