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.

Best Free Security Tools

Every free security tier that clears our bar today. Updated 2026-11-14.

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. They are listed in an order that rotates daily. Here is how that order is derived. There is no top slot here to sell.
Why trust this data? Every free tier is verified against the vendor's pricing page with dates tracked. We monitor 513 pricing changes and flag vendors that have reduced or removed free tiers. Rankings start every offer at zero and can only demote. There is no signal a vendor can acquire, lobby for, or buy — there is nothing to add. A record reaches a function page when its category names the function or when it carries a subtype label that names the function. Adding a label to a record publishes it here; removing one withdraws it. No page holds a list of vendors. See all 54 security offers →
1
LoginLlama stable
Free

A login security API to detect fraudulent and suspicious logins and notify your customers. Free for 1,000 logins per month.

2
Probely stable
Free

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.

3
Safety stable
Free

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.

4
RandomKeygen stable
Free

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.

5
Iubenda stable
Free

Privacy and cookie policies and consent management. The free tier offers limited privacy and cookie policy as well as cookie banners.

6
Free

Start free , pay $0.02/month per user beyond 250 users.

7
Renovate stable
Open Source

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.

8
Fingerprint stable
Free

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

9
Free

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.

10
GitGuardian stable
Free

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

11
Free

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.

12
Corgea stable
Free

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.

13
Falco stable
Open Source

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.

14
Semgrep stable
Free

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

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-05-08 · effective date unknown — limits reduced: The Free Edition now scans up to 10 private repositories and includes 60 AI credits; the Internet Archive's copy of 2025-12-23 listed unlimited private repositories. It still allows up to 10 contributors. Source ↗
15
Snyk stable
Free

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.

16
FOSSA stable
Free

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

17
aikido.dev stable
Free

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.

18
Free

Free SSL Certificate Authority with certs trusted by all major browsers

19
Ketch stable
Free

Consent management and privacy framework tool — Full-Feature Consent Management at $0/month. No credit card, no limits on jurisdictions or customization.

20
Twingate stable
Free

Zero trust network access — Starter plan is free and includes up to 5 users and up to 50 Resources.

21
Free

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 ↗

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • effective 2026-08-18 — restriction: 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 ↗
  • effective 2026-04-08 — limits reduced: CertKit cut its Free plan from 3 certificates to 2 between 2026-03-21 and 2026-04-08. Source ↗
  • effective 2026-03-21 — limits reduced: CertKit cut its Free plan from 3 host agents to 1 between 2026-02-19 and 2026-03-21. Source ↗
22
URLscan.io stable
Free

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

23
Tailscale stable
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 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 tailscale.com/pricing, read 2026-10-04.)
24
Free

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 ↗

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • discovered 2026-10-19 · effective date unknown — limits reduced: 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 ↗

Demoted — and exactly why

These offers reach this page too and rank below the list above. Each one names the recorded fact behind it. A recorded limit reduction, pricing restructure or new restriction is shown on every surface where the offer appears, with its date and summary — but it does not move rank. We have change records for only 16% of vendors, and disproportionately for well-known ones, so ranking on them would demote the vendors we happen to watch most closely.

−1
Free

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.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-11, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

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.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-11, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

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.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-14, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

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.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-11, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Open Source

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.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-14, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

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.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-11-02, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

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.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-11, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

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.

  • −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 13 consecutive re-check attempts have failed (most recently 2026-11-10 — fetch failed), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Open Source

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.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-14, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Open Source

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.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-14, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

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.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-14, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

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.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-14, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Open Source

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.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-14, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

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.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-11, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

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.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-11, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

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.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-11-04, found no earlier figure of ours for the page to have narrowed. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Open Source

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.

  • −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 1 consecutive re-check attempt has failed (most recently 2026-10-14 — the page never names OWASP ZAP and is not served from its domain), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

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.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-11, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

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.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-11, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

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.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-11, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Community (Free)

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.

  • −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 8 consecutive re-check attempts have failed (most recently 2026-11-09 — page content too short (likely JS-rendered SPA); a rendering client read 64 characters), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Open Source

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.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-14, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

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.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-10, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

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.

  • −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 1 consecutive re-check attempt has failed (most recently 2026-11-08 — The pricing page text provided does not include the actual pricing/plans section or any mention of the free tier terms (50k LOC limit, open-source free, Team Plan details). It only shows navigation links to 'Pricing' and 'View plans' without the plan details themselves, so the stored deal info cannot be verified against this text.), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

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.

  • −1 stale_verification We cannot confirm this offer: 1 consecutive re-check attempt has failed (most recently 2026-11-08 — HTTP 502), never confirmed since it was indexed. This is our inability to verify, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

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.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-11, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Open Source

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.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-10-24, found the same terms as an earlier read we had declined to record. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)

Not on our ranked list

3 of the 54 offers matching this query are not on our ranked list — 1 requires an application or qualification, 2 have ended. Here is how that order is derived.

Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
date
2026-11-14
query_key
best-of:Security
seed
c5915d70966236446d992493b03e084d7591abf09f7fae7047563b1bb2605dd1
tie_count
24

Quick Comparison

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best free security tool in 2026?

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.

Which of these free security tiers have held their terms?

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.

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