Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Cobalt
Offensive Security as a Service platform
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Cobalt launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Exploit Alarm▲151Vulnerability intelligence for real-time threat analysis
2024 · exploitalarm.com · its alternatives →
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Tines ▲557Hey HN! This is Yannick from Tines, really excited to share what we’re launching today. Tines 3B is a new product we’ve built for teams building agents, apps, and automations with AI, on top of the assumption that people are already doing this, whether or not IT or security knows about it. Finance, marketing, and more are building dashboards in Claude Code or Codex. None of it is malicious, people are doing exactly what they were asked to do. The issue is there's no easy way for that work to run securely: it ends up on a laptop or personal account, with a credential pasted directly into the…
Feb 2026 · tines.com · its alternatives →
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The AI-powered AppSec platform that identifies vulnerabilities with comprehensive penetration tests and provides actionable remediation insights.
2024 · beaglesecurity.com · its alternatives →
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First Smart Security Platform with real-time threat alerts
2021 · ultrainstinct.ai · its alternatives →
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API to classify & protect sensitive data in any application
2021 · firewallforai.com · its alternatives →
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Al-powered offensive security validation platform
2025 · ridgesecurity.ai · its alternatives →
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GuardRails▲66Continuous security feedback for your repositories.
2020 · guardrails.io · its alternatives →
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Cobalt▲4Hi HN, I'm building CobaltCode, a platform for running coding agents inside persistent development environments. Basically I was fed up with git worktrees and having to run everything locally, usually one at a time so built CobaltCode.ai. Each task gets an separate vm with its own repository checkout, dependencies, running services, agent session, previews, and persistent state. It can also run your app inside the vm so you can preview different features in parallel. You can leave a task, resume it later, or save the computer as a reusable starting point. The agent is a full-fledged Codex…
Aug 2026 · cobaltcode.ai · its alternatives →
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AI-powered AppSec for teams without a security department
Jun 2026 · patchone.dev · its alternatives →
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When one AI is hit, all get stronger
2025 · projgasi.github.io · its alternatives →
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Guardius▲14Unified platform for security, performance, and monitoring
2024 · guardius.io · its alternatives →
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Cortex is the Engineering Operations Platform that gives engineering teams the visibility, governance, and golden paths to ship faster with AI, without runaway risk.
2019 · getcortexapp.com · its alternatives →
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Hello Hacker News! We’re Willem, Roeland, Felix and Madeline from Aikido Security (https://aikido.dev/) We’re building a “no BS’ application security platform. It’s the platform we wish existed, but couldn’t find. Willem, our CTO had to manage (application) security at many of his previous startups, and honestly, hated it. Most security tools we had to use made us feel dumb. They were super complex and riddled with false positives. Their platform was behind the book a demo button. They had intransparent pricing models and honestly charged us way too much. We think most of…
2024 · its alternatives →
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AI orchestration for security and remediation
Feb 2026 · secportal.io · its alternatives →
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Detect and prevent API attacks with the power of AI
2019 · salt.security · its alternatives →
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