Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Free GitHub Actions Security Scanner

A security scanner for Github Actions that doesn't $uck

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.

1. 1
   GitHub Actions▲626

   Automate your workflow from idea to production

   2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Actionsflow▲188

   Free Zapier alternative based on Github Actions

   2020 · actionsflow.github.io · its alternatives →

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   ActionsHub - GitHub Actions▲66

   Manage your GitHub Actions

   2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

4. 4PS
   Proactive Security Monitoring for GitHub Actions Workflows▲32

   Hey HN, it's Farrukh and Umar. We're building listen.dev–a tool for proactive security monitoring in GitHub Actions to secure software releases from supply chain threats. Why we built this: As friends and collaborators for over a decade, we've been working on various startup ideas in dev tools and infrastructure. In 2017, while building an ML ops toolkit on Kubernetes, we got hacked. During a pilot with a fintech customer, our cluster became victim to a crypto-jacking attack. As it turned out, a dependency in our container base image contained malware (a Monero miner) which triggered inside…

   2024 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   GitHub Learning Lab▲503

   Get the skills you need without leaving GitHub

   2018 · its alternatives →

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   Use GitHub Actions to serve a serverless service▲41

   Use GitHub Actions to create a Serverless service. - gitfx/ActionServerless

   2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   ActionsPanel – Manually Trigger Your GitHub Actions▲57

   Hi all! I wanted to share a small project that I've been working on with a buddy. https://www.actionspanel.app/ One of the problems that currently exists with GitHub Actions is the fact that there is no way to easily trigger your Actions unless you cause some kind of GitHub event. This could be pushing a new commit, or creating an issue on a repository. But if you just want to run an arbitrary action, there's not currently a good way to do that. This is a well known feature request: https://github.community/t5/GitHub-Actions/GitHub-Actions-Ma... GitHub…

   2020 · its alternatives →

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   Conversational GitHub Project Management▲78

   Track, report and automate GitHub workflows in Slack. Free

   2020 · its alternatives →

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   GitMonKey – monitor your repos and commits for exposed private keys▲70

   2017 · gitmonkey.io · its alternatives →

10. 10
    GitGuardian▲132

    Detect secrets in source code, public and private!

    2018 · gitguardian.com · its alternatives →

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    Execute any comment from issues and pull requests on GitHub▲95

    Execute any script in a GitHub issue comment. Contribute to nwtgck/actions-comment-run development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Keep – GitHub Actions for your monitoring tools▲181

    Hi Hacker News! Shahar and Tal from Keep here. A few months ago, we introduced here at HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34806482) Keep as an “open source alerting CLI” and got some interesting feedback - mainly around UI, automation, and supporting more tools. We were VERY early back then, and we understood that although the current DX around creating alerts is not great, it's not that critical and developers don’t need another tool just for that. But we did find something else. While talking to developers and devops, we found that a lot of companies use many tools…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

13. 13FV
    Feature voting for GitHub▲108

    2015 · feathub.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    BuildJet for GitHub Actionsfree tier, from $0.004/mo▲82

    Managed high-performance runners for Github Actions

    2021 · buildjet.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Run a GitHub Actions step in a gVisor sandbox▲85

    A GitHub Action that runs a command in a gVisor sandbox - geomys/sandboxed-step

    Oct 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Code Police▲12

    Simple vulnerability detector for your github repo

    2025 · its alternatives →

17. 17MG
    Managed GitHub Actions Runners for AWS▲117

    Hey HN! I'm Jacob, one of the founders of Depot (https://depot.dev), a build service for Docker images, and I'm excited to show what we’ve been working on for the past few months: run GitHub Actions jobs in AWS, orchestrated by Depot! Here's a video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VX5Z-k1mGc8, and here’s our blog post: https://depot.dev/blog/depot-github-actions-runners. While GitHub Actions is one of the most prevalent CI providers, Actions is slow, for a few reasons: GitHub uses underpowered CPUs, network throughput for cache and the…

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Cross-Platform GitHub Action▲76

    I've created a GitHub Action for running commands on multiple platforms. This includes platforms that GitHub Actions don't natively support. It currently supports FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD. OpenBSD can run on x86-64 and ARM64, the other operating systems run on x86-64. Some of the features that are supported include: * Multiple operating system with one single action * Multiple versions of each operating system * Allows to use default shell or Bash shell * Low boot overhead * Fast execution * Runs on both macOS and Linux runners Compared to similar solutions like…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    GitHub Org Audit Tool▲57

    This is a tool for auditing github organizations including their repos, users, and teams. It is useful for compliance, security and auditing.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    GitHub Actions▲5

    GitHub is introducing a built-in CI/CD solution with Actions

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    PipeAudit▲3

    Audit your GitHub Actions pipelines. Get a score.

    Jul 2026 · pipeaudit.dev · its alternatives →

22. 22IB
    I built a tool that helps people scan and clean any repo for secrets▲20

    2024 · securelog.com · its alternatives →

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    GitHub Actions Goat – Deliberately Vulnerable CI/CD Environment▲7

    GitHub Actions Goat is an open-source educational project that simulates common security attacks and vulnerabilities in a GitHub Actions CI/CD environment and shows how to defend against such attacks. This project is designed to be hands-on and interactive, offering ten meticulously crafted tutorials for security practitioners and developers. You can delve into the intricacies of GitHub Actions Security by forking the project and learning by doing. All you need to follow the hands-on tutorials is your GitHub Account.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    CommitGate – Automatically scan your commit for vulnerabilities▲5

    Hello HN! I built a pre-commit code scanner that checks your staged changes for security vulnerabilities every time you run 'git commit'. I am an inexperienced programmer and this is my first personal project. Any feedback, positive or negative, big or small, relevant or not, would be greatly helpful and appreciated! The tool requires Gitleaks and Python to run, you will also need to use your own AI API key, which I understand is a big setup friction. You can check out my demo video instead if that is more convenient: https://youtu.be/ZYe5vWFRTus?si=9Fv8DhTHktwDK4mV Thank you…

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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