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24 alternatives to HoundDog.ai Static Code Scanner

Catch PII leaks in code & keep your PII inventory current

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. HoundDog.ai Static Code Scanner launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Hi HN, I'm one of the creators of HoundDog.ai (https://github.com/hounddogai/hounddog). We currently handle privacy scanning for Replit's 45M+ creators. We built HoundDog because privacy compliance is usually a choice between manual spreadsheets or reactive runtime scanning. While runtime tools are useful for monitoring, they only catch leaks after the code is live and the data has already moved. They can also miss code paths that aren't actively triggered in production. HoundDog traces sensitive data in code during development and helps catch risky flows (e.g., PII…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hound▲89

    Code review tool for GitHub pull requests

    2014 · houndci.com · its alternatives →

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    Trestle▲54

    Stop AI-written code from leaking secrets

    Jun 2026 · trestlescan.com · its alternatives →

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    Pizi▲131

    Your multi-file AI assistant powered by ChatGPT4

    2024 · pizi.ai · its alternatives →

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    OP here. I built this because I recently caught myself almost pasting a block of logs containing AWS keys into Claude. The Problem: I need the reasoning capabilities of cloud models (GPT/Claude/Gemini), but I can't trust myself not to accidentally leak PII or secrets. The Solution: A Chrome extension that acts as a local middleware. It intercepts the prompt and runs a local BERT model (via a Python FastAPI backend) to scrub names, emails, and keys before the request leaves the browser. A few notes up front (to set expectations clearly): Everything runs 100% locally. Regex detection…

    Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Detect secret & credential leaks in code of any Android app.

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    I originally was just messing with pi-autoresearch. Gave it a sample task to build the most portable coding agent. First cut was 6 KB of shell. Great for one-shots, unusable interactively. I was shocked it actually worked. Started building up -- adding features — but with a self-imposed rule: no new dependencies, and sub 500 LOC. This thing had to be truly portable. Just sh, curl, awk. System primitives only. Which means I did some genuinely disgusting things in awk, including JSON parsing and the OpenAI Responses tool loop with reasoning items carried across turns. It's now ~400 lines. In…

    Apr 2026 · pu.dev · its alternatives →

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    Open-source alternative to Codex & Claude Code

    May 2026 · shiori.ai · its alternatives →

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    Pixcode▲76

    A self-hosted control room for AI coding agents

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Scan, Detect & Protect Your Supabase Data

    Jan 2026 · supaguard.pro · its alternatives →

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    Signal, not surveillance. See how your engineers use Cursor, Claude Code, and Copilot: catch leaked secrets, PII, and confidential data, without blocking them or reading their prompts.

    Jul 2026 · heimwall.ai · its alternatives →

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    noirdoc▲96

    PII guard for Claude Code to keep client data out of context

    Apr 2026 · noirdoc.de · its alternatives →

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    Coderrr▲96

    Open source CLI-first AI coding companion

    Jan 2026 · coderrr.aksn.lol · its alternatives →

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    Hi, I’m Kenny, I’ve been building aislop. I starting working on this after using Claude Code, codex and opencode several times and noticing some slops. They aren’t syntax and passes most tests, they are patterns like empty catch blocks, useless comments, duplicated helpers, dead code and many more. So I built a tool to scan and check for these patterns and wired it into hooks so after each tool call, the agent checks for the slops. You can try it out with npx aislop scan. It’s all local and no code is transferred. Thank you.

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    We made a bot, built on an [open source framework](https://codemodder.io), that fixes the problems Sonar (and others!) find in your code. Here are a handful of examples of pixeebot fixing Sonar findings on some OSS code: https://github.com/nahsra/cql-evaluator-fork/pull/1/files https://github.com/nahsra/bsights-engine-spark-fork/pull/1/f... https://github.com/pixee/pygoat/pull/2/files The changes aren't all super fancy, but we're orienting towards solving real problems and…

    2024 · pixee.ai · its alternatives →

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    Open-source security gateway & static scanner for AI agents. Enforce role-based access control (RBAC), human-in-the-loop approvals, segregation of duties, and cryptographically signed, offline-verifiable audit logs. - makerchecker/MakerChecker

    Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    What PII-Shield does: It's a K8s sidecar (or CLI tool) that pipes application logs, detects secrets using Shannon entropy (catching unknown keys like "sk-live-..." without predefined patterns), and redacts them deterministically using HMAC. Why deterministic? So that "pass123" always hashes to the same "[HIDDEN:a1b2c]", allowing QA/Devs to correlate errors without seeing the raw data. Key features: 1. JSON Integrity: It parses JSON, sanitizes values, and rebuilds it. It guarantees valid JSON output for your SIEM (ELK/Datadog). 2. Entropy Detection: Uses context-aware entropy…

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I built this after seeing multiple teams accidentally ship API keys in their frontend code. The problem: Modern web development moves fast. You're vibe-coding, shipping features, and suddenly your AWS keys are sitting in a tag visible to anyone who opens DevTools. I've personally witnessed this happen to at least 3-4 production apps in the past year alone. KeyLeak Detector runs through your site (headless browser + network interception) and checks for 50+ types of leaked secrets: AWS/Google keys, Stripe tokens, database connection strings, LLM API keys (OpenAI, Claude, etc.), JWT…

    Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    27 security checks for your AI agent. 2 minutes. Free.

    Apr 2026 · thepitstop.ai · its alternatives →

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    Enterprise-grade PII scanning at an affordable price!

    2025 · piicrawler.com · its alternatives →

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    We built ClerkieCLI - a GPT-3 based tool that: - automatically detects errors on your terminal, - identifies the programming language, - provides an explanation of the error and suggested fix right on your terminal.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Track leakage of your source code/data. FREE forever

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Your AI has your code's text, never its map. Fix that.

    Jun 2026 · luuuc.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Experience 100% accurate, AI-powered data extraction.

    2025 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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