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24 alternatives to Strix – AI Cybersecurity Agent, securing your vibe coding

AI penetration testing and autonomous security platform that tests your code, APIs, cloud, and infrastructure — and delivers validated findings with fix PRs. Start for free.

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.

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    I built an open-source AI agent for security testing to find and fix vulnerabilities in your code. I’ve noticed how bad security vulnerabilities have gotten with everyone shipping AI code slop, so I wanted to build something that allows for vibe-coding at full speed without compromising security. Traditional security tools aren’t effective, and manual pen-testing can’t keep up with the rapidly growing AI code This tool runs your code dynamically, finds vulnerabilities, and validates them through actual exploitation. You can either run it against your codebase or enter your (or someone…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Strix▲186

    Open-source AI hackers for your apps

    2025 · strix.ai · its alternatives →

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    Plurai▲757

    Vibe-train evals and guardrails tailored to your use case

    Apr 2026 · plurai.ai · its alternatives →

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    SimplAIfree tier, from $5/mo▲589

    Hey HN, I've been building SimplAI for the past several months — it's a platform for building, testing, and deploying LLM-powered agents and multi-step workflows. The problem I kept running into: spinning up an AI agent pipeline means stitching together prompt management, tool calling, memory, evals, and deployment — often from scratch every time. SimplAI tries to be the layer that handles all of that so you can focus on what your agent actually does. What it does: - Visual + code-first workflow builder for chaining LLM calls, tools, and APIs - Built-in prompt versioning and A/B testing…

    2025 · simplai.ai · its alternatives →

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    You can now vibe code agentic AI apps

    Jan 2026 · blink.new · its alternatives →

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    Open Vibe▲311

    Open Vibe turns Claude Code, or your agent of choice, into the ultimate SaaS-building assistant, helping you understand the systems behind a production-ready SaaS while building your own app idea.

    May 2026 · openvibe.sh · its alternatives →

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    Stax▲179

    Move your LLM evals from vibes to data

    2025 · stax.withgoogle.com · its alternatives →

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    Find & fix live vulnerabilities in Vibe Apps with 1-prompt.

    Jul 2026 · perfai.ai · its alternatives →

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    We build AI agents to find vulnerabilities in other AI agents. The playground started as an internal tool that we used to test our own offensive agent Nyx. But we realised that hacking an AI is about have as wide a distribution of attacks as possible, especially those which aren't in the distribution of the models. So we are launching playground as a platform to crowdsource agent jailbreaks. And although hacking AI is super fun and we are sure people will do it for free, we want to reward those who help us push forward the offensive frontier of AI. So we are committing $100K in prizes over…

    Jul 2026 · playground.fabraix.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, We are the devs behind VibeShift. We have been building this MCP server to put AI coding assistants in an automatic feedback loop. They code, test, debug, fix everything until we have a fully working, secure code. It tests like a real user, copies network/console and logical errors to give them back to cursor. (1 min demo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN_RgQGa8B0) We felt this was the natural next step for AI coding assistants. And with new asynchronous assistants like codex, having a plug & play tester makes sure you don't have to spend time debugging and…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Stracti▲165

    Build AI game bots with no code required

    Jan 2026 · stracti.com · its alternatives →

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    Anthropic and OpenAI's publicly available models are explicitly guard-railed so that they refuse offensive tasks. And their cyber-focussed models are gated for enterprises. This leaves SMEs and mid market open to major vulnerabilities. AI can be used as both an adversarial and defensive tool in the world of cyber. A worst case outcome is if only the adversaries have access. Meanwhile, most existing AI cyber tools are just wrappers. The problem is that they still have all the guardrails on from the foundation model where they will inherit its refusals. For this project we've post-trained a…

    Jun 2026 · argusred.com · its alternatives →

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    Autonomous QA agents that explore your app like users do

    Apr 2026 · marketrix.ai · its alternatives →

  14. 14

    Secure your data like never before

    2023 · vibeai.web.app · its alternatives →

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    AI-powered security scans for every Vibe coder or Developer

    Jul 2026 · fora-ai.up.railway.app · its alternatives →

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    Vibe Coding? Stop your AI Agent from guessing.

    2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! We just launched Codacy Guardrails, an IDE extension with a CLI for code analysis and MCP server that enforces security & quality rules on AI-generated code in real-time. It hooks into AI coding assistants (like VS Code Agent Mode, Cursor, Windsurf), silently scanning and fixing AI-suggested code that has vulnerabilities or violates your coding standards, while the code it’s being generated. We built this because coding agents can be a double-edged sword. They do boost productivity, but can easily introduce insecure or non-compliant code. One recent research team at NYU found that 40%…

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Vibe-code custom-ready AI agents just by chatting

    Nov 2025 · laburen.com · its alternatives →

  19. 19KA

    I built this because Cursor, Claude Code and other agentic AI tools kept giving me tests that looked fine but failed when I ran them. Or worse - I'd ask the agent to run them and it would start looping: fix tests, those fail, then it starts "fixing" my code so tests pass, or just deletes assertions so they "pass". Out of that frustration I built KeelTest - a VS Code extension that generates pytest tests and executes them, got hooked and decided to push this project forward... When tests fail, it tries to figure out why: - Generation error: Attemps to fix it automatically, then tries again -…

    Jan 2026 · keelcode.dev · its alternatives →

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    We build runtime security for AI agents. The playground started as an internal tool that we used to test our own guardrails. But we kept finding the same types of vulnerabilities because we think about attacks a certain way. At some point you need people who don't think like you. So we open-sourced it. Each challenge is a live agent with real tools and a published system prompt. Whenever a challenge is over, the full winning conversation transcript and guardrail logs get documented publicly. Building the general-purpose agent itself was probably the most fun part. Getting it to reliably use…

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Strix▲3

    Your personal intelligence layer

    Jun 2026 · strix.page · its alternatives →

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    Hadrix▲3

    Open-source AI-powered security audits

    Feb 2026 · cli.hadrix.ai · its alternatives →

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    Herd▲7

    Run a herd of AI coding agents from one window

    May 2026 · joinherd.ai · its alternatives →

  24. 24

    A quiet command center for your coding agents

    Jul 2026 · onestrix.com · its alternatives →

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