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Endor Labs vs GitHub Advanced Security for AI code security

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Endor Labs scores 3.9 and GitHub Advanced Security 2.9 on our AI code security criteria, so Endor Labs ranks higher on the published weights. Endor Labs leads on AI code and assistant coverage, endpoint deployment and tamper resistance, governance and policy control and remediation and ASPM depth; GHAS leads on developer experience and pricing and buying clarity. The widest gap is governance and policy control, where Endor Labs scores 4.5 against 2.0.

Editorial assessment · Compiled from vendor product, docs, pricing and marketplace pages · Rated October 2026

How do Endor Labs and GitHub Advanced Security score side by side?

Endor Labs and GitHub Advanced Security: editorial assessment, 0-5. Last reviewed October 2026.
CriterionWeightEndor LabsGitHub Advanced SecurityEdge
Coverage of AI-generated code and AI coding assistants25%5.03.0Endor Labs
Endpoint deployment and tamper resistance20%2.51.5Endor Labs
Governance and policy control for the CISO20%4.52.0Endor Labs
Developer experience and low friction15%4.04.5GHAS
Pricing and buying clarity10%2.04.5GHAS
Remediation and ASPM depth10%4.53.5Endor Labs
Weighted total3.92.9

Endor Labs leads on 4 criteria, GitHub Advanced Security leads on 2, and 0 are tied.

Endor Labs

Verdict for Endor Labs: strengths and limitations

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  • Strength:Reachability analysis across dependencies, containers and first-party code. [source]
  • Strength:AURI inventories coding agents, models, MCP servers and skills and applies policy at the moment of action. [source]
  • Strength:MCP server for Cursor, Claude Code, VS Code with Copilot, Codex and Antigravity. [source]
  • Strength:Free Developer tier runs locally with no account. [source]

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  • Limitation:Core and Pro prices are not published. [source]
  • Limitation:Free tier has no UI, policies or scan history. [source]

GitHub Advanced Security

Verdict for GitHub Advanced Security: strengths and limitations

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  • Strength:Published prices: GitHub Secret Protection $19 and GitHub Code Security $30 per active committer per month. [source]
  • Strength:Copilot coding agent runs CodeQL, Advisory Database and secret scanning checks on its own changes, no GHAS license needed. [source]
  • Strength:Push protection blocks commits that contain secrets; AI-detected secrets included. [source]
  • Strength:Copilot Autofix suggests fixes for code scanning alerts. [source]

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  • Limitation:No controls for third-party assistants such as Cursor or Claude Code on the pages reviewed. [source]
  • Limitation:For repositories on GitHub, on GitHub Team or GitHub Enterprise Cloud plans. [source]

How do Endor Labs and GitHub Advanced Security cover AI code and coding assistants?

Endor Labs: AURI inventories coding agents, models, MCP servers and skills, and the MCP server installs into Cursor, Claude Code, VS Code with Copilot, Codex and Antigravity. AI SAST traces dataflow across repositories and pull requests.

GitHub Advanced Security: CodeQL scans every pull request whoever wrote it, and the Copilot coding agent checks its own changes; Copilot is the only assistant named, and there is no discovery of other agents or MCP servers.

Assistants named on their public pages: Endor Labs: Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and OpenAI Codex; GitHub Advanced Security: GitHub Copilot.

Where do their controls run on the developer machine?

Endor Labs: Runs locally through an MCP server (npx endorctl ai-tools mcp-server) and AURI agents that run inside Claude Code, Cursor, OpenAI Codex and Google Antigravity on customer infrastructure; an endpoint application and tamper resistance are not described.

GitHub Advanced Security: Runs on GitHub at push and pull request; no endpoint agent is described.

How much control does the security team get?

Endor Labs: AURI applies policy at the moment of action with an audit trail, and mutating agent actions sit behind approval gates; scoping policy by team or machine is not described.

GitHub Advanced Security: Organization-level security overview, campaigns and push protection; agent checks cover GitHub's own Copilot coding agent, not third-party assistants.

How do they fit the developer's workflow?

Endor Labs: The free Developer tier runs locally with no account.

GitHub Advanced Security: Native to pull requests on GitHub.

How do they fix and prioritize findings?

Endor Labs: Reachability across dependencies, containers and code, and AURI agents write SAST fixes and open SCA upgrade pull requests behind approval gates. Ingestion of third-party scanner findings is not confirmed.

GitHub Advanced Security: Copilot Autofix suggests fixes and security campaigns organize remediation; no reachability or business-context scoring is described.

How do they compare on price?

Endor Labs: free tier: Yes: Developer tier, local, no account; lowest published paid option: Contact sales; pricing unit: Contributors with commits in the last 90 days.

GitHub Advanced Security: free tier: Free for public repositories (code scanning, secret scanning, Dependabot alerts); lowest published paid option: $19 (Secret Protection) or $30 (Code Security) per active committer per month; pricing unit: Active committer.

Source: Endor Labs pricing · Reviewed Sep 2026

Source: GitHub Advanced Security pricing · Reviewed Sep 2026

Which should you choose?

Choose Endor Labs if AI code and assistant coverage and governance and policy control matter most: Endor Labs scores 5.0 and 4.5 there, against 3.0 and 2.0 for GHAS. Choose GitHub Advanced Security if developer experience and pricing and buying clarity matter most: GHAS scores 4.5 and 4.5 there, against 4.0 and 2.0 for Endor Labs.

Frequently asked questions

Is Endor Labs or GitHub Advanced Security better for AI code security?

Endor Labs scores 3.9 and GitHub Advanced Security 2.9 on our AI code security criteria, so Endor Labs ranks higher on the published weights. Endor Labs leads on 4 of 6 criteria and GHAS on 2; 0 are tied. Which is better depends on which criteria matter most to you; the calculator on this site re-weights them.

How do Endor Labs and GitHub Advanced Security price their plans?

Endor Labs: free tier: Yes: Developer tier, local, no account; lowest published paid option: Contact sales. GitHub Advanced Security: free tier: Free for public repositories (code scanning, secret scanning, Dependabot alerts); lowest published paid option: $19 (Secret Protection) or $30 (Code Security) per active committer per month. Prices as published on vendor pages and marketplace listings, reviewed 2026-10-11.

Which AI coding assistants do Endor Labs and GitHub Advanced Security name?

On the pages we reviewed, Endor Labs names Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and OpenAI Codex and GitHub Advanced Security names GitHub Copilot. 'Not named' means we did not find the assistant on the vendor's pages; it does not prove the tool cannot work with it.

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Last reviewed October 2026. Editorial assessment from public vendor material; no hands-on testing.