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Legit Security vs Apiiro for AI code security

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Legit Security scores 4.4 and Apiiro 3.4 on our AI code security criteria, so Legit Security ranks higher on the published weights. Legit leads on AI code and assistant coverage, endpoint deployment and tamper resistance, governance and policy control, developer experience and pricing and buying clarity; they tie on remediation and ASPM depth. The widest gap is endpoint deployment and tamper resistance, where Legit scores 5.0 against 2.5.

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

How do Legit Security and Apiiro score side by side?

Legit Security and Apiiro: editorial assessment, 0-5. Last reviewed October 2026.
CriterionWeightLegit SecurityApiiroEdge
Coverage of AI-generated code and AI coding assistants25%5.04.5Legit
Endpoint deployment and tamper resistance20%5.02.5Legit
Governance and policy control for the CISO20%4.53.5Legit
Developer experience and low friction15%3.53.0Legit
Pricing and buying clarity10%2.51.0Legit
Remediation and ASPM depth10%5.05.0Tie
Weighted total4.43.4

Legit Security leads on 5 criteria, Apiiro leads on 0, and 1 is tied.

Legit Security

Verdict for Legit Security: strengths and limitations

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  • Strength:VibeGuard 2.0 (3 Aug 2026) discovers coding agents on the developer endpoint, blocks dangerous operations, secures MCP use and resists tampering. [source]
  • Strength:Named support for Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf and MCP-based assistants. Codex: supported (per Legit). [source]
  • Strength:Runs SAST and SCA inside the IDE and keeps secrets from being shared with AI systems during generation. [source]
  • Strength:Secrets scanning covers Git history, Jira, Confluence, Slack and developers' personal GitHub accounts. [source]
  • Strength:ASPM core pulls in existing scanners and de-duplicates findings, scored by business and exposure context. [source]

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  • Limitation:No prices, pricing unit or free tier published. [source]
  • Limitation:No self-serve start for a single developer or a small team. [source]
  • Limitation:Reachability is not the headline prioritization method on the pages reviewed. [source]

Apiiro

Verdict for Apiiro: strengths and limitations

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  • Strength:Software Architecture Graph and Risk Graph connect code changes to runtime context. [source]
  • Strength:Guardian Agent adds secure prompt enrichment and pre-commit prevention. [source]
  • Strength:Works with Cursor, GitHub Copilot and Claude Code. [source]
  • Strength:Deep Code Analysis detects material code changes. [source]

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  • Limitation:No pricing published and no free commercial tier. [source]
  • Limitation:The MCP server requires an Apiiro account with API access. [source]

How do Legit Security and Apiiro cover AI code and coding assistants?

Legit Security: VibeGuard discovers every AI model, code assistant, MCP server and skill on developer endpoints and runs SAST and SCA in the IDE. Legit names Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf and Amazon Q Developer. Codex: supported (per Legit).

Apiiro: Detects risk across AI coding agents, IDE extensions and MCP servers, works with Cursor, GitHub Copilot and Claude Code, and scans with AI SAST and AI SCA.

Assistants named on their public pages: Legit Security: Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf and OpenAI Codex (Codex: supported (per Legit)); Apiiro: Claude Code, Cursor and GitHub Copilot.

Where do their controls run on the developer machine?

Legit Security: VibeGuard 2.0 is built "as a full desktop app, and not as a plugin", and its anti-tampering stops agents or threat actors "from disabling VibeGuard". A secrets MCP backed by the OS keychain scopes credentials to the session and keeps them out of agent history and memory.

Apiiro: The Apiiro CLI brings the platform into the terminal and into AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Cursor and Copilot; an endpoint agent and tamper resistance are not described.

How much control does the security team get?

Legit Security: A central management console lets security teams approve, block or flag assistants, models and MCP servers and enforce custom or built-in command policies. Audit-log detail specific to VibeGuard is not covered on the public pages reviewed; the platform states an audit trail for policy compliance. Ask Legit for specifics during evaluation.

Apiiro: Guardian Agent adds pre-commit prevention and secure prompt enrichment; policy to approve or block specific agents or MCP servers is not described in detail.

How do they fit the developer's workflow?

Legit Security: Reaches developers through the IDE, a CLI and MCP, and surfaces dangerous operations for the developer to decide rather than blocking them silently, but there is no free or self-serve tier.

Apiiro: Developer surface through the CLI, MCP and AutoFix; no free tier for commercial teams (AutoFix is free for open source maintainers).

How do they fix and prioritize findings?

Legit Security: Agentic remediation fixes first-party SAST and dependency (SCA) findings and opens pull requests; risk is ranked by business context and reachability, and findings from existing scanners are consolidated.

Apiiro: A Software Architecture Graph and Risk Graph tie code to runtime, and AutoFix generates fixes for SAST, SCA, secrets, container and IaC risks.

How do they compare on price?

Legit Security: free tier: No (free trial on request); lowest published paid option: AWS Marketplace: $60,000 for 12 months, all modules, 100 users (marketplace price); pricing unit: Users (marketplace bundle).

Apiiro: free tier: No (AutoFix free for open source maintainers); lowest published paid option: Contact sales; pricing unit: Not published.

Source: Legit Security pricing · Reviewed Sep 2026

Source: Apiiro pricing · Reviewed Sep 2026

Which should you choose?

Choose Legit Security if AI code and assistant coverage and endpoint deployment and tamper resistance matter most: Legit scores 5.0 and 5.0 there, against 4.5 and 2.5 for Apiiro. Choose Apiiro if remediation and ASPM depth and AI code and assistant coverage matter most: Apiiro scores 5.0 and 4.5 there, against 5.0 and 5.0 for Legit.

Frequently asked questions

Is Legit Security or Apiiro better for AI code security?

Legit Security scores 4.4 and Apiiro 3.4 on our AI code security criteria, so Legit Security ranks higher on the published weights. Legit leads on 5 of 6 criteria and Apiiro on 0; 1 is tied. Which is better depends on which criteria matter most to you; the calculator on this site re-weights them.

How do Legit Security and Apiiro price their plans?

Legit Security: free tier: No (free trial on request); lowest published paid option: AWS Marketplace: $60,000 for 12 months, all modules, 100 users (marketplace price). Apiiro: free tier: No (AutoFix free for open source maintainers); lowest published paid option: Contact sales. Prices as published on vendor pages and marketplace listings, reviewed 2026-10-11.

Which AI coding assistants do Legit Security and Apiiro name?

On the pages we reviewed, Legit Security names Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf and OpenAI Codex (Codex: supported (per Legit)) and Apiiro names Claude Code, Cursor and 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.