# GitGuardian vs TruffleHog

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** GitGuardian

| Attribute | GitGuardian | TruffleHog |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 75.6 (71% (medium)) | 61.1 (41% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 79 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 519 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 28,528 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A platform that scans code repositories, CI/CD pipelines, containers, and infrastructure for exposed credentials and machine identities, providing real-time detection with automated remediation and incident management workflows. It is indexed under DevSecOps Tools.","source":"https://www.gitguardian.com/pricing","question":"What is GitGuardian?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"GitGuardian does not publish its prices. Pricing is quoted on request, across 3 plans (Free, Growth and Enterprise), so the figure depends on your seat count and requirements. We record this as a pricing-transparency signal rather than guessing a number. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.gitguardian.com/pricing","question":"How much does GitGuardian cost?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"GitGuardian supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.gitguardian.com/pricing","question":"What platforms does GitGuardian support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. GitGuardian can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.gitguardian.com/pricing","question":"Can GitGuardian be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 20 integrations for GitGuardian, including GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure Repos, Azure DevOps, Jira, Slack and ServiceNow, plus 12 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.gitguardian.com/pricing","question":"What does GitGuardian integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR for GitGuardian. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as GitGuardian not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.gitguardian.com/security-engineers","question":"What security certifications does GitGuardian have?","confidence":0.48},{"answer":"GitGuardian is available worldwide. Its primary markets are the United States and the EU.","source":"https://www.gitguardian.com/pricing","question":"Where is GitGuardian available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"A security tool that scans code repositories, chat systems, artifact storage, and other SDLC platforms for leaked credentials. It verifies which secrets remain active and provides continuous monitoring and remediation guidance. It is indexed under DevSecOps Tools.","source":"https://trufflesecurity.com/pricing","question":"What is TruffleHog?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"TruffleHog is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the AGPL-3.0 licence. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://trufflesecurity.com/pricing","question":"Is TruffleHog free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"TruffleHog supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://trufflesecurity.com/pricing","question":"What platforms does TruffleHog support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. TruffleHog can be deployed cloud / SaaS, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://trufflesecurity.com/pricing","question":"Can TruffleHog be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 22 integrations for TruffleHog, including GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Gerrit, Docker, Artifactory, Jenkins and Buildkite, plus 14 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://trufflesecurity.com/pricing","question":"What does TruffleHog integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed GDPR for TruffleHog. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as TruffleHog not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://trufflesecurity.com/security","question":"What security certifications does TruffleHog have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Yes. TruffleHog is published under the AGPL-3.0 licence, a copyleft licence, so check its terms before embedding it in a closed-source product. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog","question":"Is TruffleHog open source?","confidence":0.95},{"answer":"TruffleHog is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://trufflesecurity.com/pricing","question":"Where is TruffleHog available?","confidence":0.5}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A platform for discovering hardcoded secrets, API keys, and credentials across code repositories, CI/CD pipelines, container images, and collaboration tools. Provides incident remediation workflows, non-human identity governance, and supports cloud or self-hosted deployment. | A secret scanning platform that identifies leaked API keys, passwords, and tokens across version control systems, cloud storage, collaboration tools, and CI/CD pipelines, providing automated remediation and verification to reduce exposure risk. |
| features.capabilities | `{"sca":true,"sast":true,"hosting":"both","ci_native":true,"ide_plugin":true,"auto_fix_pr":true,"open_source":true,"reachability":true,"secret_scanning":true,"container_scanning":true}` | `{"sca":false,"sast":true,"hosting":"both","ci_native":true,"auto_fix_pr":true,"open_source":true,"reachability":true,"secret_scanning":true,"container_scanning":true}` |
| integrations.count | 16 | 20 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"GitHub Enterprise Server"},{"name":"GitLab"},{"name":"Bitbucket"},{"name":"Azure Repos"},{"name":"Azure DevOps"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"ServiceNow"},{"name":"Confluence"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"Container registries"},{"name":"HashiCorp Vault"},{"name":"CyberArk"},{"name":"AWS Secrets Manager"},{"name":"AWS IAM","native":true,"category":"iam","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Azure Entra ID","native":true,"category":"iam","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Cursor","native":true,"category":"ide","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Claude Code","native":true,"category":"ide","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"GitHub Copilot","native":true,"category":"ide","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Windsurf","native":true,"category":"ide","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Google Gemini CLI","native":true,"category":"ide","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams","native":true,"category":"chat","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"PagerDuty","native":true,"category":"incident_management","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"AWS Marketplace","native":true,"category":"distribution"}]` | `[{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"GitLab"},{"name":"Bitbucket"},{"name":"Gerrit"},{"name":"Git"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"Artifactory"},{"name":"Jenkins"},{"name":"Buildkite"},{"name":"Azure Repos"},{"name":"Travis CI"},{"name":"Circle CI"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Teams"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"Vector"},{"name":"Confluence"},{"name":"Google Drive"},{"name":"S3"},{"name":"SharePoint"},{"name":"Splunk"},{"name":"Webhook"},{"name":"Email"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams","native":true,"category":"chat","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Discord","category":"chat","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Elasticsearch","category":"logging","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"AWS S3","category":"cloud_storage","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Google Cloud Storage","category":"cloud_storage","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"AWS Secrets Manager","category":"secrets_management","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"GitHub App","native":true,"category":"authentication"}]` |
| language.primary | - | Go |
| license.spdx | - | AGPL-3.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US","EU"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","features":["Unlimited real-time scanning","Internal secrets monitoring","Public secrets monitoring (limited)","Slack, Jira, ServiceNow integrations","SSO (SAML 2.0) + SCIM","US and EU data hosting regions"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Community plan with core scanning capabilities","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"api_calls":"10k/month","repository_size":"12 GB","historical_scans":"500"}},{"free":false,"name":"Growth","features":["Internal secrets monitoring across code, CI/CD, container registries","Public secrets monitoring (limited)","Remediation playbooks and notifiers","SSO (SAML 2.0) + SCIM, IP allowlisting, privacy mode","Dedicated Customer Success Manager"],"description":"Starter plan for teams scaling secrets governance with dedicated support","contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","features":["NHI Governance with vault coverage and identity inventory","AI-powered remediation with Smart Routing","Enterprise data sources including file storage and CI logs","Self-hosted deployment (Helm or KOTS)","12-month audit log retention","Honeytoken for preemptive threat detection"],"description":"Advanced plan for complex environments with NHI governance and self-hosted options","contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"Developer Endpoint Protection"}],"summary":"Free tier available. Paid tiers (Growth, Enterprise) pricing available upon request.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.gitguardian.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-09-04T13:30:58.383Z","billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Open Source","features":["GitHub, S3, directory, GCS, Docker scanning","800+ secret detectors","GitHub Actions integration","Pre-commit hooks","Pre-receive hooks","Custom regex","Automatic updates"],"description":"Free secret scanning with GitHub, S3, directory, GCS, and Docker support","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"secret_detectors":"800+"}},{"free":false,"name":"TruffleHog Analyze for SaaS","contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"TruffleHog Analyze for Cloud","features":["20+ integrations","Choice of on-premises and cloud scanning","Continuous monitoring","Dashboard for secrets management","Alerting and detailed analytics","Forager for monitoring public datasets","Single sign-on (SAML 2.0 or OAuth 2.0)","Role-based access control","Deployment and onboarding support","Priority technical support"],"description":"Cloud or on-premises scanning with enterprise features","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free open-source tier available. Commercial SaaS and Cloud plans available via contact.","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://trufflesecurity.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-10-15T21:02:55.201Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.transparent | yes | no |
| release.cadence_days | - | 3 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/releases/tag/v3.99.2","date":"2026-10-08T13:54:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.99.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/releases/tag/v3.99.1","date":"2026-10-08T10:19:26Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.99.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/releases/tag/v3.99.0","date":"2026-10-06T17:44:51Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.99.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/releases/tag/v3.98.1","date":"2026-10-06T11:57:22Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.98.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/releases/tag/v3.98.0","date":"2026-10-05T17:39:02Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.98.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/releases/tag/v3.97.9","date":"2026-09-24T09:11:59Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.97.9"},{"url":"https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/releases/tag/v3.97.8","date":"2026-09-23T18:11:54Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.97.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/releases/tag/v3.97.7","date":"2026-09-23T16:44:23Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.97.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/releases/tag/v3.97.6","date":"2026-09-22T15:08:21Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.97.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/releases/tag/v3.97.5","date":"2026-09-16T17:37:07Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.97.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/releases/tag/v3.97.4","date":"2026-09-03T20:01:40Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.97.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/releases/tag/v3.97.3","date":"2026-09-03T16:52:51Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.97.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/releases/tag/v3.97.2","date":"2026-09-02T16:55:13Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.97.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/releases/tag/v3.97.1","date":"2026-08-24T16:53:20Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.97.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/releases/tag/v3.97.0","date":"2026-08-14T18:35:16Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.97.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/releases/tag/v3.96.0","date":"2026-07-24T18:23:23Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.96.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/releases/tag/v3.95.9","date":"2026-07-09T23:09:52Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.95.9"},{"url":"https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/releases/tag/v3.95.8","date":"2026-07-02T18:54:37Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.95.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/releases/tag/v3.95.7","date":"2026-06-29T15:50:35Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.95.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/trufflesecurity/trufflehog/releases/tag/v3.95.6","date":"2026-06-18T14:38:38Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.95.6"}]` |
| reliability.sla_pct | - | 99 |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 7.9 |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |
| security.trust_center | https://www.gitguardian.com/videos/webinar-devops-backups-vs-ransomware-best-security-and-compliance-practices | https://trufflesecurity.com/security |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=actions&package_name=trufflesecurity%2Ftrufflehog&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (DevSecOps Tools)

| Capability | GitGuardian | TruffleHog |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Scan types** |  |  |
| SAST (static analysis) | ✓ | ✓ |
| DAST (dynamic analysis) | - | - |
| SCA / dependency scanning | ✓ | ✗ |
| Secret scanning | ✓ | ✓ |
| Container / image scanning | ✓ | ✓ |
| IaC misconfiguration scanning | - | - |
| **Governance** |  |  |
| OSS licence compliance | - | - |
| SBOM generation (SPDX/CycloneDX) | - | - |
| **Remediation** |  |  |
| Automated fix / upgrade PRs | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Prioritisation** |  |  |
| Reachability / exploitability prioritisation | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud + self-hosted | Cloud + self-hosted |
| **Integration** |  |  |
| First-class CI / pipeline integration | ✓ | ✓ |
| In-editor / IDE scanning | ✓ | - |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| OSS engine available | ✓ | ✓ |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T19:17:23.643Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*