PatchLabs vs Aikido
Aikido covers your whole stack. PatchLabs goes deep on who can read your users’ data.
Aikido is a broad security platform: code, cloud, pentesting and runtime protection, with a connector inside Lovable. PatchLabs does one job. It rebuilds your database from your migrations, finds the rows strangers can read, writes the fix and proves it before your engineer approves it.
Choose Aikido when
You need one platform for everything a security team watches.
- You want dependencies, static analysis, secrets, cloud, containers and runtime protection in one place
- You need a test of your live app, including auth bypass and cross-tenant access, with a shareable report
- You work across many repos and languages and want issues synced to Jira or Linear
- You need a vendor with security certifications for your own compliance work
Choose PatchLabs when
Your biggest risk is a Supabase database leaking personal data.
- You want each fix proven on a rebuilt copy of your database, as anon, stranger and owner, before you see it
- You’d rather nothing tested your live app or touched your cloud account or real data
- You want a reviewable migration and a plain-English answer to “should this table be public?”
- You want a free, focused check today, with published prices and our own cost per check
Coverage
Wide versus deep.
Aikido covers far more ground than we do, and we say so plainly. Where we overlap, on database access, PatchLabs rebuilds and proves rather than scans.
Based on the products Aikido lists on its own site. “Partly” means their pages describe related checks without the three-identity proof.
Side by side
The details.
| PatchLabs | Aikido | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A lab that proves data-access fixes for AI-built apps | An application security platform across code, cloud, attack testing and runtime |
| Getting started | Paste a public repo and prove it’s yours with a one-time file. No account for the first check | Sign up with a Git provider and connect repos read-only. Free tier, no card |
| Inside Lovable | No connectorWorks on the repo; the fix arrives as a migration | Lovable connectorStart a pentest from the Security tab; findings with reproduction steps and one-click “Fix all” |
| Fixes | SQL migration with one-click commit on GitHub; automatic pull requests coming with our GitHub App | AI AutoFix pull requests (10 a month on the free tier), and “Fix all” in Lovable |
| How fixes are checked | Three-identity proof on a rebuilt database, before you see the fix | Their homepage describes Detect, Fix, Deploy and Verify agentsVerify: a smoke test after a staging deploy |
| Touches your live app | Never tests itOpt-in Live posture only loads your public home page, on a domain you verify | Pentests and DAST test the running app, by design |
| Free tier | 1 app, monthly re-checks, 4 manual runs a month, every finding, every fix proven | Developer tier: 2 users, 10 repos, 10 AutoFixes a month, rescans every 3 days |
| Pentest pricing | We don’t offer pentests | $100 per test for Lovable founders (launch pricing). Says a typical pentest is about $4,000 per app, with no charge if there’s no high or critical finding |
| Speed claim | Median 3.5 min to a proven fixLab study, n=20, 9 Nov 2026 | “Scan results in 32 seconds” |
| Certifications | None. We don’t claim any | SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022, listed in their site’s metadata |
| Company | Founder-run, London. You email the person who built it | Established vendor with customer logos and testimonials on its site |
Last checked 10 Nov 2026 against Aikido’s public site and Lovable’s docs. Aikido’s paid tiers are listed on its pricing page. Report a correction.
[REBUILD] 1 migration → lab Postgres OK [PROBE] anon → 2 rows LEAK stranger → 2 rows LEAK [FIX] smallest model writes migration [PROVE] anon → 0 rows DENIED stranger → 0 rows DENIED owner → 1 row OK [DONE] lab proof passed · 36 s
Where we’re different
The proof happens before the fix reaches you, not after it ships.
We rebuild the database from your migrations in a disposable Postgres with Supabase’s roles and grants, seed fake rows, and run the same read as each person. A fix that fails is never called proven; it goes to a person.
- No access to your database or cloud, and no testing of your live app
- Smallest Claude model first, with a spend cap per check
Questions
Asked about Aikido.
Can I use both?
Yes, and if you need broad coverage you should. Aikido covers dependencies, code, cloud and live testing. PatchLabs adds a proven fix for the specific question of who can read your database rows, and re-checks it on a schedule.
Is PatchLabs a cheaper Aikido?
No. We do much less. If you need dependency scanning, cloud checks or a pentest, we don’t replace Aikido. We go deeper on one risk that’s common in AI-built apps: in our study, 106 of 318 rebuilt apps let the wrong people read personal data (PatchLabs lab study, Nov 2026).
Aikido is inside Lovable. Why isn’t PatchLabs?
We work from the code in GitHub, so we also cover apps exported from Lovable or built with Bolt, Replit and Cursor. We have no partnership with Lovable.
Does PatchLabs have SOC 2 or ISO 27001?
No, and we won’t imply otherwise. Our security page says exactly what we access, what we keep and where it runs.
Sources
Where these facts come from.
- Aikido homepage · product areas, Detect/Fix/Deploy/Verify agents, “Scan results in 32 seconds”, sign-up flowchecked 10 Nov 2026
- Aikido pricing · Developer tier limits, pentest pricing including the Lovable launch pricechecked 10 Nov 2026
- Lovable docs: Security · the Aikido connector for agentic pentestschecked 10 Nov 2026
- PatchLabs methodology · 3.5-minute median check time (n=20, 9 Nov 2026)ours
Independent
PatchLabs is independent and not affiliated with Aikido Security. Product names are used only to identify them. Facts were checked on 10 Nov 2026 and may have changed since; we update these pages when we hear about a change.
Free check
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