Betterleaks

Spec sheet

Purpose

Betterleaks is a configurable secrets scanner designed to find exposed credentials in repositories, CI artifacts, issue trackers, datasets, logs, and other sources.Read 4 Oct 2026 · betterleaks.com

Intended users

The project describes use in developer workflows, CI pipelines, security products, and AI agents.Read 3 Oct 2026 · betterleaks.com

Integrations

The project names Aikido Security and MegaLinter among organizations and projects that use Betterleaks; MegaLinter ships it out of the box.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

License

Betterleaks is MIT licensed.Read 4 Oct 2026 · betterleaks.com

Analysis

It can enrich valid credentials with identity, account, capability, and severity information.Read 3 Oct 2026 · github.com

Credential analysis

Betterleaks can enrich valid credentials with identity, account, capability, and severity information.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

Custom rules

Users can define contextual filtering, validation, and analysis logic in the configuration.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

Default network behavior

Scans detect secrets without making credential-provider requests by default; validation and analysis can be enabled.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

Detection

Its detection and filtering engine goes beyond regular expressions and entropy to reduce false positives, analyze findings in context, and validate whether exposed credentials are still live.Read 4 Oct 2026 · betterleaks.com

Distribution

The project provides Homebrew, Fedora, Docker, Go installation, and source build options.Read 3 Oct 2026 · github.com

Embedding

Betterleaks can be embedded as a Go library.Read 3 Oct 2026 · github.com

Install options

The project documents installation through Homebrew, Fedora's package manager, Docker, Go, or building from source.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

Local use

The documented commands scan local filesystems and Git repositories, as well as remote sources.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

Other inputs

It can scan files, Git repositories, URLs, and piped input.Read 3 Oct 2026 · github.com

Pricing

The opened maker pages do not state a paid plan or subscription price.Read 4 Oct 2026 · betterleaks.com

Prioritization

The project lists prioritization by confidence, validation status, and analyzed severity scores as a feature.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

Revocation

Rules can optionally revoke credentials, and scans do not run revocation.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

SDK

Betterleaks can be embedded as a Go library.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

Security limit

Credential validation is disabled by default and requires enabling it.Read 3 Oct 2026 · github.com

Sources

The project lists GitHub, GitLab, Hugging Face, and S3 among its supported sources.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

Validation

It can check whether detected credentials are active through asynchronous HTTP requests defined in rules.Read 3 Oct 2026 · github.com

Where Specifiction places it

• Secrets Scanning Software#9 of 247.9