Aikido CSPM vs Cavirin

Aikido CSPM gives teams a unified view of cloud misconfigurations, exposures, identity risks, and compliance gaps across cloud environments. It connects to accounts through read-only APIs, with no agents required, and lists AWS, Azure, GCP, and selected other providers such as DigitalOcean. Checks include public storage buckets, unencrypted databases, open SSH ports, and overly permissive IAM policies. Context-aware scoring prioritizes higher-impact production issues over lower-impact staging findings. Cloud Search accepts plain-language queries and can turn searches into real-time alerts. For some issues, Aikido offers guided fixes and auto-generated pull requests, but does not automatically change infrastructure. Other listed capabilities include container image and EC2 vulnerability scanning, IaC checks, runtime detection, asset inventory, attack path analysis, and SBOM management. Compliance checks map to SOC 2 and ISO 27001, with reporting that can sync to Vanta and Drata. The free Developer plan includes one cloud account; Basic is $300 a month, while Pro and Advanced are each $600 a month.

Cavirin is a security and compliance platform for cloud services and corporate data centers. It monitors environments without agents, reports security posture, and supports remediation. Its coverage includes AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, on-premises data centers, containers, Kubernetes, and networking equipment, including Cisco Firepower and Cisco Meraki devices. More than 30 policy packs cover compute and cloud services across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Cavirin calculates a cyberposture score from 0 to 100, and its AI scoring uses historical information and current trends to project score trends up to 180 days ahead. Automatic remediation can use cloud functions and Ansible. The listed compliance evidence covers HIPAA, PCI, SOC2, ISO, GDPR, NIST, and DISA. Integrations include Slack, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, Jira, and Google Cloud Security Command Center; GuardDuty and Exploits DB integrations can raise the priority of gaps linked to threats and exploits. The free plan costs nothing and covers up to 25 on-premises virtual machines or one cloud account with up to 25 instances. It has no live customer support. Premium has no listed price and requires a minimum annual purchase of USD 12,000.