HoundDog.ai vs. Privado
HoundDog.ai’s AI-powered code scanner provides a more precise, efficient, and scalable solution for the enterprise.
Category
Product
HoundDog.ai
- ✅ IDE Plugins
- ✅ Managed Scans
- Offload scans to HoundDog.ai with seamless integrations into GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket, ensuring continuous coverage for sensitive data leaks across all critical repositories. For self-hosted platforms like GitHub Enterprise Server, GitLab Enterprise, and Bitbucket Data Center, the HoundDog.ai Broker enables secure cloud-based analysis with minimal data exposure, allowing organizations to schedule scans and detect risks early.
- ✅ CI/CD Integrations
- Embed the scanner in your CI pipeline to continuously scan code before it merges into the main branch.
- **For organizations with thousands of repos, setting up CI scans can take months of engineering effort. With HoundDog.ai, it takes five minutes. Our platform integrates with GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket (cloud and enterprise) to auto-push CI configs as commits or PRs, customizable for scan frequency, PR blocking, developer feedback, and cloud or self hosted runners.
Privado
- ✅ CI/CD Integrations
- Embed the scanner in your CI pipeline to continuously scan code before it merges into the main branch
Supported Languages
HoundDog.ai
- Python
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Go
- Java
- C#
- SQL
- OpenAPI / Swagger
- GraphQL
Privado
- Java
- Python (in Alpha)
- JavaScript (Coming Soon)
- (See documentation for more details)
Detection Coverage & Accuracy
HoundDog.ai
- ✅ Twice the precision, four times fewer false positive alerts.
- Pinpoints code logic handling sensitive data with 2x greater precision than Privado, leading to 4x fewer false positive alerts
- This level of accuracy is powered by advanced code analysis techniques, including interprocedural and taint analysis, along with proven detection patterns honed from scanning over 20,000 code repositories for enterprise customers in healthcare, finance, and government – resulting in dramatically higher true positive rates.
- Pinpoints code logic handling sensitive data with 2x greater precision than Privado, leading to 4x fewer false positive alerts
Privado
- ❌ High volume of false positive alerts and missed true positives
- Relies solely on RegEx patterns, significantly reducing precision and lacking critical code analysis, leading to more missed true positives.
Developer Friction
HoundDog.ai
- ✅ Frictionlessly Fast
- HoundDog.ai scanner is frictionlessly fast – scanning more than 10 million lines of code in less than 1 minute.
Privado
- ❌ Prohibitively Slow
- Prohibitively slow scan times – often running out of memory when analyzing any code repository containing more than 1 million lines of code.
Category
HoundDog.ai
Privado
Product
- ✅ IDE Plugins
- ✅ Managed Scans
- Offload scans to HoundDog.ai with seamless integrations into GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket, ensuring continuous coverage for sensitive data leaks across all critical repositories. For self-hosted platforms like GitHub Enterprise Server, GitLab Enterprise, and Bitbucket Data Center, the HoundDog.ai Broker enables secure cloud-based analysis with minimal data exposure, allowing organizations to schedule scans and detect risks early.
- ✅ CI/CD Integrations
- Embed the scanner in your CI pipeline to continuously scan code before it merges into the main branch.
- **For organizations with thousands of repos, setting up CI scans can take months of engineering effort. With HoundDog.ai, it takes five minutes. Our platform integrates with GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket (cloud and enterprise) to auto-push CI configs as commits or PRs, customizable for scan frequency, PR blocking, developer feedback, and cloud or self hosted runners.
- ✅ CI/CD Integrations
- Embed the scanner in your CI pipeline to continuously scan code before it merges into the main branch
Supported Languages
- Python
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- Go
- Java
- C#
- SQL
- OpenAPI / Swagger
- GraphQL
- Java
- Python (in Alpha)
- JavaScript (Coming Soon)
- (See documentation for more details)
Detection Coverage & Accuracy
- ✅ Twice the precision, four times fewer false positive alerts.
- Pinpoints code logic handling sensitive data with 2x greater precision than Privado, leading to 4x fewer false positive alerts
- This level of accuracy is powered by advanced code analysis techniques, including interprocedural and taint analysis, along with proven detection patterns honed from scanning over 20,000 code repositories for enterprise customers in healthcare, finance, and government – resulting in dramatically higher true positive rates.
- Pinpoints code logic handling sensitive data with 2x greater precision than Privado, leading to 4x fewer false positive alerts
- ❌ High volume of false positive alerts and missed true positives
- Relies solely on RegEx patterns, significantly reducing precision and lacking critical code analysis, leading to more missed true positives.
Developer Friction
- ✅ Frictionlessly Fast
- HoundDog.ai scanner is frictionlessly fast – scanning more than 10 million lines of code in less than 1 minute.
- ❌ Prohibitively Slow
- Prohibitively slow scan times – often running out of memory when analyzing any code repository containing more than 1 million lines of code.
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