GitGuardian 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing
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- Overview
- Pricing and Plans
- Features
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- User Reviews
Overview
Pricing
Pricing available upon request
About GitGuardian
GitGuardian is an end-to-end NHI security platform designed to help organizations strengthen their Non-Human Identity (NHI) security posture and address compliance standards and regulations. As attackers increasingly target NHIs, such as service accounts, service principals, and applications, protecting and managing these critical assets has become paramount. NHIs rely on “secrets” like API keys and certificates for authentication, and their rapid proliferation has led to significant secrets sprawl.
GitGuardian’s platform is built on two core pillars: Secrets Security and NHI Governance, delivering a holistic approach to NHI security.
With Secrets Security, GitGuardian aims to eliminate leaks and sprawl, detecting compromised or misused secrets across both public and internal environments. This foundation of NHI security is strengthened by monitoring for incidents, policy violations, and illegitimate use of secrets. GitGuardian offers three powerful products under its Secrets Security umbrella.
GitGuardian’s Secrets Detection tackles internal secrets sprawl by identifying sensitive data in source code and developer productivity tools. The platform supports ov...
er 420 types of secrets, including API keys, private keys, and database credentials. With a robust policy engine, security teams can enforce rules across major version control systems (VCSs) like GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket, and Azure DevOps, CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Travis CI as well as tools like Slack, Jira, container registries, and more. **GitGuardian Public Monitoring** scans public GitHub repositories, detecting sensitive information in both organizational and developers' public personal repos. This is crucial, as 80% of corporate secrets leaked on public GitHub stem from personal accounts. **GitGuardian Honeytoken** deploys decoy secrets that lure attackers looking for active secrets across your assets. Any unauthorized access attempts will trigger immediate alerts, enabling rapid detection and response during the software development lifecycle. **With NHI Governance**, GitGuardian offers a centralized inventory of secrets, tracking their context and usage. This enables teams to detect high-risk secrets, manage their rotation, and leverage analytics to enhance the overall NHI security posture. Together, **Secrets Security** and **NHI Governance** work symmetrically: one track focuses on detecting compromised secrets, while the other manages legitimate usages of secrets and their lifecycle. Trusted by over 600,000 developers and recognized as the top security app on GitHub Marketplace, GitGuardian is the choice of leading organizations like Snowflake, ING, BASF, and Bouygues Telecom, ensuring robust protection for their sensitive secrets.GitGuardian Screenshots
GitGuardian Pricing and Plans
Basic
Pricing available upon request
No plan information available
GitGuardian Features
- Popular features found in Cloud SecurityAccess Controls/PermissionsAlerts/NotificationsBehavioral AnalyticsCompliance ManagementIncident ManagementReal-Time MonitoringReporting/AnalyticsThreat Intelligence
- More features of GitGuardianActivity DashboardActivity MonitoringAPIAuthenticationCloud Application SecurityCode ReviewEndpoint ProtectionMonitoringPrioritizationReal-Time NotificationsReal-Time ReportingRepository ManagementRisk AlertsSingle Sign OnThird-Party IntegrationsThreat ResponseVersion ControlVulnerability ScanningWhitelisting/Blacklisting
GitGuardian Integrations
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GitGuardian User Reviews
Overall Rating
4.8
Ratings Breakdown
5
83%
4
17%
3
0%
2
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1
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Secondary Ratings
Ease of Use
4.6
Value for money
4.5
Customer support
4.7
Functionality
4.7
Aman R.
Verified reviewer
Computer Software
Self-Employed
Used weekly for less than 6 months
Reviewed July 2021
GitGuradian Helps me find the Repos.
4
I like GitGuradian, although I frequently use it in a week
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Vendor Response
Thank you for sharing your experience Aman! GitGuardian's Internal Repositories Monitoring product is free for Open Source projects, self-employed developers and teams of 25 developers or less.
Replied July 2021
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Computer Software
Self-Employed
Used weekly for less than 12 months
Reviewed July 2021
GitGuardian the best to maintain a security of the repos in git
5
It has been great I trust it and the securities of my repos
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Vendor Response
Thank you for sharing your experience using GitGuardian! If you have any thoughts or ideas on what could make the User Interface friendlier for you, please drop us an email at: ziad [dot] ghalleb [at] gitguardian [dot] com.
Replied July 2021
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Ansh B.
Verified reviewer
Higher Education
11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
Review sourceReviewed May 2024
Gitguardian for Institure
4
as said in the pros, guardian has been good for us in saving tokens and encryption tokens. we actually have an attendance portal. where we put up decryption codes on front end and this was secured using gitguardian. Apart from that, it also protected the token at backend.
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Financial Services
10000+ employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
Reviewed July 2021
Feel confident that your developers arn't commiting secrets.
5
Very positive, I feel more confident now that secrets wont be in git long if they are committed at all. I can trust if I haven't gotten an alert that there are no secrets.
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Vendor Response
Thank you for sharing your experience using GitGuardian! A greater in-VCS experience is definitely one of the goals we aim towards at GitGuardian. If you want to help us shape the future of this, please drop us an email at: ziad [dot] ghalleb [at] gitguardian [dot] com.
Replied July 2021
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Information Technology and Services
2-10 employees
Used daily for free trial
Review sourceReviewed November 2022
Great product
5
Ratings Breakdown
Reasons for choosing GitGuardian
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Hospital & Health Care
201-500 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
Review sourceReviewed June 2023
Great fro security
5
GitGuardian helps me protect my repo and gives steps to remediate the security problems identified
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Leisure, Travel & Tourism
11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
Review sourceReviewed September 2022
Git guardian is a must for any startup team
5
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Computer Software
501-1000 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
Reviewed September 2021
Essential tool for modern developers
5
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Vendor Response
Hi, Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with GitGuardian! We are working on providing more automation and detection at various levels of the development lifecycle, for developers to catch incidents earlier and remediate them faster. If you would like to help us shape future versions of the product, please write to contact [at] gitguardian [dot] com.
Replied September 2021
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Religious Institutions
2-10 employees
Used monthly for less than 2 years
Review sourceReviewed June 2022
GitGuardian Repository Scanning: An Essential Tool
5
Our primary goal is to ensure secrets aren't accidentally exposed in our repositories, and it's the perfect tool for that!
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Computer Software
Self-Employed
Used monthly for free trial
Reviewed July 2021
A great tool to avoid securities issues
5
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Vendor Response
Thank you for taking the time to share your experience. Our goal is to help you get to your leaked secrets before anyone else does! As for your valid concern on data privacy, GitGuardian's APIs are stateless and do not store any of the documents you send through. We also offer an on-premises version of the Internal Repositories Monitoring for companies with strong privacy requirements.
Replied July 2021
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