--- title: GuardRails Reviews meta_title: 'GuardRails Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 29 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how GuardRails works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.3 review_count: 29 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-17' parent_category: name: "DevSecOps\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t" url: https://www.g2.com/categories/devsecops --- # GuardRails Reviews **Vendor:** GuardRails **Category:** [Static Code Analysis Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/static-code-analysis) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 29 ## About GuardRails GuardRails is an end-to-end security platform that makes AppSec easier for both security and development teams. We scan, detect, and provide real-time guidance to fix vulnerabilities early. Trusted by hundreds of teams around the world to build safer apps, GuardRails integrates seamlessly into the developers’ workflow, quietly scans as they code, and shows how to fix security issues on the spot via Just-in-Time training. GuardRails commits to keeping the noise low and only reporting high-impact vulnerabilities that are relevant to your organization. GuardRails helps organizations shift security everywhere and build a strong DevSecOps pipeline, so they can go faster to market without risking security. ## GuardRails Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **robust security features** of GuardRails, enabling better vulnerability management and compliance in development processes. (13 reviews) - Users value the **vulnerability detection** capabilities of GuardRails, ensuring quick and effective security for their code. (11 reviews) - Users find GuardRails **easy to use** , benefiting from seamless IDE integration and real-time security feedback. (9 reviews) - Users value the **error reduction** capabilities of GuardRails, which enhance security and improve overall development efficiency. (9 reviews) - Users commend the **effective threat detection** of GuardRails, ensuring robust security throughout the development process. (9 reviews) - Users value the **comprehensive visibility** of GuardRails, enhancing vulnerability management in DevSecOps with effective governance. (8 reviews) - Vulnerability Scanning (7 reviews) - Automation (6 reviews) - Aware (5 reviews) - Code Quality (5 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users note the **missing features** in GuardRails, such as limited developer access and inadequate report generation capabilities. (4 reviews) - Users find **time management challenging** with GuardRails due to features being overwhelming and limited developer capacity. (3 reviews) - Users face **bug issues** with GuardRails, including code push failures and delays due to low-quality coding practices. (2 reviews) - Users experience **dashboard issues** , facing challenges with report generation and syncing new user dashboards. (2 reviews) - Users report **numerous false positives** in GuardRails, potentially complicating the vulnerability management process. (2 reviews) - Improvement Needed (2 reviews) - Inadequate Monitoring (2 reviews) - Inadequate Tracking (2 reviews) - Integration Issues (2 reviews) - Learning Curve (2 reviews) ## GuardRails Reviews ### 1. Security and Flexibility with GuardRails **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Muhammad S. | Area Sales Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2023 **What do you like best about GuardRails?** Its really helpful when you early detect seacurity issue with your codes, Guardrail provides all necessity tools to done this job effectively. As I am able to take proactive measures to identify to solution by using autmoated controls provided within GuardRails. As you know its really time taking process manually so it save a lot of time and resources resulting in improved work efficiency and quality. **What do you dislike about GuardRails?** So far, I didn't find such issues to mention here. As for now i am getting comfortable with the GuardRails. I'll update once found something **What problems is GuardRails solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vulnerabilities and security issues with codes and software, as its time taking process to find such vulnerabilities and fixing them quickly. GuardRails helping alot to save time and resources. ### 2. GuardRails: From code to cloud, detect, analyze and fix App Sec within seconds **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ranu M. | Consultant- ServiceNow Devops, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2023 **What do you like best about GuardRails?** It helps developers secure code from any unwanted security issues caused during the development or implementation of technology and notify as soon as any issue is detected, thereby creating a holistic end-to-end application security environment by ensuring frequent quick code scans. It is a very helpful tool for skilled coders and provides suggestions for high-quality secure software to customers in lesser time. **What do you dislike about GuardRails?** The free version of the Guardrails only allows upto 5 developers to work simultaneously while the premium version supports the development upto 25 devs only, which is quite low for the enterprise scale. It also requires supervision as the new hires are stuck in remedial and feedback loops due to low-quality code which prevents the timely implementation and promotes frequent bottlenecks. **What problems is GuardRails solving and how is that benefiting you?** The integration with software like JIRA helps in scanning new or existing data sources/repositories in the system and notifying about security issues in real-time which in turn helps in achieving timely implementation and delivery to end users. Developers with experience really like to have valuable feedback while developing new logic or applications assisting devs to achieve goals earlier and utilizing time for Testing and implementation. ### 3. A must tool for security **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sanjeev M. | Head Of Development, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2023 **What do you like best about GuardRails?** Early detection of security issues is facilitated by the implementation of guardrails. These automated controls not only identify potential problems but also take proactive measures to address them. This approach proves highly advantageous, as it significantly reduces the time required to rectify issues, resulting in improved work efficiency and overall quality. **What do you dislike about GuardRails?** Not very sure about this. Did not find any such issue which is worth mentioning here. **What problems is GuardRails solving and how is that benefiting you?** Amidst the expansion of development team, having minimum security officer is a challenge. In this scenario, GuardRails emerges as a pivotal solution, enabling users to uphold code security seamlessly within the development process. Its integration capabilities with existing tools further amplify its effectiveness." ### 4. Essential tool for producing secure software **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel W. | Head of Security and Operations, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 07, 2023 **What do you like best about GuardRails?** It is integrated with bitbucket, so we can have it scan automatically upon every commit. This helps catch sometimes tricky or hard-to-find security issues with code. It even lets us know of vulnerabilities in 3rd party libraries. Furthermore, for compliance, or responding to our customers' compliance needs, the guardrails APIs are helpful in our report generation. **What do you dislike about GuardRails?** We had some challenges with the integrations related to our environment being not-so-standard in some ways. Thanks to the very responsive customer service reps, we could get those sorted out. **What problems is GuardRails solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vulnerabilities in software. As a software development company, we want to find security issues in the code we develop, and fix them as soon as possible, but it can be hard, as some knowledge may be specialised. ### 5. very helpful tools **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adlina M. | Product Development Engineer II, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2023 **What do you like best about GuardRails?** we can detect the security issues at early stage. guardrails also provide the work for detected issues. it the very helpful as it reduce spending time to fix it. it improve the work quality. **What do you dislike about GuardRails?** guardrails has so many features, because of limited time in hand, i unable to play around with all available features. **What problems is GuardRails solving and how is that benefiting you?** previously we are not focusing on the code security, by using guardrails we will have something that can notify use there is issue with the code or not and provide the solution. this is very helpful learning for junior programmer. as they dont need to go ask senior programmer or do research on their own. this will save the time a lot. ### 6. Vulnerability detection made easy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Flavio M. | Chief Technology Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2023 **What do you like best about GuardRails?** Onboarding to GuardRails is straightforward, and vulnerability scanning starts right away. Since every code commit triggers a new scan, developers are made aware of any weaknesses in their code much earlier in the software development lifecycle. Thus, costly refactoring exercises at later stages can be avoided. **What do you dislike about GuardRails?** While GuardRails supports Monorepo configuration, the setup could be improved by auto-suggesting the repo setup and allowing the user to accept proposals rather than defining the repo structure manually. In a Monorepo, having an aggregated view on the same vulnerability for a dependency would be beneficial rather than listing each hit individually. **What problems is GuardRails solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allowing developers to ship secure code to production with confidence in an agile manner. ### 7. GuardRails **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arun S. | Data Science Intern, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2023 **What do you like best about GuardRails?** it has a feature of automaticaly fixing all the issue s and it scans the repo and give the exact issue and we can raise jira tickets to resolve the issue thats awsome **What do you dislike about GuardRails?** it has an another platform it was not inside the github if it would be shown in the github itsself then its mitch me more handy **What problems is GuardRails solving and how is that benefiting you?** it helps to scan the document and provide theVulnerabilities dependencies and provide the fixings that benifits while coding ### 8. Great Capability **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tim D. | Director of Information Security, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2023 **What do you like best about GuardRails?** I like that the focus of GuardRails is to push responsibility for code quality back on the software engineer. Working inside of GuardRails is intuitive for tech and non-tech persons. **What do you dislike about GuardRails?** There is no capability to schedule full scans (even after a rule change), but you can do it in mass by manually going through and selecting repositories to scan and submit it. **What problems is GuardRails solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have a smaller application security team, so GuardRails helps us ensure secure code by reporting directly to the software developer (or code developers). It prevents a process where security has historically be responsible for updating the development teams on the vulnerabilities needing to be fixed. The developers see it for themselves. ### 9. Relying on developers to fix security vulnerabilities **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrew C. | CEO, Non-Profit Organization Management, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 11, 2023 **What do you like best about GuardRails?** GuardRails provides a range of security scanning characters They have been good in solving encountered during the integration process. **What do you dislike about GuardRails?** JIRA is helpful in receiving real time notifications, about security issues which is overwhelming. It becomes difficult to prioritize. **What problems is GuardRails solving and how is that benefiting you?** By integrating security checks into requests GuardRails solves the problem of merging code into our codebase. This improves that our business remains protected from security threats while helping us maintain an reliable software infrastructure ### 10. Incredibly responsive and helpful **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luan G. | Architect, Design, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 12, 2023 **What do you like best about GuardRails?** The platform boasts a range of features. Its an encompassing tool that identifies vulnerabilities within code. **What do you dislike about GuardRails?** Developers are often left to figure things out on their own which is time consuming and frustrating at times. **What problems is GuardRails solving and how is that benefiting you?** The integration of security checks resolved our problem surrounding code security assurance. By identifying vulnerabilities at a stage, in the development process our business benefits from code quality. ### 11. Guardrails review **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aji K. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 10, 2023 **What do you like best about GuardRails?** its automatic any bug , error and vuln on my application backend service the knowlage of any bug or vuln is the best way to fix it before crash happen in production environtment **What do you dislike about GuardRails?** guardrails is not too good at add new repo or new organitation becouse its not seamless on integration with gitlab , that show my private repository that i want only company repo on my logon **What problems is GuardRails solving and how is that benefiting you?** guardrails help me show the bugs and any vulnabilrity on my application of backend service that can be fix on development enviroment before its release and crash on production environtne **Official Response from Daniel Bean:** > Dear Aji, Thank you for taking the time to provide us with your feedback. I understand that you have some concerns regarding the integration of GuardRails with GitLab and the visibility of repositories. I would like to clarify that GuardRails is designed to integrate seamlessly with GitLab, enabling you to scan your repositories for potential security vulnerabilities and compliance issues. In terms of your concern about the visibility of repositories, please note that GuardRails only displays repositories that are accessible to the user account that was used to install GuardRails. To address your concern, you can install GuardRails on your company's organization within GitLab, and then log in using your account. This way, you will only see the repositories that are associated with your company's organization(s). Additionally, you can use the Filter function within GuardRails to filter out any private repositories and disable them. This can be done by: 1. Log in to the GuardRails Dashboard. 2. Navigate to the Repositories section. 3. Click on the FILTER icon located on the left-hand side, next to the ""Find Repositories"" search box. 4. Filter PRIVATE repositories I hope this information helps. If you need any more support on this issue, please contact us on support@guardrails.io Best regards, Customer Support Representative at GuardRails ### 12. Overall had a great experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andrei-Daniel P. | Senior Software Analyst, Information Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2022 **What do you like best about GuardRails?** We've started using guard rails recently, but it has already proven very useful in finding issues with old code, giving us more visibility into issues we didn't know, and allowing us to plan their fixing. More than a year after we're still very happy with the product. Whe managed to remove old bugs or security issues and we're now actively scannig new code to avoid them from entering our production code. **What do you dislike about GuardRails?** I had some issues while connecting to bitbucket, but it works without problems now. **What problems is GuardRails solving and how is that benefiting you?** We need a tool to scan our code for security issues to prevent their creation ### 13. GuardRails - A Preferred Security Platform **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2023 **What do you like best about GuardRails?** It helped our organization to shift security left by automating security checks. Also, it enforces security policies throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC). It helped us to improve our security. **What do you dislike about GuardRails?** It seems to be quite costly in comparison to its competitors. GuardRails is a complex platform, and it was difficult for us to set up. Also, some time it generates false security checks. **What problems is GuardRails solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has the features like: Automated security checks: GuardRails integrates with open-source and commercial security tools to run automated security checks on code and infrastructure. Security policy enforcement: GuardRails allows us to enforce security policies. It provides real-time guidance to our developers on how to fix security issues and that was a big plus. Reporting: GuardRails provides organizations with reports on security findings and trends. ### 14. A must have software for all companies **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Muhamad F. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 22, 2023 **What do you like best about GuardRails?** GuardRails provides an easy and intuitive ways for both dev and security persons in integrating code security in the development cycle. **What do you dislike about GuardRails?** Currently there's no scheduled scan which will help for codes that no longer actively modified but depending on external library which may have vulnerabilities. **What problems is GuardRails solving and how is that benefiting you?** Currently we only have one security officer while we're expanding our development team. GuardRails helps us to ensure code security back to the dev team and integrate nicely with our tool. ### 15. Great tool for Developer building the apps **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cal v. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2023 **What do you like best about GuardRails?** As a Developer GuardRails giving a lot of help. By providing some information related to the code which we build. It's gave us an insight how to make a better code for our application. **What do you dislike about GuardRails?** Sometimes when pushing the code. There is some process which is stuck. And we need to cancel and repush the code. **What problems is GuardRails solving and how is that benefiting you?** Guardrails giving us a good insight how to make a good code for our application. It's speed up our development process. ### 16. Guardrails provide the optimal solution for a lean and small cybersecurity team. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2023 **What do you like best about GuardRails?** Guardrails is an exceptional tool for operationalizing and managing vulnerability in DevSecOps. Its strength lies in providing comprehensive visibility across multiple branches, ensuring effective software composition analysis. The tool's governance capabilities prevent any misuse or abuse of the scanning process, making it an ideal choice for maintaining control and security. With Guardrails, you can confidently manage and mitigate vulnerabilities, making it an invaluable asset in the realm of DevSecOps. In addition to its operationalization and vulnerability management features, Guardrails stands out with its concise and extensive secrets detection rules. These rules eliminate the need for hiring a dedicated team to craft intricate codeQL or sempgrep rules. Guardrails simplifies the process by providing predefined rules that effectively detect secrets, saving valuable time and resources for your DevSecOps team. **What do you dislike about GuardRails?** Guardrails, as a relatively small firm, shows immense potential in its offerings. One area where it could further excel is by expanding its secrets management capabilities. Currently, it effectively detects secrets; however, enhancing its functionality to include scanning commit messages and titles, as well as retrospective scans, would significantly augment its overall effectiveness. These additions would enhance the scope of coverage and provide a more comprehensive approach to securing sensitive information. With such improvements, Guardrails has the potential to become an even more powerful tool in the realm of DevSecOps. **What problems is GuardRails solving and how is that benefiting you?** GuardRails solves several key problems, particularly for small lean security teams focused on governance. Firstly, it provides comprehensive vulnerability management and operationalization, enabling efficient identification and mitigation of security risks throughout the software development lifecycle. By offering software composition analysis and effective scanning, GuardRails ensures coverage and effectiveness in vulnerability detection. This saves valuable time and resources for the security team, allowing them to focus on other critical tasks. Furthermore, GuardRails' governance capabilities play a crucial role in maintaining control and preventing misuse or abuse of the scanning process. This is vital for ensuring adherence to security policies and maintaining a secure development environment. With GuardRails, small lean security teams benefit from a streamlined approach to vulnerability management, increased visibility over multiple branches, and a centralized platform for governance. These benefits help these teams effectively address security concerns, enhance governance practices, and allocate their limited resources more efficiently. ### 17. Great tools for devsecops **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ghalih J. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2023 **What do you like best about GuardRails?** i like where this tools can find vulnerability and provide information where exactly the code need to fix **What do you dislike about GuardRails?** i need bot in gitlab so i dont need to open to dashboard guardrails so. just that **What problems is GuardRails solving and how is that benefiting you?** Make more efficient in time to find out the vulnerability of code so we dont need more resource team to find out the vulnerability ### 18. Great customer support **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 08, 2023 **What do you like best about GuardRails?** GuardRails customer service team has been very responsive in providing technical support for various troubleshooting integration issues. Flexibility and variety in terms of APIs and scanning options. **What do you dislike about GuardRails?** The documentation is lacking in certain aspects, e.g. having to update the version hash whenever you want to force a service restart after a configuration change was not found. The good thing is that the customer service team is knowledgeable and responsive enough to create a pleasant user experience. **What problems is GuardRails solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ease of vulnerability detection, report generation, vulnerability tracking and fixing ### 19. Great tool to help me check security issues **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 05, 2023 **What do you like best about GuardRails?** It helps me check for security issues the moment I create or push changes to a PR. I do not have to worry about missing out on security. **What do you dislike about GuardRails?** Sometimes it flags out something which seems like security issues, we have to manually go and mark it as not an issue. But that's also a good thing. **What problems is GuardRails solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helping me check on the security issues. I do not have to worry as long as this check passes. ### 20. A good tool with good accuracy and low false positives. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kranthi R. | senior software engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2023 **What do you like best about GuardRails?** Has lesser false positives compared to other tools. **What do you dislike about GuardRails?** Does not have the ability to customise scan profiles per repository. **What problems is GuardRails solving and how is that benefiting you?** Detecting vulnerabilities and suggesting patches. ### 21. Discover and eliminate security issues at earlier stage **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yao J. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 02, 2023 **What do you like best about GuardRails?** Easy to use, integrated with IDE and feedback on possible security issues at the code level. Comprehensive knowledge base helping developers to address the issues. **What do you dislike about GuardRails?** There is a problem syncing up the new user dashboard. **What problems is GuardRails solving and how is that benefiting you?** Code security scanning. GuardRails provides a good way of integrating the security scanning into the development process so that security issues can be detected and resolved earlier. ### 22. All the Shift left security metrics in a single place. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 08, 2023 **What do you like best about GuardRails?** A centralised view of all shift left security metrics.(SAST, SCA, Secrets Monitoring). Customisable SAST rules. API support for integration. Easy-to-follow remediation advice. **What do you dislike about GuardRails?** Lack of report generation capabilities on the dashboard. **What problems is GuardRails solving and how is that benefiting you?** GuardRails help us to catch insecure coding patterns and hardcoded secrets earlier in the SDLC. We have enabled guardrails at the PR level, giving instant feedback on the new code our developers write before merging it into production code. This results in the prevention of potential security bugs slipping into production code. ### 23. Good for low-hanging fruits. Lot of noise that makes it difficult to rely on. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 09, 2023 **What do you like best about GuardRails?** If you come from zero to something, this definitely can help. **What do you dislike about GuardRails?** At least from Golang dependencies/CVE's, lot of false-positives. Most critical vulns are handled easily by other tools (Dependabot) **What problems is GuardRails solving and how is that benefiting you?** Detect easy static security fixes, keeping up to date dependencies according to CVE's risk factors. **Official Response from Daniel Bean:** > Dear Customer, Thank you for your feedback about false positives in our Golang dependencies/CVE's engine. We take all customer feedback seriously and strive to continuously improve our product. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by false positives in our engine. To help us improve our engine and reduce the number of false positives, we would appreciate it if you could manually mark any false positives you encounter. This can be done by following the steps outlined in our documentation here: https://docs.guardrails.io/docs/false_positives By marking false positives, you can help us identify areas where our engine can be improved and work towards our goal of achieving zero false positives in GuardRails. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. If you need any more support on this issue, please contact us on support@guardrails.io Best regards, Customer Support Representative at GuardRails ### 24. Get the job done **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2023 **What do you like best about GuardRails?** It's great having something that automatically checks your code for security issues. Great tool! **What do you dislike about GuardRails?** As usual with any automated security tool, there are false positives sometimes but there is a nice dashboard to manage them. **What problems is GuardRails solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automated security analysis for existing code and Pull Requests. ### 25. Tool is good in terms of insights but the UX/UI is below par **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 08, 2023 **What do you like best about GuardRails?** Most of the stuff is downloadable via APIs **What do you dislike about GuardRails?** Very substandard UX. the search is caps lock sensitive and we need to figure this out ourselves. The dropdown displays repo names but the search only works on repo code. There are many such issues in the UI/UX **What problems is GuardRails solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are required to submit third party library vulnearability scan report quaterly to our customers. We are able to fetch this data from GR and prepare our reports. **Official Response from Daniel Bean:** > Dear Customer, Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. We understand that you have experienced some issues with the user experience of our product, and I would like to apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. We take all customer feedback seriously, and we are constantly working to improve the user experience of our product. I would like to assure you that our Product and Design teams are aware of the issues you mentioned, and they are actively working on addressing them in order to provide the best user experience possible. I would also like to mention that we release new versions of our product on a weekly or bi-weekly basis, which include not only new features and enhancements, but also improvements to our security engines. Our goal is to provide our customers with a product that is both easy to use and highly effective in identifying and addressing security vulnerabilities. Thank you again for your feedback. We appreciate your business and look forward to continuing to serve you. If you need any more support on this issue, please contact us on support@guardrails.io Best regards, Customer Support Representative at GuardRails ### 26. Guardrails is 24/7 Application Security "Friend" for your Developers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2023 **What do you like best about GuardRails?** Guardrails Automatically and accurately Scan Vulnerabilities in your Repository with curated rules and giving a clear guidance to fix the vulnerability. **What do you dislike about GuardRails?** There are still some kind of minor Bug found in the System. **What problems is GuardRails solving and how is that benefiting you?** One of the most Great things about Guardrails is the way it detecting the Clear text password embedded in the code. The Insight menu in Guardrails also very usefull to create a report for Board/executive that give a Summary about the Vulnerabilities. ### 27. Simple Bitbucket plugin that finds security issues in your code **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2022 **What do you like best about GuardRails?** easy to use, no configuration needed, pull request scanning, great for small teams **What do you dislike about GuardRails?** The access control could be better: Everyone from my team can connect to the tool. I can assign different roles, but there's no way to approve or revoke access in general. **What problems is GuardRails solving and how is that benefiting you?** GuardRails is scanning for security issues in our code whenever we create a pull request. ### 28. Security checks integrated into pull requests **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2021 **What do you like best about GuardRails?** The peace of mind provided by having security checks run automatically for every pull request. GuardRails integrates cleanly with our GitHub workflow. **What do you dislike about GuardRails?** The pricing structure is not 100% clear. **What problems is GuardRails solving and how is that benefiting you?** SAST (Static Application Security Testing) ### 29. Security by design and with every commit **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2020 **What do you like best about GuardRails?** GuardRails was so easy to inject into our code workflow on GitHub. The checks run very quick and catch useful security flaws that can easily be actionable. Since it is implemented as a check in GitHub you can specify that any security findings must be corrected before the commit can move any further which is also a great security practice. There is also a dashboard of all of the flaws that are currently in the codebase that can then be remediated and there is a very fun message that is added to Pull Requests that do fix them. **What do you dislike about GuardRails?** Within the dashboard the links to the files seem to not work most of the time. There is also not an easy way that I can see to flag issues found and not applicable or incorrect. **What problems is GuardRails solving and how is that benefiting you?** Static Security analysis of code. Increasing security awareness within the team and ensuring safety of our users. - [View GuardRails pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/guardrails-guardrails/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-21+01%3A34%3A30+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=0951a291-61a9-4fe8-a1ad-55f8714176d5&secure%5Btoken%5D=cab2845796523e39adc96721fe77719100d698d7c2a9b4dd6178f79719cdd858&format=llm_user) ## GuardRails Features **Administration** - API / Integrations - Extensibility **Administration** - Risk Scoring - Secrets Management - Security Auditing - Configuration Management **Functionality - Software Composition Analysis ** - Language Support - Integration - Transparency **Extensibility** - Customization - White-Labeling - Content Library **Management** - Configuration Management - Access Control - Orchestration **Documentation** - Feedback - Prioritization - Remediation Suggestions **Agentic AI - Static Code Analysis** - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance **Analysis** - Reporting and Analytics - Issue Tracking - Static Code Analysis - Code Analysis **Monitoring** - Continuous Image Assurance - Behavior Monitoring - Observability **Effectiveness - Software Composition Analysis** - Remediation Suggestions - Continuous Monitoring - Thorough Detection **Analysis** - Reporting - Baselining - Real-Time Code Analysis **Functionality** - Automation - Integrations - Extensibility **Security** - False Positives - Custom Compliance - Agility **Testing** - Command-Line Tools - Manual Testing - Test Automation - Compliance Testing - Black-Box Scanning - Detection Rate - False Positives **Protection** - Dynamic Image Scanning - Runtime Protection - Workload Protection - Network Segmentation **Assessment** - Integrated Learning - Gamification - Continuous Assesment - Developer Assesment **Processes** - Pipeline Control - Workflow Visualization - Continuous Deployment **Agentic AI - Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST)** - Autonomous Task Execution **Agentic AI - Static Application Security Testing (SAST)** - Autonomous Task Execution ## Top GuardRails Alternatives - [Wiz](https://www.g2.com/products/wiz-wiz/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (822 reviews) - [GitLab](https://www.g2.com/products/gitlab/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (881 reviews) - [GitHub](https://www.g2.com/products/github/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (2,315 reviews)