Security and privacy decision
Vibe App Scanner
A competent developer can assemble a useful scanner by combining open-source scanners and secrets detectors, but reproducing Vibe App Scanner’s fully polished monitoring, curated checks, research, and trust-badge ecosystem is non-trivial, so building a narrow replacement is realistic while matching the complete paid product is harder.
Visit website↗$19/mo
$228/yr
Read off the official pricing page.
$100one-off160 h to build
$50/mo6 h/mo upkeep
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 4 seats.
Open-source builds that already do this
Every project below is open source and already does this job today. Fork one, self-host it, or take the parts you need - the build prompt further down assumes an empty file, and this is the shortcut past that. Licences differ; check the one on each card before you ship. All Vibe App Scanner alternatives, with the arithmetic →
What a replacement has to do
- Crawl a live app, run vulnerability and secrets checks, simulate auth/database probes, produce structured findings and copy‑paste fixes (SARIF/patch), and present a report with re-scan capability.
What it still won’t have
- Proprietary research, curated vulnerability database, and platform-specific guides
- Polished UI/branding and verifiable 'Scanned by vas' trust badge issuance
- Managed weekly monitoring, alerting, and breach-watch integrations
- Human support and partner audit services
What remains hard
- Product polish and ongoing maintenance
First-year cost
Keep paying
Paying is—cheaper in year one.
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 4 seats.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
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What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build a self-hosted web app scanner in Node.js (Express) + Puppeteer for crawling, a small Postgres DB, and a background worker (BullMQ). Core features in scope: 1) site crawler that discovers pages, forms and API endpoints; 2) secrets detector using regex/signature rules and trufflehog patterns; 3) auth/RLS probe harness to simulate logins and test access to database endpoints; 4) findings engine that ranks severity and emits SARIF plus copy-paste fixes (SQL policy snippets, header recommendations); 5) simple web UI to run scans, view/export reports, schedule weekly re-scans, and display an embeddable trust badge. Out of scope: automated exploit chaining, managed human pentesting, and commercial breach-monitoring integrations. Include error handling, retry/backoff for network ops, tests for crawler and detection rules, and a Docker Compose deployment manifest.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Partly verdict base52
- An open-source build was found+5
- 4 cited sources+3
- Price verified on pricing page+3
- Evidence score63
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time - so the same evidence always produces the same number.
How scoring works →Cited sources · 4
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productVibe App Scanner — product
- official pricingVibe App Scanner — pricing
- open sourceskavngr/rapidscan
- open sourcetrufflesecurity/trufflehog
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
