Aikido

If your team is shipping AI-generated code into production — and let’s be honest, most teams are — you’ve probably noticed the gap. AI agents write code fast, but they also introduce subtle bugs, logic errors, and security vulnerabilities at a rate that manual review can’t keep up with. Sonar’s January 2026 State of Code survey found that AI accounts for 42% of committed code among surveyed developers, yet 96% don’t fully trust AI-generated code, and only 48% always check it before committing. That’s a verification gap, and it’s growing. I’ve spent the last few weeks evaluating the four leading verification platforms that claim to close this gap: SonarQube, Snyk, Aikido, and CodeQL. Here’s what I found. ...

The global application security market is worth $14.83 billion in 2026 and growing at an 18.8% CAGR, and two vendors are fighting for opposite ends of it. Aikido Security just closed a $60M Series B at a $1 billion valuation. Veracode has been the enterprise SAST standard for over a decade. If you are evaluating both, this comparison breaks down where each tool wins, where it struggles, and which one belongs on your team’s shortlist. ...