Find secrets with Gitleaks 🔑
Scans repositories, history and diffs for secrets from the CLI, a pre-commit hook or CI, without a dashboard.
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GitGuardian
Hosted service that detects secrets in repositories and tracks their remediation. A closed product from GitGuardian.
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| Tool | Fit | Stars | Licence | Terms | Self-hosted | Language | Latest | Last push |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gitleaks | Partial | 30k | MIT | Open source | No | Go | v8.30.1 | 2026-09-30 |
| TruffleHog | Partial | 28k | AGPL-3.0 | Open source | No | Go | v3.98.1 | 2026-10-06 |
| Kingfisher | Partial | 1.3k | Apache-2.0 | Open source | No | Rust | v2.10.0 | 2026-10-06 |
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Find, verify, and analyze leaked credentials
Finds and verifies secrets in git, buckets, chat and more from the CLI or CI, without a remediation dashboard.
Detect secrets + live validation. Map blast radius. Revoke fast. Use the CLI or embed in Rust and Python.
Fast secret scanning with live validation from the CLI, without a dashboard.
- Language
- Rust
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Stars
- 1.3k
- Latest
- v2.10.0
- Last push
- 2026-10-06
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