Built for AppSec teams who've stopped trusting their scanner
If you run AppSec at a company that ships fast, you've probably had the same week we have. The dashboard fills up with findings. Your engineers triage them, find most of them are noise, and gradually stop opening the dashboard at all. By the time something real lands, nobody's looking.
This is the problem Kolega was built for.
The two failure modes of modern SAST
Most security teams are running tools that fail in one of two ways.
Pattern-matching scanners flag everything
SQL strings near user input, deprecated APIs, weak crypto patterns. Useful for the bugs they're written for, but they generate noise at a rate that makes the dashboard unreadable. A 200-engineer codebase can produce hundreds of findings a week, most of which are false positives or already-mitigated.
LLM-wrapper scanners hallucinate
They try to reason about code but flag the right shape of bug while misreading the actual logic. You can't tell which of the 30 findings on this PR are real without reading every one of them.
Neither tool catches the bugs that actually cause breaches — the BOLA, the auth-check-present-but-query-doesn't-filter, the race condition between two endpoints. Those bugs ship to production. Researchers find them weeks later. The dashboard never flagged them because there was no pattern to match.
What Kolega does differently
Kolega reads your codebase the way a senior engineer would. The engine traces data flow across files, understands what the code is trying to do, and identifies the security implications.
Two things follow from that.
The findings are real
On the RealVuln benchmark, Kolega scores 92.4% on 676 real production vulnerabilities. Snyk scores 16.7% on the same code. Semgrep scores 17.5%. The benchmark is open source. The numbers are reproducible.
The noise is low
Because the engine understands code intent rather than matching shapes, it doesn't fire on patterns that look risky but aren't. The dashboard stays readable. Your engineers keep paying attention to it.
Benchmark
RealVuln · F3 on 676 real vulnerabilities
F3 weights recall — missing a real vulnerability costs more than reviewing one extra alert.
What you actually get
Detection of bugs traditional SAST misses
- BOLA (Broken Object Level Authorization)
- Logic flaws in auth and access control
- Race conditions
- Cross-boundary injection (second-order SQLi, stored XSS)
- Missing authorisation in routes that have authentication
- Hardcoded secrets in code paths that ship to clients
Findings with the context to act on
- Specific file path and line number
- The data flow that produced the vulnerability
- Why it's exploitable in your code (not a generic CVE description)
- Suggested fix, plus an autofix PR option when applicable
Workflow that fits how your team already works
- Scans every PR, not just main
- Findings post as PR comments in GitHub, GitLab, and Azure DevOps
- Critical findings can block merge if you want
- Dashboard for prioritisation, not for daily triage
Where Kolega doesn't replace what you have
We don't do SCA / dependency scanning yet
If you need that today, run Snyk or Dependabot alongside us.
We don't do cloud posture management or runtime protection
Those are different problems for different tools.
We're newer than Snyk, Semgrep, or Aikido
If your procurement requires a tool that's been around for 8+ years, that's a conversation to have.
What we are is the SAST layer that actually catches the bugs. If that's the part of your stack that's failing, Kolega is built specifically for that problem.
Starts at $39/mo
The entry tier covers most teams running AppSec at startup or scale-up size. Higher tiers add capacity for larger codebases, more repositories, longer retention, and procurement requirements.
For comparison: Snyk Code Security starts at ~$25/dev/mo. Aikido starts at $314/mo. SonarQube Cloud starts at $32/mo and scales with LOC. Kolega's entry tier is built for the team size where most security programs don't yet have a budget line.
See it for yourself
The benchmark is the pitch. If you're running Snyk, Aikido, or Semgrep today and your engineers have stopped opening the dashboard, scan a repo with Kolega in parallel and compare what each tool surfaces.
No credit card required. 7-day Pro trial. Drops to a free tier afterwards.