Apex versus Aikido Choose Apex for security research your engineers can act on
Apex gives application-security teams a concrete path from attack hypothesis to reproducible finding and reviewed fix. Threat-model-guided testing focuses the hunt on your business. Published research gives you evidence to inspect before you commit.
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Research you can inspect
Apex Field Report, Apr 8 – Jul 17, 2026
- production targets
- 612
- findings
- 4,032
- scored high or critical
- 702
Cantina's Apex Field Report documents testing from April 8 through July 17, 2026, with six redacted case studies and methodology notes.
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Focus the hunt on what could hurt your business
A tenant boundary, an authorization rule, or a privileged workflow can carry more risk than its size in the codebase suggests. Apex's editable threat model lets your team make those priorities explicit before testing begins.
That gives the investigation a business objective and gives engineers the context to understand why a finding matters.
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Catch incomplete fixes before you call the issue closed
A patch deserves the same scrutiny as the finding it addresses. Apex Fix Review checks whether the candidate blocks the original attack and whether it introduces another security problem.
97 issues surfaced across 62 of 193 fix pull requests in a three-month production cohort
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Apex vs Aikido: compare the work behind the findings
Aikido offers AI pentesting through Infinite. Choose Apex for an assessment you can trace from your application's threat model through exploit evidence to candidate-fix review.
| What matters to your team | What Apex gives you | Aikido approach |
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| Testing your business logic | An editable threat model directs the hunt toward your application's trust boundaries and highest-impact risks. | Context-aware testing through Infinite. |
| Acting on a finding | A proof of concept, affected code, and impact context give engineers a concrete starting point for the fix. | Exploit validation through Infinite. |
| Checking the proposed fix | Fix Review checks the candidate against the original exploit and looks for new security problems. | AutoFix patch PRs and retesting. |
Aikido capabilities are summarized from publicly available information. Confirm current features with each vendor during your evaluation.
Why choose Apex over Aikido?
Choose Apex for a pentesting workflow built around the decisions your engineers need to make: what can be exploited, what the attacker can reach, and whether the proposed fix holds up.
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Direct the hunt toward business risk
Make your application's trust boundaries and highest-impact failure scenarios part of the threat model.
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Give engineers a finding they can work with
Keep the proof of concept, affected code, and impact together.
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Make patch review part of the assessment
Check the candidate fix against the original security problem.
Apex makes that workflow tangible through published findings and Fix Review research. Bring the same standard of evidence to your next application assessment.
Put Apex to work on your application
Bring your highest-value workflow. See the finding, understand the impact, and follow the candidate fix through review. Give your engineers a clear next step.
Questions, answered
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Apex connects your application's threat model, reproducible attack evidence, and candidate-patch review in one assessment workflow. Its published field report gives you concrete examples of the work: 4,032 findings across 612 production targets, with 702 scored high or critical.
Your team can review and edit the repository threat model before testing. Make tenant isolation, authorization rules, and privileged workflows explicit so the investigation reflects the business consequences that matter to you.
A proof of concept, affected code, impact context, and remediation guidance. Engineers can inspect the attack, understand the risk, and move into fixing it with the evidence in hand.
Fix Review checks a candidate patch against the original attack and looks for new security problems. In a published three-month production cohort, it surfaced 97 issues across 62 of 193 fix pull requests. Your team retains control of merging and deployment.
Bring a critical application and the workflow you most need to protect. Ask to walk through the threat model, a reproducible finding, and the review of a proposed fix. Book your Apex demo.