Full capability, and your code never leaves.
Aikido makes you choose: keep your source private and lose AutoFix and depth, or go to their cloud and hand your code to someone else’s AWS. Farion refuses the trade — SSA dataflow, SCA reachability, AI autofix and SAST-informed DAST, all inside your own environment.
Per-file patterns, with a language model filling the gaps.
In the build we examined (June 2026), Aikido’s SAST is OpenGrep — a fork of Semgrep’s free engine — running in its default per-file mode, and it never requests dataflow traces. When a pattern can’t resolve a finding, Aikido assembles a snippet of nearby code and sends it to a hosted large language model to decide whether the flow is real.
That isn’t dataflow analysis. It’s a language model reading a fragment and forming an opinion. Farion’s SSA engine computes interprocedural, context- and field-sensitive taint across your whole codebase, and our own security language models run the analysis — on your hardware if you want.
The trade Aikido forces: their local scanner keeps your source local but excludes AutoFix; their cloud adds AutoFix but clones your repository to their infrastructure. Farion gives you both at once — full capability, fully air-gapped.
Farion vs. Aikido
Farion
Aikido
SAST engine
SSA interprocedural taint
OpenGrep, per-file patterns
As seen in the version we examined (Jun 2026)Dataflow / taint analysis
Context- & field-sensitive SSA
None in the version we examined
LLM triages a snippet in place of client-side dataflowDAST
SAST-informed — knows handler & input
Standalone black-box scanner
SCA reachability
On real SSA taint
Not on SSA taint
Licence compliance
Full text extracted & verified
LLM scoring declared metadata
AI autofix, air-gapped
Included, on your hardware
AutoFix is cloud-only
Analysis engines
Ours, end to end
Bundled open-source binaries
Your code stays in your network
Always
Local scanner only; cloud clones to AWS
Where the gap widens
DAST that isn’t guessing
Aikido’s DAST is a standalone black-box scanner hammering your endpoints from outside. Farion’s reads the SSA engine’s HTTP handlers and reaching inputs, then builds the exploit for the flow it already proved.
Licence text, not metadata
Aikido scores the licence a package declares. Farion extracts the full licence text and verifies it matches the package — audit-grade, at SCA speed.
Your AI, your hardware
Aikido’s reasoning step calls a hosted third-party model. Farion’s security language models are ours and run inside your environment — no source fragments leave the building.
Engines that are ours
Aikido’s scanner orchestrates bundled open-source binaries. Farion’s SSA, SCA, DAST and licence engines are built in-house and ship as one integrated product.
Why teams choose Farion
SAST-informed DAST
Our DAST reads the SSA engine — it knows which HTTP handler is vulnerable and which input reaches it, then synthesises an exploit for that exact flow. Everyone else guesses at your endpoints from the outside.
Audit-grade licence compliance
We extract the full licence text and verify it matches the package — not just the declared metadata. The Black Duck tier of the market, at SCA speed.
Reachability on real taint
Exploitability verdicts ride on SSA-computed, context- and field-sensitive data flows across your whole codebase — not a call-graph guess.
Your code never leaves your network
Full capability inside your own environment — your cloud, your data centre, or fully air-gapped. Not a policy. An architecture.
Own SLMs, no third-party AI API
Our security language models are ours and run on your hardware. No slice of your source is shipped to someone else’s cloud to be reasoned about.
One integrated product
SAST, SCA, DAST, licence, container and vuln management in a single platform — not modules bolted onto a dashboard, and not seven SKUs.
See the full-capability scan run air-gapped.
Book a walkthrough, or request trial access for your own environment. German vendor, built in Berlin — your code never leaves your network.