They can refuse an agent action too. Almost nobody else can.
Endor Labs moved from reachability-based SCA to an agentic AppSec platform, and AURI checks each agent action against policy before it runs. This page starts by granting that, then says exactly where the two products separate.
What Endor Labs does well
Reachability-based SCA that is among the sharpest in the market, AI SAST with security-logic and design review, secrets detection, package firewall, container reachability, and AURI, which allows, blocks or escalates an agent action before it executes and records every one.
But:
No infrastructure-as-code scanning. No analysis of agent instruction files (AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md) for injected instructions. Their logic review targets security logic, a missing authentication check or a dropped OAuth state parameter, not conformance to the business rules you wrote. No public pricing: every tier past the free developer edition goes through sales, seat-based on contributing developers. No EU-sovereign hosting option beyond an on-premises deployment.
CybeDefend vs Endor Labs
| Feature | CybeDefend | Endor Labs |
|---|---|---|
Detection× 10 | ||
| Agent-time scanning | ✓ | ✓ |
| SAST | ✓ | ✓ |
| SCA | ✓ | ✓ |
| IaC scanning | ✓ | ✗ |
| Container scanning | ✓ | ✓ |
| Secret detection | ✓ | ✓ |
| Business logic flaws | ✓ | ~ |
| Reachability analysis | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI-BOM: AI component inventory (EU AI Act + NIST AI RMF) | ✓ | ~ |
| Prompt injection & LLM-misuse scanner (OWASP LLM Top 10) | ✓ | ✗ |
AI & Agent× 7 | ||
| Agent-time (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf…) | ✓ | ~ |
| IDE security copilot | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI-generated verified patches | ✓ | ✓ |
| Auto-fix → ready-to-merge PR | ✓ | ✓ |
| Security Code Knowledge Graph | ✓ | ~ |
| VibeDefend: security rules distributed to AI coding agents | ✓ | ✗ |
| Coding agent sandbox policy (allow/deny/warn before every write) | ✓ | ✓ |
Operations× 5 | ||
| CI/CD pipeline gate | ✓ | ✓ |
| Low false-positive rate | ✓ | ✓ |
| Setup under 5 minutes | ✓ | ✓ |
| CybeRisk Score: 0-100 score + AI-generated weekly Top 10 brief | ✓ | ✗ |
| EU/US sovereign deployment | ✓ | ~ |
✓ = Yes - ✗ = No - ~ = Partial
Agent actions: the one row where we are not alone
Until 2026 nothing in application security could decline a command. Endor Labs now can, and so can we. If action governance is the only thing you need, evaluate both and pick on integration fit rather than on marketing. The distinction worth testing is scope: ask each product what happens when the agent runs a destructive database command mid-session, and what happens when it reads a credentials file it was never asked to open.
Security logic is not business logic
Endor Labs reviews pull requests for architectural risk: an endpoint shipped without authentication, a removed OAuth state parameter, new personal data collection. That is real and valuable, and it is security logic. It does not answer whether your employee discount applies after commercial promotions rather than before, or whether a refund is computed on what the item actually bore. Those rules have no CWE, no signature and no benchmark row, and they are the ones that cost money quietly.
What you can check before you sign
Both products install in minutes and both have a free entry point, so the comparison does not have to be theoretical. Run the same repository through each. Count what survives triage, ask each one about one business rule your codebase enforces, and price both at twice your current headcount. Our pricing is published; theirs is a sales conversation past the free developer edition.
Both products sit inside the agent loop. The difference is what they check against. Endor Labs checks your code against vulnerability classes and your actions against a policy. CybeDefend does that and checks the code against your own written business rules, the ones that have no CWE and never appear in a benchmark.
Pricing at a glance
Transparent pricing is a core CybeDefend value. See how we compare.
CybeDefend
- Developer€204/year
- Team · 5-10 users€2,148/year - €3,348/year
- Scale · 15-25 users€6,588/year - €8,988/year
- EnterpriseContact sales
Endor Labs
- DeveloperFree
- CoreContact sales
- ProContact sales
* Endor Labs does not publish public pricing. Contact their sales team for a quote.
Prices as of 2025. Always verify on vendor websites before purchasing.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Endor Labs a real alternative to CybeDefend?
Yes, and it is the closest one. Endor Labs is the only other vendor we know of that checks agent actions against a policy before they execute. If your requirement stops at action governance and dependency reachability, they are a serious choice and you should evaluate both.
What does CybeDefend do that Endor Labs does not?
Conformance to your own written business rules, infrastructure-as-code scanning, analysis of agent instruction files for injected instructions, a Security Knowledge Graph, a proprietary risk score, published pricing, and EU-sovereign hosting.
Who has the better reachability analysis?
Endor Labs built its reputation on reachability and it remains among the sharpest in the market. We include reachability and prioritise on it, but if dependency reachability is the single capability you are buying, they earned that ground first and we say so.
Install VibeDefend in 5 seconds.
One command wires every coding agent on your machine to CybeDefend: your business rules, your compliance frameworks, and guards that block destructive calls before they fire.
npx -y @cybedefend/vibedefend@latest install
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