SecPortal vs Arnica
delivery workspace vs pipelineless code-to-cloud AppSec platform
Arnica is a pipelineless application security platform built around source-code management permission scopes. Instead of plugging scanners into the CI/CD pipeline, Arnica connects to GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or Azure DevOps through read-only or installed application permissions and runs SAST, SCA, secrets scanning, IaC scanning, container scanning, open-source license scanning, code permission analysis, and anomalous developer behavior detection on every push, pull request, and code change without touching the build. Findings are routed back to the responsible commit author through in-PR comments, Slack messages, Teams messages, or email so engineering teams self-serve remediation without a security ticket in the middle. SecPortal is a different shape: scanning, manual finding entry, AI report generation, branded client portal, retesting, and the engagement record live inside one workspace. This page is the side-by-side for buyers comparing a pipelineless code-to-cloud AppSec platform above the SCM to a delivery workspace that scans, reports, and delivers on its own.
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| Feature | SecPortal | Arnica |
|---|---|---|
| Primary use case | Security delivery workspace with scanning, findings, AI reports, branded client portal, and engagement record on one tenant | Pipelineless code-to-cloud AppSec platform that connects to SCM through application permissions and runs SAST, SCA, secrets, IaC, container, OSS license, code permission, and developer behavior detection on every code change, routing findings to commit authors through PR comments and chat messages |
| Engagement model with scope, ROE, and deliverables | Repository, application, and code-change model rather than a scoped engagement that opens with a kickoff and closes with a delivery date | |
| Client model with onboarding, contacts, and access control | Internal commit author, repository owner, and developer model | |
| Branded white-label client portal on your tenant subdomain | ||
| Built-in external vulnerability scanning (16 modules: SSL, headers, DNS, ports, subdomains, technology fingerprinting, CVE correlation) | ||
| Authenticated web application scanning (DAST, 17 modules) | ||
| Code scanning (SAST and SCA via Semgrep) | Native pipelineless SAST and SCA running on every push through SCM application permissions | |
| Subdomain enumeration and external attack surface discovery | ||
| Secrets scanning across the entire git history | Manual finding entry and Semgrep secrets rules on connected repositories | Pipelineless secrets detection across the full git history with developer-side validation prompts and revocation guidance |
| IaC scanning | Bulk import from external IaC scanners and manual finding entry | Pipelineless IaC scanning on every code change through SCM application permissions |
| Container image scanning | Repository-based dependency analysis through Semgrep; container image scanning is not a native module | Pipelineless container image scanning hooked into the registry through SCM and registry permissions |
| Open-source license scanning | Manual finding entry and finding-template categorisation for license risk | Pipelineless OSS license analysis with policy violation routing to commit authors |
| Code permission and identity analysis (RBAC drift across the SCM org) | Native module that analyses repository, team, and contributor permission posture inside the SCM | |
| Anomalous developer behavior detection | Native module that flags push-time anomalies, suspicious force-pushes, branch tampering, and out-of-pattern contributor activity | |
| Auto-routing to the commit author through in-PR comments, Slack, Teams, or email | Workspace notifications, engagement messaging, and finding comments rather than commit-author routing through chat or in-PR comments | Core mechanic; findings reach the responsible commit author through PR comments, Slack DMs, Teams messages, or email so security tickets do not sit in the middle |
| Manual finding entry with full editor | Findings originate from pipelineless scanner output and developer-behavior signals rather than from operator-authored manual entry | |
| AI-powered narrative report generation (executive, technical, remediation) | Console dashboards, developer-facing PR comments, and remediation campaign tracking rather than engagement-shaped narrative deliverables | |
| 300+ finding templates with remediation guidance | Per-scanner vulnerability records derived from the underlying SAST, SCA, IaC, container, and secrets engines plus developer-side fix prompts | |
| CVSS 3.1 vector parsing and auto-scoring | CVSS on the underlying SCA records plus pipelineless prioritisation signals (commit author, code permission, behavioral risk) | |
| Scanner result import (Nessus, Burp Suite, CSV) | SCM-toolchain ingestion paths through GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps rather than bulk import of pentest scanner output | |
| Encrypted credential vault for authenticated scans (AES-256-GCM) | Relies on SCM application permissions and chat-tool tokens rather than a delivery-workspace credential vault for authenticated DAST | |
| Retest workflow paired to original finding | Closure is validated through the next pipelineless run against the same code, branch, or PR rather than a paired retest event on the engagement record | |
| Exception register with eight-field decision chain (named approver, scope, rationale, hard expiry, compensating control, refresh trigger, effective period, framework reference) | Finding suppression and accept-risk decisions scoped to the underlying SAST, SCA, IaC, container, or secrets check rather than an engagement-shaped per-finding decision chain | |
| Compliance framework templates | 21 frameworks including OWASP, OWASP ASVS, OWASP MASVS, OWASP API Security Top 10, ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, FedRAMP, MITRE ATT&CK, DORA, NIS2, CIS Controls, and Essential Eight | Per-finding categorisation against OWASP, CWE, and policy rules derived from the pipelineless scanner output |
| Continuous scheduled scanning cadence (daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly) | Continuous SCM monitoring and on-push scanning run through Arnica application permissions rather than a workspace-configured scan schedule | |
| Scan-to-scan diff and change-event generation across scheduled runs | Per-commit and per-PR change views derived from continuous SCM monitoring | |
| Integrated invoicing and Stripe Connect payments for engagements | ||
| Activity audit trail with CSV export | Platform audit logs inside the Arnica tenant | |
| MFA enforcement on every workspace | SSO and IdP-driven controls inside the customer tenant | |
| Free plan available | Free tier for small repository counts with commercial plans gating advanced modules, behavior analytics, and larger contributor counts | |
| Pricing model | Free, Pro, Team | Per-developer or per-contributor pricing scaled by modules in scope (SAST, SCA, secrets, IaC, container, OSS license, code permissions, behavior) with a commercial commitment cycle on the upper tiers |
| Setup time | 2 minutes | SCM application install across the engineering org, repository permission review, module enablement, baseline calibration, and PR-comment and chat routing rollout before the first findings reach commit authors at scale |
| Best fit for | AppSec teams, internal security teams, vulnerability management teams, product security teams, security engineering teams, pentest firms, MSSPs, and consultancies that want scanning, findings, AI reports, branded portal, and the engagement record on one workspace | AppSec, product security, and security engineering leaders inside fast-moving engineering organisations who want pipelineless coverage across SAST, SCA, secrets, IaC, container, OSS license, code permission, and developer behavior on every code change, the engineering org runs on GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or Azure DevOps, and the bottleneck is the friction of pipeline-embedded scanners plus ticket-in-the-middle remediation |
SecPortal vs Arnica: delivery workspace vs pipelineless code-to-cloud AppSec platform
Arnica is a pipelineless application security platform organised around the source-code management permission scope. The core mechanic is to connect to GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or Azure DevOps through read-only or installed application permissions and run SAST, SCA, secrets scanning across the full git history, IaC scanning, container scanning, open-source license analysis, code permission and RBAC drift detection, and anomalous developer behavior detection on every push, pull request, and code change without touching the CI/CD pipeline. Findings reach the responsible commit author through in-PR comments, Slack messages, Teams messages, or email so engineering teams self-serve remediation without a security ticket in the middle. The buyer is an AppSec, product security, or security engineering leader who wants pipelineless coverage across the SCM without pipeline-embedded scanner friction or the latency of a security ticket queue sitting between the scanner and the developer.
SecPortal is a different category. SecPortal is a security delivery workspace that carries the engagement, the findings, the scanning, the AI report, the branded client portal, the retest workflow, and the invoice all on one tenant. The buyer is an internal security team, an AppSec team, a product security team, a vulnerability management team, a penetration testing firm, an MSSP, or a consultancy that ships work to clients, business units, or auditors. If you are comparing a pipelineless code-to-cloud AppSec platform above the SCM to a delivery workspace that scans, reports, and delivers on its own, this page is the side-by-side. The adjacent comparisons buyers in the pipelineless AppSec and ASPM categories often evaluate alongside are SecPortal vs Jit, SecPortal vs Aikido, SecPortal vs Cycode, SecPortal vs Apiiro, SecPortal vs Ox Security, SecPortal vs ArmorCode and SecPortal vs Endor Labs.
Where Arnica stops for engagement-shaped delivery
These are not Arnica-specific criticisms; they are properties of a pipelineless code-to-cloud AppSec platform when you compare it to running scoped engagements or a scanner-plus-findings programme on a single workspace.
Built as a pipelineless code-to-cloud AppSec platform, not a security delivery workspace
Arnica is organised around the source-code management permission scope. The platform connects to GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or Azure DevOps through read-only or installed application permissions and runs SAST, SCA, secrets scanning across the full git history, IaC scanning, container scanning, OSS license analysis, code permission and RBAC drift detection, and anomalous developer behavior detection on every push, pull request, and code change without touching the build pipeline. Findings reach the responsible commit author through in-PR comments, Slack messages, Teams messages, or email so engineering teams self-serve remediation without a security ticket in the middle. SecPortal is a different shape: scanning, manual finding entry, AI report generation, branded client portal, retesting, and the engagement record live inside one workspace with SAST and dependency analysis through Semgrep on connected repositories sitting alongside external scanning, authenticated DAST, manual finding entry, the exception register, and the engagement record.
No engagement, scope, or scoped deliverable model
Arnica is organised around the repository, the branch, the pull request, the commit author, the SCM permission, and the per-push pipelineless run rather than around a scoped engagement that opens with a kickoff, runs against a defined target list, ships a final report under a client or stakeholder name, schedules a retest, and closes on a delivery date. If the work being shipped is a penetration test, an external attack surface review, an AppSec code review with a contract scope, a third-party security assessment, a vulnerability assessment, or any deliverable that needs to land as a named report against a named engagement, Arnica does not carry that record. SecPortal does, on the same workspace as the scanner stack, the AI report generator, and the branded client portal.
No branded client portal on a tenant subdomain
Arnica output (the per-commit finding inventory, the PR comment, the Slack message, the Teams message, the code permission drift signal, the behavior anomaly, the dashboard) is reviewed inside the Arnica console or routed to developers through pull request annotations, chat-tool DMs, and email. Sharing the result with an application owner, a business unit stakeholder, an auditor, or an external client typically means a console invite, a PDF export, or a forwarded chat message. SecPortal serves a white-label client portal on the tenant subdomain so every finding, retest, remediation thread, and report download lives under your team or consultancy brand rather than a vendor console.
No external perimeter scanning or authenticated DAST inside the same workspace
Arnica covers the developer-side AppSec plane: SAST, SCA, secrets across git history, IaC, container, OSS license, code permission posture, and developer behavior anomalies, all derived from SCM application permissions. It is not built to run an external perimeter scan across DNS, ports, SSL, headers, subdomains, technology fingerprinting, and CVE correlation against the public-facing attack surface, and it is not built to run a full authenticated DAST against logged-in user journeys behind cookie, bearer, basic, or form authentication on the same console as the engagement deliverable. Engagements that pair the pipelineless code-to-cloud plane with the running-application external view and the authenticated-DAST view need a separate external scanner and a separate DAST. SecPortal runs SAST and dependency analysis through Semgrep on connected repositories, external scanning across 16 modules, and authenticated DAST against verified domains on the same engagement record.
No manual finding entry for non-scanner output
Arnica is a scanner-and-signal-driven console. Findings appear in the workspace because the pipelineless SAST, SCA, secrets, IaC, container, OSS license, code permission, or developer behavior engine raised a signal on a commit, a push, a PR, or a permission change. A pentest, a manual code review, a threat-modelling output, a chained-exploit finding, a business-logic flaw, or a third-party security assessment also produces findings the pipelineless scanner cannot reach: authentication bypasses through application-specific state, multi-step SSRF or IDOR walkthroughs, design-level weaknesses, manual SCA review against private dependencies, and supply-chain-tampering proofs not yet in the data set. SecPortal ships a full manual finding editor with a 300+ finding template library, CVSS 3.1 vector parsing and auto-scoring, and structured evidence so non-scanner findings live on the same record as scanner output.
Developer-centric procurement and contributor-count pricing rather than published delivery-workspace tiers
Arnica is sold to AppSec, product security, and engineering leaders as a developer-facing platform, typically priced on the developer or contributor count, the modules in scope (SAST, SCA, secrets, IaC, container, OSS license, code permissions, behavior), and a commercial commitment cycle on the upper tiers. The buying motion lands inside engineering and AppSec leadership and the deployment lives inside the SCM application permission boundary. SecPortal pricing is transparent on the website with a free plan, monthly Pro and Team tiers, and no annual minimum on the Pro and Team tiers; the buying motion lands inside the security team and the deployment lives inside the SecPortal workspace.
How a pipelineless code-to-cloud AppSec platform and a delivery workspace see the same problem differently
Pipelineless code-to-cloud AppSec is a useful framing, but the buyer should be clear-eyed about what an SCM-side console gives you and what it costs in scope. The contrast below is between a platform that derives value from running SAST, SCA, secrets, IaC, container, OSS license, code permission, and developer behavior signals through SCM application permissions and a delivery workspace that holds the full engagement record on the tenant where the operators run.
Pipelineless code-to-cloud AppSec runs the same scanner plane on every code change without touching the build
Arnica and adjacent pipelineless AppSec platforms start from the assumption that the cheapest and most adoptable way to raise the AppSec baseline across hundreds of repositories is to connect to the SCM through application permissions, derive every signal directly from the code change and the SCM event stream, and route findings back to the responsible commit author through PR comments and chat messages. The economic value of the platform comes from removing the build-pipeline integration tax, removing the security-ticket-in-the-middle latency, and giving security teams a code-permission and developer-behavior layer that pipeline-embedded scanners do not produce.
A delivery workspace records every finding, scanner-derived or operator-entered, on the engagement record
SecPortal does not assume that pipelineless SCM-side coverage with chat-tool author routing is the only shape an AppSec investment should take, and does not assume that the right shape is a console above the SCM alone. The workspace records every finding on the engagement record: SAST and dependency analysis from Semgrep on connected repositories, authenticated DAST findings, external scanner findings across 16 modules, bulk-imported Nessus or Burp Suite output, and operator-authored manual findings from the tester or reviewer all sit on the same record. Prioritisation runs through CVSS 3.1 vector parsing, asset and exposure context written by the operator, and the eight-field exception register that holds the deferral decision under audit, rather than through a pipelineless console scoped to per-commit signals alone.
The right answer depends on whether pipelineless SCM coverage or engagement-shaped delivery is the bottleneck
If the AppSec or product security team needs every repository in the engineering org to surface SAST, SCA, secrets, IaC, container, OSS license, code permission, and developer behavior signals on every push, the integration tax on pipeline-embedded scanners plus the latency of security tickets in the middle is the bottleneck, and the engineering org runs on GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or Azure DevOps, Arnica is the right shape. If the team needs the scanner stack, the engagement record, the AI report, the branded portal, the manual finding entry, the retest workflow, and the invoice on one workspace without a pipelineless SCM-side console above them, a delivery workspace like SecPortal is the right shape. Both can be true for different teams; one is the right shape for a given buyer at a given time.
Who each platform is the right fit for
Arnica and SecPortal solve different problems for different buyers. The honest answer is that the right tool depends on whether you are running pipelineless SCM coverage across an engineering estate or running scoped engagements and findings on one workspace.
Arnica fits AppSec, product security, and security engineering teams running pipelineless SCM-side coverage
If you are an AppSec, product security, or security engineering leader inside a fast-moving engineering organisation, every repository needs SAST, SCA, secrets, IaC, container, OSS license, code permission, and developer behavior coverage on every code change without sitting inside the CI/CD pipeline, the engineering org runs on GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or Azure DevOps, and the bottleneck is the friction of pipeline-embedded scanners plus ticket-in-the-middle remediation, Arnica was built for that shape. The buyer assumption is one pipelineless console hooked into SCM application permissions that routes findings back to the commit author through PR comments and chat messages so developers self-serve remediation.
SecPortal fits teams who want scanning, findings, AI reports, and delivery on one workspace
If you are an AppSec team, a product security team, a vulnerability management team, an internal security team, a penetration testing firm, an MSSP, or a consultancy that wants the scanner, the finding record, the AI report, the branded portal, the manual finding entry, the retest workflow, and the invoice all on one tenant, SecPortal carries that lifecycle without forcing the team to license a pipelineless code-to-cloud console above the SCM and then license a separate reporting tool, a separate engagement system, and a separate client-facing surface above it.
SecPortal fits buyers who deliver findings to clients, business units, or auditors under their own brand
If you ship reports to external clients, business unit owners, or auditors, and every finding, retest, remediation thread, and report download has to live under your brand rather than under a vendor console, SecPortal is the workspace that holds that record. Findings can still be imported from Nessus, Burp Suite, or CSV when scanners outside SecPortal are part of the picture, alongside SecPortal native external, authenticated, and code scanning. The same record also serves an internal team that wants the deliverable shape (executive summary, technical writeup, remediation roadmap, retest closure pack) without licensing a separate writeup tool above a pipelineless SCM-side console.
Transparent pricing, no procurement cycle
SecPortal pricing is published on the website and self-service from sign-up. There is no annual contract floor on the Pro or Team tiers, no per-developer or per-contributor licensing model, and no sales call required before you can run a real engagement.
SecPortal Free
Free forever
1 user, 3 clients, 2 engagements per client, 3 AI credits, 6 core scan modules.
SecPortal Pro
From $149/month
All scan modules, 100 clients, 25 AI credits/month, branded client portal, invoicing, compliance tracking.
SecPortal Team
From $299/month
Up to 5 users, 75 AI credits/month, team management, activity audit trail with CSV export, MFA enforcement.
Why teams pick SecPortal over Arnica
- Run scoped engagements with a kickoff, deliverables, retests, and a final invoice on one record instead of a pipelineless SCM-side console scoped to per-commit signals on connected repositories
- Pair SAST and dependency analysis through Semgrep on connected GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket repositories with external scanning across 16 modules and authenticated DAST against verified domains on the same engagement record
- Generate executive, technical, and remediation deliverables with Claude from the live findings record rather than exporting a console PDF after the pipelineless run
- Deliver findings through a branded client portal on your tenant subdomain instead of through a vendor console invite plus a PR comment or a chat message in the engineering toolchain
- Pair every retest to the original finding so the closure record holds up under audit, instead of waiting for the next pipelineless run against the same code or branch to re-surface or fail to re-surface the finding
- Document CVSS, asset tier, and exposure context on the engagement record so prioritisation is defensible to a board, an auditor, or an application owner without licensing a separate pipelineless console scoped to commit-author routing
- Map findings across 21 framework templates including OWASP, OWASP ASVS, OWASP MASVS, OWASP API Security Top 10, ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, FedRAMP, MITRE ATT&CK, DORA, NIS2, CIS Controls, and Essential Eight
- Store privileged scan credentials encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM and rotate them through the in-product credential vault for authenticated DAST runs
- Invoice clients or business units directly from the engagement record through Stripe Connect
- Start on the free plan and upgrade without a sales call, an annual commitment, a contributor-count audit, or a per-module audit
Related reading
If you are evaluating how to run an in-house AppSec, product security, or vulnerability management programme rather than pay for a pipelineless code-to-cloud AppSec console above the SCM, the pages below cover the workflows, signals, and adjacent comparisons that come up most often.
- SecPortal vs Jit for the developer-first ProductSec orchestration alternative that wraps OSS scanners across SAST, SCA, IaC, container, secrets, dynamic and web checks, and cloud posture on a unified PR-gate plane most often evaluated next to Arnica.
- SecPortal vs Aikido for the all-in-one developer-first ASPM alternative that bundles SAST, SCA, IaC, container, secrets, DAST, and cloud posture under one console.
- SecPortal vs Cycode for the code-graph ASPM alternative anchored on the SCM with native SAST, SCA, secrets, IaC, and container scanning.
- SecPortal vs Apiiro for the code-to-runtime ASPM alternative that maps the application risk graph from source through deployment.
- SecPortal vs Ox Security for the active application security posture management alternative anchored on the pipeline bill of materials.
- SecPortal vs ArmorCode for the connector-aggregator ASPM alternative that ingests from existing AppSec scanner contracts rather than scanning natively from SCM permissions.
- SecPortal vs Endor Labs for the reachability-driven SCA and code security console alternative.
- SecPortal vs Snyk for the developer-first SCA and SAST comparison from the largest commercial SCA incumbent.
- SecPortal vs Semgrep for the open-source SAST engine comparison (Semgrep powers SecPortal SAST).
- SecPortal vs GitHub Advanced Security for the GitHub-native code security comparison covering CodeQL SAST, Dependabot SCA, and secret scanning.
- ASPM explained for the category-level explainer covering ASPM, pipelineless coverage, and the adjacent product shapes that sit above the AppSec scanner stack.
- SAST vs SCA code scanning for the category-level explainer covering when each technique applies and where a pipelineless SCM-side platform runs them.
- Security tool sprawl and consolidation guide for the category-level decision framework on whether to consolidate AppSec tooling on a pipelineless console or on a delivery workspace.
- Security findings deduplication guide for how to handle duplicate findings across SAST, SCA, DAST, and manual entry when one scanner runs pipelineless and another runs in a pipeline.
- SDLC vulnerability handoff for the handoff discipline between AppSec finding intake and the engineering team that ships the fix.
- Scanner-to-ticket handoff governance for the routing-layer discipline between scanner output and engineering tickets that pipelineless platforms promise to bypass with PR-comment and chat-tool author routing.
- Vulnerability prioritisation for the operational workflow that captures CVSS, asset tier, and exposure context into a defensible queue.
- Dependency vulnerability triage for the operational workflow that turns SCA output into routed, owned, time-bound remediation work.
- Code scanning with SAST and dependency analysis through Semgrep on connected GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket repositories.
- Repository connections for the OAuth-based GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket integration that wires code scanning into the engagement record.
- Findings management with CVSS 3.1 vector parsing, severity calibration, and a 300+ finding template library.
- External scanning across 16 modules for the perimeter view that a pipelineless SCM-side console does not cover.
- Authenticated scanning for full-DAST coverage against logged-in user journeys behind cookie, bearer, basic, or form authentication.
- SecPortal for AppSec teams for the in-house AppSec audience overview, including SAST, SCA, DAST, and manual review workflows.
- SecPortal for product security teams for the product-security audience overview, including supply chain, SBOM, and customer-facing vulnerability evidence.
- SecPortal for security engineering teams for the security engineering audience overview, including the operating model behind scanner stack ownership.
When the work is the engagement record your team operates, not a pipelineless AppSec console above the SCM
Run scoped AppSec, pentest, vulnerability management, and security assessment engagements, generate AI reports, and ship findings through a branded portal on one workspace. SAST plus dependency analysis through Semgrep plus DAST plus external scanning live on the same engagement record alongside manual finding entry, the exception register, the retest workflow, and the activity audit trail. Pair alongside an Arnica deployment when pipelineless code-to-cloud AppSec on the engineering SCM sits next to engagement-shaped delivery for application owners, auditors, or external clients. Start free.
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