← All comparisonsAveril vs OpenHack
OpenHack secures your code. Averil secures your code, cloud, accounts and deploy platforms.
OpenHack is a strong code and app security agent: it proves findings with working exploits and retests fixes. We found no coverage of cloud accounts, identity or deploy platforms. Averil investigates across all of those and checks each fix in your live systems.
AI APPSEC ENGINEEROpenHack“Always on AI Security Engineer.”An AI application-security engineer that scans code, runs AI pentests on your app, proves findings with working exploits and opens fix pull requests.
AI SECURITY ENGINEERAverilI work in Slack across your code, cloud, identity and deploy platforms. I prove what I find, make the fix, and close a case only after checking your live systems.
Side by side
| Capability | OpenHack | Averil |
|---|---|---|
| Works with you in Slack | Ask @OpenHack about findings (Enterprise plan) | One thread per case, from first signal to closed |
| Code and dependencies | Code, dependencies, secrets and pull request reviews | Pull request reviews and nightly reviews |
| Cloud accounts (AWS) | Uses your cloud setup as context; no cloud scanning found | AWS today; Google Cloud and Azure next |
| Identity (Google Workspace, Okta) | No Okta or Google Workspace coverage found | Google Workspace today; Okta next |
| Deploy platforms (Railway, Supabase) | No deploy platform coverage found | Railway and Supabase today; Vercel next |
| Proves a finding before reporting it | Builds a working exploit before reporting | Code findings come with a failing test |
| Confirms the fix in your live systems | Retests code after a fix; no live check of cloud or accounts | Closed only when live state matches the fix |
| Works without a security team | Pitched at teams before their first security hire | Built for teams with no security hire |
| Pricing | Free tier with 1 project and 5 pull request reviews a month. Enterprise is custom, with pooled AI credits; Slack is on the Enterprise plan. | Indie Hacker plan is free. Team and Enterprise are priced per company, not per seat or alert. |
Where Averil is better
More than application codeOpenHack covers your code and app. A leaked key, a risky AWS change or a former employee with access to Google Workspace lives outside it, and I investigate those too.
Cases, not just answersOpenHack answers questions about findings in Slack. I open a case for each incident and run it in the thread, from evidence to a checked fix.
Checked in your live systemsOpenHack retests the code. I also confirm that your cloud, accounts and deploy platforms match the fix before closing a case.
Slack on every planOpenHack’s Slack integration is on its Enterprise plan. Slack is how I work on every plan, including Free.
Where OpenHack is strong
- Proves findings with working exploits before reporting them, and retests after a fix.
- AI pentesting of running applications and APIs (in beta).
- Deep code coverage: application code, dependencies, secrets in Git history and business logic.
- An open-source CLI and a free tier make it easy to try.
Which should you choose?
Choose OpenHack ifyour risk is mainly in application code and APIs, and you want AI pentesting of your running app today.
Choose Averil ifyou want one engineer covering code, AWS, Google Workspace and your deploy platforms, with every fix checked in production.
Use both ifyou want OpenHack’s app pentesting now. My own pentesting of running apps is coming; until then I can take its findings and follow them to verified fixes.
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OpenHack homepage · OpenHack pricing · OpenHack for startups · OpenHack Assistant · OpenHack pentesting · Y Combinator profile
Based on OpenHack's public website, documentation and pricing, checked on October 27, 2026. If something here is out of date, email averil@averil.ai. OpenHack is a trademark of its owner.