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What a self-run security audit actually costs
We ran an agentic security audit against ZeroPath on the same code. The audit is metered — you pay for every scan. ZeroPath is a flat subscription with unlimited scans. Here is the cost gap at your scale.
Annual cost vs scope
Cost only — no detection-quality claim. Audit $/scan defaults to the measured $451 (below); ZeroPath uses public list pricing ($1,000/mo + $60/dev, unlimited). Coverage hours are editable assumptions.
What we tested
A self-run security audit vs ZeroPath
Self-run security audit
You run an open-source security-audit agent yourself — the Fable harness fanning out subagents on Opus 4.8, driven from the command line. It reviews your code for vulnerabilities. You launch every scan, pay for the tokens it burns, and triage the findings. It is a code review; dependencies (SCA), IaC, containers, and secrets are on you.
ZeroPath
One managed platform: code scanning, dependencies (SCA), IaC, containers, secrets, and PR reviews. Findings are validated and triaged for you. It is a flat subscription with unlimited scans, so you can scan every push without watching a token meter — the price doesn't move.
Where the $451 comes from
The test target
We ran the security audit against a synthetic 206,101-line multi-tenant fintech application — payroll, invoicing, and payments across 63 modules — built from scratch so no scanner had seen it before. One full scan of that codebase is the measured anchor for the audit side above.
