Puaro Security
Pricing
- Free Tier
- 10 repos
Summary
Regex-based secret scanners are fast, cheap, and reliably wrong — flagging test tokens, example credentials, and placeholder strings until your developers start ignoring every alert. Puaro exists to fix that alert fatigue problem by bringing context-aware AI into pull request scanning.
Puaro connects to GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket via OAuth and scans every pull request before merge, running what the vendor calls an AI Context Engine to distinguish real credentials from example strings. The vendor states 5% false positive rate and 0.3-second scan time per 1,000 lines — both measured in testing, not in your production codebase. Zero infrastructure means no agent to deploy, no YAML to maintain, and no self-hosted option if your compliance posture requires on-prem. The free plan covers 10 repositories. Teams that need more repos, stricter SLAs, or data residency controls will hit paid-only territory before they finish rolling this out org-wide.
Bottom line: Pick Puaro if you need pull request secret detection running inside a week on a small repo set — but plan a different conversation when your security audit requires self-hosted deployment or your repo count outgrows the free tier.
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Pros
Sign in to edit- Context-aware AI detection instead of pattern matching, so your team stops ignoring alerts because the scanner understands the difference between a live API key and a test fixture placeholder.
- Zero infrastructure to deploy or maintain — OAuth connection to your Git provider is the entire setup — which means no agent versioning, no pipeline YAML, and no ops ticket to get scanning started.
- PR-level blocking before merge, with configurable policy (block, warn, or notify), so security teams can enforce hard stops on secrets without forcing a one-size-fits-all lockdown across every workflow.
- Native Slack, email, and inline PR comment alerts, so developers get findings in the tools they already have open rather than logging into a separate security dashboard to discover a problem.
- GDPR-ready cloud infrastructure with SOC 2 compliance in progress, which means security reviews can proceed without building the compliance case from scratch.
Cons
Sign in to edit- No self-hosted or on-prem deployment option exists — teams in air-gapped environments, regulated industries requiring data sovereignty, or organizations whose security policy prohibits third-party cloud access to source code cannot use this tool and will need to evaluate self-hostable alternatives.
- The free tier caps at 10 repositories, so any engineering organization with more than a small repo set hits a paid-only gate before achieving full coverage — and at early access stage, pricing and tier limits are not yet locked in, making budget planning speculative.
- The product is in early access, which means production behavior at scale — edge cases in detection accuracy, alert volume under high PR throughput, and API reliability — has less documented field history than established players, and teams running security tooling for compliance audits carry that maturity risk.
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About
- Platforms
- GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
- API Available
- No
- Self-Hosted
- No
- Last Updated
- 2026-07-01T03:03:32.079Z
Best For
Who it's for
- Development teams using GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket
- Security-conscious engineering organizations
- Teams seeking low false-positive secret detection
What it does well
- Scanning pull requests for leaked credentials
- Preventing secret leaks before code merge
- Real-time monitoring of Git repositories
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Is Puaro Security free?
- Puaro Security is a paid tool. No permanent free tier is offered.
- Is Puaro Security open source?
- No — Puaro Security is a closed-source tool. Source code is not publicly available.
- What platforms does Puaro Security support?
- Puaro Security is available on: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket.
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Every leaked credential that makes it to production started as a pull request that nobody caught in time. Puaro scans pull requests for secrets — API keys, tokens, passwords, certificates — before the merge happens. The workflow is OAuth-connect, scan, alert: one-click authorization with your Git provider, automatic scanning of every PR by the AI Context Engine, and instant notifications via Slack, email, or inline PR comments. You choose the enforcement policy — block, warn, or notify — so teams can tune escalation without a security team rewriting pipeline config.
The differentiating claim is context-aware detection over pattern matching. The vendor states the AI Context Engine reads code semantics, not just character patterns, which is why the advertised false positive rate sits at 5% where regex tools flood alert queues. That distinction matters in practice: a regex scanner flags every string that looks like a token; a context-aware scanner also asks whether it appears in a test fixture, a comment, or a live configuration. The vendor reports 99.8% detection accuracy, verified in testing.
Puaro is cloud-hosted and cloud-only — no self-hosted option exists on the page. Teams operating in environments that require on-prem tooling, air-gapped infrastructure, or strict data residency controls outside the vendor’s GDPR-ready cloud will hit a hard wall. The free plan covers 10 repositories, so organizations with larger repo counts will need a paid tier before full coverage is possible. The product is in early access, which means the roadmap is still being shaped by early adopters and production behavior at scale has a shorter track record than established alternatives.
Integrations run through OAuth with GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket. Alerts reach teams via Slack, email, or direct PR comments. The vendor states SOC 2 infrastructure compliance is in progress and GDPR data residency options are available. No agent installation is required on the developer side, which the vendor positions as the reason developers adopt it rather than route around it.