Best Open Source Secrets Scanning Tools

Open source secrets scanning tools, ranked by score and analyzed honestly. Part of our Security & Auth coverage.

Ranked by score. Updated weekly.

1

gitleaks

87

Find secrets with Gitleaks 🔑

27,986 ★Gopermissive
2

trufflehog

75

Find, verify, and analyze leaked credentials

26,946 ★Gostrong-copyleft
3

detect-secrets

59

An enterprise friendly way of detecting and preventing secrets in code.

4,583 ★Pythonpermissive

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