Prbl

Prbl

AI code security scanner that finds vulnerabilities in AI-generated code and fixes them with verified diffs.

61/100MonitorFree · from $29/moFreemium

Prbl is worth 60 seconds of anyone's time: the free scan needs no account, and it will surface real flaws if you actually ship AI-generated code. The rewriter loop — where a captured behavioral baseline proves the fix didn't break the feature — is the part worth paying for and the part competitors don't do. Judge it as an add-on alongside Snyk, Semgrep or CodeQL, not a swap for them. If your problem is dependency CVEs, or your codebase has no AI-generated code at all, this isn't your tool and the free tier will tell you so quickly.

Verified 5d ago · liveness 61/100 · cite: rightaichoice.com/tools/prbl

Best for
  • Teams shipping production apps built with Cursor, Copilot, Bolt, Lovable or Claude
  • Vibe coders who need a security pass before deploying AI-generated code
  • SaaS startups collecting scan history and audit logs ahead of SOC 2
  • Security teams that want open-source, auditable scanner rules
Not ideal for
  • Codebases with no AI-generated code — your existing SAST already covers you
  • Teams whose main gap is dependency CVE scanning — use Snyk or Dependabot
  • Anyone wanting a single full CI/CD security suite rather than a specialist layer
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IntermediateFree scan: about 60 seconds to paste an app or repo URL and get findings — no account needed. Adding the GitHub Action to scan pushes and PRs: a few minutes to wire into the repo. Connecting the rewriter loop: one upgrade step, then each fix runs through baseline capture, application, verification and rescan before you approve the diff.WebNo public APIVerified 5d ago
Pricing
Free · from $29/mo
FreemiumFree tier4 plans4 hidden costs
Learning curve
Intermediate
Free scan: about 60 seconds to paste an app or repo URL and get findings — no account needed. Adding the GitHub Action to scan pushes and PRs: a few minutes to wire into the repo. Connecting the rewriter loop: one upgrade step, then each fix runs through baseline capture, application, verification and rescan before you approve the diff.
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Web
No public API · 3 integrations
Who it's for
Solo developer shipping a Cursor-built side projectTwo-person SaaS startup preparing for SOC 2Engineering lead whose team uses Copilot heavily
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Skip it if

Skip Prbl if your codebase has no AI-generated code, or if what you actually need is dependency CVE coverage — this scanner asks one narrow question and the free scan will tell you in a minute whether it applies to you.

The 30-second take
Biggest gripe

The fix-verify loop is the paid part, so every finding you want corrected means upgrading off the free scan.

Price reality

Free gets you 10 scans a month and 3 repos with file-and-line findings. Pro at $29/mo suits one developer who wants the rewriter loop and unlimited repos. Team at $99/mo fits up to 10 people who need a shared dashboard and audit log. Enterprise, starting at $500/mo and scaling with usage, is for organizations that need unlimited seats and SSO. It's priced as a layer beside Snyk or Semgrep, not as a replacement for them.

In short

Prbl — AI code security scanner that finds vulnerabilities in AI-generated code and fixes them with verified diffs. Best for Teams shipping production apps built with Cursor, Copilot, Bolt, Lovable or Claude, Vibe coders who need a security pass before deploying AI-generated code, SaaS startups collecting scan history and audit logs ahead of SOC 2. Free to start; paid plans from $29/mo.

What people actually say about Prbl — is it worth it?

We scanned public community sources for Prbl on Jul 2, 2026 and could not establish that the discussion we found is about this tool rather than something else sharing its name. Our own analysis of that scan says the posts were off-subject. Rather than publish a sentiment score built on the wrong subject, we publish nothing here and re-run the scan.

Viability Score

61/100
Monitor

How well maintained and how widely used is Prbl? Built from what the vendor actually publishes (docs, changelog, tutorials, integrations, pricing), whether the site is live, and how much real users discuss it. How we calculate this

Recent activity
not measured
Traction
77
Site health
95
User sentiment
0
What the vendor publishes
40

Last calculated: October 2026

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Key Features

  • Detects AI-generated files and lines from Cursor, Copilot, Bolt, Lovable and Claude
  • Scans the AI-human code seam for vulnerabilities
  • Detects hardcoded credentials in generated code
  • Detects SQL injection via string concatenation
  • Detects missing access control on AI-scaffolded CRUD routes
  • Detects fallback secrets in environment variable lookups
  • Detects timing-unsafe webhook signature comparisons
  • Detects JWT decode without signature verification
  • AI rewriter applies minimal fixes and shows a clean diff for approval
  • Captures behavioral baseline before fixing to prove nothing breaks
  • Rescans to confirm the finding is gone
  • Free scan with no account required, results in about 60 seconds
  • GitHub Action scans every push and PR and can fail the build on high-severity findings
  • CodeQL static analysis integration
  • pip-audit audits Python packages

About Prbl

FreemiumIntermediateNo APIWeb

Prbl is a security scanner built around one question general-purpose tools don't ask: did an AI coding tool write this code, and does it carry the gaps AI tools leave behind? You paste a live app URL or a public repo and Prbl flags the exact file and line — hardcoded credentials, SQL injection via string concatenation, missing auth checks on AI-scaffolded CRUD routes, fallback secrets in environment variable lookups, timing-unsafe webhook signature comparisons, and JWT decode without signature verification. The first scan runs free with no account and results land in about 60 seconds. The paid part is the fix-verify loop. Prbl captures a behavioral baseline of what your functions actually do, the AI rewriter applies a minimal fix, behavior is validated against that baseline, and a rescan confirms the finding is gone. You approve a clean diff before anything merges. Prbl positions itself as a specialist layer that runs alongside Semgrep, Snyk, CodeQL and pip-audit rather than replacing them, and its scanner rules are open-source and auditable. Its own research scanned 976 GitHub repos linked from Hacker News and found 31.6% carried a high-severity flaw. If your dependency CVE coverage is already handled elsewhere, that narrowness is the point.

Behind the Verdict

Prbl's core insight is a real gap in the scanner market. General SAST tools are tuned to find injection and crypto issues and to catch known CVEs in dependencies; almost none of them ask whether a route requires authentication at all, or whether an environment-variable lookup has a `|| 'dev-secret'` fallback that becomes a public production key the moment someone deploys without the variable set. Prbl makes those three patterns — AI-scaffolded routes with no auth check, fallback secrets, and `===` signature comparison on webhooks — the center of the pitch, and they are exactly the mistakes an LLM makes when it generates working-but-unsafe scaffolding. The fix-verify loop is the more interesting engineering. Anyone can hand an LLM a finding and ask for a patch; the hard part is knowing the patch didn't break the feature. Prbl captures a behavioral baseline of your functions before touching anything, validates the rewritten code against it, then rescans to confirm the finding is gone — and you approve the diff rather than auto-merging. That's a credible reason to move off the free tier, and the vendor says so plainly rather than dressing it up. Where it fits: teams shipping production apps built with Cursor, Copilot, Bolt, Lovable or Claude, and vibe coders who want a security pass before deploying. Where it doesn't: codebases with no AI-generated code (your existing SAST already covers you), teams whose real gap is dependency CVEs (use Snyk or Dependabot), and anyone expecting a full CI/CD security suite. The scanner accepts a pasted app URL or a public repo URL; there's a GitHub Action that runs on every push and PR and can fail the build on high-severity findings. Prbl doesn't claim to be a Semgrep replacement and explicitly tells you to keep your existing tools running alongside it — that honesty is worth more than a broader feature list would be.

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Real-world workflow fit

Concrete scenarios for the personas Prbl actually fits — and what changes day-one when you adopt it.

Solo developer shipping a Cursor-built side project

Paste the live app URL into Prbl before deploying. The free scan returns the exact file and line — a hardcoded key in a migration file, a login route using string-concatenated SQL.

Outcome: You see the finding in about 60 seconds without creating an account, and decide whether it's worth paying for the rewriter to patch it.

Two-person SaaS startup preparing for SOC 2

Connect the repo through the GitHub Action so every push and PR is scanned. Put Snyk or Dependabot alongside it for dependency CVEs, since Prbl checks the code AI tools wrote rather than known package vulnerabilities.

Outcome: Scan history and audit logs accumulate, and the build can fail automatically on high-severity findings before they merge.

Engineering lead whose team uses Copilot heavily

Run Prbl alongside existing Semgrep rules to surface the classes general scanners typically skip — missing auth on scaffolded CRUD routes, fallback secrets, weak webhook signature comparison.

Outcome: Targeted findings land with locations, and fixes go through the baseline-verify-rescan loop with a diff approved before merge.

Use Cases

  • Scan any public GitHub repo for AI-generated vulnerabilities in under 60 seconds, free and without an account.
  • Catch missing authentication on AI-scaffolded CRUD routes before they reach production.
  • Find fallback secrets such as JWT_SECRET || 'default_secret' that become predictable production keys.
  • Audit AI-generated code for common security gaps ahead of a SOC 2 review.
  • Confirm that an automated fix preserves baseline behavior before approving the diff.
  • Fail a CI build automatically when a push or PR introduces a high-severity finding.

Models Under the Hood

Claude

as of 2026-09-26

Limitations

  • Prbl accepts a pasted app URL or a public repo URL and requires no account for the free scan, with results in about 60 seconds.
  • The AI rewriter that applies fixes, plus behavioral-baseline verification and the rescan that confirms the finding is gone, is the paid part of the product.
  • Prbl is explicitly a specialist layer — it asks whether an AI tool wrote the code and whether that code has the gaps AI tools leave behind, and the vendor tells you to keep Semgrep, Snyk or CodeQL running alongside it.
  • It is not a replacement for general SAST or dependency CVE coverage.
  • Correcting a finding requires moving up from the free scan.

as of 2026-10-03

Verification history

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12-month cost

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Annual total
Free
Over 12 months
Effective monthly
Free
Billed monthly

Vendor list price only. Add-on usage, seat overages, and contract minimums are surfaced under Hidden costs & gotchas.

Plans compared

For each published Prbl tier: who it actually fits, and what it adds vs. the previous tier. Cross-reference the cost calculator above for projected annual outlay.

Free

$0/mo

Ideal for

A developer who wants a one-off look at whether an AI-built repo carries obvious findings, with no account or card required.

What this tier adds

Starting tier: 10 scans a month, file and line-level findings, open-source scanner rules, 3 repos, and a GitHub Action that scans every push and PR.

Pro

$29/mo

Ideal for

A solo developer or small team that wants findings corrected, not just listed, and needs unlimited repos to do it.

What this tier adds

Adds the AI rewriter with 50 credits a month for applied and verified fixes, 200 scans a day, unlimited repos, scan history and audit logs, and a GitHub Action that can fail the build on high-severity findings.

Team

$99/mo

Ideal for

A team of up to 10 shipping AI-generated code together and needing one shared view of findings and fixes.

What this tier adds

Raises capacity to 1,000 scans a day and 200 rewriter credits a month, and adds 10 team members, a shared dashboard and priority support.

Enterprise

$500/mo starting, scales with usage

Ideal for

An organization that needs unlimited seats, SSO and audit logs, and a higher rewriter volume than the Team tier allows.

What this tier adds

Adds 1,000+ rewriter credits a month, unlimited team members, SSO and audit logs, and dedicated support on top of everything in Team.

Hidden costs & gotchas

What the public pricing page doesn't put in bold. Captured from pricing-page footnotes, contract terms, and recurring complaints.

  • The fix-verify loop is the paid part, so every finding you want corrected means upgrading off the free scan.
  • Rewriter credits are metered separately from scans — Pro includes 50 credits a month and Team 200, so a backlog of findings can exhaust them before the month does.
  • High-finding-volume teams will burn through the included rewriter credits fastest, and the Enterprise tier scales with usage rather than sitting at a flat $500/mo.
  • Team includes 10 members, so growing past that pushes you to Enterprise for unlimited seats.

Where the pricing makes sense

The company stage and team size where Prbl's pricing actually pencils out — and where peers do it cheaper.

Free gets you 10 scans a month and 3 repos with file-and-line findings. Pro at $29/mo suits one developer who wants the rewriter loop and unlimited repos. Team at $99/mo fits up to 10 people who need a shared dashboard and audit log. Enterprise, starting at $500/mo and scaling with usage, is for organizations that need unlimited seats and SSO. It's priced as a layer beside Snyk or Semgrep, not as a replacement for them.

Setup time & first value

How long it actually takes to get something useful out of Prbl — broken out by persona, not the marketing-page minute.

Free scan: about 60 seconds to paste an app or repo URL and get findings — no account needed. Adding the GitHub Action to scan pushes and PRs: a few minutes to wire into the repo. Connecting the rewriter loop: one upgrade step, then each fix runs through baseline capture, application, verification and rescan before you approve the diff.

Switching to or from Prbl

How to bring data in from common predecessors and how to get it back out — written for the switcher, not the buyer.

Migrating in
  • →From manual code review: run the free scan first to see which AI-generated files carry findings, then use the rewriter loop to patch them with baseline verification.
Migrating out
  • ↗To a general SAST platform: keep Prbl running alongside rather than migrating off it, since it targets AI-authored code and not the injection and crypto classes your SAST already covers.

Integrations

CodeQLpip-auditGitHub

Resources & Guides

Tutorials & Learning

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