Betterleaks is a new open source secrets scanner from the creator of Gitleaks. A drop-in replacement with faster scans, token efficiency detection, configurable validation, and more.

Aikido Security

Betterleaks is a new open source secrets scanner created by the original author of Gitleaks, now sponsored by Aikido Security. It serves as a drop-in replacement for Gitleaks with several improvements: token efficiency scanning (98.6% recall vs entropy's 70.4%), rule-defined validation using Common Expression Language (CEL), pure Go with no CGO dependency, default encoding detection, and parallelized git scanning for faster performance. The v1 release maintains backward compatibility with existing Gitleaks configs and CLI options. Planned v2 features include LLM-assisted classification, auto-revocation of leaked secrets, permissions mapping, and expanded source scanning. The project is MIT-licensed with four maintainers and is designed to work well with AI coding agents.

Betterleaks: The Gitleaks Successor Built for Faster Secrets Scanning