ZeroPath

AI code scanner that hunts logic and auth flaws, then writes the patch

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RECATOOLS Score
7.8 / 10
Capability
8.5
Value for money
6.5
Ease of use
8
ASEAN readiness
6.5
API quality
7.5
Founded
2024
HQ
San Francisco, California, USA
Users
1,000+ organisations, 200k+ scans/month (Mar 2026)
Launched
Public launch Jan 22, 2025; v1 August 2025
Developer
Dean Valentine (CEO), Raphael Karger (CTO), Nathan Hrncirik (CIO), Etienne Lunetta (COO)

Overview

ZeroPath is an AI-native application-security platform from San Francisco that combines static analysis, dependency reachability, secrets, infrastructure-as-code, dynamic testing and pull-request reviews, and generates fixes for what it finds. Its Zero agent runs triage and remediation workflows in Slack.

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Pricing

Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 14 Oct 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.

Credits
Not published
Usage-based pay-per-scan; marked coming soon
  • No monthly commitment
  • AI-native SAST, SCA and secrets scanning
  • PR reviews, autofix and CI/CD integration
Enterprise
Quoted on request
Free proof-of-value engagement
  • On-prem, self-hosted or private cloud
  • Bring your own LLM keys; volume discounts
  • SCIM, policy engine and custom compliance reports
  • Dedicated support and SLA

Use cases

Replacing a sprawling stack of SAST, SCA, secrets, and IaC tools with a single AI-native platform Automating security review of every pull request in under two minutes without blocking developer velocity Detecting business logic flaws and authentication bypasses in complex codebases (e.g., blockchain, fintech) that rule-based scanners miss Running a lean AppSec programme without a large dedicated security team via the managed Zero AI agent Generating evidence for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and compliance audits through automated GRC platform integrations

What you can produce with ZeroPath

  • Security reviews posted on every pull request, with inline comments
  • AI-generated patches for confirmed vulnerabilities, opened as pull requests
  • Full-repository SAST, reachability-aware SCA, secrets and IaC scanning across unlimited repos
  • Dynamic tests that attempt to prove a finding is exploitable and verify the fix
  • Custom security rules written in plain English through the policy engine
  • Zero agent workflows in Slack that triage bug-bounty reports and escalate unpatched issues
  • A CycloneDX AI bill of materials and an inventory of models, agents and MCP servers in the code
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ASEAN Perspective

ZeroPath in Southeast Asia

ZeroPath counts HitPay — a Singapore-based fintech serving Southeast Asian merchants — among its confirmed customers, providing some proof of regional fit, particularly for fintech and crypto-native teams across SG, MY, and PH. The platform's cloud-hosted default with US-based infrastructure may be a consideration for MAS-regulated Singapore institutions or Indonesian BSSN-compliance scenarios where data residency matters. On-premises and self-hosted deployment (Enterprise tier) mitigates this but requires a custom engagement. No dedicated ASEAN sales presence or localised compliance reporting (MAS TRM, OJK, BNM) has been announced as of mid-2026, so regional procurement teams should factor in potential onboarding friction.

RECATOOLS Verdict

ZeroPath is one of the few AI code scanners with outside evidence behind it: curl's maintainer credited its reports, alongside another tool's, with a batch of confirmed fixes in 2025, and its focus on business-logic and authorisation flaws targets what rule-based scanners struggle with. Generated patches, PR reviews and the Slack-based Zero agent push it past scan-and-report.

Its headline accuracy figures are the vendor's own benchmark. Pricing is published but steep for small teams, $1,000 a month plus $60 per developer with no free plan, though startups can apply for up to 50% off. Best for engineering organisations that want fewer, better findings.

Desk research by RECATOOLS from public sources, written with AI assistance — not a hands-on test. How we review

What we found

ZeroPath is a San Francisco application-security company from Y Combinator's Summer 2024 batch. Its YC listing names four founders, including chief technology officer Raphael Karger, formerly a Google security engineer, and a former Tesla red-team engineer. It launched publicly in January 2025 with a seed round led by SurgePoint Capital, joined by Y Combinator and Paul Graham; the amount was not disclosed. In 2026 it was one of ten finalists in the RSAC Innovation Sandbox contest.

The pitch is a scanner that reasons about code rather than matching patterns. The platform covers static analysis aimed at business-logic and authorisation flaws, dependency analysis that checks whether a vulnerable function is actually called, secrets and infrastructure-as-code scanning, pull-request reviews, generated fixes, dynamic testing that tries to prove a finding exploitable, container scanning and an inventory of AI components in a codebase. Zero, an agent added in May 2026, works in Slack threads to triage bug-bounty reports, open fix pull requests and chase owners. ZeroPath says it verifies exploitability before surfacing a finding, and its site claims twice as many real vulnerabilities with 75% fewer false positives; no outside audit of that benchmark was found.

The outside evidence is better than usual for the category. curl maintainer Daniel Stenberg wrote in October 2025 that the project had worked through 809 potential issues raised by ZeroPath and a second tool, Aisle, and fixed about 15% as confirmed problems. ZeroPath's Aptos Labs case study describes scanning a Rust codebase of more than a million lines and a replay-related flaw that, by ZeroPath's account, rule-based scanners missed. Its own scale figures keep rising: 200,000 scans a month across 1,000+ organisations in a March 2026 release, 300,000+ on the homepage now.

Team pricing is published: from $1,000 a month plus $60 per developer, sold through a demo, with unlimited repositories and scans. There is no free plan. Startups can apply for up to half off and security researchers for free access. No ASEAN data-residency option is published.

Compiled by RECATOOLS from public sources: vendor documentation and pricing, code repositories and published reporting.

Notable facts

  • ZeroPath's co-founders from Tesla Red Team and Google Security started the company after growing frustrated that their own security tools generated thousands of alerts — but flagged almost no real bugs.
  • ZeroPath's published benchmark shows it detected 87.5% of business logic and authentication vulnerabilities — while Snyk and Bearer detected 0% on the same test set.
  • Within seven months of its January 2025 public launch, ZeroPath grew to 750+ customers and 125,000 monthly scans; by mid-2026 that had scaled to 1,000+ orgs and 300,000+ scans.
  • ZeroPath was selected as a Top 10 finalist in the RSAC 2026 Innovation Sandbox — the cybersecurity industry's most-watched startup competition — just 14 months after its public launch.

Frequently asked questions

Traditional SAST tools like Semgrep use pattern-matching rules that miss business logic flaws and generate high false-positive rates. ZeroPath combines LLMs with abstract syntax tree analysis to understand code intent, trace data flows, and validate exploitability before raising a finding. In ZeroPath's own benchmarks (forked from the XBOW framework), it detected 87.5% of business logic/auth vulnerabilities where Semgrep scored 12.5% and Snyk scored 0%.
Yes. When ZeroPath is confident in a finding it submits a remediation pull request directly to your repository. Fixes can be triggered one-click from the PR review UI, and the platform re-scans after the fix is applied to confirm resolution. For the May 2026 'Zero' agentic tier, workflows and approval chains are handled autonomously inside Slack.
ZeroPath covers 30+ programming languages including Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, Go, Rust, C/C++, C#, PHP, Ruby, Swift, Kotlin, Dart, Elixir, Scala, and Nim. It integrates with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps for version control, and exports findings in SARIF and CSV formats compatible with Jira, Linear, Vanta, Drata, and ServiceNow.

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