Gitleaks

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Free to practise onyes
Free trialnot on record
Well documentedyes
Runs where you workyes

Runs on Linux, Mac, self-hosted, Windows.

Gitleaks is ranked #8 of 23 in secrets scanning software on The Geeks Club. It runs on Linux, macOS, Self-hosted, Windows. There is a free plan.

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Gitleaks Free MIT-licensed software · latest version supported github.com · 2 Oct 2026

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Free plan: Yes
Supported VCS: GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Gitea, Bitbucket
CI/CD scanning: Yes
Pre-commit scanning: Yes
Pull-request scanning: Yes
Custom detection rules: Yes

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Purpose: Gitleaks detects secrets such as passwords, API keys, and tokens in Git repositories, files, and stdin.
Maintenance status: The project says it is feature complete and future releases will be security patches only.
Scan modes: Gitleaks supports scanning Git repositories, directories or files, and data streamed through stdin.
Detection rules: Users can configure custom detection rules using Go regular expressions, entropy checks, path matching, keywords, and allowlists.
Baselines: A report can be used as a baseline so subsequent scans report only new findings.
Reports: Gitleaks can output reports in JSON, CSV, JUnit, SARIF, or template format.
Integrations: The project documents use as a pre-commit hook and as a GitHub Action.
Installation: The project documents installation through Homebrew, Docker, Go, and prebuilt release binaries.
Platforms: The releases page lists binaries for macOS, Linux, and Windows architectures.
Secret handling: The CLI has a redaction option that can redact secrets in logs and standard output, with a default redaction value of 100%.
Security reporting: The security policy asks users to report vulnerabilities privately through GitHub rather than opening a public issue.
Support scope: The security policy says only the latest version is supported.
License: The repository is distributed under the MIT License, which permits use, copying, modification, distribution, sublicensing, and sale subject to its terms.
Price from: Free

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Sources

github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks· checked 2 Oct 2026
github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks/releases· checked 2 Oct 2026
github.com/gitleaks/blob/master/SECURITY.md· checked 2 Oct 2026
github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks/blob/master/LICENSE· checked 2 Oct 2026