We checked 18 Google searches your buyers make. Reddit is on page one for 16 of them and in the organic top 3 on 11. On 15 of those 16, the Reddit thread sits above Aikido's own page or Aikido has no page on the SERP at all. Aikido is absent entirely from 7 of the 18.
85 of the top 100 URLs are /blog/ posts. The top-10 wins are editorial: SQL injections, cloud-native security platform, npm audit, vulnerability news. The commercial queries — best sast tools, snyk alternatives, sbom generator tool, aspm platform — are exactly where Reddit sits instead.
US Google, 2026-09-15. Positions are among organic results, so an AI Overview or forums block pushes the visual position lower.
| Keyword | Vol | KD | CPC | Aikido | Ranking Reddit thread | Votes / comments | Posted | AIO | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cloud security posture management tools | 2,400 | 24 | $52.44 | none | absent | none (orca #3, wiz #4) | — | — | yes |
| software composition analysis tools | 880 | 11 | $27.38 | 10 | absent | r/devopsSCA Tools that Actually Keep Code Safe? | 2 / 3 | 2024-08-06 | yes |
| sonarqube alternatives | 210 | 0 | $34.03 | 1 | 13 (/blog/sonarqube-alternatives) | r/selfhostedAlternatives to SonarQube? | 14 / 14 | 2025-08-23 | yes |
| best sast tools | 110 | 2 | $66.88 | 1 | absent | r/devsecopsWhat's your favorite SAST tool(s)? | 28 / 55 | 2025-03-11 | no |
| snyk alternatives | 110 | 0 | $73.31 | 3 | 8 (/blog/5-snyk-alternatives-and-why-they-are-better) | r/devsecopsTop 10 Snyk Alternatives for Code Security | 0 / 13 | 2023-08-31 | yes |
| wiz alternatives | 50 | 0 | $37.92 | 1 | 5 (/blog/wiz-code-alternatives) | r/cybersecurityWiz alternatives | 11 / 44 | 2024-05-21 | yes |
| aikido security review | 40 | 21 | $106.17 | 1 | 2 (aikido.dev) | r/devsecopsIs Aikido legit or a scam | 28 / 53 | 2025-12-01 | yes |
| aikido vs snyk | 40 | 4 | $24.99 | 5 | 4 (/comparison/snyk-alternative) | r/devopsHow does your typical Development workflow look like while using tools like Aikido.dev or Snyk? | 6 / 8 | 2024-11-28 | yes |
| aspm platform | 40 | 20 | n/a | none | absent | none (cycode #3, orca #5, wiz #6, checkmarx #8, mend #17) | — | — | yes |
| secrets detection tools | 40 | 7 | n/a | 4 | 11 (/blog/top-secret-scanning-tools) | r/devsecopsSecret Scanning | 8 / 20 | 2025-09-24 | yes |
| checkmarx vs veracode | 30 | 0 | n/a | 3 | 9 (/blog/veracode-vs-checkmarx-vs-fortify) | r/golangCheckmarx vs Snyk vs Veracode for a Go-heavy backend team | 18 / 27 | 2026-03-08 | yes |
| semgrep alternatives | 30 | 0 | $75.78 | 9 and 10 | 15 (/blog/semgrep-alternatives) | r/devopsIs there a good static analysis tool that's free and that's better than semgrep? (9) and Opengrep — a truly Open Source fork of the Code Security tool Semgrep (10) | 11 / 10 and 93 / 25 | 2025-01-11 and 2025-01-23 | yes |
| snyk vs semgrep | 20 | 0 | $57.85 | 1 | 8 (/blog/snyk-vs-semgrep) | r/devsecopsSemgrep vs Snyk for SAST/SCA | 14 / 25 | 2024-04-15 | yes |
| github advanced security alternative | n/a | n/a | n/a | 3 | 4 (/comparison/github-advanced-security-alternative) | r/devopsAlternatives for a code quality checks and security checks | 2 / 8 | 2025-07-17 | yes |
| how to scan dependencies for vulnerabilities | n/a | n/a | n/a | 1 | absent | r/devopsRecommendations for Dependency Vulnerability Scanning Tool for Private GitHub Repositories | 6 / 9 | 2023-10-11 | yes |
| best dependency vulnerability scanner | n/a | n/a | n/a | 1 | 9 (/blog/top-open-source-dependency-scanners) | r/devopsRecommendations for Dependency Vulnerability Scanning Tool for Private GitHub Repositories | 6 / 9 | 2023-10-11 | yes |
| how to reduce false positives in sast | n/a | n/a | n/a | 2 | absent | r/webdevThe false positive problem in our SAST setup has become a developer trust problem and those are not the same fix | 8 / 11 | 2026-02-24 | yes |
| sbom generator tool | n/a | n/a | n/a | 7 | absent | r/devsecopsWhat SBOM tools are you actually using day to day in DevSecOps/AppSec? | 25 / 40 | 2026-01-23 | yes |
Totals: Reddit in the organic top 10 on 16 of 18, top 3 on 11. Aikido appears on 11 of 18 and is absent from 7. The one SERP where Aikido is higher is aikido vs snyk, by a single place.
No ranking Reddit thread here sits below position 10, but three Aikido pages do: /blog/top-secret-scanning-tools at #11, /blog/sonarqube-alternatives at #13, /blog/semgrep-alternatives at #15. Aikido wrote the article and Google chose the forum thread. One 2023 r/devops post with 6 upvotes holds organic #1 on two of these keywords.
Four of these are about Aikido and nobody from Aikido is in them. Your team already posts well: the Shai-Hulud npm research hit 561 upvotes in r/programming. The buying questions are the gap.
best application security platform for startups and small dev teams
aikido security vs snyk which is better
is aikido security good
The verdict is already favourable. The sourcing is the exposure: 3 of 3 answers mention Aikido, 0 of 3 cite aikido.dev first, and the reputation answer leads with a thread titled "Is Aikido legit or a scam". A Reddit thread is the only source on that list you can influence directly and quickly.
Purple = where the ranking threads live.
r/devsecops and r/devops first: 6 ranking threads each, and most of the fresh in-market ones. Then r/cybersecurity for audience, r/webdev and r/golang because their threads are the two newest here, r/selfhosted and r/sysadmin for price-led buyers.
Handle with care: r/devsecops "Is Aikido legit or a scam" is organic #1 on aikido security review and the first source the AI cites for "is aikido security good". It needs a named reply from someone senior, not a marketing comment.
Every time: disclose the Aikido affiliation in the comment, answer the question fully before naming Aikido, name it once, and never link in a first comment — wait to be asked.