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| Field | Gitleaks | Beszel | act |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platforms | Universal, GitHub | Universal | GitHub |
| Local support | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Paid API | No | No | No |
| License | MIT | MIT | MIT |
| Stars | 30318 | 26521 | 72444 |
| Last activity | October 23, 2026 | October 20, 2026 | — |
| Install complexity | LOW | متوسط / Medium | — |
| Category | Security, Git, DevOps | DevOps, Monitoring | Testing, Git, DevOps |
| Best use | Best for an individual developer or small team that wants a local pre-commit secret scan plus a second CI gate. It is especially useful around deployment configuration and environment files. It does not replace a secret manager or credential revocation after a leak. | Best for an individual developer or small team running a VPS, home server, or a few Docker hosts and needing a simple dashboard, history, and alerts. Its value is combining host and container metrics in a self-hosted hub. It is not a full logs-and-traces observability platform. | Best for a developer or small team that repeatedly edits GitHub Actions workflows and wants to test a job before pushing. It provides a local run log, while a final GitHub check remains necessary. It is not suitable when exact hosted-runner parity is required. |