Socket analyzes your dependencies for supply-chain risk. Aevral reads what your own code grants. Supply chain and access control, two doors into the same repo.
| Row | Socket | Aevral |
|---|---|---|
| Question it answers | What supply-chain risk does a package or dependency change carry? | Who has access to what in the code, and did a change widen it? |
| Stated job | Supply-chain analysis of packages and dependency changes | Authorization, IDOR, and business-logic reading of the repo and PR diff |
| Where it runs | Across the dependency tree, per Socket's docs | Console scan on the default branch; PR review opt-in per organization |
| Unit of work | The package behavior inspection | The finding as a lead with evidence, across files |
| Complementary? | Yes | Yes |
Socket guards the packages: it analyzes packages and dependency changes for supply-chain risk, like install scripts, obfuscation, and privileged API use, so a suspicious package surfaces before it lands. That is a supply-chain job, and it is Socket's. Aevral guards the access rules: it reads your own code, the repository snapshot, for authorization, IDOR, and business-logic access control, with PR review riding the same App as an opt-in add-on.
The supply chain and the access rules are two different surfaces, and this page addresses each one on its own published terms. This page keeps the boundary: Socket's stated job on the dependencies, Aevral's reading on your code, no claims about results.
Socket
Socket is a supply-chain security tool for package dependencies. It analyzes packages and dependency changes for supply-chain risk, like install scripts, obfuscation, and privileged API use, across the dependency tree.
Aevral
Aevral is a security researcher for your code, built to read authorization, IDOR, and business-logic access control with cross-file context. The whole-repo scan is live and self-serve; PR review is live and opt-in per organization; paid PR plans are live in the console. A finding is a lead with evidence, and a human decides.
This change wires the payments integration that landed with a new dependency, requesting a token scope that covers the whole organization so the client never hits a permissions error. The code is valid and the integration works first try.
import { PaymentsClient } from "@acme/payments"const token = process.env.PAYMENTS_TOKENexport const payments = new PaymentsClient({ token, scope: "org:*" })The integration needs one endpoint, and the token can act on the whole organization. An over-grant is an authorization issue even when every line is deliberate: the blast radius of the credential now exceeds the job. Aevral is built to read the added lines for the access they grant, not just the code they run.
Keep Socket for supply-chain analysis of the dependency tree; run Aevral for the authorization and business-logic reading of the repository, and of every pull request through its opt-in PR review.
No. Socket does its stated job and keeps doing it. Aevral runs alongside it with its own reading: authorization, IDOR, and business-logic access control across the repository, and across every pull request through its opt-in PR review.
No. This page states each product's job and shows one worked example of Aevral's own reading. Results on your code depend on your code; evaluations belong to you.
Aevral is self-serve: install the GitHub App and log in to the console. The waitlist form is a launch-updates channel; joining does not reserve a price, access, or a contract.
More comparisons
The shorter version, at a glance: Socket and Aevral on the works-alongside page.
Primary sources: Socket documentation; Socket product page; Aevral whole-repo scan; Aevral PR security review.
One GitHub App. A report with evidence. A prompt for the agent you already use.