CleanSlop vs HOL Guard: Features, Pricing & Which Is Better (2026)

A side-by-side comparison of CleanSlop and HOL Guard — features, pricing, and ideal use cases — to help you decide which AI tool fits your workflow.

CleanSlop

Freemium

Scans vibe-coded apps for launch-blocking issues like leaked keys and data exposure, and reports what to fix first, right from your coding agent.

Agent-Native Scanning: Tell Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or other agents to scan with CleanSlop and fix findings where you build.
System-Level Code Mapping: Maps routes, background jobs, data and external services so each finding follows a real call path.
Prioritized Reports: Findings grouped as needs attention, worth a look and minor, worst first.
Evidence for Every Finding: Shows where each issue lives in your code and why it was flagged.
Plain-English Fixes: Explains what is wrong, why it matters and what to do about it.
Copy for LLM: Hands any report to your AI tool so it can apply the fixes.
GitHub App Integration: Scan only the repositories you select, read-only access.
Expert Triage Calls: Book a 15-minute call with a CleanSlop engineer to walk through findings.

A solo founder checks a Next.js and Supabase app built with an AI coding assistant before launching.
A developer discovers an exposed AI API key bundled into browser code and moves it to a server route.
A side-project builder verifies that one user's data cannot be read by another through database policies.
A Claude Code user runs a scan from the terminal and has the agent fix the top findings.
A team lead gets a short prioritized list instead of hundreds of linter warnings.
An indie hacker books an expert triage call to confirm an ambiguous finding.

HOL

Freemium

HOL Guard sits between AI coding agents and their tools to intercept risky reads, installs, MCP registrations, and config changes before execution.

Pre-execution Interception: Wraps agent launch commands so risky reads, installs, MCP registrations, and config or hook changes are surfaced as a reviewable diff before they run.
Under 50 ms Local Scan: All scanning happens on-device with no outbound network call, keeping agent workflows fast and usable fully offline.
One-keystroke Approval Flow: Each block presents the diff on screen so the developer can allow or deny with a single key, and the decision is written to a local receipt.
Multi-Harness Support: Ships tailored integrations for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Hermes, and OpenClaw so the same policy engine covers every agent.
Guard Cloud Sync: Optional cloud tier syncs decision receipts, alerts, and audit history across machines while never uploading file contents, prompts, or environment variables.
Team Policy Packs: Team plan deploys shared policy packs, team alerts, and investigation routing so multiple developers operate under the same runtime rules.
Plugin Scanner for Maintainers: Companion CLI and GitHub Action verify plugin manifests, MCP transport posture, and skill-level prompt-injection markers before release.

Blocking secret exfiltration: Stop a coding agent from reading .npmrc, .env, or cloud credential files during an automated task.
Guarding MCP installs: Review new MCP server registrations for insecure HTTP endpoints or wildcard binds before they are added to the harness.
Enforcing config approvals: Require an explicit allow on config or hook edits proposed by an agent so surprise supply-chain changes are caught in place.
Team-wide policy control: Roll out a single Guard policy pack across a team so every developer's Cursor or Claude Code session enforces the same runtime rules.
Cross-device continuity: Sync approval history through Guard Cloud so switching laptops does not force a developer to re-approve safe actions from scratch.
Plugin release gating: Use the plugin-scanner action in CI to fail PRs that publish plugins below a minimum trust score or with high-severity issues.