Pricing
Priced like the risk it removes, not by the hour.
Automated analysis when you need speed, senior human-led audits when you need depth, and Tripwire, our open-source circuit breaker, once you go live. Sentinel is self-serve; audits and Tripwire deployments are scoped to your protocol.
Sentinel scan
From $100
self-serve, automated
Security audit
From $5,000
human-led, scoped
Tripwire
Free
self-hosted · managed on request
Which Do You Need?
Three layers of defense across the lifecycle: during build, before launch, and in production. Most teams run more than one.
During build
Sentinel
- Best for
- Self-serve automated analysis on a budget, or between audits
- When
- During development, pre-deployment, or continuous spot-checks
Starts at
$100 / scan
Before launch
Audit
- Best for
- Deep, human-led review before a mainnet launch or major upgrade
- When
- Code is feature-complete with 70%+ test coverage
Starts at
$5,000
In production
Tripwire
- Best for
- A circuit breaker for live contracts: rules, alerts and on-chain pause
- When
- After deployment: Tripwire starts where the audit ends
Self-hosted
Free
Sentinel: Automated Analysis
Fully automated AI analysis, priced by codebase size. Upload your code and get severity-rated findings on demand. Every tier runs the same depth; price scales with size, not rigor. Learn more →
Small
Up to 499 LOC
$100
/ scan
Medium
500–1,999 LOC
$250
/ scan
Large
2,000–9,999 LOC
$1,000
/ scan
Extra Large
10,000–49,999 LOC
$2,500
/ scan
Enterprise
50,000+ LOC
Custom
Over 50,000 LOC? Contact us for Enterprise pricing →
Smart Contract Audits
Senior, human-led engagements scoped to your codebase, priced per engagement, not from fixed tiers. Most audits ship in days to a few weeks, with a free scoping assessment and a fixed-price quote before any work starts.
What every engagement includes
- Manual line-by-line review by senior auditors
- Automated analysis via Sentinel
- Architecture review & threat modeling
- Fuzzing & invariant testing
- Economic attack modeling
- Oracle & cross-chain risk analysis
- Severity-rated report with proof-of-concept exploits
- Remediation re-audit at no extra cost
Engagement floor
From $5,000
Fixed-price quote after a free assessment. Complex L1, bridge, and ZK systems scale to $200K+.
What Affects Audit Cost
Six factors drive the quote: lines of logic-bearing code, protocol complexity, external integrations, language and chain, timeline urgency, and whether formal verification is in scope. Density and complexity matter more than raw line count.
An audit costs a fraction of an exploit.
80%
of breached protocols were never professionally audited
10.8%
of total value lost came from audited protocols
$7.3M
average 2024 DeFi exploit
A $50K audit that prevents a single exploit pays for itself many times over.
Read our analysis of the 100 largest hacksTripwire
A circuit breaker for smart contracts: it checks your rules on every block and pending transaction, alerts you, and can pause the contract on-chain. Tripwire is open source and free to self-host. For teams that cannot run it themselves, we host and manage it. Learn more →
Hosted & managed Tripwire includes
- Tripwire hosted and operated by SigIntZero: infrastructure, RPC, database, engine updates
- Mapping your protocol’s invariants into Tripwire rules
- Audit-seeded rules when paired with a SigIntZero audit
- Alert channels wired up: Telegram, Slack, Discord, email, webhooks
- On-chain response setup: least-power pauser role, key, and a tested pause
- TripwireController integration for contracts without a pause-only role
- A staged rollout from notify, to prepare, to send
- Tuning after launch to cut false alarms
Managed
Quoted per deployment
Scales with your contracts, chains and response automation. Prefer to run it yourself? Self-hosted Tripwire is free on GitHub.
Frequently Asked Questions
Get a Custom Quote
Share your codebase and target timeline. We respond with a fixed-price quote within 24 hours. Free pre-audit assessment included.
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