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Engagement Matrix

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

Coverage Map

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

See Sentinel

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

See audits

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

See Tripwire
Self-Serve

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 →

S

Small

Up to 499 LOC

$100

/ scan

M

Medium

500–1,999 LOC

$250

/ scan

L

Large

2,000–9,999 LOC

$1,000

/ scan

XL

Extra Large

10,000–49,999 LOC

$2,500

/ scan

ENTERPRISE

Enterprise

50,000+ LOC

Custom

Human-Led

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+.

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Cost Drivers

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.

Read the 2026 audit cost guide
Threat Intel

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 hacks
In production

Tripwire

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.

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Answers

Frequently Asked Questions

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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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