Pricing

Simple, per-installation pricing.

Today: KERN-guard. Soon: kern-sight, kern-mcp-security, and the KERN One bundle.

Monthly billing. Cancel any time. Public repos are free forever.

Free

$0/ month

For public repos and kicking the tires.

Unlimited public repos

Up to 3 private repos

144 AST rules on every PR

Delta-only PR comments

5 LLM reviews / month trial

Community support

Install on GitHub

Pro BYOK

$19/ month

Bring your own Anthropic or OpenAI key. No per-review markup.

Everything in Free

Unlimited private repos

Unlimited reviews using your API key

Priority queue

Email support

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Requires Anthropic or OpenAI key

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Pro Hosted

$29/ month

No API key needed — we pay the provider.

Everything in Free

Unlimited private repos

100 LLM reviews / month included

$0.20 per additional review

Priority queue

Email support

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Coming soon

KERN One

The bundle. KERN-guard, kern-sight, and kern-mcp-security in one.

Everything in KERN-guard Pro

Everything in kern-sight Pro

Everything in kern-mcp-security Pro

Early access to new targets + custom rules

Cross-product priority support

Coming soon

What's BYOK?

You provide your own Anthropic or OpenAI API key. Reviews run on your account — no per-review markup from us. Ideal for teams with existing AI budget or high review volume.

The KERN product line

One bundle, three products.

KERN-guard ships first. kern-sight and kern-mcp-security follow.

KERN-guard

Automated PR review. 127 AST rules plus optional LLM pass. Delta-only.

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kern-sight

Observability for KERN code. Trace guards, effects, and boundaries across deployments. Coming soon.

kern-mcp-security

Hosted MCP server scanner. 12 OWASP MCP Top 10 rules. CI and dashboard. Coming soon.

Common questions

Is pricing per-seat or per-installation?

Per GitHub installation. One price covers every collaborator on every repo in the installation — we don't count seats. Simple for small teams. Larger orgs may contact us for volume pricing as we roll it out.

What happens when I hit 100 LLM reviews on Pro Hosted?

Reviews keep running. You're billed $0.20 per additional review on your next invoice. No hard cutoff. Heavy users typically switch to Pro BYOK.

Can I switch between Hosted and BYOK?

Yes. The portal at admin-guard.kernlang.dev lets you switch plans; your installation keeps its history and settings.

Do you offer yearly billing?

Not in v1. Yearly plans are coming in v1.1 with two months free. For now: monthly only, cancel any time.

Do you offer refunds?

No refunds on monthly charges. See our refund policy for yearly plans once available.

Start free. Upgrade when you need LLM review.