Lower runtimes are better.
| Repository | Kingfisher Runtime | TruffleHog Runtime | Gitleaks Runtime |
|---|---|---|---|
| croc | 2.64 | 10.36 | 3.10 |
| rails | 8.75 | 24.19 | 24.24 |
| ruby | 22.93 | 132.68 | 61.37 |
| gitlab | 135.41 | 325.93 | 350.84 |
| django | 6.91 | 227.63 | 59.50 |
| lucene | 15.62 | 89.11 | 76.24 |
| mongodb | 25.37 | 174.93 | 175.80 |
| linux | 205.19 | 597.51 | 548.96 |
| typescript | 64.99 | 183.04 | 232.34 |
Note: For Gitleaks and detect-secrets, validated/verified counts are not available.
| Repository | Kingfisher Validated | TruffleHog Verified | Gitleaks Verified |
|---|---|---|---|
| croc | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| rails | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ruby | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| gitlab | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| django | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| lucene | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| mongodb | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| linux | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| typescript | 0 | 0 | 0 |
'Network Requests' shows the total number of HTTP calls made during a scan. Since Gitleaks and detect‑secrets don’t validate secrets, they never make any network requests.
| Repository | Kingfisher Network Requests | TruffleHog Network Requests | Gitleaks Network Requests |
|---|---|---|---|
| croc | 0 | 17 | 0 |
| rails | 1 | 25 | 0 |
| ruby | 3 | 33 | 0 |
| gitlab | 17 | 15624 | 0 |
| django | 0 | 66 | 0 |
| lucene | 0 | 116 | 0 |
| mongodb | 1 | 191 | 0 |
| linux | 0 | 287 | 0 |
| typescript | 0 | 10 | 0 |
Lower runtimes are better. Validated/Verified counts are reported where available. 'Network Requests' indicates the number of HTTP requests made during scanning.
| Tool | Reported Version | Executable Size |
|---|---|---|
| Gitleaks* | 8.30.1 | 14.6 MiB (15,301,234 bytes) |
| Kingfisher | 2.1.0 | 25.3 MiB (26,557,520 bytes) |
| TruffleHog | 3.97.2 | 162.7 MiB (170,552,610 bytes) |
* Gitleaks does not support credential validation or blast-radius mapping.
Measured in September 2026 from the unaltered installed macOS arm64 executables. Versions are the values reported by each executable. Smaller binaries are easier to distribute, deploy in CI, and embed in container images.
OS: darwin Architecture: arm64 CPU Cores: 16 RAM: 48.00 GB