kingfisher/docs/COMPARISON.md

Runtime Comparison (seconds)

Lower runtimes are better.

Repository	Kingfisher Runtime	TruffleHog Runtime	GitLeaks Runtime	detect-secrets Runtime
croc	2.64	10.36	3.10	0.16
rails	8.75	24.19	24.24	0.48
ruby	22.93	132.68	61.37	0.79
gitlab	135.41	325.93	350.84	5.04
django	6.91	227.63	59.50	0.61
lucene	15.62	89.11	76.24	0.66
mongodb	25.37	174.93	175.80	2.74
linux	205.19	597.51	548.96	5.49
typescript	64.99	183.04	232.34	4.23

Validated/Verified Findings Comparison

Note: For GitLeaks and detect-secrets, validated/verified counts are not available.

Repository	Kingfisher Validated	TruffleHog Verified	GitLeaks Verified	detect-secrets Verified
croc	0	0	0	0
rails	0	0	0	0
ruby	0	0	0	0
gitlab	6	6	0	0
django	0	0	0	0
lucene	0	0	0	0
mongodb	0	0	0	0
linux	0	0	0	0
typescript	0	0	0	0

Network Requests Comparison

'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	detect-secrets Network Requests
croc	0	17	0	0
rails	1	25	0	0
ruby	3	33	0	0
gitlab	17	15624	0	0
django	0	66	0	0
lucene	0	116	0	0
mongodb	1	191	0	0
linux	0	287	0	0
typescript	0	10	0	0

QuickChart.io Visualizations

Runtime Chart

Lower runtimes are better

Validated/Verified Findings Chart

Validated/Verified counts are reported where available

Lower runtimes are better. Validated/Verified counts are reported where available. 'Network Requests' indicates the number of HTTP requests made during scanning.

OS: darwin
Architecture: arm64
CPU Cores: 16
RAM: 48.00 GB