# Code and security review

> Code and security review at ellul.ai: £1,895, a fixed price agreed in writing before work starts, never charged by the hour. You need to know what state your code is in before you spend more.

- Price: £1,895 (one-off)
- Time: Within a week
- Page: https://ellul.ai/services/code-audit

## What is included
- Review of code quality, structure and dependencies
- Security check: secrets, access rules, known vulnerabilities
- Ranked list of issues, with how to fix each one
- Written report and a 30-minute walkthrough call

## What other providers charge
Other providers publish a median of £1,875 across 4 comparable prices (middle half £993.56 to £2,718.75). Every price with its source: https://ellul.ai/services/code-audit/readings.json

## How many people are asking for it
58 posts on Reddit asked to hire someone for code and security review between November 2025 and November 2026, 17 of them in the last 90 days, most on r/freelance_forhire, r/forhire, r/AI_Agents.

## What the buyer supplies
- Read access to the code repository
- Confirmation that you own the code or may share it
- A short note on how the app is hosted and deployed

## What the price does not cover
- A review, not a penetration test or certification
- Priced for code up to about 25,000 lines; a larger codebase is quoted
- Fixes are not included; the report says how to make each one

## A cheaper way to do it
- GitHub's Dependabot alerts come with every GitHub plan and flag dependencies known to contain security vulnerabilities. Source: [GitHub Docs: GitHub security features](https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/getting-started/github-security-features)

Get a written fixed quote: https://ellul.ai/services/code-audit#quote