Free for the world. If it helped you, help us keep it free.
Lictor's core is open source under Apache 2.0 — free forever, no strings attached. The scanner runs on Cloudflare Workers, a domain, and the maintainer's nights and weekends. If you've used Lictor and it helped, here are the ways to give back. None of them are required. All of them are appreciated.
Ways to help that don't cost money
Honestly, these matter more than the cash. Money runs the servers; community runs the project.
⭐ Star the repo
It's the only number that helps Lictor get discovered. Takes 4 seconds.
github.com/Raffa-jarrl/Lictor-AI →🐛 File a false-negative
If Lictor missed a real bug in your code, it's the most valuable kind of issue we can get. We fix and credit.
Open false-negative issue →🗣 File a voice-bug
If a Lictor finding sounded too jargony, that's a bug. Voice is the product. We rewrite and credit.
Open voice-bug issue →🔍 Contribute a pattern
If you know a vibe-coder security pattern we haven't tuned for yet, send it. Public repo URLs in the wild are best.
Suggest a pattern →📣 Tell a builder
Know someone shipping a Lovable / Bolt / v0 app? Send them lictor-ai.com/scan. Free, 30 seconds, no signup.
Tweet about Lictor →💻 Write code
Rust check authors, Tauri front-end, browser-extension hackers, technical writers — all welcome. Start with good-first-issue.
Why we chose donations over a paywall
The security industry is built on extracting fear-rent — selling protection at the price the market will bear when someone is panicking about a breach. We didn't want to be that. Vibe-coders are exactly the audience that gets *priced out* of every existing security tool, and that's the audience most likely to ship a bug that hurts real users.
So Lictor's core stays free. The scanner is free. The CLI is free. The skill suite is free. The browser extension is free. The standard (AUDIT.json) is free. None of that has a paywall, ever.
We pay for it three ways, in this order:
- The maintainer's own work (Raffa — for now)
- Donations (you, if you want — this page)
- A modest commercial tier (Lictor for Teams at $19/month flat, no per-seat) for companies that need continuous monitoring + Slack integration + audit log export. Optional. The free tier already does everything an individual founder needs.
That's the model. Free for the world; voluntary giving from the people it helps; a small commercial revenue stream to fund the rest. If the world treats us back the same way we treat it, this works. So far it has.
— Raffa, May 2026
Whatever way you choose: thank you.
And if you didn't choose any of them — that's fine too. Use Lictor anyway. That's why it exists.