Short answer: CertiK does not publish a current smart-contract audit rate card. Its official audit page sends buyers to request a quote, so a precise public “CertiK price” should not be presented as fact. The only reliable number for your project is a written quote tied to a repository, commit, scope, chain, and review timeline.
For planning context—not as a CertiK quote—Sherlock's February 2026 market reference puts smart-contract audits across the market at roughly $5,000 to $250,000+, with many DeFi protocol audits landing between $25,000 and $100,000. Provider, code size, language, novelty, urgency, and remediation rounds can move the number materially.
CertiK describes its audit as a combination of manual review, automated AI-assisted review, and optional formal verification. Its public page says findings are severity-classified and accompanied by remediation recommendations. It also distinguishes the audit from its broader Skynet monitoring product.
What the page does not publish is a fixed price by line count, contract count, or protocol type. Any third-party table assigning CertiK a precise range is an estimate, not CertiK's rate card.
Provide the information that changes reviewer effort:
Ask the quote to separate the initial review, remediation pass, optional services, and any rush premium. That makes proposals comparable even when firms package work differently.
CertiK and Firepan solve different parts of the assurance problem. CertiK offers a scoped professional audit and optional formal-verification work. Firepan offers an unauthenticated public-repository surface scan, authenticated repository workflows, and hypothesis-driven deep audits. Firepan's deep-audit implementation can use Slither as best-effort corroboration when the target compiles; it does not claim that every run includes every open-source analyzer.
Firepan's subscription pricing is public, while CertiK's audit pricing is quote-based. Neither an automated scan nor a named audit guarantees that a system is vulnerability-free. Teams should choose layers based on scope, novelty, value at risk, and the assurance their users or counterparties require.
Q: What is the exact price of a CertiK audit?
A: CertiK does not publish a current rate card. Request a written quote for your exact repository, commit, and scope. Market-wide estimates are useful for budgeting but are not a CertiK offer.
Q: Why is the price quote-based?
A: Review effort varies with code size, architecture, language, test quality, external integrations, novelty, deadline, and whether remediation review or formal verification is included.
Q: Does a CertiK audit include ongoing monitoring?
A: Treat the audit and monitoring as separate scope questions. CertiK offers the broader Skynet product, but buyers should confirm exactly what their engagement includes after the audit report is delivered.
Q: Can a free Firepan scan replace a CertiK audit?
A: No. The free Firepan surface scan is fast repository triage, not a certification or a guarantee. It can help a team find signals early and decide where deeper automated or human review is warranted.
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