Compare · XBOW · checked 2026-11-08
XBOW publishes no price on its own site; its own AWS Marketplace listing shows a 12-month package of attack credits for $50,000. Its $4,000 and $8,000 single tests were discontinued on 16 July 2026. Of 43 other platforms that test web apps, 14 publish a price for one AI test, from $500.
Lightspeed single tests at $4,000 (Plus, lightweight apps) and $8,000 (Premium, multi-module apps), per XBOW’s pricing page as archived in April 2026. Archived page.
Lightspeed discontinued. XBOW’s blog: “Lightspeed has been deprecated as of 2026-07-16.” Source.
XBOW’s pricing page says pricing is “scoped to your environment” and usage-based, with a request-a-quote form. Its own AWS Marketplace listing (sold by XBOW): $50,000 for a 12-month package of attack credits, overage $0.01 a unit. Listing.
Vanta gives customers on its Plus and Growth plans (up to 750 employees) one free XBOW pen test a year, with coverage limits. Vanta.
Hosted platform that runs many short-lived AI agents against your web apps and APIs, chains flaws into working exploits, reports only findings it could reproduce, and re-tests fixes.
From XBOW’s own pages and news releases: xbow.com.
Commercial platforms whose own pages say they test web applications. Those with a published price for one AI test of one web app come first, cheapest first; then the rest by name.
| Platform | One AI web-app test | Retest | How findings are checked, per the vendor | Other published pricing | Runs as |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Invicti Agentic Pentestinvicti.com | $500 | Not stated | AI only | $500 max per pentest (one application and its API suite) | SaaS |
| Ostorlab Agentic Deep Scan (Agentic Pentest)ostorlab.co | $500 | Included | AI only | Agentic Pentest one-time: Core $500, Advanced $2,000, Elite $4,000 (30-day retest window) | SaaSSelf-hosted |
| Novahadrian.io | $1,396 | Not stated | Findings are human-reviewed ('human-reviewed, zero false positives') | From €1,250 per test excluding VAT | SaaS |
| Escape AI Pentestingescape.tech | $3,000 | Not stated | AI pentests run with no human in the loop; human OSCP-certified pentest reports are offered for compliance | On-Demand AI-Powered Pentest $3,000 (12-month contract) on Escape's own AWS Marketplace listing | SaaSSelf-hosted |
| Helix Cyberhelix.ml | $3,000 | Included | Agents are 'overseen by humans'; Helix says a human reviews findings before the report ships | Black box $3,000 | SaaS |
| Intruder AI Pentestingintruder.io | $3,000 | Included | None per test: Intruder says a human in the loop is no longer needed; agents built by its CREST-certified… | $3,500 per test | SaaS |
| Pentest-Tools.com AI Pentests (Specter)pentest-tools.com | $3,000 | Included | Not in the base AI Pentest; the Hybrid Pentest tier adds review, manual retest and sign-off by certified… | $3,000 per application (AI Pentest, incl. 2 free retests) | SaaS |
| Snipestingrai.io | $3,000 | Included | Autonomous Pentest: no human testers involved; Hybrid Pentest: human pentesters validate findings and sign… | Autonomous Pentest $3,000 per assessment (one web app + APIs) or US$650/month on a 12-month plan | SaaS |
| Ethiackethiack.com | $3,350 | Included | AI-only tests (Swift, Depth) or AI plus human ethical hackers (Expert); the PTaaS line adds expert human… | Pentest from €3,000 per test | SaaS |
| Cobalt Autonomous Pentestcobalt.io | $3,500 | Not stated | Cobalt Core pentesters approve the AI test plan before testing, approve or deny tool calls during the run… | $3,500 per test, limited-time offer for web app tests started and completed by 31 Dec 2026 | SaaS |
| StealthNet AIstealthnet.ai | $3,500 | Included | StealthStrike: no human validation; AI Pentest and Hybrid: a senior US-based pentester validates every finding | StealthStrike (AI-only) $1,500 for a single small scope | SaaS |
| Aikido AI Pentestaikido.dev | $4,000 | Included | AI-only: separate agents re-exploit each finding; the run pauses and shows the customer the attack analysis… | Typical pentest $4,000 / €3,500 / £3,000 per assessment | SaaSSelf-hosted |
| Snyk Evo Continuous Offensive Securitysnyk.io | $4,000 | Not stated | Not stated | 4,000 credits per assessment (1 credit = $1) | SaaS |
| NodeZerohorizon3.ai | $10,000 | Not stated | AI only | Per asset, 12-month term: Flex $15 per asset per test | SaaSSelf-hostedDocker |
| Aresassailai.com | — | Not stated | No published subscription price (demo/contact) | SaaSSelf-hosted | |
| Astra Autonomous Pentest (Pentest Auto)getastra.com | — | Every meaningful finding passes through Astra's expert validation layer; Pentest Auto includes one human… | Pentest Auto $2,999/yr (1 target) | SaaS | |
| Beagle Securitybeaglesecurity.com | — | Not stated | Essential $119/month (2 tests/month), Advanced $359/month (15 tests/month) | SaaS | |
| Burp ATportswigger.net | — | Human-led: the tester gives tasks, approves or blocks tool actions per tool, and draws the conclusions | Public beta: $19 / $89 / $249 per user per month (Standard / Plus / Power) | Desktop | |
| Hacktronhacktron.ai | — | Security researchers validate every Whitebox finding before the report; researchers monitor the agents on Red… | Whitebox $50 to $25,000 per pentest (about $500 per 100,000 lines of code) | SaaSSelf-hosted | |
| Neoprojectdiscovery.io | — | None stated; a separate verifier reproduces each claim, and users can run it task by task to stay in the loop | Free $0 | SaaSSelf-hosted | |
| Penetrifypenetrify.cloud | — | Not stated | Starter $100/mo (1 test) | SaaS | |
| Penligentpenligent.ai | — | Operator-driven: Agent or Manual mode; the user can edit, retest or skip tasks and re-validate findings… | Free $0 | Self-hostedDesktop | |
| Penterapentera.io | — | Not stated | No price on its own site | ||
| Pentipenti.ai | — | A certified pentester can validate any finding on any plan; Plus includes 3 and Advanced 6 human-verified… | Starter $20/mo | SaaSSelf-hosted | |
| PurpleRidge Securitypurpleridge.ai | — | None stated; testing is fully automated and needs no intervention | Credit packs: Starter $399 (100 credits), Essential $1,699 (500 credits), Advanced $2,999 (1,000 credits) | SaaS | |
| Sablevulnetic.ai | — | Operator chooses Autonomous or User-approve mode (approve every command) and reviews a reproducible proof for… | Practitioner $300/mo (web app, API, network and AD assessments, report, retests) | SaaSSelf-hostedDocker | |
| Sara Pentestsynack.com | — | All findings validated by Synack; report is AI-generated and human-validated | From $5,085 for 1 Standard Sara Pentest (one-time or recurring monthly) | SaaS | |
| Siemba Autonomous Pentestingsiemba.io | — | An AI layer triages every finding; high-severity findings on the autonomous plan are validated by certified… | Autonomous Pentesting from $500/month (25 test runs/month) | SaaSMCP | |
| TurboPentestturbopentest.com | — | None in normal operation: vendor says no TurboPentest staff review customer data or code; AI agents process… | $99 per pentest (Audit-Ready: 1 target, 4 agents) | SaaS | |
| XHack AIxhack.io | — | Self-serve plans are agent-driven; senior human red-team review only by moving to a managed VAPT engagement | Individual AI plans $20 / $49 / $150 per month | SaaSDesktop | |
| Breach360breachlock.com | — | Optional: a certified BreachLock pentester can review every finding as a final checkpoint | Not published | Self-hostedCLIDocker | |
| Bright AI Pentesting (AI PT)brightsec.com | — | Optional: run fully autonomous or gate exploit steps for human review | Not published | SaaS | |
| CodeAnt AI Pentestingcodeant.ai | — | Every critical finding is reproduced in a sandbox and checked by a researcher before it reaches you | Not published | SaaS | |
| Equixlyequixly.com | — | Not stated | Not published | SaaS | |
| FireCompassfirecompass.com | — | Optional expert-in-the-loop; the vendor says human experts validate the highest-risk findings and sensitive… | Not published | SaaSSelf-hosted | |
| Noveenovee.security | — | Not stated for findings; scope, guardrails and test categories can be approved before execution | Not published | SaaSSelf-hosted | |
| Pensarpensarai.com | — | Optional human-attested pentest: a US-based, OSCP-certified lead audits every finding and signs the report | Not published | SaaSCLI | |
| Prancer (SwarmHack)prancer.io | — | Not stated | Not published | SaaSSelf-hosted | |
| RidgeBotridgesecurity.ai | — | Not stated | Not published | SaaSSelf-hosted | |
| RidgeGenridgesecurity.ai | — | No human review of findings stated; separate validation agents reproduce each finding, and higher-impact… | Not published | Self-hosted | |
| Simbian AI Pentest Agentsimbian.ai | — | Optional hybrid model with partner LRQA, where human testers certify results and handle edge cases | Not published | SaaSSelf-hosted | |
| Sybilrunsybil.com | — | Not stated for findings (validated by its own agents); you can choose to review each test plan before it runs | Not published | SaaS | |
| Terra Platformterra.security | — | Human-on-the-loop: a human pentester makes the call at every critical decision point; agents validate… | Not published | SaaSSelf-hosted |
Scope differs between vendors (roles, endpoints, black or white box); read each vendor’s wording on the pricing page before comparing. Checked November 8, 2026.
Agents you run yourself, with your own model keys, against apps you are authorised to test. Ordered by GitHub stars.
Runs a team of AI agents that probe a codebase, live web app or API from a Docker sandbox, try to exploit what they find, and report validated findings with proof-of-concept exploits and suggested fixes.
Reads a web application's source code to find likely attack paths, then attacks the running app and its APIs with browser automation and command-line tools, and reports only vulnerabilities it managed to exploit.
A self-hosted multi-agent system: you describe a target and goal in plain language, and a team of AI agents plans the test, runs security tools inside an isolated Docker sandbox, keeps a memory of what worked, and writes a report.
An agent that drives Claude Code or Codex through staged reconnaissance, exploitation and reporting against a CTF box or pentest target; the original research version, which guides a human tester step by step, is kept as an interactive mode.
An MCP server that lets an AI client such as Claude Desktop, Cursor or VS Code Copilot run a large catalogue of locally installed security tools against a target, with a decision engine that picks tools and parameters.
Caution Check Point (2 Sep 2025) reported threat actors on dark-web forums claiming to use HexStrike AI to exploit three Citrix NetScaler flaws (CVE-2025-7775, CVE-2025-7776, CVE-2025-8424) within days of disclosure, cutting exploitation time 'from days to under 10 minutes'; The Hacker News reported the same on 3 Sep 2025. The README itself warns that it gives AI agents powerful system access and should run in isolated VMs. Source.
A Python framework for building AI agents that carry out offensive and defensive security work such as CTFs and bug-bounty testing; archived in 2026 as a research artifact.
Caution The maker itself warns that the archived framework is unmaintained attack tooling: dependencies will age and the prompt-injection weaknesses it documented will not be fixed, so it should run only in isolated environments against authorised targets and never as part of a production security programme (its README). Source.
Keygraph, which makes Shannon, published a benchmark against one app that Doyensec had tested with XBOW and Aikido at $4,000 each: XBOW reported 7 findings; Shannon runs cost $6.10 to $115 in model fees. It is the vendor’s own comparison (Keygraph). Stars: Strix 74k, Shannon 51k, PentAGI 34k, PentestGPT 16k, HexStrike AI 13k, CAI (Cybersecurity AI) 9.9k.
XBOW’s own pricing page gives no figure: pricing is “scoped to your environment” and usage-based. Its own AWS Marketplace listing shows a 12-month package of attack credits at $50,000, with overage at $0.01 a unit. Until 16 July 2026 it sold single tests at $4,000 and $8,000.
Vanta says customers on its Plus and Growth plans with up to 750 employees get one free XBOW pen test a year, with coverage limits. XBOW itself lists no free tier.
Web applications and APIs, according to its own platform page. It doesn’t describe internal network or Active Directory testing; for those, see NodeZero vs Pentera.
43 other platforms in this catalogue say they test web applications, and 14 publish a price for a single AI test of one web app, from $500. Open-source agents such as Strix, Shannon, PentAGI are free to run with your own model keys.
Each tool’s own sources are linked from its entry. How tools are chosen and ordered, and how to correct an entry: methodology.
AI Pentesting Tools. “XBOW pricing, and alternatives that publish theirs.” Updated November 8, 2026. https://aipentestingtools.com/xbow-alternatives/