Top 5 Ethiack alternatives

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Ethiack is an autonomous ethical hacking platform. Its AI agent, Hackian, continuously maps an organisation's attack surface, tests web applications, APIs and exposed services, and proves each confirmed finding with a non-destructive exploit. Human ethical hackers join for Expert pentests, and a Beacon agent extends testing to internal networks.

Findings come with evidence, steps to reproduce and mitigation guidance, and sync both ways with Jira Cloud. On the Core plan and above, testing runs continuously and retests findings each cycle, and a CI/CD step can test the deployed URL. Ethiack also checks for credentials leaked in breaches.

Ethiack is sold as an annual subscription priced by the number of assets, such as domains, subdomains, IPs, APIs and apps. Core costs €12,000 a year for up to 50 assets, and a one-off Pentest On-Demand starts at €3,000 per test, with a pay-only-if-found guarantee.

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Ethiack does a lot well, but teams usually start looking elsewhere for one of three reasons.

1. It tests running assets only. Ethiack does not read source code. Grey-box testing uses logins rather than code, and there is no code audit, SAST, dependency, secrets or IaC scanning. It checks live technology for known CVEs and looks for credentials leaked in breaches, which is useful, but teams that also want to find flaws in code before it ships need a second tool.

2. It sits after the pull request, and the fix stays with you. Ethiack does not review pull requests; its CI/CD step tests the deployed URL, after the code has landed. Findings come with mitigation guidance, without a patch or pull request. Issue tracker sync covers Jira Cloud, with no Linear support.

3. There is no free plan, and it runs only as a hosted service. Ethiack offers a 30-day free trial and a Startup Program by application, but continuous testing starts with the Core plan at €12,000 a year, and a single pentest starts at €3,000. Internal, mobile and cloud coverage, and more than 50 assets, need a custom Enterprise contract. Ethiack is EU-hosted SaaS, and the Beacon agent only tunnels in, so teams that need testing to run on infrastructure they control have fewer options.

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Here is how the leading alternatives compare, starting with the one we build.

#1 AISafe Labs

AISafe Labs is an application security platform that uses AI agents to test your code and your running application the way an attacker would. It runs code audits, black-box and white-box pentests, pull request reviews and continuous monitoring from one place, and its free plan includes a full SAST suite.

Like Ethiack, AISafe Labs runs AI pentests that prove issues against your live application. The difference is that it also reads your code. Its agents build a model of your codebase and trace user input from where it enters to where it reaches a sensitive operation, which is how they find broken access control between teams and business-logic errors before release. A separate triage pass then confirms each finding, merges duplicates that share a root cause and shows its reasoning.

Key features

• Code Audit: AI agents review the whole repository and report evidence-backed findings with exact code locations, the path user input takes, and remediation guidance.
• Code Scan, free: SAST, AI SAST, dependency scanning, secrets detection, licence risk and IaC scanning on the free Basic plan, with no card required.
• Black-box and white-box pentests: agents probe your live application over HTTP and in a browser, and white-box tests combine source access with live confirmation, so findings come with evidence you can replay.
• Pull request security review: every pull request is reviewed for security defects, using what earlier audits learned about the project.
• Endpoint monitoring: AISafe re-runs the proof of each fixed finding against your live application on a schedule and alerts you when a fix regresses.
• Fix verification (beta): check a patched source revision against the original finding before you deploy it.
• Built for coding agents: findings, remediation guidance and fix verification are available through the AISafe API, so your own coding agent can read a finding, write the patch and start the verification itself.
• Fits your workflow: export findings to Jira or Linear, get alerts in Slack or Teams, and run AISafe on your own infrastructure if you need to.

Why AISafe Labs stands out as an Ethiack alternative

• It covers your code and your live application. Code audits and the free SAST suite find flaws in source code, and white-box pentests combine that source access with live confirmation, so you do not need separate tools for each.
• It catches issues before they merge. Pull request security review checks every change for security defects, instead of testing the deployed URL after the code has landed.
• It helps with the fix, not only the finding. Your coding agent can read a finding through the API and write the patch, and fix verification tests the patched revision against the original finding before you deploy it.
• You can start free and run it where you need to. The Basic plan is free with no card required, Pro has a published price, and AISafe can run on your own infrastructure.

Pricing

The Basic plan is free and includes the full SAST suite. Pro starts at $40 a month and includes the same number of credits, which pay for code audits, pentests and continuous work; the price of a code audit depends on the size of the codebase and is shown before you start.

Ideal for: Teams that want more than a pentest: engineering and security teams that need to find logic and access-control flaws in code and in the running application, and close the loop from finding to verified fix, without moving to an enterprise contract.

#2 XBOW

XBOW is an autonomous AI pentesting platform that attacks running web applications and APIs, proves each finding with a working exploit and retests fixes. You can upload source code, API specs and documents as optional context to guide its testing.

XBOW focuses on pentesting, so it does not audit source code, scan dependencies or review pull requests. It is sold by quote as packages of Attack Credits, which each assessment draws down, and it does not publish prices on its website.

Key features

• Black-box pentests of web applications and their APIs
• A validated exploit with reproduction steps for each finding
• Free, unlimited retests of a deployed fix
• Source code, API specs and documents as optional context
• An API that can start a pentest on merge or from your own scheduler
• Self-hosted deployment through sales

Ideal for: Security teams that want autonomous, exploit-backed pentesting of running web applications and APIs, and buy through a usage-based contract.

#3 MindFort

MindFort is an autonomous AI pentesting platform whose agents attack running web apps, APIs and networks, prove findings with a working exploit, open patch pull requests and retest after the fix. Linking a GitHub repository adds white-box code assessment, and a GitHub app reviews each pull request.

MindFort is priced as a monthly plan with a credit allowance. Starter costs $499 a month for 250 credits and 1 target, and Scale costs $999 a month for 800 credits and unlimited targets.

Key features

• Pentests of web apps, APIs, MCP servers and IPs
• White-box assessment with a linked GitHub repository
• Pull request review through a GitHub app
• Scheduled assessments, from daily to monthly
• Patch pull requests on GitHub, at 1 credit each
• Jira and Linear integration, and private deployment on Enterprise

Ideal for: Teams on GitHub that want AI pentests with patch pull requests and a published monthly price.

#4 Horizon3.ai

Horizon3.ai's NodeZero is an autonomous pentesting platform that attacks internal networks from a host inside your network, external attack surfaces, and AWS, Azure and Kubernetes environments, chaining weaknesses and proving each one. NodeZero WebApp, sold separately, crawls, logs into and attacks running web apps and their APIs.

NodeZero is priced per asset, from $15 per asset per test on Flex or $50 per asset a year with unlimited testing on Core. NodeZero WebApp Flex costs $10,000 per app per test.

Key features

• Internal network pentests from a host inside your network
• External attack surface and cloud testing for AWS, Azure and Kubernetes
• Proof and an attack path for each finding
• NodeZero WebApp for running web apps and their APIs
• Fix guidance and one-click retests
• Jira and ServiceNow integration

Ideal for: Security teams that want to test their networks, external surface and cloud the way an attacker would chain them, priced per asset.

#5 Pentera

Pentera is an automated security validation platform that runs safe, real attacks in live production and proves which gaps are exploitable. It has modules for internal networks (Core), the external attack surface (Surface), cloud and identity (Cloud), and web apps and APIs.

Pentera Resolve routes fixes and retests them. Pentera is sold as an annual contract by quote, and its AWS Marketplace listing shows one unit at $120,000 for 12 months.

Key features

• Safe, real attacks against internal networks and the external attack surface
• Cloud and identity testing
• AI web app and API testing with exploit evidence and reproduction steps
• Validation of secrets exposed in public Git repositories
• Recurring scheduled tests, with fixes retested through Resolve
• Jira, Linear and ServiceNow integrations, and on-prem or cloud deployment

Ideal for: Larger security teams that want to validate their whole environment, from network and cloud to web apps, under one annual contract.

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The right choice depends on what you need your security tooling to catch and how your team works. When you compare options, check:

• Whether you need code and live testing. Pentests and code analysis find different problems. Decide whether you want both, and whether one tool can cover them.
• What you need tested. Some tools focus on web applications and APIs, others on networks, cloud and the wider attack surface. Match the tool to the assets that matter most to you.
• When issues are caught. Look at whether the tool reviews pull requests before they merge, or only tests the application after it is deployed.
• How fixes get done. Look at whether the tool writes patches, guides your own coding agent, and verifies that a fix works before you deploy it.
• What it costs as you grow. Compare billing models: per asset, per test, per credit or by quote, and whether you can start free before you talk to sales.

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Ethiack is a strong choice for continuous, exploit-backed testing of your attack surface, with human ethical hackers when you need them. When you also want your code covered, AISafe Labs helps you go further: AI agents that find the logic and access-control flaws in your source code, pentests that prove them on your live application, pull request review, and fix verification that closes the loop.

You can start on the free Basic plan, which includes the full SAST suite, and run your first code audit in minutes. Start for free↗.