Best Penetration Testing Tools
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What are Penetration Testing Tools?
Penetration testing software tools enable security professionals to test applications and IT systems to identify vulnerabilities. Penetration testing tools, sometimes known as "pen testing" tools, can simulate a hack or attack in order to test the security of a given application or system. Compare and read user reviews of the best Penetration Testing tools currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Carbide
Carbide
Carbide complements your testing efforts by helping document findings, track remediation, and prove control effectiveness. Post-engagement, Carbide enables teams to link vulnerabilities to audit controls, assign remediation owners, and maintain evidence of resolution. Through integrations and dashboards, you can monitor your cloud environment for ongoing security gaps while using Carbide workflows to ensure that testing outcomes drive long-term security improvements.Starting Price: $7,500 annually -
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Quantum Armor
Silent Breach
Your attack surface is the sum of every attack vector that can be used to breach your perimeter defenses. In other words, it is the total quantity of information you are exposing to the outside world. Typically, the larger the attack surface, the more opportunities hackers will have to find a weak link which they can then exploit to breach your network. Professional hackers typically follow the cyber kill chain when attacking a target, and surveying the target's attack surface is normally the very first step in this process; what is known as advanced reconnaissance. Reducing the attack surface can minimize risk further down the cyber kill chain, preventing attacks before they even occur by eliminating potential attack vectors as early as possible. The cyber kill chain is a method of categorizing and tracking the various stages of a cyberattack from the early reconnaissance stages to the exfiltration of data.Starting Price: From $49/asset/month -
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Invicti
Invicti Security
Application security is noisy and overly complicated. The good news: you can relieve that unnecessary noise and dramatically reduce your risk of attacks with Invicti. Keeping up with security is more manageable with accurate, automated testing that scales as your needs shift and grow. That's where Invicti shines. With a leading dynamic application security testing solution (DAST), Invicti helps teams automate security tasks and save hundreds of hours each month by identifying the vulnerabilities that really matter. Combining dynamic with interactive testing (DAST + IAST) and software composition analysis (SCA), Invicti scans every corner of an app to find what other tools miss. With asset discovery, it's easier to discover all web assets — even ones that are lost, forgotten, or created by rogue departments. Through tried-and-true methods, Invicti helps DevSecOps teams get ahead of their workloads to hit critical deadlines, improve processes, and communicate more effectively. -
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Hakware Archangel
Hakware
Hakware Archangel is an Artificial Intelligence based vulnerability scanner and pentesting tool. Archangel scanner enables organizations to monitor their networks, systems, and applications for security vulnerabilities with advanced Artificial intelligence continuously testing your environment. Why use Archangel? -Identify vulnerabilities before cyber criminals do -Our vulnerability scanning mitigates the risks of a data breach, which will come with a range of costs, including remediation, the loss of customers as a result of reputational damage and fines -Vulnerability scanning is not explicitly required by the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) or POPI (Protection Of Personal Information Act), but the -Regulation does require organisations that process personal data to ensure that they have implemented appropriate technical and organisational security measures – which includes identifying vulnerabilities -The international standard for information security, ISO 27001Starting Price: $100 -
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Xenex
XeneX.ai
XeneX combines a highly flexible total solution with deeply integrated security tools and the peace-of-mind provided by 24/7 availability of world-class security experts. Gartner’s SOC Visibility Triad is a multi-component approach to network-centric threat detection & response. XeneX takes this one step further with its innovative SOC-as-a-Service solution that evolves from “data and dashboards” towards “clarity and correlation. XeneX’s Security Operations Center-as-a-Service integrates virtually everything needed, “out of the box” including our powerful, proprietary XDR+ engine. This is a complete Cloud Security Operation Center (SOC) solution and an advanced global security team providing total peace-of-mind. XeneX integrates powerful cross-correlation (XDR) technologies that take threat detection and response to the next level. Read on below to find out more. -
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Quixxi
Quixxi Security
Quixxi is a leading provider of mobile app security solutions that empowers enterprises and security professionals to secure their mobile applications. Quixxi is proud to be the only provider of a patented and proprietary mobile app security solution. Our services includes SCAN, SHIELD, and SUPERVISE. SCAN (SAST/DAST/WebAPI) is a comprehensive application vulnerability assessment tool that automates and integrates with the development process, providing full explanations and recommendations to identify and fix vulnerabilities. SHIELD (RASP), on the other hand, is an application shielding tool that provides baseline security controls to protect the intellectual property in mobile apps and shield them against malicious attacks by third parties with one click. SUPERVISE is a runtime application monitoring tool that enables remote disabling, messaging, security logs, and customer analytics for better app management.Starting Price: $29 for One-Off plan -
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Defendify
Defendify
Founded in 2017, Defendify is pioneering All-In-One Cybersecurity® for organizations with growing security needs, backed by experts offering ongoing guidance and support. Delivering multiple layers of protection, Defendify provides an easy-to-use platform designed to strengthen cybersecurity across people, process, and technology, continuously. Defendify streamlines cybersecurity assessments, testing, policies, training, detection, response, and containment in one consolidated and cost-effective cybersecurity solution. 3 layers, 13 solutions, 1 platform, including: • Managed Detection & Response • Cyber Incident Response Plan • Cybersecurity Threat Alerts • Phishing Simulations • Cybersecurity Awareness Training • Cybersecurity Awareness Videos • Cybersecurity Awareness Posters & Graphics • Technology Acceptable Use Policy • Cybersecurity Risk Assessments • Penetration Testing • Vulnerability Scanning • Compromised Password Scanning • Website Security ScanningStarting Price: $0 -
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HackenProof
HackenProof
We are a web3 bug bounty platform since 2017. We help to set a clear scope (or you can do it by yourself), agree on a budget for valid bugs (platform subscription is free), and make recommendations based on your company`s needs. We launch your program and reach out to our committed crowd of hackers, attracting top talent to your bounty program by with consistent and coordinated attention. Our community of hackers starts searching for vulnerabilities. Vulnerabilities are submitted and managed via our Coordination platform. Reports are reviewed and triaged by the HackenProof team (or by yourself), and then passed on to your security team for fixing. Depending on preference, you can choose to publicly disclose any reports, once the issues are resolved. We connect business with a community of hackers from different parts of the globe.Starting Price: $0 per month -
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Acunetix
Invicti Security
As the market leader in automated web application security testing, Acunetix by Invicti is the go-to security tool for Fortune 500 companies. DevSecOps teams can cut through the noise to uncover unseen risks and mitigate dangerous exploits, detecting and reporting on a wide array of vulnerabilities. With an industry-leading crawler that fully supports HTML5, JavaScript, and Single-page applications, Acunetix enables the auditing of complex, authenticated applications for deeper insight into an organization's risk posture. It's a leader for a reason: the technology behind Acunetix delivers the only product on the market that can automatically detect out-of-band vulnerabilities to enable comprehensive management, prioritization, and control for vulnerability threats by criticality. Plus, it's available both online and as an on-prem solution, integrating with popular issue trackers and WAFs so that DevSecOps teams don't have to slow down when building innovative apps. -
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Reporter
Security Reporter
Security Reporter functions as an all-encompassing pentest reporting and collaboration platform, streamlining the complete pentest life cycle. By automating critical elements, it empowers security teams to enhance efficiency and provide actionable findings. The software boasts various features, including customizable reports, assessments, analytics and seamless integrations. This integration capability brings diverse tools under a unified source of truth, expediting remediation and optimizing the impact of security services and strategies. Minimize research time for repetitive tasks and formatting associated with security assessments and reporting using Security Reporter. Rapidly document findings based on templates or past discoveries. Effortlessly engage with clients by commenting, arranging retests, and discussing findings. With over 140+ tools integrated, leverage unique analytics and a multilanguage feature to generate reports in all languages. -
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NodeZero by Horizon3.ai
Horizon3.ai
Horizon3.ai® can assess the attack surface of your hybrid cloud, helping you continuously find and fix your internal and external attack vectors before criminals exploit them. NodeZero is an unauthenticated, run-once container you deploy yourself. No persistent agents and no provisioned credentials, up and running in minutes. With NodeZero, you own your pen test from start to finish. You configure the scope and attack parameters. NodeZero conducts benign exploitation, gathers proof, and delivers a complete report, so you can focus on real risk and maximize your remediation efforts. Run NodeZero continuously and evaluate your security posture over time. Proactively identify and remediate attack vectors as they appear. NodeZero discovers and fingerprints your internal and external attack surface, identifying the ways exploitable vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, harvested credentials, and dangerous product defaults. -
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Pentest-Tools.com
Pentest-Tools.com
Pentest-Tools.com helps security professionals find, validate, and communicate vulnerabilities faster and with greater confidence - whether they’re internal teams defending at scale, MSPs juggling clients, or consultants under pressure. With comprehensive coverage across network, web, API, and cloud assets, and built-in exploit validation, it turns every scan into credible, actionable insight. Trusted by over 2,000 teams in 119 countries and used in more than 6 million scans annually, it delivers speed, clarity, and control - without bloated stacks or rigid workflows. ✔️ Comprehensive toolkit with real-world coverage ✔️ Validated findings rich with evidence ✔️ Automation options with granular control ✔️ Flexible, high-quality reporting ✔️ Workflow-friendly by designStarting Price: $95 per month -
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TrustedSite
TrustedSite
TrustedSite Security is a complete solution for external security testing and monitoring. In a single, easy-to-use platform, TrustedSite brings together the essential tools your organization needs to reduce the likelihood of a breach, from attack surface discovery to vulnerability scanning to manual penetration testing. TrustedSite’s proprietary risk scoring algorithm highlights weak points on your perimeter and provides insights on what remediations to prioritize. With comprehensive monitoring tools, you can get alerted instantly when new risks arise.Starting Price: $30 per target -
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Contrast Security
Contrast Security
Modern software development must match the speed of the business. But the modern AppSec tool soup lacks integration and creates complexity that slows software development life cycles. Contrast simplifies the complexity that impedes today’s development teams. Legacy AppSec employs a one-size-fits-all vulnerability detection and remediation approach that is inefficient and costly. Contrast automatically applies the best analysis and remediation technique, dramatically improving efficiencies and efficacy. Separate AppSec tools create silos that obfuscate the gathering of actionable intelligence across the application attack surface. Contrast delivers centralized observability that is critical to managing risks and capitalizing on operational efficiencies, both for security and development teams. Contrast Scan is pipeline native and delivers the speed, accuracy, and integration demanded by modern software development.Starting Price: $0 -
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CyCognito
CyCognito
Expose all the hidden security gaps in your organization using nation-state grade technology. CyCognito’s Global Bot Network uses attacker-like reconnaissance techniques to scan, discover and fingerprint billions of digital assets all over the world. No input or configuration needed. Uncover the unknown. The Discovery Engine uses graph data modeling to map your organization’s full attack surface. You get a clear view of every single asset an attacker could reach — what they are and how they relate to your business. Using CyCognito’s proprietary risk-detection methods, the attack simulator identifies risks per asset and discovers potential attack vectors. It doesn’t affect business operations and works without deployment, configuration or whitelisting. CyCognito scores each risk based its attractiveness to attackers and impact on the business, dramatically reducing the thousands of attack vectors organizations may have to those critical few dozen that need your focusStarting Price: $11/asset/month -
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OnSecurity
OnSecurity
OnSecurity is a leading CREST-accredited penetration testing vendor based in the UK, dedicated to delivering high-impact, high-intelligence penetration testing services to businesses of all sizes. By simplifying the management and delivery of pentesting, we make it easier for organisations to enhance their security posture and mitigate risks, contributing to a safer, more secure digital environment for everyone. Pentesting, Vulnerability Scanning and Threat Intelligence all in one platform.Starting Price: $9.30 per month -
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Ethiack
Ethiack
We keep you safe by combining AI automated pentesting and elite ethical hacking for both in-depth and in-breadth security testing. It’s not just your code, third-party services, APIs, and external tools all pose a risk to your organization. We give you a complete view of your entire digital exposure so you can understand its weak points. Scanners flag too many false positives and pentests are not frequent enough. Automated pentesting fixes this. It reports less than 0.5% false positives and over 20% of its findings are impactful. We have a pool of world-class ethical hackers ready for human hacking events. To join, they go through an extensive process of background checks and those that get accepted go on to find the most critical vulnerabilities in your assets. Our team has won world-class awards and found vulnerabilities on Shopify, Verizon, Steam, and many more. Add the TXT record to your DNS and start your 30-day free trial.Starting Price: €1,790 per year -
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ZeroThreat.ai
ZeroThreat Inc.
ZeroThreat.ai is an automated penetration testing and vulnerability scanning platform designed to secure web applications and APIs. It detects, prioritizes, and helps mitigate over 40,000+ vulnerabilities, including OWASP Top 10 and CWE Top 25 issues such as logic flaws, misconfigurations, and data leaks. With near-zero false positives and AI-generated remediation reports, ZeroThreat.ai enables security and development teams to identify and fix vulnerabilities up to 10x faster. It integrates seamlessly with CI/CD pipelines, Slack, and Microsoft Teams for continuous testing and real-time alerts. Built for startups and enterprises alike, ZeroThreat.ai delivers speed, accuracy, and scalability, ensuring secure releases and continuous protection against evolving threats.Starting Price: $100/Target -
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Praetorian Chariot
Praetorian
Chariot is the first all-in-one offensive security platform that comprehensively catalogs Internet-facing assets, contextualizes their value, identifies and validates real compromise paths, tests your detection response program, and generates policy-as-code rules to prevent future exposures from occurring. As a concierge managed service, we operate as an extension of your team to reduce the burden of day-to-day blocking and tackling. Dedicated offensive security experts are assigned to your account to assist you through the full attack lifecycle. We remove the noise by verifying the accuracy and importance of every risk before ever submitting a ticket to your team. Part of our core value is only signaling when it matters and guaranteeing zero false positives. Gain the upper-hand over attackers by partnering Praetorian. We put you back on the offensive by combining security expertise with technology automation to continuously focus and improve your defensive. -
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Appvance
Appvance.ai
Appvance IQ (AIQ) delivers transformational productivity gains and lower costs in both test creation and execution. For test creation, it offers both AI-driven (fully machine-generated tests) and also 3rd-generation, codeless scripting. It then executes those scripts through data-driven functional, performance, app-pen and API testing — for both web and mobile apps. AIQ’s self-healing technology gives you complete code coverage with just 10% the effort of traditional testing systems. Most importantly, AIQ finds important bugs autonomously, with little effort. No coding, scripting, logs or recording required. AIQ is easy to integrate with your current DevOps tools and processes. Appvance IQ was developed by a pioneering team who envisioned a better way to test. Their innovative vision has been made possible by applying differentiated, patented AI methods to test creation while leveraging today’s high-availability compute resources for massive levels of parallel execution. -
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Finite State
Finite State
Finite State manages risk across the software supply chain with comprehensive SCA and SBOMs for the connected world. By providing end-to-end SBOM solutions, Finite State enables Product Security teams to meet regulatory, customer, and security demands. Finite State's best-in-class binary SCA creates visibility into any-party software that enables Product Security teams to understand their risk in context and shift right on vulnerability detection. With visibility, scalability, and speed, Finite State correlates data from all of your security tools into a single pane of glass for maximum visibility. -
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SecurityHQ
SecurityHQ
SecurityHQ is a world leading independent Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP), that detects, and responds to threats, instantly. As your security partner, we alert and act on threats for you. Gain access to an army of analysts that work with you, as an extension of your team, 24/7, 365 days a year. Receive tailored advice and full visibility to ensure peace of mind, with our Global Security Operation Centres. Utilize our award-winning security solutions, knowledge, people, and process capabilities, to accelerate business and reduce risk and overall security costs. Most Popular Services: Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Managed Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Vulnerability Management Services Managed Firewall Digital Forensics & Incident Response Managed Network Detection and Response (NDR) Penetration Testing CISO as a Service -
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Prancer
Prancer
Large-scale cyber assaults occur regularly, and most security systems are reactive to eliminate intrusions. Prancer’s patented attack automation solution aggressively validates your zero-trust cloud security measures against real-world critical attacks to harden your cloud ecosystem continuously. It automates the discovery of cloud APIs across an organization. It offers automated cloud pentesting, enabling businesses to quickly identify potential security risks and vulnerabilities related to their APIs and minimize false positives with correlated risk scoring. Prancer auto-discovers enterprise resources in the cloud and find out all the attack surfaces at the Infrastructure and Application layers. Prancer engine reviews the security configuration of the resources and correlates data from different sources. It immediately reports back all the security misconfigurations and provides auto-remediation. -
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Strobes PTaaS
Strobes Security
Pentesting as a Service (PTaaS) offers a personalized, cost-effective, and offense-driven approach to safeguard your digital assets. With a team of seasoned experts and advanced pen-testing methodologies, Strobes PTaaS provides actionable insights to improve your security posture by multifold. Pentesting as a Service (PtaaS) seamlessly combines the power of manual, human-driven testing with a state-of-the-art delivery platform. It’s all about effortlessly setting up ongoing pentest programs, complete with integrations for smooth operation and easy reporting. Say goodbye to the time-consuming process of procuring pentests one by one. To truly appreciate the benefits of a PtaaS platform, you need to dive in and witness the innovative delivery model in action for yourself. It’s an experience like no other! Our unique testing methodology involves both automated and manual pentesting that helps us uncover most of the vulnerabilities and keep you away from breaches.Starting Price: $499 per month -
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PlexTrac
PlexTrac
PlexTrac is the #1 AI-powered platform for pentest reporting and threat exposure management, helping cybersecurity teams efficiently address the most critical threats and vulnerabilities. By consolidating data, automating reporting, prioritizing risks, and streamlining remediation workflows, PlexTrac reduces organization’s overall threat exposure. We designed the PlexTrac platform to address the workflow pain points security practitioners face. PlexTrac helps them track signal through the noise and break down communication silos. Combining “plexus” and “track,” our name really says it all. PlexTrac exists to network and coordinate all people and parts of a security program and to better track progress toward maturity. -
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SCYTHE
SCYTHE
SCYTHE is an adversary emulation platform for the enterprise and cybersecurity consulting market. The SCYTHE platform enables Red, Blue, and Purple teams to build and emulate real-world adversarial campaigns in a matter of minutes. SCYTHE allows organizations to continuously assess their risk posture and exposure. SCYTHE moves beyond just assessing vulnerabilities. It facilitates the evolution from Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) to Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs). Organizations know they will be breached and should focus on assessing detective and alerting controls. Campaigns are mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, the industry standard and common language between Cyber Threat Intelligence, Blue Teams, and Red Teams. Adversaries leverage multiple communication channels to communicate with compromised systems in your environment. SCYTHE allows you to test detective and preventive controls for various channels. -
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CyBot
Cronus Cyber Technologies
Perform continuous scans all year round, valid for both vulnerability management and penetration testing to stay on top of your network’s security 24/7. See live map and get real-time alerts on current threats to your business processes. Cybot can be deployed globally and showcase global Attack Path Scenarios so you can see how a hacker can hop from a workstation in the UK to a router in Germany to a database in the US. This capability is unique both for penetration testing as well as for vulnerability management. The various CyBot Pros will be managed by a single enterprise dashboard. CyBot brings context to each asset it scans, checking how it could affect a business process. In this way, you can funnel all your vulnerabilities and first focus on those that are exploitable and that are a part of an attack path to a critical asset or business process. This greatly reduces the resources needed for patching and ensures business continuity. -
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SynerComm
SynerComm
SynerComm’s CASM (continuous attack surface management) Engine platform uses vulnerability analysis and human-led penetration testing to proactively search for vulnerabilities in your attack surface. Any vulnerabilities that are discovered are documented and forwarded to your team, along with our mitigation and remediation suggestions. Our CASM Engine platform does more than just look for vulnerabilities: it also gives you and your team an accurate inventory of your digital assets. Our platform typically unearths 20% to 100% more assets than the client was aware they even had. Unmanaged systems often become more vulnerable over time as new security gaps and shortcomings are discovered by attackers. Without ongoing management, these vulnerabilities aren’t addressed, leaving your entire network compromised. -
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SafeBreach
SafeBreach
The biggest reason security controls fail is that their improperly configured, or drifted over time. Maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of the security controls you have by seeing how they perform in orchestration during an attack. Then fix the gaps before attackers can find them. How safe is your enterprise against known and emerging threats? Pinpoint security gaps with precision. Safely run the latest attacks seen in the wild using the most comprehensive playbook in the industry and integrations with threat intelligence solutions. Proactively report to executives on your risk posture. And get a mitigation plan in place before attackers exploit the gaps. The fastly changing cloud environment, and the different security model, introduces a challenge in visibility and enforcement of cloud security. Validate your cloud and container security by executing attacks that test your cloud control (CSPM) and data (CWPP) planes to ensure the security of your critical cloud operations. -
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Intigriti
Intigriti
Intigriti is the trusted leader in crowdsourced security, empowering the world’s largest organizations to find and fix vulnerabilities before cybercriminals can exploit them. Since 2016, the company has helped its customers reduce risk with the expertise of 125,000+ global security researchers, enabling real-time vulnerability detection and preventing costly breaches. Intigriti's flexible platform offers a full suite of solutions, including Bug Bounty, Managed VDP, PTaaS, Focused Sprints, and Live Hacking Events, tailored to your evolving digital needs and delivered through a pay-for-impact model, meaning you only pay for valid vulnerabilities submitted. With industry-leading triage, commitment to legal compliance, and exceptional customer service, Intigriti is the go-to choice for organizations like Coca-Cola, Microsoft, and Intel to secure their digital assets and stay ahead in a changing world.