The scalable Acunetix alternative

The Pentest-Tools.com pricing structure is transparent and public. That means you know exactly what you're getting for your financial investment. You can take these figures and compare them with other options. You can work out monthly or yearly options accurately.

As a Pentest-Tools.com customer, you can upgrade or downgrade yourself in the space of a few moments, depending on your changing needs. This function is self-serve, so there's no hassle, no additional calls, and no waiting. You can start using the platform immediately and see instant value.

Acunetix (by Invicti) pricing is based on long-term subscription agreements and multi-year contracts. Actual pricing may be determined by various factors and is customized to match customer needs. You cannot get an estimate without going through their sales process.

Acunetix claims they offer world-class support, not just a self-service web interface. They offer three levels of support plans. If customers have questions or technical issues, they can contact Acunetix support to troubleshoot and open a ticket. Acunetix also has support in the form of blogs, webinars, white papers, a buyer's guide, and a knowledge base.

Of course, Pentest-Tools.com offers a similar range of support resources – such as a Knowledge Base and API Reference – reinforced with hacking tutorials and FAQs. The blog supplies a constant stream of pentesting security advice, behind-the-scenes stories, and critical vulnerability analyses. And, from our expansive Support Centre, you can submit a ticket or go to the platform. With Teams and Enterprise plans, you receive Premium Support, which means our dedicated professionals will respond within 48 hours.

Speed in vulnerability detection means savings in time, money, and human resources. Speed is essential for scaling and balancing priorities, especially when critical vulnerabilities under active exploitation emerge.

Reducing scan duration has been a priority for Pentest-Tools.com from the start. Ever since we built the Website Scanner, our focus was to develop tools that run deeper tests with improved accuracy, but with zero compromise on speed. That's why, unlike Acunetix, Pentest-Tools.com has designed a Light Scan version that is optimized for speed. Superior speed is a principle that we've applied across our platform too.

Pentest-Tools.com is a nimble organization that can react quickly to your needs, unlike more mainstream companies. For example, we integrate new, widespread vulnerabilities within 72hours (on average) from the moment they receive a CVE. You can also use our Network Vulnerability Scanner as a critical CVE scanner and detect high-risk vulnerabilities through the Sniper modules integration.

Plus, our monthly platform updates continually deliver new and upgraded features to allow you to ramp up your vulnerability detection, validation, and reporting.

Acunetix states that it provides actual proof that a vulnerability exists, whereas Pentest-Tools.com requires manual verification. Since dealing with false positives takes time, it’s important to clear this up. Acunetix claims it can eliminate time-wasting false positives by providing proof of exploitation.

No matter how great, no scanner can:

• produce findings that are 100% accurate (as Acunetix admits)
• automatically interpret the context of a target
• make a judgement on what data is important
• decide when to investigate further
• discover logic flaws or chain exploits
• perform custom post-exploitation tasks

One hundred percent automation is neither possible nor desirable.

So, while Pentest-Tools.com does recommend confirmation of false positives, we help you out with this:

1. First, we distinguish between confirmed and unconfirmed findings which you can filter for
2. Second, we provide a Replay Attack function to help you check the result of exploits
3. Third, we have dedicated exploitation tools that you can run to get proof for vulnerability validation findings: Sniper – Auto Exploiter, SQLi Exploiter and XSS Exploiter

These are powerful tools. For example, Sniper – Auto Exploiter automatically gathers information from compromised systems and shows evidence of the complete attack chain. And the Website Scanner collects screenshots for both unauthenticated and authenticated scans.

Play "Sniper Network Graph – Automatic vulnerability exploitation with network visualization capabilities" video

Acunetix recommends further information security testing, including manual testing, in addition to their scans. For example, Acunetix suggests follow-up tests for weak passwords, open ports, and even brute force attacks among other things. They also suggest using a network mapper. Finally, Acunetix doesn't test for WiFi security. All this seems to contradict its claims of substantially reducing the need for manual security checks.

In contrast, Pentest-Tools.com takes care of many of these issues with its broad range of 20+ tools for reconnaissance, vulnerability discovery, and offensive security activities. This includes:

• A Password Auditor to automatically find weak passwords in both network services and web applications
• A Port Scanner and a UDP Port Scan to discover open ports, detect running service, and map the target’s attack surface
• A tool to discover both server-side and client-side technologies in use by the target web app
• An Attack Surface mapping feature to automatically detect and visualize all the services and software running from all your targets in a central, unified view
• An nternal Network Scanning I feature that runs all the Pentest-Tools.com tools though encrypted VPN tunnels to discover security vulnerabilities from your internal network