XBOW alternatives for autonomous and AI-assisted pentesting

This page lists XBOW alternatives from the provider dataset, grouped by the need that sends buyers away from XBOW. XBOW is an autonomous testing platform that runs many AI agents against web applications and APIs and validates findings with exploits. We give no ratings and name no winner. Excession Labs, the publisher of this site, appears once and is marked.

Why do buyers look for XBOW alternatives?#

The reasons below come from XBOW's own homepage and pricing page, read on 9 November 2026.

No published price. The pricing page describes usage-based pricing that scales with coverage and gives no amount or unit. A buyer cannot estimate a budget for one app without a quote. A $50,000 AWS Marketplace package we noted on 8 November was not on the page today, so we do not list it.

No human drives the attack. XBOW says findings are reviewed before you see them, and does not say who reviews them. Some buyers need a named human reviewer or a signed report from a person, for example for an auditor request. Check with your auditor what they accept.

Narrow scope. The pages describe applications and APIs. They do not describe cloud, network, mobile or AI application testing.

No sample report. We found none on the pages checked. Retests are described as free and unlimited, but the pricing page does not mention retesting, and the claim is on the homepage only.

The compliance list on the homepage (SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, PCI DSS, NIS 2) does not say whether XBOW holds these certifications or supports the frameworks, so we list no credentials for it.

If you want continuous testing of many web apps with scope, rate-limit and test-window controls, XBOW describes exactly that. The sections below are for the other needs.

What if you want a published price for an automated test?#

Hadrian lists Nova tests from EUR 1,250 per test, excluding VAT. Its AI agents run the tests and findings are described as human-reviewed, without saying who reviews them. It says most tests finish within 24 to 48 hours, and that a start on the day of order is possible. It publishes no retest terms and no sample report, and the unit "test" is not defined on the page. Its scope list names web applications only.

TurboPentest publishes the lowest prices in the dataset: $99 (Audit-Ready), $299 (Threat-Hunt) and $699 (Adversarial-Depth) per credit, where one credit is one pentest. The $299 tier covers up to 4 targets and the $699 tier up to 8; each extra target costs $99. A monthly plan costs $99 per month and a dedicated enterprise instance $49,990 per year. A retest is a new paid run, except a free re-pentest once per domain when a run finds no actionable findings. The report lists what automation could not test, and business logic areas are flagged for manual follow-up. A public sample report exists.

What if you want a sample report before you talk to sales?#

Parameter runs autonomous agents that pause for customer approval before chaining or escalating, so it keeps a control point that XBOW describes differently (XBOW lets you set scope, impact level and test windows). It publishes a sample pentest report and claims first findings in the first day. It publishes no price for its Single App, Rightsized and Continuous tiers. Free re-testing is listed from Single App. Its SOC 2 report is Type I; the Type II observation period is still running per its security page.

What if you want a human to review the findings?#

HackerOne sells H1 Agentic Pentest, where AI agents work under guardrails and human testers review every agent finding, and a fully human-led H1 Pentest. The agentic offer covers web apps and APIs only. HackerOne publishes no price and no sample report; it links an interactive demo. See its profile.

Terra Security describes AI agents with human pentesters supervising, and reports signed by certified pentesters (the certifications are not named). It publishes no price, retest terms or sample report. See its profile.

Excession Labs (publisher of this site) tests web applications, APIs and multi-tenant SaaS with Incursion, its own AI testing agent, and checks the evidence for each finding before it writes the report. It offers a free pilot with a small written scope. It publishes no prices, turnaround or credentials. Its sample report is written for a made-up app. See its profile.

What if you need network, cloud or Active Directory testing?#

Horizon3.ai sells NodeZero, which covers internal, external, cloud and Kubernetes pentests, plus a web application module. Its list prices are public: $15 per asset per test (Flex), $50, $65 and $85 per asset on annual subscriptions (Core, Pro, Elite) and $10,000 per app per test for WebApp Flex. An asset is any discovered server, workstation, network device, cloud resource or internet-facing service. The two products differ by category, which the XBOW and Horizon3 comparison explains. See the profile.

How do the options compare at a glance?#

Sources: the dataset rows linked above, checked against the vendor pages under Sources on 9 November 2026. Only a table cell marked "Not published" is a gap in the vendor's pages, not a statement that the item does not exist.

How should you test a shortlist?#

Give each provider the same small target and the same written scope. Compare what each report proves: request and response evidence, the steps to reproduce, and what it could not test. The sample report guide lists what to look for, and the AI vs human pentesting guide explains where each approach stops.

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