# Penti: pentest scope, pricing and delivery

Source: https://pentestcompare.com/providers/penti/
Publisher: Excession Labs (pentestcompare.com)
Last updated: 2026-11-09

Penti at a glance: what it tests, who does the testing, published prices, turnaround, retesting and sample reports. Sourced and dated.

Penti (penti.ai, owned by Certypie Inc) sells credit-based agentic AI penetration testing with plans from $20 to $2,000 per month, free unlimited retests, and optional human verification or manual test credits.
- Website: https://penti.ai/
- Type: AI-assisted testing service
- Headquarters: Not published
- Services listed: web-app, mobile, network, cloud, api, iot, ai-llm, red-team
- Delivery: hybrid. Autonomous AI agents run the exploits. A certified pentester can verify findings (included 3 per year on Plus, 6 on Advanced, paid add-on on Launch). Expert Pentest Credits buy scoped manual tests.
- Scope: Web apps yes; APIs yes; Cloud yes; Network yes; Mobile yes; AI apps yes
- Pricing model: published
  - Starter: $20 per month ($216 per year billed annually) (20 credits per month, external testing on Penti Cloud.) https://penti.ai/pricing
  - Launch: $300 per month ($3,240 per year billed annually) (300 credits per month, external scope, continuous scanning, human-verified findings as a paid add-on.) https://penti.ai/pricing
  - Plus: $1,000 per month ($10,800 per year billed annually) (1,200 credits per month, adds on-prem or hybrid internal scope, 3 human-verified findings per year.) https://penti.ai/pricing
  - Advanced: $2,000 per month ($21,600 per year billed annually) (2,600 credits per month, 6 human-verified findings per year.) https://penti.ai/pricing
  - Expert Pentest Credits, single application: $4,000 one-time per 15 hours ($3,000 per year if annual) (Human-led manual test of a mobile app, web app or API, scoped from scratch.) https://penti.ai/pricing
  - Expert Pentest Credits, networks and larger: $16,000 one-time per 60 hours ($12,000 per year if annual) (Human-led manual test, scoped from scratch.) https://penti.ai/pricing
- Pricing note: Pricing is in credits; each AI exploit costs 1 to 7 credits by model tier. Annual billing saves 10%. Enterprise is custom. Extra credits cost $3.00 (Starter) down to $0.80 (Advanced). Credit cost per test depth is given on the homepage only as rough figures. Earlier Penti material and G2 listed other models (one-time tests from $3,000), so check the live page.
- Turnaround: Pentests done in hours, not months (tagline). On the free first test, agents start within an hour. No per-plan turnaround is stated. (Marketing claim for AI runs. The page gives no time for Expert Pentest Credits.)
- Retesting: Every plan includes free unlimited retests.
- Sample report: not published 
- Credentials: SOC 2 Type II (Penti's own audit, report at trust.penti.ai) (https://penti.ai/)
- Compliance mentioned: SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA, CMMC, GDPR, NIST
Good fit when: Teams that want published monthly prices, credit-based AI testing across external, application, internal and identity layers, and an option to buy human-led hours.
Tradeoffs: Credit cost per test is only approximate, so the total cost of a full web app test is hard to predict. No downloadable sample report (an Evidence Player walkthrough exists). Human-verified findings are not a scoped manual pentest.
Last checked: 2026-11-09
Sources:
- Penti pricing: https://penti.ai/pricing (checked 2026-11-09)
- Penti homepage: https://penti.ai/ (checked 2026-11-09)