Astra is the better pick if an auditor or enterprise customer needs a human-led pentest report and certificate, which AttackerView does not sell. AttackerView is the better fit if you want continuous testing across all your apps on one monthly plan, with AI pentests paid per endpoint, rather than a price per target.
Astra Security is a compliance-oriented pentest platform that combines a DAST scanner, AI and human-led pentests, and API and cloud scanners, sold per target to teams that need a pentest report for an audit.
Scan your domain free| Feature | AttackerView | Astra Security |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free, Starter €39/mo, Watchtower €119/mo, Hunter €299/mo | Per target: DAST from $69/mo ($199/mo for unlimited scans); pentests $2,999 to $9,999+ a year source |
| Free plan or trial | Yes:free plan, plus a 14-day Starter trial with no credit card | No free plan listed; one-week DAST trial for $7 source |
| Where checks come from | Own checks + NVD and CISA KEV + retire.js + Wordfence data | Astra's own test library (cited as 10,000+ to 15,000+ tests), fed by its pentests source |
| Shows how problems connect | Yes:attack chain diagrams | AI pentest agents look for multi-step attack chains; no attack-graph view shown source |
| Audit-ready evidence | SOC 2, ISO 27001 and HIPAA reports, PCI DSS supporting evidence, Vanta and Drata sync, from Watchtower (€119/mo) | Compliance view for SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS and HIPAA; pentest reports and a publicly verifiable certificate source |
| Monitoring | Free: full scan weekly. Starter: full scan daily. Watchtower (€119/mo) and Hunter: heartbeat every 30 minutes, standard check every hour, full scan every day | Scheduled scans; Astra recommends a full scan weekly and a Lightning scan daily source |
| Scans behind your login | Yes:from Watchtower (€119/mo) | Yes:behind login forms, including TOTP MFA via custom login scripts source |
| AI pentesting | Yes:parallel sub-agents with real exploit tools, €10 per endpoint from Watchtower (€119/mo), 20 a month included on Hunter | Yes:autonomous AI pentest for web apps and APIs, plus human-led pentests source |
Last verified: October 2026. Astra Security facts come from its own pages, linked beside each cell.