Detectify is the stronger pick for a security team that wants crowdsourced research, external attack surface monitoring and a PCI ASV add-on, and can price assets with their sales team. AttackerView is the better fit for a startup that wants authenticated testing, AI pentests and audit evidence at a published monthly price.
Detectify is a Swedish DAST and external attack surface management platform whose vulnerability tests come from a crowd of 400+ ethical hackers, built for AppSec and security teams.
Scan your domain free| Feature | AttackerView | Detectify |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free, Starter €39/mo, Watchtower €119/mo, Hunter €299/mo | Annual platform fee from €0, €2,500, €5,000 or €15,000 by tier; assets cost extra, amounts not published source |
| Free plan or trial | Yes:free plan, plus a 14-day Starter trial with no credit card | Yes:free Starter tier, a 2-week free trial, and tailored trials of advanced plans on request source |
| Where checks come from | Own checks + NVD and CISA KEV + retire.js + Wordfence data | Crowdsource network of 400+ ethical hackers, plus tests generated by its Alfred AI source |
| Shows how problems connect | Yes:attack chain diagrams | Tests for some chained vulnerabilities; no attack-path view found in docs source |
| Audit-ready evidence | SOC 2, ISO 27001 and HIPAA reports, PCI DSS supporting evidence, Vanta and Drata sync, from Watchtower (€119/mo) | Mapping docs for 17+ frameworks incl. SOC 2 and PCI DSS, plus PCI ASV scanning 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 | Surface Monitoring: takeover checks every 8h, SSL/TLS every 24h, web vulns every 144h source |
| Scans behind your login | Yes:from Watchtower (€119/mo) | Yes:Basic Auth, recorded login, recorded crawling; MFA cannot be replayed source |
| AI pentesting | Yes:parallel sub-agents with real exploit tools, €10 plus VAT per selected method and route on any plan, 20 a month included on Hunter | No AI pentester listed; its Alfred AI builds CVE tests source |
Last verified: October 2026. Detectify facts come from its own pages, linked beside each cell.