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Pentest Cost & Pricing
How penetration testing pricing works, what drives the cost, and how to get a fixed quote without a sales call.
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Read morePenetration Testing Cost: How Much Does a Pentest Cost?
Complete pricing guide, day rates by region, scope drivers, sample quotes by application type, hidden fees, and compliance-driven cost adders.
Read morePentest Price Index
Every publicly published penetration testing price on the market — 47 verified figures from 20 vendors, plus the big names that publish none. Updated quarterly.
Read moreAffordable vs. Cheap Pentests
Why the lowest price often isn't the best deal, and how to find quality manual testing on a budget.
Read moreHow to Buy a Penetration Test
What to look for, three ways to buy, and the process step by step.
Read moreWeb Application Penetration Testing Cost
2026 pricing by scope for a single web application: roles, authenticated flows and what moves the tester-day count.
Read moreAPI Penetration Testing Cost
What an API pentest costs by endpoint count, authentication model and business-logic depth.
Read moreMobile App Penetration Testing Cost
iOS and Android pricing, single versus dual platform, and why the backend API sets the price.
Read moreExternal Network Penetration Test Cost
Pricing by live hosts and public IPs, with the scoping questions that change the quote.
Read moreInternal Network Penetration Test Cost
Subnets, Active Directory and segmentation: what drives an internal test's price.
Read moreHow to Choose a Penetration Testing Company
Seven criteria that separate a real manual pentest provider from a scanner reseller.
Read morePenetration Test vs Vulnerability Scan
Which one you need first, what each proves to an auditor, and how they fit together.
Read moreHow Often Should You Run a Pentest?
Cadence by framework: SOC 2, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, HIPAA and NIS2 expectations mapped.
Read moreWhat Is in a Penetration Testing Report?
Section by section, with a sample breakdown of findings, evidence and remediation.
Read moreAutomated Penetration Testing vs Manual
Nine tools compared with published prices, what they miss, and when auditors require a manual test.
Read moreFast Pentest: Start Within 24 Hours
What a fast pentest really means, audit-deadline playbook, and how to start in 24 hours.
Read morePenetration Testing Services
What we test, how we test it, and what to expect from each engagement type.
Web Application Penetration Testing
OWASP Top 10, business logic, authentication, authorization, and API surface, manual testing by OSCP-certified pros.
Read moreNetwork Penetration Testing
External and internal network testing, host discovery, service exploitation, lateral movement, privilege escalation.
Read moreAPI Penetration Testing
REST and GraphQL APIs, broken object-level authorization, mass assignment, injection, business logic abuse.
Read moreMobile App Penetration Testing
iOS and Android, client-side storage, OWASP MASVS, transport security, IPC and deeplink abuse.
Read moreExternal Penetration Testing
Internet-facing infrastructure, exposed services and perimeter controls, tested from the outside in.
Read moreInternal Penetration Testing
Assumed-breach testing: lateral movement, Active Directory and privilege escalation inside the network.
Read moreCloud Penetration Testing
AWS, Azure and GCP: IAM, storage exposure, network paths and configuration review.
Read morePenetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS)
Manual tests on your release cadence with scanner-level hygiene in between, at the published day rate.
Read moreAll Penetration Testing Services
The full service catalogue with scope guidance and the public day rate.
Read moreIntruder Alternative
Manual pentesting with published pricing, compared to Intruder's automated tiers.
Read moreCobalt Alternative
Published per-day pricing versus Cobalt's credit model, compared for SMB scopes.
Read moreAstra Alternative
Astra sells subscription scanning and pentests; here is the honest comparison with manual testing at a published day rate.
Read moreHackerOne Alternative
Bug bounty and PTaaS marketplace versus a scoped manual pentest with a fixed price.
Read moreDeepStrike Alternative
Quote-based manual pentesting versus self-serve scoping with the price shown before you book.
Read moreCompliance Guides
Penetration testing requirements explained for the regulations Dutch and EU companies actually need.
NIS2 Penetration Testing
What NIS2 requires, who's affected, and how pentesting maps to articles 21-23. Enforcement starts June 2026.
Read moreISO 27001 Penetration Testing
How pentesting fits into your ISO 27001 ISMS, A.12.6.1 and Annex A controls.
Read moreSOC 2 Penetration Testing
What SOC 2 Type II auditors expect from a pentest report, and how to deliver it.
Read morePCI DSS Penetration Testing
PCI DSS 4.0 requirement 11.4 explained, segmentation, scope, and reporting.
Read moreHIPAA Penetration Testing
Security Rule evaluation expectations for systems that handle ePHI, and what assessors ask for.
Read moreNIST Penetration Testing
SP 800-115 methodology, rules of engagement and authorization, mapped to what auditors verify.
Read moreFedRAMP Penetration Testing
Annual penetration testing under the FedRAMP guidance, scope and evidence requirements.
Read moreCMMC Penetration Testing
Where penetration testing fits in CMMC Level 2 and 3 assessments.
Read moreGLBA Penetration Testing
Safeguards Rule testing expectations for financial institutions and their vendors.
Read moreGDPR Penetration Testing
Article 32 testing obligations and how a pentest evidences them.
Read moreDORA Penetration Testing
Threat-led and annual testing under DORA for EU financial entities.
Read moreNIS2 Penetration Testing Requirements (Guide)
What the directive demands, article by article, with the evidence that satisfies each.
Read moreDoes ISO 27001 Require a Penetration Test?
The auditor's answer, with the Annex A controls a pentest evidences.
Read moreDoes SOC 2 Require a Penetration Test?
The CC4.1 answer, Type I versus Type II, and what to hand your auditor.
Read moreGeorgia Data Breach Law (O.C.G.A. 10-1-912) Explained
What Georgia's notification law requires, the 24-hour vendor rule, and where a pentest fits.
Read moreNorth Carolina Cybersecurity Laws for Businesses
G.S. 75-65 notice rules, the public-sector ransomware payment ban and the CSRF programme.
Read moreSouth Carolina Insurance Data Security Act: Testing and Deadlines
What 38-99-20 asks licensees to test, the 15 February certification and the 72-hour notice.
Read morePCI DSS Penetration Testing Requirements
Requirement 11.4 explained: methodology, segmentation testing and cadence.
Read moreWhere We Work
Regional pages for companies that need a scoped, audit-ready penetration test delivered remotely with published pricing.
Penetration Testing in Atlanta, GA
PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2 and CMMC testing for Atlanta and Georgia companies.
Read morePenetration Testing in Charlotte, NC
GLBA, SOC 2 and PCI DSS testing for Charlotte banks, fintechs and SaaS.
Read morePenetration Testing in Raleigh, NC
SOC 2, HIPAA and CMMC testing for Research Triangle companies.
Read morePenetration Testing in South Carolina
Insurance Data Security Act, CMMC and healthcare testing for South Carolina companies.
Read morePenetration Testing in Australia
CPS 234, Essential Eight and Privacy Act context for Sydney, Melbourne and the rest of Australia.
Read moreVAPT and Penetration Testing in Singapore
MAS TRM, CSA Cyber Essentials and Cyber Trust scopes, delivered remotely.
Read morePenetration Testing in the UAE
VAPT for Dubai and Abu Dhabi companies: PDPL, DESC ISR and free-zone data rules, delivered remotely.
Read moreVAPT vs Penetration Testing: What the Term Means
How VAPT in Singapore, Malaysia and the UAE maps to a scoped penetration test plus vulnerability assessment.
Read moreBest Penetration Testing Companies in Atlanta (2026)
12 firms serving Atlanta and Georgia compared on certifications, published prices, turnaround and delivery.
Read moreBest Penetration Testing Companies in North Carolina (2026)
Charlotte and Raleigh firms compared on the same published criteria.
Read moreAbout Budget Security
Who tests, how the platform works, and the facts journalists and procurement teams ask for.
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