Detectify, or the whole surface?
Detectify and SuperPentest both target modern application risk, from different angles. Here is an honest account of where each fits, with competitor details drawn from public materials as of October 2026.
The short version: Detectify is a solid DAST and attack-surface-management scanner for breadth across known issues. SuperPentest investigates instead of pattern-matching: it signs in as each identity to test authorization, reasons about business logic, tests the AI in your product, and reproduces every finding from a clean session.
At a glance
| Capability | SuperPentest | Detectify |
|---|---|---|
| Approach | Investigate & reproduce | Signature scan |
| Tests broken access control (IDOR/BOLA) | ✓ replay as each identity | — |
| Business-logic testing | ✓ | — |
| AI-agent & prompt-injection testing | ✓ | — |
| Attack-surface discovery | ✓ | ✓ (focus) |
| Independent reproduction before report | ✓ | No — pattern match |
| Hash-chained evidence | ✓ | Varies |
| EU hosting (AWS Frankfurt) | ✓ | Varies |
Where Detectify is strong
Detectify is good at breadth: external attack-surface management, asset discovery, and automated scanning for known vulnerability signatures across a large web estate, updated from crowdsourced research. If you want continuous surface monitoring and signature coverage at scale, it does that well.
Where SuperPentest differs
SuperPentest is an autonomous AI penetration testing platform for web applications, APIs and AI agents. It performs authenticated testing as each identity you supply, reasons about business logic, and tests the AI inside your product — prompt injection, tool-call boundaries and MCP. Every candidate is reproduced from a clean session with hash-chained request/response evidence mapped to SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, NIS2, DORA and OWASP, and it proves access-control and business-logic bugs a scanner structurally cannot reach, running in the EU (AWS Frankfurt) with published pricing. AI-agent testing → · how we verify →
Which to choose
- Choose Detectify where its focus matches your priority, as described above.
- Choose SuperPentest if you need autonomous testing of web, APIs and the AI inside your product, authorization and business-logic coverage, EU data residency, and reproduced evidence your engineers and auditors can act on.
- Not sure? See the full field in best AI pentesting tools 2026.
FAQ
Is SuperPentest a Detectify alternative?
Yes, for teams that have outgrown scanner noise. Detectify pattern-matches known issues across your surface; SuperPentest tests authorization and business logic a scanner cannot see, tests the AI in your product, and reproduces each finding. Many teams run a scanner for breadth and SuperPentest for depth.
Why can’t a scanner find access-control bugs?
Broken access control only surfaces when the same request is replayed as every identity and compared to the rules the app should enforce. A scanner matches one request against a signature; it has no model of who should be allowed to do what.
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