Detectify and HackerMe both scan websites from the outside. They are not priced, packaged, or staffed for the same buyer. Detectify sells an application-security platform to engineering teams. HackerMe sells a hosted scanner a site owner can start without a card.
We build HackerMe. This comparison uses Detectify’s public pricing and Application Scanning pages, fetched on 8 November 2026, and our own pricing page from the same day. It is not a lab test of which scanner finds more issues on a shared target.
Only scan a domain you own or have explicit permission to test.
Scope and annual cost, side by side
Prices below are shown as each vendor publishes them: HackerMe in US dollars, Detectify in euros. We are not converting currencies. Detectify’s listed figures are annual platform fees. Scan products are extra.
| Detectify | HackerMe | |
|---|---|---|
| Job | DAST and attack-surface platform: Surface Monitoring, Application Scanning, and API Scanning | Hosted outside website scanner |
| Who it is built for | Engineering and security teams that already have a workflow for findings | A site owner who wants a repeating outside scan |
| Annual platform fee, as published | Starter from €0; Standard from €2,500; Professional from €5,000; Enterprise from €15,000 | Free: $0. Pro: $238.80 per year ($19.90 a month billed yearly). Ultra: $200 a month as listed, which is $2,400 over 12 months at that monthly rate. The pricing page does not publish a separate Ultra annual price |
| What that fee includes | Platform access, user and team limits, and the support tier for that plan | The published scan coverage for that plan. Pro covers one domain and five subdomains or paths, with daily Standard, Deep, EASM, and Pentest engines |
| Scan products | Surface Monitoring is an additional cost per domain. Application Scanning and API Scanning are additional costs per target. Those add-ons apply on every tier, including Starter. PCI ASV scanning is an extra €500 per year | No separate per-scan add-on list on the public pricing page. Paid plans change which engines run daily and how many domains or paths are included |
| Authenticated / behind-login testing | Application Scanning advertises basic auth, a recorded login, and recorded crawling | Recording a logged-in session is not listed on HackerMe’s public pricing page |
| Internal scanning | Professional includes internal scanning within one environment. Enterprise includes three. Extra environments are an additional fee | An internal scanning agent is not listed on HackerMe’s public pricing page |
Exact per-target rates for Application Scanning were not shown as a single public number on the pages we opened. Detectify says that product is priced per target, with unlimited scans inside the plan, and that you can try it for two weeks. The pricing page also warns of further costs for added assets, domains, environments, and IP ranges.
Detectify’s Application Scanning page describes a browser crawler that handles React, Angular, or Vue apps, groups similar pages, and fires payloads from more than 1,765 modules written by ethical hackers in its Crowdsource community. Findings come with the proof-of-concept payload that triggered them. Detectify states, based on its own data over three years, that 99 percent of the vulnerabilities it finds have no CVE assigned. Those are Detectify’s published figures, not ours.
Detectify is also open about a limit that matters. Application Scanning does not test business logic or authorization flaws such as BOLA or BFLA, and it can only test what the crawler reaches. Apps behind CAPTCHA or anti-bot protection “don’t scan well.”
What that means in practice
Detectify fits a team that already has a security owner, a ticketing workflow, and a list of apps worth a per-target fee. The Standard tier’s public starting point is a €2,500 annual platform fee before you add Surface Monitoring, Application Scanning, or API Scanning.
HackerMe fits someone who owns one site, or a small set of domains, and wants to start today. Pro’s published yearly total is $238.80 for the scope above. Ultra is $200 a month for larger coverage: one domain plus up to four additional domains, 100 subdomains or paths, and a daily run of all seven engines. That Ultra monthly figure is not below Detectify’s Standard platform fee once you compare a year with a year, and the two prices are in different currencies. Detectify’s €2,500 is also only the platform layer.
If your main need is “test the account settings page the way a signed-in user sees it,” Detectify advertises that feature. HackerMe’s public pricing page does not list recording a session, so say that out loud when you compare them.
HackerMe also does not claim to replace a human penetration test. For the difference between a programmed scan and a person who can chain issues, see Website Security Scan vs Penetration Test. Detectify’s own Application Scanning FAQ makes a similar point by excluding business logic and broken object-level authorization from what the crawler will prove.
If you are still choosing how to run any website scan, including what active testing does to a live host, read How to Run a Vulnerability Scan on a Website.
Detectify also markets agentic tooling. HackerMe lists an Agentic engine with six AI agents and business-logic testing. Those are vendor descriptions, not a head-to-head quality score. We have not published a benchmark that compares the two, so we will not invent one. For the wider category, see Autonomous Penetration Testing Platforms.
Illustrative example
This is an illustrative example, not a report from a customer site.
What was found. An outside scan of a marketing site reports a configuration issue: the homepage response has no Content-Security-Policy header. Separately, it reports an indication of reflected input on a public search box. The indication includes the URL and parameter name, not a claim that the page was taken over.
What it means for the owner. The missing CSP is a configuration weakness. It does not prove that anyone injected a script. The search-box item is an indication until a developer confirms whether the input is reflected without encoding. This is the kind of public-page review a site owner can start without a platform contract. It is not the same as Detectify crawling a signed-in settings page with a recorded login and attaching a proof-of-concept payload.
What to hand the developer. For the header: the URL, the date, and that no Content-Security-Policy was present on that response. Ask them to draft a policy, starting in report-only mode if they need to see what would break. For the search box: the URL, the parameter name, and a request to confirm the output encoding. Do not ask them to “make the site secure.” Ask them to verify or dismiss each item.
How to verify the fix. Recheck the same homepage response for the CSP header you intended, then sample another page type. Retest the same search parameter after the encoding change. A cleared item means that check no longer reports the same issue. It does not mean the application is secure, and it does not mean authenticated areas were tested.
Who should pick which
Pick Detectify if you run a product engineering organization, you want payload-based tests maintained by a researcher community, you need to keep an authenticated session while the crawler works, and you can budget an annual platform fee plus per-target scan charges.
Pick HackerMe if you own one site or a small set of domains, you want to start today without a card, and you want daily outside scans rather than a procurement cycle.
Pick both only if the roles are split. Detectify can be the AppSec platform for custom applications. HackerMe can be the simple daily outside view of the marketing site or a staging hostname you are allowed to test. Running two scanners is normal. Pretending one of them is the other is not.
We are not claiming HackerMe finds 99 percent of issues, matches 1,765 modules, or crawls single-page apps as Detectify describes. Those are Detectify’s published figures. We are not claiming Detectify is “too expensive” in the abstract. It costs more than a single-site scanner because it is built as a multi-product AppSec suite, with scan products priced separately from the platform fee.
If you searched for a Detectify alternative because the platform fee does not fit a single website, HackerMe is a reasonable tool to try on a domain you own. If you searched because you need authenticated DAST and attack-surface inventory for a fleet of apps, Detectify’s public pages describe that world more completely than ours do.
HackerMe figures come from hackerme.ai/pricing as fetched on 8 November 2026. Detectify figures come from detectify.com/pricing and detectify.com/product/application-scanning, fetched the same day.
Only scan a domain you own or have explicit permission to test.
Scan your website for FREE — hackerme.ai.
Top comments (0)