NovaPentest vs Intruder

Intruder covers a broad estate: infrastructure, cloud and apps. NovaPentest tests a few web apps and APIs in depth. Pick by the question you need answered.

Intruder and NovaPentest are both cloud-delivered, automated security testing services, and both let you start without talking to a salesperson. They are built for different jobs, though. Intruder describes itself as an always-on exposure management platform: continuous vulnerability scanning across infrastructure, cloud accounts, web applications and APIs, aimed at stretched security, IT and compliance teams looking after a broad digital estate.

NovaPentest is narrower on purpose. It points around sixty web-focused checks, including active injection probes and an LLM-driven adversary agent, at the public web applications and APIs you register as targets, and reports what it could actually reach, with evidence and a fix for each finding.

This page compares the two on things that change slowly: what each company focuses on, how each is delivered, and how each prices. It deliberately avoids feature-by-feature checklists, because those go stale within a quarter. Everything we say about Intruder reflects how Intruder presents itself on its own website as of the date shown on this page.

Where NovaPentest fits

NovaPentest fits teams whose real exposure is a small number of public web applications and APIs, and who want those tested the way an attacker would probe them. A full scan runs active checks for injection classes such as SQL, NoSQL, command, LDAP and template injection, cross-site scripting, SSRF, XXE and path traversal, alongside configuration checks for TLS, security headers, cookies, CORS and DNS. On paid plans an AI agent then explores the application within a fixed request budget, can sign in with credentials you supply for that scan, and looks for issues that a fixed rule would not anticipate.

Pricing is small and flat: a Free plan with one target and one scan a month, and a Pro plan with three targets and thirty scans a month, with a 14-day trial. Findings map to the OWASP Top 10 and CWE, reports export to PDF, scan history shows what changed between runs, and results can go to a webhook, Slack or Jira, or gate a CI/CD pipeline through the API. The whole product is also available in Brazilian Portuguese, with prices in reais.

Where the alternative is the better choice

Intruder is the better choice when your attack surface is wider than a few web applications. It positions itself around infrastructure and network scanning, agentless scanning of cloud accounts on the major cloud providers, container images, and continuous monitoring of a large and changing estate, and its higher tiers add internal scanning. NovaPentest does none of that by design. It refuses to scan private or internal addresses at all, it does not connect to your cloud accounts, and it treats each target as a web application or API rather than as an inventory of hosts.

Intruder is also built for organizations that want a single exposure management platform as their security source of truth, with licensing that scales per target across infrastructure, applications and cloud accounts, and an enterprise tier for large attack surfaces. If the question you need answered is "what do we own, and what is exposed across all of it", a platform focused on exposure management will serve you better than a web application tester, and you should evaluate Intruder on exactly that basis.

How to choose

Start from the question you need answered. If it is "which of our servers, cloud resources and services are exposed or unpatched", you are describing exposure management across an estate, and Intruder's focus matches that. If it is "could someone break into our web application or API, and how would they do it", you are describing attack testing at the application layer, which is what NovaPentest concentrates on.

Then consider scale. NovaPentest's plans are sized for a few important web targets tested often. An organization with hundreds of hosts and several cloud accounts will outgrow that shape quickly. Plenty of teams reasonably run both kinds of tool: a broad scanner across the estate, and a deeper, attack-oriented test for the handful of applications that hold customer data.

The cheapest way to decide is to try both on the same target. NovaPentest's passive scan at /scan needs no account and returns an A to F grade; Intruder advertises a free plan and trial as well. Compare which report your engineers would actually act on.

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