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Junglewise vs XBOW
XBOW is an autonomous penetration tester for web applications and APIs: it explores your app the way an attacker would, chains weaknesses into working exploits, and in 2025 became the first machine to top HackerOne's leaderboard. Junglewise runs a safer kind of test, a rate-limited, read-only assessment of a domain you have proven you own, as part of a plan that also watches your code and cloud. Then it does what a pen test report leaves undone: it drafts the fixes, and on the Team plan a security engineer walks you through the report.
| XBOW | Junglewise | |
|---|---|---|
| Typical price | XBOW: Lightspeed Plus is $4,000 a test for a lightweight app and Lightspeed Premium $8,000 for one with several modules and workflows. Enterprise, with continuous coverage, is quoted and billed in attack credits. | Junglewise: Pen tests come with the plan and run on its monthly credits, so there is no per-test fee. Monitor is $99 a month; Team $499 with fixes drafted and an engineer. |
| What it tests | XBOW: Web applications and APIs, authenticated or not, for injection, broken access control, SSRF, authentication bypasses and the chains between them. | Junglewise: A domain you have verified you own: DNS, TLS, headers, cookies, exposed files and version fingerprints across every page and endpoint it can reach. Between tests, your repositories and your AWS, Google Cloud or Azure account. |
| How the test runs | XBOW: Autonomously, with every finding backed by a working, reproducible exploit and a decision log. The report arrives within five business days, and re-tests are instant. | Junglewise: Safe, rate-limited, read-only probes that identify themselves in your logs. Nothing is changed, deleted or taken, so it can run against production. Mapping takes 1 to 2 hours and the test 1 to 8; the report is ready minutes later. |
| Who fixes it | XBOW: Your developers, from the remediation guidance in the report and a Jira ticket if you connect it. | Junglewise: Junglewise drafts the fix as a pull request or a cloud change and applies it when you approve. |
| A person to ask | XBOW: Email support and the Console documentation. | Junglewise: On Team, a security engineer walks you through the report and takes the judgment calls in UK business hours. |
| Compliance | XBOW: Audit-ready reports that meet the pen test requirement in SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS and NIS 2. | Junglewise: A written report you can share, and from Team evidence for SOC 2 and ISO 27001 reviews drawn from what Junglewise watches every day. |
XBOW figures are from XBOW's pentest page, documentation and AWS Marketplace listing, in US dollars, checked September 2026, for a 6 to 10 person startup. Junglewise prices exclude VAT. Sources: XBOW pentest, XBOW documentation, XBOW Enterprise on AWS Marketplace.
Which fits
The honest answer depends on your team
XBOW is the better fit when
- You need a working exploit attached to each finding as proof.
- Your app is large enough that a scanner's view is not enough, and you have developers ready to work through a report.
- A customer or auditor wants a named pen test vendor's report on a set schedule.
Junglewise is the better fit when
- You want the findings fixed, not handed back to you as a report.
- Nobody on the team owns security, so the work between tests matters as much as the test.
- The budget is a few hundred dollars a month, not thousands per test.
Questions
- Which is cheaper, XBOW or Junglewise?
- XBOW is $4,000 or $8,000 a test. A Junglewise pen test comes with the plan: Monitor is $99 a month and Team $499, and the price also covers the monitoring of your code and cloud in between, the drafted fixes and, on Team, the engineer.
- How does a Junglewise pen test differ from XBOW's?
- In what happens with a finding. XBOW exploits it to prove it, so its report carries a working exploit. Junglewise tests without changing, deleting or taking anything, so it runs against production on a schedule, and then drafts the fix. Teams that need exploit proof for an audit run both.
- Can I use XBOW and Junglewise together?
- Yes. XBOW proves the exploit; Junglewise watches your code and cloud between engagements and drafts the fixes for what it finds. On Team, your security engineer can help you work through XBOW's report too.
- Is there a free way to try Junglewise?
- The domain scan is free and needs no account. Start a penetration test from the scan result and it runs on the free 14-day Team trial, engineer included.
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