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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 pen tests a domain you have proven you own as part of a plan that also watches your code and cloud: safe tiers that can run against production on every change, and an attack mode that exploits findings on staging to prove them and rolls the proofs back. Every run ends in an audit-grade report, and Junglewise carries on to the fixes: it drafts them for you or guides your team through them, 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: Any domain you have proven you own, logged in as each role you set up, against checks mapped to the OWASP Top 10: access to other accounts' data, injection, cross-site scripting, SSRF, sessions and exposed files. In attack mode the AI also writes checks for your app's own logic, each reviewed by a second model before it runs. 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: You pick per environment. Passive and Safe active probe without exploiting or deleting anything, so they can run against production. Attack mode exploits each finding to prove it and is meant for staging: proofs are rolled back by default, and nothing irreversible runs without your explicit consent. 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. |
| Compliance | XBOW: Audit-ready reports that meet the pen test requirement in SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS and NIS 2. | Junglewise: An audit-grade report as HTML and PDF: scope and authorization, methodology, every finding with its CVSS score, OWASP category, reproduction steps and fix, and a ledger of every action the test took and whether it was rolled back. 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 want autonomous agents chaining weaknesses into multi-step exploits across a large app.
- 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 audit-grade report and the findings fixed too, drafted for you or with your team guided through them.
- Nobody on the team owns security, so the work between tests matters as much as the test.
- You want production tested safely on every change and staging attacked to prove exploits, on one plan.
- 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?
- Both can prove a finding with a working exploit. XBOW is built around it: its agents chain weaknesses into multi-step exploits across a large app. Junglewise lets you choose per environment: safe tiers that run against production on a schedule or on every change, or attack mode on staging that proves each finding and rolls the proof back. Either way you get an audit-grade report, and then Junglewise drafts the fix.
- Can I use XBOW and Junglewise together?
- Yes. Some teams keep XBOW for a deep engagement on a set schedule, and Junglewise tests every change in between, watches your code and cloud, and drafts the fixes for what either 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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