AI Agents vs Crowdsourced Signatures
Detectify matches your app against patterns found by their researcher community. ModernPentest's AI agents reason about your specific implementation to find vulnerabilities unique to your app—not just known patterns.
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Key Differences
What sets ModernPentest apart from Detectify.
AI Agents vs Signatures
How are vulnerabilities found?
Business Logic
Can it find app-specific flaws?
Platform Structure
How is the product organized?
Compliance
What reports do auditors accept?
Feature Comparison
See how ModernPentest stacks up against Detectify.
| Feature | MP ModernPentest | D Detectify |
|---|---|---|
| AI Agent Capabilities | ||
| Autonomous AI Agents | ||
| Multi-Step Reasoning | ||
| Context-Aware Testing | ||
| Business Logic Understanding | ||
| Testing Method | AI Agent Exploitation | Signature Matching |
| Vulnerability Discovery | ||
| Discovery Method | AI reasoning + exploitation | Crowdsourced signatures |
| Business Logic Flaws | ||
| App-Specific Vulnerabilities | ||
| Known Vulnerability Patterns | 2,000+ checks | |
| Zero-Day Discovery | AI-discovered | Researcher-discovered |
| Testing Depth | ||
| Exploitation Validation | Payload-based | |
| Proof of Concept | Full PoC | Request/response only |
| Attack Chain Construction | ||
| IDOR Testing | Context-aware | Pattern matching |
| Platform & Pricing | ||
| All-in-One Platform | Separate products | |
| API Security | Included | Separate product |
| Modern Stack Support | Native | Generic |
| SOC 2-Ready Reports | Mapping only | |
The Limitation of Signature-Based Testing
What Detectify Can Find
- • Known vulnerability patterns
- • Common misconfigurations
- • Generic XSS/SQLi signatures
- • Previously discovered CVEs
- • Standard OWASP issues
Can only find what researchers have already discovered
What ModernPentest Can Find
- • IDOR in your specific API design
- • Privilege escalation in your role system
- • Race conditions in your checkout flow
- • Business logic flaws in your workflows
- • App-specific authentication bypasses
AI agents understand your specific implementation
The key difference: Detectify asks "does this app match a known vulnerable pattern?" ModernPentest asks "how can I break this specific app?" One finds common issues; the other finds your issues.
Pricing Comparison
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ModernPentest
AI-powered pentesting
- 1 application
- Web + API included
- SOC 2 reports
- 5 applications
- Weekly pentests
- CI/CD integration
- 20 applications
- Custom compliance
- Dedicated support
Detectify
Competitor
- Web app DAST
- Signature-based
- Per domain
- Attack surface discovery
- Separate product
- Additional cost
- Full platform
- Still signature-based
- No AI agents
Detectify separates application scanning and surface monitoring into different products. ModernPentest includes both with AI agent testing.
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