A Pentera alternative without the enterprise price tag
Automated security validation is powerful — and it is largely built and priced for large enterprise security teams. If you want continuous, AI-driven penetration testing with transparent pricing and EU data residency, accessible to a startup or a mid-market team, that is a different fit. Here is an honest comparison.
What Pentera is good at
Pentera is an automated security validation platform: it safely emulates attacks across your environment to validate, continuously, which exposures are real and how they chain into attack paths. It is strong, mature technology built for large enterprise security teams that want to validate their posture at scale and prioritise remediation by proven impact. For that audience, it is a serious option.
Where the fit differs — and AssurePort comes in
The difference is mostly access: who the product is built and priced for. Enterprise validation platforms are generally sold on custom annual contracts scoped to large environments, with a procurement cycle to match. That puts them out of reach for the startups and mid-market teams who face the same attackers but don't have an enterprise security budget or a dedicated validation team.
AssurePort brings continuous, AI-driven penetration testing to those teams. It is self-serve, with transparent pricing from $399 per scan — no enterprise contract to begin — and every finding ships with a human-verifiable proof of concept and a mapping to the ISO 27001, NIS2, DORA and PCI-DSS controls it affects, across 11 engines (web, API, cloud, network, Active Directory, SAP, email and more). And all data stays in the EU, which matters for organisations under GDPR, NIS2 and DORA.
The honest version: if you are a large enterprise with a dedicated validation team and budget, a platform like Pentera is built for you. If you want the same continuous-testing idea — proven, exploitable risk on every change — with transparent per-scan pricing, compliance-mapped evidence and EU residency, accessible without an enterprise deal, that is where AssurePort fits.
Side by side
| Pentera | AssurePort | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Large enterprise security teams | Startups & mid-market, up to enterprise |
| Pricing | Custom annual contract | Transparent, from $399 per scan |
| Buying motion | Procurement cycle | Self-serve, start today |
| Approach | Automated security validation | Continuous AI penetration testing + PoC |
| Compliance evidence | Validation reporting | Mapped to ISO 27001/NIS2/DORA/PCI-DSS |
| Data residency | Varies | EU throughout (Cloudflare EU, Fly Frankfurt) |
Choose AssurePort if…
- You want continuous, proven testing without an enterprise contract or procurement cycle.
- You need transparent, per-scan pricing you can see before you start.
- You need exploit-backed audit evidence mapped to controls — see our ISO 27001 control matrix.
- You are an EU organisation and need end-to-end EU data residency.
For the broader picture, see our full comparison, and our pillar guide to penetration testing.
Enterprise-grade testing, startup-friendly access.
Run continuous, AI-driven penetration tests with transparent pricing from $399 per scan — EU-hosted, with a human-verifiable proof of concept and compliance mapping behind every finding.
Run your first scan →Pentera is a trademark of its respective owner and is named here only for comparison (nominative use). This page reflects general, publicly observable differences in market positioning as of 2026 and AssurePort's own capabilities; it is not an endorsement by, or affiliation with, Pentera. Verify any third-party tool's current features and pricing with that vendor directly.