APISec Platform vs Bright Security DAST

APISec Platform is an application security tool for validating exploits against APIs and applications. It discovers applications, builds a dynamic model of their behavior, and runs attacker-like tests at runtime. The model can capture endpoints, parameters, authentication flows, roles, permissions, object ownership, and business logic without documentation or developer interviews. Tests cover business logic, data access, permissions, configuration, infrastructure, and controls such as injection and token handling. For validated exploits, the platform returns the request sequence, data reached, blast radius, replay, and a suggested resolution. APISec says it can find APIs across infrastructure, source, gateways, ingress and authentication paths, web apps, development tools, and CI/CD, as well as agents, MCP servers, and LLM call sites. Public APIs run against its cloud; private and on-premises APIs can use a Kubernetes or Docker container, while cloud deployments can run in a customer’s GCP, Azure, or AWS environment. The free plan covers public API testing and basic simulations. Standard costs $690 a month per 100 endpoints; Pro costs $2,750 a month per 100 endpoints.

Bright Security DAST is a dynamic application security testing tool offered as SaaS. It tests websites, web applications, APIs including REST, SOAP, and GraphQL, servers, and network devices; it also tests mobile applications on the server side. Checks include SQL injection, CSRF, XSS, XXE, and business logic vulnerabilities. Bright says it validates findings in real time and does not report issues it cannot validate, with less than 3% false positives among its verified findings. Target discovery can use a crawler, HAR recording, or GraphQL and OpenAPI schemas. Authentication objects let scans reach login-protected application and API resources. Teams can initiate scans from CI/CD pipelines and control them through the CLI or REST API without using the interface. The CLI's Repeater mode routes requests to local targets without exposing them to the internet. Bright lists SaaS, private cloud, and Repeater proxy deployment options. Scan quantity is unlimited, but the number of concurrent scans depends on the organization's engine count. Bright says scan data is held in memory temporarily and deleted after scanning. The tool cannot handle CAPTCHA during scans. Pricing is available on request, with a demo offered.