Astra Security vs Mend.io

Astra Security is a cloud platform for continuous penetration testing of web applications, APIs, and cloud infrastructure. Its DAST scanner covers more than 15,000 test cases and supports authenticated scans involving MFA, SSO, and custom authentication flows. PTaaS combines certified human penetration testers with AI-assisted threat modeling, scheduled tests, and free rescans after remediation. API security features discover shadow, dormant, and undocumented APIs and test API-specific attack cases. The cloud scanner supports AWS, Azure, and GCP with more than 400 checks. Integrations include Slack, Jira, Vanta, GitLab, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Azure, and CircleCI. Astra says it is SOC 2 Type II and ISO/IEC 27001 certified, and its Trust Center shares security evidence. Plans include Scanner Lite at $69 a month, Scanner at $199 a month, and annual pentest options. A target is a domain and its site-tree URLs, representing an application, IP, website, or API.

Mend.io is a paid application-security platform covering application code, AI components and the attack surface between them. Mend AppSec combines SAST, SCA, AI-generated-code security, AI fix suggestions, dependency updates, IaC and container scanning, policy as code, SBOM management, compliance reporting and remediation workflows. Mend AI adds AI-component discovery, system-prompt hardening, automated red teaming, runtime guardrails and continuous governance. Mend Renovate Enterprise finds outdated dependencies, updates them and provides Merge Confidence ratings and workflows. Integrations include Jira, ServiceNow, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab and GitHub, while AppSec also scans code generated through Cursor, Windsurf and Copilot. Its vulnerability database covers over 200 programming languages and draws from the NVD, security advisories and open-source issue trackers. Pricing is per contributing developer without code-size, scan-count or application-count limits; add-ons may cost extra. Listed plans are Mend Renovate Enterprise at $250 a year, Mend AI at $300 a year and Mend AppSec at $1,000 a year.