Automatic API Attack Tool vs Beagle Security

Automatic API Attack Tool is a free, MIT-licensed, self-hosted security tool for Windows and Linux. It takes a Swagger 2.0 API specification in JSON or YAML and generates and runs attacks from that definition. Fuzzing scenarios send generated values within the specification’s boundaries and values that violate them, including random invalid values for checked parameters. The project describes extensibility for attack types such as illegal resource access, XSS, SQL injection, and RFI, and supports authorization and input-validation testing. It reports request details, expected-response checks, and a summary. TestNG results are written under build/testng-results, while bad requests are saved in a bad_requests folder. Optional host and port arguments support routing through a proxy. The project is intended for CI/CD and describes scheduled or code-push Jenkins jobs. Running it requires Java 8 or higher and Gradle. Windows build instructions use gradlew.bat build; Linux instructions create an executable from a shell script and the JAR. API discovery is not included.

Beagle Security is an agentic AI penetration-testing platform for web applications, APIs and GraphQL. It automates testing to identify, validate and prioritize vulnerabilities, with more than 3,000 test cases including OWASP Top 10 and CWE Top 25 coverage. Users can record complex login flows and points of interest to test application functionality. Reports can include contextual recommendations and be downloaded as PDF, JSON, XML or CSV. CI/CD integrations include Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Bitbucket and Azure Pipelines; Jira, Slack, Microsoft Teams and Trello can receive results. The Web API supports project and application management, test control and result retrieval. Reports can be mapped to HIPAA and PCI DSS. The free plan costs nothing and includes one lite test per month, monthly surface scan reports, and SSL and domain expiry monitoring. Essential is $99 a month, billed annually at $1,188, with two tests per month, one concurrent test and five team members. Advanced is $299 a month, billed annually at $3,588.