Beagle Security vs Nuclei

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.

Nuclei is a free, open-source vulnerability scanner for applications, infrastructure, cloud platforms, and networks. It uses YAML templates to define checks, drawing on more than 6,500 community-contributed templates; users can also create custom templates. Bulk and parallel scans, multiple target formats, and inclusion and exclusion filters are supported. Modules cover HTTP, DNS, TCP, headless, JavaScript, code, and file scanning, and authentication options include HTTP basic authentication and JWT. Nuclei can run in CI/CD pipelines, including through GitHub Actions, and export SARIF results to GitHub Code Scanning. It is distributed under the MIT License and is primarily a standalone CLI tool, with installation options including Go, Homebrew, Docker, GitHub, downloadable binaries, and Helm. It is actively developed, but has no LTS or stable version, so updates may bring breaking changes. Some templates can fuzz or take actions that risk denial of service; these are tagged and excluded from default scans. The tool is intended for security engineers, analysts, red teams, DevOps teams, bug bounty hunters, and penetration testers.