Beagle Security vs w3af

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.

w3af is a free, open-source web application security scanner for vulnerability assessments and penetration tests. It can identify more than 200 vulnerabilities, including cross-site scripting, SQL injection, and OS command injection. Its workflow starts with crawler plugins that find URLs and injection points, continues with audit plugins that check for vulnerabilities, and can use attack plugins to exploit findings. Other plugin types cover infrastructure detection, request and response analysis, output, brute force, request modification, and evasion.

Users can scan and analyze results in a GTK graphical interface or a console. Web application payloads can interact with Metasploit when an exploit provides exec() capability. Developers can use the REST API from development languages and run it in Docker; scripts and the API also support automation. The project documents Linux and macOS installation, including running in Docker without installing w3af dependencies. It is available for Linux, macOS, web, API, and self-hosted deployment. REST API traffic over HTTP is unencrypted, so the documentation recommends added protection such as an SSL proxy for publicly reachable deployments.