The first question people ask about Fast Pen Tests is some version of "how is this $495 when everyone else charges $10,000?"
Fair question. Here's the straight answer, including the parts that don't help me sell anything.
What you get
- A penetration test of one domain. Your website or web app, tested from the outside with no special access. This is called black box testing: we see what an attacker would see.
- OWASP Top 10 coverage. Injection (SQL and otherwise), cross-site scripting, broken authentication, broken access control, security misconfiguration, sensitive data exposure, known vulnerable components, and the rest of the list.
- Automated tooling plus manual verification. Tools do the repetitive scanning. A person checks the findings, so you don't get a 60-page PDF of false positives.
- A PDF report. Every finding gets a severity rating, evidence, and steps to fix it that a developer can actually follow. You can see a sample report before you buy.
- An attestation letter. A short formal letter with the scope, date, and methodology. This is the thing you send to auditors and customers. More on that below.
- All of it within 24 hours. No scoping calls, no three-week wait for a slot.
If you're not happy with it, there's a full refund within 7 days of getting your report.
Why it's cheaper
A big part of what a traditional firm charges for isn't the testing. It's sales calls, scoping meetings, statements of work, scheduling, project management, and a senior person writing up a long report by hand. For a standard external web app test, the method is well known and the report format doesn't change much from client to client.
We automate the parts that are the same every time and spend the human time on checking the results. That's the whole trick. There's no secret AI that replaces a pen tester.
What it doesn't cover
This is the part people skip, so I'll be specific.
- Deep authenticated testing. The standard test looks at what's reachable from outside. If most of your risk lives behind the login screen (complicated roles, multi-tenant data, admin panels), you want grey box testing where the tester gets accounts. Get in touch about that. It's not the $495 product.
- Business logic abuse. Things like "can I apply the same coupon twelve times" or "can I skip the payment step in onboarding." Finding those takes someone learning how your product is supposed to work, and that takes more than a day.
- Mobile apps. We test the web side. The iOS or Android app itself is a different kind of test.
- Internal networks and cloud config. Your AWS IAM policies, your office network, your Kubernetes cluster. Not in scope.
- Source code review. We don't read your code. That catches different bugs, and it's worth doing separately.
- Social engineering. No phishing your staff, no calling your help desk pretending to be the CEO.
When to spend more
Spend the $10,000 to $30,000 on a longer engagement when:
- A customer contract spells out a specific scope, like authenticated testing of every user role.
- You handle regulated data at real scale (health records, payment card data, lots of PII).
- You're about to ship something with complicated permissions and a mistake would be very bad.
- You've already done the basic external test, fixed everything, and want to go deeper.
When $495 is the right call
- You need pen test evidence for a SOC 2 audit or a customer security questionnaire, and you need it this week.
- You've never had a pen test and want to know where you stand.
- You shipped a lot of new code recently (especially AI-written code) and want an outside check.
- You're a small team and $15,000 isn't happening this year anyway.
If someone tells you a one-day external test is the same as a three-week engagement, they're wrong. If someone tells you that you need the three-week engagement before you've ever done the basic one, they're usually wrong too. Start with the basics, fix what they find, then decide if you need more.
Not sure which one you need? Run the free scan first. It won't answer everything, but it'll tell you pretty quickly how much basic cleanup you have ahead of you.