A Detectify Alternative With One Flat, Published Price
Why teams look for a Detectify alternative
Detectify’s technical credentials are real. Its payload-based scanning approach keeps false positives low, its research pipeline draws on an ethical-hacker community with genuine pedigree, and its remediation guidance is detailed enough for the developers who will actually ship the fixes.
The friction is cost shape and audience. As of September 2026, as reported on Detectify’s public pricing page, there is a free Starter tier, but paid tiers are annual platform fees “from €2,500” (Standard), “from €5,000” (Professional), and “from €15,000” (Enterprise) — and those are only the platform fees. Usage charges sit on top: Surface Monitoring is priced per domain, Application and API Scanning per target, and PCI ASV scanning adds €500/yr. “From” pricing means the real total is quote-shaped — you will not know what Detectify costs your business until your estate has been scoped and priced.
The modular model makes sense for the buyer Detectify is built for: an application-security team that wants to compose exactly the coverage it needs. For a business owner without that team, it means an entry commitment of roughly €2,500 a year before the meter starts, and a total that is hard to predict.
SurfaceLoop vs Detectify at a glance
| Feature | SurfaceLoop | Detectify |
|---|---|---|
| Price | £149/mo flat, everything included | Platform fee from €2,500/yr + usage charges |
| Pricing model | One flat price, published | Annual "from" tiers + per-domain / per-target charges |
| Free tier | None -- 14-day full trial instead | Free Starter tier (€0) |
| Asset discovery | Included as standard | Surface Monitoring, charged per domain |
| Remediation guidance | Plain English | Detailed, developer-focused |
| Best fit | Businesses up to 200 staff, no security team | Application-security teams |
Who should stay with Detectify
If you have an application-security function — or a development team that owns security — Detectify is worth its price. Payload-based scanning with low false positives matters enormously when engineers triage every finding; the ethical-hacker research pedigree keeps checks current; and the per-target Application and API Scanning goes deeper on the apps you build than a broad external monitor will. Organisations that need PCI ASV scanning can add it for €500/yr within the same platform. If that describes you, the modular model is a feature, not a bug.
What switching looks like
Setup takes about 15 minutes: give SurfaceLoop your root domain and work email, and automated discovery maps your internet-facing estate during the 14-day free trial — all seven scan categories, change tracking, and alerts included. No card, no sales call, no scoping exercise, no quote. If you continue, it is £149/month on a 12-month agreement, billed by invoice, and that number is the whole number.
How SurfaceLoop handles this
SurfaceLoop discovers your internet-facing assets from a single root domain and monitors them continuously — for one published price with no usage meter. Start a 14-day free trial of the full product on your own domains — no card details, no sales call.
See External Attack Surface Management feature →Want the full feature-by-feature breakdown? Read the full SurfaceLoop vs Detectify comparison.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Detectify a bad product? +
- No. Detectify's payload-based scanning produces notably few false positives, its research comes from an ethical-hacker community with real pedigree, and its remediation detail is written for developers who will actually fix the issues. Application-security teams are well served by it. The friction is fit: its pricing and depth are built for AppSec teams, not for business owners who need one predictable number.
- How much does Detectify cost compared with SurfaceLoop? +
- As of September 2026, as reported on Detectify's public pricing page: there is a free Starter tier, then annual platform fees from €2,500 (Standard), from €5,000 (Professional), and from €15,000 (Enterprise) -- plus usage charges on top: Surface Monitoring per domain, Application and API Scanning per target, and PCI ASV at €500/yr. "From" pricing means the real total is quote-shaped. SurfaceLoop is £149/month flat with everything included.
- Why is Detectify's total price hard to predict? +
- Because the platform fee is only the start. The published tiers are "from" prices, and actual usage -- how many domains you monitor and how many applications or APIs you scan -- is charged on top, per domain and per target. Until you have scoped your estate and had it quoted, you cannot know the total. That modular model gives AppSec teams flexibility; it gives smaller businesses uncertainty.
- Does Detectify have a free plan? +
- Yes -- a free Starter tier at €0. The paid commitment, however, starts at an annual platform fee from around €2,500 before any per-domain or per-target charges. SurfaceLoop takes the opposite approach: no permanent free tier, but a 14-day free trial of the full product on your own domains, then one flat £149/month.
- Do I need a credit card or a sales call to try SurfaceLoop? +
- No. SurfaceLoop's 14-day trial requires no card and no sales call -- you start online and the full product runs on your own domains. If you continue, billing is by invoice on a 12-month agreement; there is never a card on file.