Elite AI hackers aren’t born. They’re trained.
Elite AI hackers aren’t born. They’re trained.
Elite AI hackers aren’t born. They’re trained.
Elite AI hackers aren’t born. They’re trained.
Aikido is an AppSec scanner with brand recognition, but their pentesting capability is a compliance-driven bolt-on. Novee meets compliance and keeps your environment secure by finding, proving, and verifying vulnerabilities that lead to breaches.
Aikido’s new pentesting offering is real but shallow, focused on compliance and targeting developers, not security teams. It’s a mechanism to generate SOC 2/ISO 27001 PDF reports.
No proprietary offensive model.
Pentesting is a bolt-on, not the core product.
No compounding context.
Lighter validation.
Per-assessment pricing.
Offensive testing is only as valuable as the breaches it can find, how confidently you can act on them, and whether the fix held.
A proprietary offensive AI stack.
Validation built for zero false positives.
Predictable per-asset pricing.
Purpose-built for offensive testing.
A closed loop to a verified fix.
Built into your workflow.
| Capability | Novee AI Pentesting | Aikido |
|---|---|---|
| Application depth & business logic | Reasons through your application and chains business logic flaws into real attack paths, the way a human attacker would. |
Compliance-driven scanning, with no evidence of business logic chaining. |
| Product focus | Purpose-built from the ground up for continuous offensive testing that finds breaches. |
An AppSec scanner with pentesting added as a bolt-on; targeted at developers and framed around SOC 2 / ISO 27001 reporting. |
| Offensive AI stack | Proprietary offensive reasoning model, post-trained on real attacker tradecraft and orchestrated using a proprietary harness with best-in-class frontier models selected per task (multi-model). Optimized with every recurring test cycle. |
No proprietary model. Runs on 3rd-party AI. |
| Compounding context | Builds an Asset Intelligence Model of roles, workflows, APIs, and business logic that deepens every cycle. |
No compounding context; runs the same depth on every scan. |
| Validation | Three independent agents (a finder, a validator, and a blind re-validator with no shared context) plus deterministic checks. Every finding ships with a working exploit, replication steps, and a PoC script. |
Returns findings, but with no confirmed multi-agent validation and unclear depth of proof. |
| Closed-loop remediation & retesting | Remediation tailored to your WAF, backend, and codebase, not generic OWASP. Automatic retesting confirms the fix held and flags new risk the change introduced. |
No confirmed stack-specific remediation or automatic retesting. |
| Autonomous, continuous testing | Fully autonomous. Runs on demand or automatically when code ships via CI/CD. |
Partial autonomy; continuous testing is still evolving. |
| Pricing | Predictable per-asset pricing. Depth and frequency don’t increase cost. |
Per-assessment or per-deploy, from $4K to $30K and up. |
“As the leading agentic orchestration platform for the enterprise, data isolation between our customers is non-negotiable. We need to prove that continuously, not once a year. Novee adapted to our multi-tenant SaaS product within days.”
“Our pen tests took weeks and consistently missed critical issues. Novee found them immediately and gave us instant remediation guidance. It showed us what we'd been missing.”
"Traditional DAST produced either zero or irrelevant results. We needed something that could identify complex vulnerabilities like server-side request forgery. Novee consistently surfaces findings we simply weren't seeing before."
“Novee rethinks penetration testing for how attacks actually happen today. Continuous, attacker-level validation that proves what’s exploitable and shows teams exactly how to fix it is a meaningful shift for modern security programs.”
"The hardest vulnerabilities for us to catch aren’t misconfigurations or known patterns. They’re business logic issues that only show up when someone understands how the application is supposed to work. That’s exactly the gap Novee closes."
"We had EASM tools and manual pentests that produced mostly noise. Novee came in black-box with zero credentials and within days found dozens of real vulnerabilities we could actually fix."
“As an AI researcher, what stood out about Novee is that they built a proprietary offensive AI model designed to think like an attacker, rather than wrapping generic LLMs. That matters for enterprise-grade results.”
“This was by far the deepest and fastest security assessment we’ve had. Novee uncovered issues across our web and mobile applications that had gone undetected before, and the level of depth was unlike anything we’d seen from other vendors.”
“We had urgent compliance need and we couldn’t wait weeks for DAST findings, an external exposure audit, and an in-depth pentest report. Instead Novee came in and delivered immediate value with their AI pentesting platform; with their findings, we closed our gaps and quickly met the criteria we needed for certification.”
"Before Novee, we were getting a snapshot once a year. Now we have continuous coverage across our application portfolio, we're already finding things that prior manual pentests missed completely, and I have real confidence that our security posture reflects what's actually in our environment."
