Chosen by teams that take attackers seriously
Cobalt pioneered pentesting-as-a-service, but every test is scheduled, scoped, and human-run, scaling with headcount rather than software. Novee runs continuously and autonomously, filling the long gaps between engagements and expanding across your whole portfolio.
Skilled human testing is powerful, but scheduled, scoped engagements can’t keep pace with environments that change every day.
Human required for every test.
Scheduled and scoped, not continuous.
Credit-based pricing scales with volume.
Scoped engagements start from scratch.
Requires scoping before testing begins.
Coverage is only as valuable as how often it runs, how far it reaches across your portfolio, and whether it keeps pace with change.
Continuous, autonomous testing.
Force multiplication, not more headcount.
Context that compounds every cycle.
Verified fixes, retested automatically.
Predictable per-asset pricing.
A zero-knowledge start.
| Capability | Novee AI Pentesting | Cobalt |
|---|---|---|
| Autonomous execution | Fully autonomous from discovery to fix, reasoning and chaining exploits without a human in the loop for every test. |
Human required for every test. A vetted pentester scopes and runs each engagement, so testing scales with headcount. |
| Continuous, change-triggered testing | Runs on demand or automatically when code ships via CI/CD, running continuously. |
Offers a continuous plan, but the core is human-run, still gated by scheduling and scope. |
| Compounding application context | Builds an Asset Intelligence Model of roles, workflows, APIs, and business logic that deepens every cycle, so testing gets more targeted over time and coverage expands rather than resets. |
Each engagement is scoped independently, so context doesn’t compound; pentesters re-learn the application from scratch every time they test. |
| Closed-loop remediation & retesting | Remediation tailored to your WAF, backend, and codebase, not generic OWASP, with automatic retesting that confirms the fix held and flags any new risk introduced, no follow-up engagement required. |
Provides guidance and scheduled retesting, but confirming a fix means another engagement. |
| Zero-knowledge start | Starts black-box from a domain name, no credentials, source code, or internal context required, so value arrives in days without a lengthy scoping cycle. |
No black-box start; engagements require scoping first. |
| Predictable pricing | Flat per-asset pricing tied to complexity. Depth and frequency don’t cost extra as you test more. |
Credit-based pricing that scales with volume, so more testing costs more. |
| Offensive AI stack | Proprietary offensive reasoning model orchestrated with best-in-class frontier models, purpose-built and optimized for offensive application security. |
No model; testing depth comes from skilled human pentesters. |
| Coverage | Web apps, APIs, mobile apps, and AI agents/LLMs, the application-layer surface where most breaches start, across your external footprint. |
Broad coverage across web, API, mobile, AI apps, infrastructure, network, and EASM. |
“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."
