42Crunch vs Detectify
What middleBrick covers
- Black-box scanning with no agents, SDKs, or code access
- Risk score A–F with prioritized findings
- 12 OWASP API Top 10 aligned detection categories
- OpenAPI 3.0/3.1 and Swagger 2.0 parsing with $ref resolution
- Authenticated scanning with strict header allowlist
- Continuous monitoring with diff detection and alerts
Target audience and deployment model
42Crunch positions itself as a specialized API security scanner with a strong focus on policy enforcement and developer workflow integration. Detectify operates as a broad vulnerability scanner that covers web applications and APIs with an emphasis on ease of use. middleBrick targets security and engineering teams that require a black-box API scanner with no agents, no SDKs, and no code access, supporting any language or framework through read-only methods.
Feature scope and detection coverage
42Crunch provides API-specific security checks aligned to OWASP API Top 10 (2023), including authentication bypasses, BOLA/BFLA, property over-exposure, input validation, rate limiting, data exposure, encryption issues, SSRF, inventory management, unsafe consumption, and LLM/AI security probes. It supports OpenAPI 3.0, 3.1, and Swagger 2.0 with recursive $ref resolution, cross-referencing spec definitions against runtime behavior. Detectify covers common web vulnerabilities and many API checks, but its scope is less tailored to API-specific risks such as JWT misconfigurations, nuanced authorization issues, and LLM adversarial testing. middleBrick maps findings to OWASP API Top 10, while also helping you prepare for PCI-DSS 4.0 and SOC 2 Type II through its detection capabilities.
Authenticated scanning and access controls
middleBrick offers authenticated scanning from the Starter tier and above, supporting Bearer tokens, API keys, Basic auth, and cookies. Access requires domain verification via DNS TXT record or an HTTP well-known file so that only the domain owner can scan with credentials. Header forwarding is limited to Authorization, X-API-Key, Cookie, and X-Custom-* headers. 42Crunch also supports authenticated scans but places a heavier emphasis on policy and developer tooling. Detectify provides authentication options but is less granular in header and domain verification controls, which can increase noise in scan results when testing behind auth-protected endpoints.
Integration, reporting, and monitoring
middleBrick integrates into multiple environments via a web dashboard for scoring and trend tracking, a CLI for local runs with JSON or text output, a GitHub Action for CI/CD gating, an MCP server for AI coding assistants, and a programmatic API for custom workflows. Pro tier adds scheduled rescans, diff detection, email alerts at a rate-limited pace, HMAC-SHA256 signed webhooks, and compliance PDF reports. 42Crunch focuses on policy-centric workflows and developer-centric tooling, while Detectify emphasizes ease of use and web-focused scanning with integrations oriented around issue tracking and developer notifications. middleBrick does not fix, patch, block, or remediate; it detects and provides remediation guidance.
Pricing model and compliance framing
middleBrick offers a free tier with 3 scans per month and CLI access, Starter at 99 USD per month for 15 APIs with dashboard and alerts, Pro at 499 USD per month for 100 APIs with continuous monitoring and CI/CD integration, and Enterprise at 2000 USD per month for unlimited APIs and custom rules. Pricing is transparent and usage-based. Regarding compliance, middleBrick helps you prepare for PCI-DSS 4.0 and SOC 2 Type II, and surfaces findings relevant to audit evidence for OWASP API Top 10. It does not claim compliance certifications for HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001, NIST, CCPA, or similar frameworks. 42Crunch and Detectify have different pricing structures, but middleBrick’s model is designed for predictable scaling as API inventories grow.