Pricing alternative to Apigee

Organizations evaluating API security often face high vendor lock-in and complex procurement cycles. A self-service scanner provides an alternative model where you pay for discovery and risk scoring rather than per-transaction or gateway overhead. The approach is black-box: you submit a URL and receive a letter-grade risk score with prioritized findings. Because it operates read-only, it avoids the operational overhead of deploying agents or modifying application code. Scan time is typically under a minute, and the method covers any language, framework, or cloud target without tight coupling to your infrastructure.

The scanner maps findings to OWASP API Top 10 (2023), PCI-DSS 4.0, and SOC 2 Type II, providing structured evidence that supports audit activities. Detection areas include authentication bypass and JWT misconfigurations such as alg=none or expired tokens, BOLA and IDOR via sequential ID probing, BFLA and privilege escalation through role leakage, and property authorization over-exposure. Input validation checks cover CORS wildcard usage with credentials, dangerous HTTP methods, and debug endpoints. Rate limiting and resource consumption are assessed via header analysis and oversized response detection. Data exposure includes PII patterns, Luhn-validated card numbers, API key formats, and error or stack-trace leakage. Encryption checks validate HTTPS redirects, HSTS, and cookie flags. SSRF probes target URL-accepting parameters and internal IP detection. Inventory management reviews versioning and legacy paths, while unsafe consumption surfaces excessive third-party URLs and webhook exposure. LLM/AI security includes 18 adversarial probes across Quick, Standard, and Deep tiers for system prompt extraction, jailbreaks, data exfiltration, and token smuggling.

The tool parses OpenAPI 3.0, 3.1, and Swagger 2.0 documents with recursive $ref resolution, cross-referencing spec definitions against runtime behavior. This highlights undefined security schemes, sensitive field exposure, deprecated operations, and missing pagination. For authenticated scans, the platform supports Bearer, API key, Basic auth, and Cookie credentials. Domain verification is enforced through DNS TXT records or an HTTP well-known file to ensure only domain owners can scan with credentials. A strict header allowlist limits forwarded headers to Authorization, X-API-Key, Cookie, and X-Custom-* to reduce accidental data exposure. These capabilities allow more thorough validation while maintaining a controlled read-only posture.

The Web Dashboard centralizes scan management, report viewing, score trend tracking, and branded compliance PDF downloads. The CLI, distributed as an npm package, supports commands such as middlebrick scan <url> with JSON or text output for scripting. A GitHub Action enforces CI/CD gates by failing builds when scores drop below a defined threshold. An MCP Server enables scanning from AI coding assistants like Claude and Cursor. Programmatic access via an API client supports custom integrations for continuous workflows. Continuous monitoring in higher tiers provides scheduled rescans every six hours, daily, weekly, or monthly, with diff detection to highlight new findings, resolved items, and score drift. Email alerts are rate-limited to one per hour per API, and webhooks use HMAC-SHA256 signing with auto-disable after five consecutive failures.

Scanning is read-only, with destructive payloads never sent. Private IPs, localhost, and cloud metadata endpoints are blocked at multiple layers. Customer data is deletable on demand and purged within 30 days of cancellation; it is never sold or used for model training. For compliance positioning, the platform maps findings to PCI-DSS 4.0, SOC 2 Type II, and OWASP API Top 10 (2023), helping you prepare for audits and surfacing findings relevant to security controls described in other frameworks. The tool does not fix, patch, block, or remediate issues; it reports findings with remediation guidance. It does not perform active SQL injection or command injection testing, detect business logic flaws, provide blind SSRF detection, or replace a human pentester for high-stakes engagements.