Pricing alternative to APIsec

middleBrick offers a self-service scanner priced for teams that cannot justify large enterprise contracts. The Free tier supports three scans per month with CLI access and no dashboard. Paid tiers remove scan limits and add features such as continuous monitoring, dashboard history, and compliance report downloads.

• Starter: monthly subscription for up to fifteen APIs, dashboard, email alerts, MCP Server, and monthly scans.
• Pro: scalable to one hundred APIs with add-ons, continuous monitoring, GitHub Action gates, Slack and Teams alerts, signed compliance reports, and webhook delivery.
• Enterprise: unlimited APIs, custom rules, SSO, audit logs, SLA, and dedicated support.

Each paid tier includes the same core scanner capabilities, with differences in scale, monitoring, and integration depth rather than feature gating of detection coverage.

When comparing to APIsec, evaluate subscription cost plus operational overhead. middleBrick CLI integration enables scripting and CI/CD use without additional infrastructure, reducing time spent on setup and maintenance. Continuous monitoring in Pro reduces recurring manual scan scheduling and associated labor.

Data ownership is preserved; scan artifacts are deletable on demand and are not used for model training. This avoids hidden costs related to data retention policies or compliance cleanup that can arise with platforms that repurpose user data.

Transparent per-API pricing in the Pro tier supports predictable budgeting as the number of endpoints grows, avoiding surprise overage fees common in quota-based models.

middleBrick maps findings to three established frameworks: PCI-DSS 4.0, SOC 2 Type II, and OWASP API Top 10 (2023). These mappings help you prepare for audit evidence and validate controls without claiming certification.

For other regulations, the scanner aligns with security controls described in HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001, NIST, CCPA, and similar frameworks by surfacing findings relevant to audit trails, encryption, and access management. It does not certify compliance, meet all requirements of, or guarantee adherence to any regulation.

Because middleBrick is a scanning tool and not an auditor, it should be one component of a broader risk and compliance strategy, particularly for high-stakes environments.

Black-box scanning requires no agents, SDKs, or code access, and completes in under a minute using read-only methods. Authentication options include Bearer tokens, API keys, Basic auth, and cookies, gated by domain verification to prevent unauthorized scans.

The tool detects issues across twelve categories including authentication bypass, IDOR, privilege escalation, data exposure, SSRF patterns, and LLM security probes. It parses OpenAPI specs and cross-references them with runtime behavior to identify undefined security schemes or deprecated operations.

Limitations are explicit: destructive payloads are not sent, blind SSRF and business logic vulnerabilities are out of scope, and the tool does not replace a human pentester for high-risk audits. These boundaries ensure realistic expectations and reduce noise during triage.

middleBrick integrates into existing workflows via a CLI, GitHub Action, MCP Server for AI coding assistants, and a web dashboard for reporting and trend tracking. The GitHub Action can enforce score thresholds and fail builds when risk levels degrade.

Safety measures include blocking localhost, private IPs, and cloud metadata endpoints, with read-only operations and header allowlists that restrict forwarded headers to Authorization, API key, Cookie, and custom prefixes.

Continuous monitoring offers scheduled rescans, diff detection across runs, email alerts rate-limited to one per hour per API, and HMAC-SHA256 signed webhooks that auto-disable after five consecutive failures to prevent notification storms.