Pricing alternative to Astra

Starter at 99 per month includes 15 APIs, monthly scans, dashboard, email alerts, and the MCP Server. Pro at 499 per month adds continuous monitoring for up to 100 APIs, with per-API overage beyond that, plus GitHub Action gates, CI/CD integration, Slack and Teams alerts, compliance reports, and signed webhooks. Enterprise at 2000 per month and above supports unlimited APIs, custom rules, SSO, audit logs, SLA, and dedicated support.

Consider the total cost of ownership when comparing to Astra. MiddleBrick requires no agents, SDKs, or code access, which reduces integration effort and ongoing maintenance. Scan time is under a minute, and read-only methods avoid disruption to production traffic. With no vendor lock-in on proprietary formats, exported reports and findings can be integrated into existing workflows and tooling without additional transformation costs.

Findings map to PCI-DSS 4.0, SOC 2 Type II, and OWASP API Top 10 (2023). The scanner parses OpenAPI 3.0, 3.1, and Swagger 2.0 with recursive $ref resolution, cross-referencing spec definitions against runtime results to highlight undefined security schemes, deprecated operations, and missing pagination. This supports audit evidence for the listed frameworks without claiming certification or guarantees.

Authenticated scanning is available from Starter upward, supporting Bearer, API key, Basic auth, and Cookie credentials. Domain verification is enforced via DNS TXT record or HTTP well-known file, ensuring only the domain owner can scan with credentials. Header forwarding is limited to Authorization, X-API-Key, Cookie, and X-Custom-* to reduce noise and credential exposure.

The scanner covers 12 categories aligned to OWASP API Top 10, including Authentication bypass, BOLA and BFLA, Property Authorization, Input Validation, Rate Limiting, Data Exposure, Encryption, SSRF, Inventory Management, Unsafe Consumption, LLM/AI Security, and OpenAPI contract issues. It does not perform active SQL injection or command injection testing, does not detect business logic vulnerabilities, does not perform blind SSRF testing, and does not replace a human pentester for high-stakes audits. Remediation guidance is provided, but no automatic fixing, patching, blocking, or remediation is performed.

Use the Web Dashboard to manage scans, view reports, track score trends, and download branded compliance PDFs. The CLI via the middlebrick npm package supports middlebrick scan <url> with JSON or text output. The GitHub Action enforces CI/CD gates and fails the build when the score drops below a threshold. The MCP Server enables scanning from AI coding assistants, and the API client allows custom integrations for programmatic access.