Pricing alternative to Burp Suite
What middleBrick covers
- Black-box scanning without agents or SDK dependencies
- Risk scoring across OWASP API Top 10 categories
- OpenAPI spec parsing with recursive $ref resolution
- Authenticated scanning with header allowlist controls
- CI/CD integration via GitHub Action and API client
- Continuous monitoring with diff detection and alerts
Total cost of ownership comparison
When teams evaluate a Burp Suite pricing alternative, list price is only the starting point. Factor in seat count, required protocol coverage, and ongoing maintenance for self-hosted or SaaS offerings. middleBrick pricing tiers are subscription-based with defined API and feature allowances, while perpetual and seat-based models often include hidden costs for infrastructure, training, and compliance overhead.
- Starter tier at nine ninety nine dollars per month supports fifteen APIs, dashboard access, and scheduled scans.
- Pro tier at four hundred ninety nine dollars per month supports one hundred APIs with continuous monitoring and CI/CD integration.
- Enterprise tier at two thousand dollars per month and above supports unlimited APIs with SSO, audit logs, and dedicated support.
Compare these against per-seat perpetual licenses, professional service engagements, and add-ons such as advanced reporting or on-prem deployment that may apply to other tools.
Feature scope aligned to compliance frameworks
middleBrick maps findings to OWASP API Top 10 (2023), PCI-DSS 4.0, and SOC 2 Type II. This alignment helps you prepare for audits and supports evidence collection for these frameworks without claiming certification or compliance guarantees.
- Authentication and security header checks cover JWT misconfigurations and WWW-Authenticate compliance relevant to SOC 2 controls.
- Data exposure detection for PII and API key formats supports PCI-DSS 4.0 requirements around cardholder data visibility.
- The inventory and server fingerprinting capabilities surface findings relevant to OWASP API Top 10 categories such as broken object level authorization and security misconfiguration.
For regulations such as HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001, NIST, CCPA, and others, the tool may align with security controls described in those frameworks, but it does not certify or ensure compliance.
Operational capabilities and integration options
The platform provides multiple consumption paths to fit different workflows. Use the web dashboard for centralized scan management and trend tracking, or run the CLI for local, scriptable execution. Teams can automate gates in CI/CD with the GitHub Action, which fails a build when the score drops below a chosen threshold. The MCP Server enables scanning from AI coding assistants, and the API client supports custom integrations for existing tooling.
middlebrick scan https://api.example.comContinuous monitoring options on paid tiers trigger rescans on defined intervals and deliver diffs, email alerts rate-limited to one per hour per API, and signed webhooks with auto-disable after five consecutive failures.
Limitations and responsible disclosure expectations
middleBrick is a scanner that detects and reports; it does not fix, patch, block, or remediate. It focuses on read-only methods and blocks destructive payloads, private IPs, localhost, and cloud metadata endpoints. It does not perform active SQL injection or command injection testing, does not detect business logic vulnerabilities, and does not replace a human pentester for high-stakes audits.
- LLM security coverage is limited to eighteen adversarial probes across quick, standard, and deep tiers, including jailbreaks and data exfiltration probes.
- Blind SSRF and certain advanced infrastructure logic tests are out of scope.
- OpenAPI analysis supports recursive $ref resolution and cross-references spec definitions against runtime findings.
Data handling, privacy, and deployment safety
Scans operate without agents, code access, or SDKs. Customer data is deletable on demand and purged within thirty days of cancellation. The platform never sells data and does not use scan inputs for model training. Safety mechanisms include multiple layers blocking private IPs, localhost, and cloud metadata endpoints, and only approved headers are forwarded during authenticated scans.
Authenticated scanning requires domain verification via DNS TXT record or HTTP well-known file, with support for Bearer, API key, Basic auth, and Cookie credentials. Header allowlist is restricted to Authorization, X-API-Key, Cookie, and X-Custom-* headers.