Pricing alternative to Nuclei

Organizations often evaluate a scanner against a known name and then discover operational costs that are not reflected in the sticker price. middleBrick positions itself as a practical alternative by clarifying what is included and what is not. You pay a flat monthly fee for a defined set of capabilities, with no per-scan variable charges for standard assessments.

The Free tier supports basic validation with a limit of 3 scans per month and CLI access, which is suitable for small teams or individual use. The Starter tier at 99 dollars per month increases capacity to 15 APIs, adds scheduled monthly scans, a web dashboard for tracking score trends, email alerts, and the MCP Server for integration with AI coding assistants. The Pro tier at 499 dollars per month supports up to 100 APIs, with additional APIs billed at 7 dollars each, continuous monitoring that produces diffs between scans, GitHub Action integration that can fail builds on score regression, Slack and Teams alerts, signed compliance reports, and webhook delivery with failure handling. Enterprise tiers are available for organizations that require unlimited APIs, custom rules, SSO, and dedicated support.

When comparing to tools such as Nuclei, consider the effort required to maintain coverage and compliance evidence. middleBrick includes scheduled rescans, diff detection, and compliance mappings to PCI-DSS 4.0, SOC 2 Type II, and OWASP API Top 10 (2023), which reduces manual reporting work. The platform provides branded compliance PDFs and signed webhooks for automated workflows, which can lower the ongoing administrative overhead associated with audit preparation. Because scanning is restricted to read-only methods, there are no remediation costs or production impact risks tied to active payload execution.

middleBrick is a detection and reporting tool, and it does not fix, patch, block, or remediate findings. It does not perform active SQL injection or command injection testing, as those techniques fall outside the read-only scope. Business logic vulnerabilities are not detected, because they require domain-specific understanding that cannot be automated. Blind SSRF and certain infrastructure-sensitive issues are out of scope, and the tool does not replace a human pentester for high-stakes audits. These limitations are documented so that teams can plan appropriate follow-up activities without unexpected gaps.

The platform is designed with a strict safety posture. Only read-only methods are used, and destructive payloads are never sent. Private IP addresses, localhost, and cloud metadata endpoints are blocked at multiple layers to prevent accidental or intentional probing of internal infrastructure. Customer scan data can be deleted on demand and is purged within 30 days of cancellation. Data is never sold and is not used for model training, which supports privacy-focused evaluation criteria.