Pricing alternative to Protect AI
What middleBrick covers
- Black-box API scanning under one minute without agents or code access
- Detection of twelve OWASP API Top 10 categories including LLM security probes
- OpenAPI 3.0, 3.1, and Swagger 2.0 parsing with recursive $ref resolution
- Authenticated scanning with Bearer, API key, Basic auth, and cookies
- Continuous monitoring with scheduled rescans and diff detection
- Programmatic access via CLI, API client, MCP Server, and GitHub Action
Pricing model and total cost of ownership
Protect AI positions itself as a premium solution with per‑API licensing that adds up quickly as your footprint grows. middleBrick uses a capacity‑based model with a free entry point and clearly defined tiers, removing per‑endpoint surprises. You pay for the number of APIs you choose to scan, with predictable monthly fees and no hidden add‑ons for basic features.
Feature coverage across tiers
Starter begins at ninety nine dollars per month and supports fifteen APIs, includes dashboard reporting, email alerts, scheduled monthly scans, and the MCP Server for AI assisted workflows. The Pro tier at four hundred ninety nine dollars per month extends coverage to one hundred APIs with continuous monitoring, diff detection across scans, GitHub Action integration as a CI/CD gate, and compliance reporting aligned to OWASP API Top 10. Enterprise at two thousand dollars per month and above adds unlimited APIs, custom rules, SSO, audit logs, SLA, and dedicated support.
Comparison with Protect AI at list price
Protect AI list pricing often starts in the high four figures per month for comparable entry coverage and scales quickly with each additional API. middleBrick matches feature sets at significantly lower monthly spend, with the free tier allowing three scans per month at no cost. For teams priced out of Protect AI, the per‑API growth model and transparent add‑on fees of middleBrick reduce budget risk while maintaining feature parity for scanning, reporting, and integration needs.
Operational cost factors
Because scanning is black box, there is no deployment of agents, SDKs, or code changes that require maintenance overhead. Scan definitions, header allowlists, and domain verification policies are managed centrally in the dashboard. With read‑only methods only, destructive testing is avoided, reducing the need for extensive pre‑scan coordination or compensating controls in your environment.
Compliance mapping and limitations
middleBrick maps findings to OWASP API Top 10 (2023), supports audit evidence for SOC 2 Type II, and aligns with PCI‑DSS 4.0 control requirements. The tool surfaces findings relevant to HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001, NIST, CCPA, NIS2, DORA, FedRAMP, DPDP, APPI, PDPA, PIPEDA, PIPA, UK DPA, LGPD, SOX, and GLBA through detection and reporting, but it is not an auditor and cannot certify compliance. Use the output as input for your internal risk assessments and control validation activities.