Pricing alternative to Snyk
What middleBrick covers
- Black-box API scanning with no agents or SDKs required
- Covers OWASP API Top 10 (2023), PCI-DSS 4.0, SOC 2 Type II mappings
- OpenAPI 3.0/3.1/Swagger 2.0 parsing with recursive $ref resolution
- Authenticated scanning for Bearer, API key, Basic auth, and cookies
- Pro continuous monitoring with scheduled rescans and diff detection
- Programmatic access via CLI, API client, GitHub Action, and MCP Server
Pricing model and total cost of ownership
When comparing a dedicated API security scanner to Snyk, examine list price and how scanning scope maps to cost. The free tier supports three scans per month and CLI access with no locked features, providing a starting point for small teams. The Starter tier at 99 dollars per month covers 15 APIs, monthly scans, a web dashboard, email alerts, and an MCP Server. The Pro tier at 499 dollars per month includes 100 APIs, with additional APIs billed at 7 dollars each, plus continuous monitoring, GitHub Action gates, and compliance reports. Enterprise is priced at 2000 dollars per month for unlimited APIs, custom rules, and dedicated support.
Feature coverage versus Snyk
Feature coverage centers on automated detection of OWASP API Top 10 risks rather than software composition analysis. The scanner performs black-box testing using read-only methods and text-only POST probes, requiring no agents or SDK integration. It parses OpenAPI 3.0, 3.1, and Swagger 2.0 with recursive $ref resolution and cross-references spec definitions against runtime behavior. Detection categories include authentication bypass, JWT misconfigurations, BOLA and IDOR, BFLA and privilege escalation, input validation, rate limiting, data exposure, encryption issues, SSRF, inventory mismanagement, unsafe consumption patterns, and LLM/AI security probes. Authenticated scanning supports Bearer, API key, Basic auth, and cookies, with domain verification to ensure only domain owners can scan with credentials.
Compliance mapping and limitations
findings map directly to PCI-DSS 4.0, SOC 2 Type II, and OWASP API Top 10 (2023), which can help you prepare for audits and validate controls. For other frameworks, the scanner aligns with security controls described in or supports audit evidence for relevant regulations, but it does not certify or guarantee compliance with HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001, NIST, CIS, CCPA, NIS2, DORA, FedRAMP, DPDP, APPI, PDPA, PIPEDA, PIPA, UK DPA, LGPD, SOX, GLBA, FERPA, or similar schemes. Because middleBrick is a scanning tool, it does not fix, patch, block, or remediate findings, nor does it perform intrusive payload tests such as active SQL injection or command injection. Business logic vulnerabilities and blind SSRF are out of scope, and the tool does not replace a human pentester for high-stakes audits.
Deployment, integrations, and scanning modes
The scanner operates without agents, making it suitable for any language, framework, or cloud environment. The web dashboard provides a centralized view for scans, report downloads, and score trend tracking. The CLI npm package supports commands such as middlebrick scan <url> with JSON or text output. The GitHub Action enforces CI/CD gates and fails builds when scores drop below a configured threshold. An MCP Server allows scanning from AI coding assistants, and a programmatic API client supports custom integrations. Continuous monitoring on the Pro tier offers scheduled rescans every 6 hours, daily, weekly, or monthly, with diff detection for new and resolved findings.
Data handling, safety posture, and privacy
Safety measures include read-only methods only, with destructive payloads never sent. Private IPs, localhost, and cloud metadata endpoints are blocked at multiple layers. Customer scan data is deletable on demand and purged within 30 days of cancellation. It is never sold and is not used for model training. The scanner does not perform active exploitation, and LLM-specific testing relies on 18 adversarial probes across three scan tiers focused on system prompt extraction, instruction override, jailbreaks, data exfiltration attempts, encoding bypasses, prompt injection variants, and token smuggling.