Invicti vs Rapid7 InsightAppSec comparison

Invicti and Rapid7 are both solutions in the Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) category. Invicti is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.9, while Rapid7 is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.2. Invicti holds a 17.1% mindshare in DAST, compared to Rapid7’s 13.2% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Invicti users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Rapid7 users who would recommend it.

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96% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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We performed a comparison between Invicti and Rapid7 InsightAppSec based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Invicti

Ranking in Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)

3rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (14th), API Security (5th)

Rapid7 InsightAppSec

Ranking in Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)

4th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) category, the mindshare of Invicti is 17.1%, up from 13.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Rapid7 InsightAppSec is 13.2%, up from 13.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)

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Amr Abdelnaser

Senior Information Security Analyst at EastNets Holding Ltd.

A safe solution used to detective vulnerabilities for dynamic and complex testing

The Invicti is the scope application tool. The solution is installed on-premise but could be installed as a web version. Starting from the latest version, the web version could be used. They have a web application server. The deployment of the solution involves installing the EXE and configuring your machine.

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Vikas Dusa

Cyber Security Trainer and Programmer at Freelancer

Helps to check multiple websites, particularly dynamic and e-commerce websites, for vulnerabilities within the code

In Rapid7 InsightAppSec, a distinctive feature is the provision of a CDM for integrating web servers and web applications. To establish the connection between these applications, you only need to paste the provided CDN into your metadata. Once connected, every piece of information, including vulnerabilities, can be accessed. It also offers demo sessions. If there is any malicious network traffic targeting a specific web application, it is designed to detect and showcase the entire scenario. It provides insights into potential vulnerabilities, including issues related to process scripting or content security policy vulnerabilities. Setting up and configuring scans within the tool is easy, and I would rate it a nine out of ten. It provides videos on YouTube, along with documentation that breaks down the process into step-by-step instructions.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The dashboard is really cool, and the features are really good. It tells you about the software version you're using in your web application. It gives you the entire technology stack, and that really helps. Both web and desktop apps are good in terms of application scanning. It has a lot of security checks that are easily customizable as per your requirements. It also has good customer support."

"Attacking feature: Actually, attacking is not a solo feature. It contains many attack engines, Hawk, and many properties. But Netsparker's attacking mechanism is very flexible. This increases the vulnerability detection rate. Also, Netsparker made the Hawk for real-time interactive command-line-based exploit testing. It's very valuable for a vulnerability scanner."

"The solution generates reports automatically and quickly."

"Crawling feature: Netsparker has very detail crawling steps and mechanisms. This feature expands the attack surface."

"It has a comprehensive resulting mechanism. It is a one-stop solution for all your security testing mechanisms."

"The most attractive feature was the reporting review tool. The reporting review was very impressive and produced very fruitful reports."

"When we try to manually exploit the vulnerabilities, it often takes time to realize what's going on and what needs to be done."

"Invicti is a good product, and its API testing is also good."

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"The most valuable feature of this solution is the graphical interface."

"The product’s most valuable feature is UI. It is easy to manage and find vulnerabilities in the application."

"It is very convenient to get reports from the tool, which offers high-level environmental statistics."

"We have seen measurable decrease in the mean time to respond to threats by 20 percent."

"It's very easy to use and user-friendly. It does the job."

"It is a very robust solution."

"You have various attack modules, and you also have the Attack Replay feature for the attack sequence. You can reproduce an attack and see it. That is a very good feature I noticed in this solution. It helps developers as well."

"The solution is stable."

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Cons

"Asset scanning could be better. Once, it couldn't scan assets, and the issue was strange. The price doesn't fit the budget of small and medium-sized businesses."

"The proxy review, the use report views, the current use tool and the subset requests need some improvement. It was hard to understand how to use them."

"Netsparker doesn't provide the source code of the static application security testing."

"The license could be better. It would help if they could allow us to scan multiple URLs on the same license. It's a major hindrance that we are facing while scanning applications, and we have to be sure that the URLs are the same and not different so that we do not end up consuming another license for it. Netsparker is one of the costliest products in the market. The licensing is tied to the URL, and it's restricted. If you have a URL that you scanned once, like a website, you cannot retry that same license. If you are scanning the same website but in a different domain or different URL, you might end up paying for a second license. It would also be better if they provided proper support for multi-factor authentications. In the next release, I would like them to include good multi-factor authentication support."

"It would be better for listing and attacking Java-based web applications to exploit vulnerabilities."

"I think that it freezes without any specific reason at times. This needs to be looked into."

"Reporting should be improved. The reporting options should be made better for end-users. Currently, it is possible, but it's not the best. Being able to choose what I want to see in my reports rather than being given prefixed information would make my life easier. I had to depend on the API for getting the content that I wanted. If they could fix the reporting feature to make it more comprehensive and user-friendly, it would help a lot of end-users. Everything else was good about this product."

"The licensing model should be improved to be more cost-effective. There are URL restrictions that consume our license. Compared to other DAST solutions and task tools like WebInspect and Burp Enterprise, Invicti is very expensive. The solution’s scanning time is also very long compared to other DAST tools. It might be due to proof-based scanning."

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"The reporting is definitely an aspect of the solution that's in need of some work. We found that we'd try to use widgets, but often getting them to work for us wasn't very clear. They need to be more user friendly or offer better instructions."

"The product’s pricing could be flexible."

"We get a lot of false positives during the tests."

"We'd like to see integrations with WAF solutions."

"They should add more features. I would like to see them do a little more on static analysis and also interactivity analysis. Currently, it does very basic static analysis. It could do a little more static analysis, which is something that would help. A lot more interactivity analysis should also be there. It should basically look at security during interactivity."

"I would like more details of what the product can do."

"The interface should be a little bit easier to manage. Sometimes, the logic that they use is kind of strange. They need to work a little bit more on their interface to make it more understandable. The interface is the only problem. I'm using Rapid7, which is very intuitive. There are other applications available in the market with a better interface. They can include more techniques or options to test different types of security because the templates are limited. It would be great to see them follow the MITRE ATT&CK framework or what is there in tools like Veracode and Synopsys."

"The number of web applications we can scan is limited."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"OWASP Zap is free and it has live updates, so that's a big plus."

"Invicti is best suited for large enterprises. I don't think small and medium-sized businesses can afford it. Maintenance costs aren't that great."

"The solution is very expensive. It comes with a yearly subscription. We were paying 6000 dollars yearly for unlimited scans. We have three licenses; basic, business, and ultimate. We need ultimate because it has unlimited scan numbers."

"I think that price it too high, like other Security applications such as Acunetix, WebInspect, and so on."

"We are using an NFR license and I do not know the exact price of the NFR license. I think 20 FQDN for three years would cost around 35,000 US Dollars."

"We never had any issues with the licensing; the price was within our assigned limits."

"It is competitive in the security market."

"The price should be 20% lower"

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"I rate Rapid7 InsightAppSec’s pricing an eight out of ten."

"Rapid7 InsightAppSec is cheap."

"Its price is competitive. It is not expensive."

"I'm not sure how much it costs exactly, but I know it's expensive."

"The price of this product is very cheap."

"They offer a good price, but I don't remember its cost. It is fair as compared to the competition. We have opted for project-based licensing, not user-based. We can add any number of users. That doesn't matter. It is worth the money."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

56%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Netsparker Web Application Security Scanner?

As a technical user, I do not handle pricing or licensing, but I am aware that Invicti offers flexible licensing models based on organizational needs.

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What do you like most about Invicti?

The most valuable feature of Invicti is getting baseline scanning and incremental scan.

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What needs improvement with Invicti?

Currently, there is nothing I would like to improve.

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What do you like most about Rapid7 InsightAppSec?

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What needs improvement with Rapid7 InsightAppSec?

The dynamic scanning feature has simplified and improved the security testing process. I suggest adding a SaaS feature to the solution to support scanning SaaS applications, making it more comprehe...

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What is your primary use case for Rapid7 InsightAppSec?

We use Rapid7 InsightAppSec for dynamic application security scanning. We scan our web applications to identify vulnerabilities and then address the issues based on the report. It is a task solutio...

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Overview

Invicti helps DevSecOps teams automate security tasks and save hundreds of hours each month by identifying web vulnerabilities that matter. Combining dynamic with interactive testing (DAST + IAST) and software composition analysis (SCA), Invicti scans every corner of an app to find what other tools miss with 99.98% accuracy, delivering on the promise of Zero Noise AppSec. Invicti helps discover all web assets — even ones that are lost, forgotten, or created by rogue departments. With an array of out-of-the-box integrations, DevSecOps teams can get ahead of their workloads to hit critical deadlines, improve processes, and communicate more effectively while reducing risk and hitting the ROI goals.

Your web applications may be complex, but your application security testing tool doesn’t need to be. InsightAppSec brings Rapid7’s proven Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) technology to the Insight platform, combining powerful application crawling and attack capabilities, flexibility in scan scope and scheduling, and accuracy in results with a modern UI, intuitive workflows, and sensible data organization. This enables you to identify XSS, SQL injection, CSRF, and other vulnerabilities with unparalleled ease. The best part? All of these capabilities are delivered via the cloud so that you’re up and running in minutes to identify the critical security risks that exist in your applications.

Sample Customers

Samsung, The Walt Disney Company, T-Systems, ING Bank

CenterPoint Energy, CPA Australia, Hypertherm, First American Financial Corporation, Rackspace

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