HailBytes ASM vs Detectify

Pricing & Cost Model

HailBytes figures are the 1-year commitment price — delivered as an AWS or Azure private offer, not a discount on the published meter — with list alongside, so the comparison sits on the same annual-contract basis as the competitor column. 8 vCPU ($16,800 list) is the entry size. The meter covers software only; the VM, storage, and networking run in your own cloud account and are billed separately at roughly $35/vCPU/month — $280/month at 8 vCPU, $560 at 16, $1,120 at 32 — so scale that line to the size on the row you are reading, not to 8 vCPU. All-in at 8 vCPU that is about $20,160/year at list or $15,120 on a 1-year commitment, and every break-even quoted on this page is calculated on that all-in basis. Full pricing.

Sizing above 8 vCPU: ASM sizes its scan worker from the host, so a larger instance scans proportionally faster — a 16 vCPU deployment gives the scan engine twice the cores an 8 vCPU one does. Instances deployed before August 2026 pick this up on the next update, when the installer rewrites the worker limits to match the machine.

The gap runs both ways. Below our all-in 8 vCPU floor — about $15,120/year at 8 vCPU on a 1-year commitment and $20,160 at list — Detectify’s entry tiers are cheaper; above it the gap widens in HailBytes’s favour, because HailBytes scales on VM size while per-asset pricing scales with asset count.

Architecture & Control

Capability Comparison

When HailBytes ASM Wins

• Large or fast-growing attack surfaces. Per-asset pricing punishes growth; infrastructure pricing absorbs it. Continuous monitoring blog post.
• Pen-test firms reselling continuous monitoring. Flat per-instance cost is what makes the white-label deliverable pencil out. Pen-test firm playbook.
• Teams that want full source visibility. Auditing your scan pipeline, building custom detection rules, and integrating internal tools all require source access; the HailBytes Commercial License gives it.
• Government and regulated industries. AWS GovCloud and Azure Government deployments keep data inside your own tenancy.
• AI-agent-driven recon workflows. The built-in MCP server lets Claude, Cursor, and Windsurf orchestrate scans, triage findings, and pivot deeper without leaving the IDE.

When Detectify Wins

• Web-application vulnerability depth is your priority. Detectify’s crowdsourced research network produces high-quality web-app findings that pure recon-tooling won’t catch.
• You want EASM and DAST in one product and are willing to pay for the convenience.
• Small, slow-changing attack surfaces. If your asset count is genuinely small and stable, Detectify’s entry tiers come in under the HailBytes 8 vCPU floor, which all-in — software plus your own cloud bill — is about $15,120/year at 8 vCPU on a 1-year commitment and $20,160 at list. That is where the crossover now sits.

Try HailBytes ASM

The AWS and Azure Marketplace listings include a 30-day free trial covering the underlying VM. Run it against your own attack surface alongside your Detectify deployment and compare findings, scan cadence, and triage workflow side by side.

Related Comparisons

Other external attack-surface and recon platforms usually evaluated alongside Detectify:

• vs Censys — internet-wide certificate and port intelligence.
• vs Shodan — the original device search engine.
• vs Microsoft Defender EASM — Azure-native external ASM.
• vs runZero — asset inventory and network discovery.
• Full ASM comparison matrix — every vendor side by side, plus the HailBytes ASM product page.