Comparison · Scanners and DAST

Crossfyre vs Invicti (Acunetix)

Established CI-oriented DAST vs distributed penetration testing.

Invicti (which includes Acunetix) is a mature, CI-oriented DAST platform for web and API scanning, known for "proof-based scanning" that verifies exploitability, sold to enterprises. It is closed and scan-centric. Crossfyre shares the confirm-before-report idea (every finding is reproduced before it is reported) but comes at it from the operator side: open-source engines on BYO-compute nodes, distributed recon into authenticated scanning and BOLA/BFLA/BOPLA authorization testing, self-serve.

Every claim about the other tool is taken from its own documentation and pricing as of mid-2026. Re-check before quoting a number.

Standards

What it covers, and what it will not claim.

Pick a list. Every row that says yes names the class that does the work, and every row that says no says why, because a coverage matrix with no gaps in it is a brochure.

8 covered 1 partly 1 not claimed The list this engine was built against. Eight fully, one partly, and one that nothing on the outside can honestly report.

• API1 Broken object level authorization yes
• API2 Broken authentication partly
• API3 Broken object property level authorization yes
• API4 Unrestricted resource consumption yes
• API5 Broken function level authorization yes
• API6 Unrestricted access to sensitive business flows yes
• API7 Server side request forgery yes
• API8 Security misconfiguration yes
• API9 Improper inventory management yes
• API10 Unsafe consumption of APIs no

MITRE ATT&CK is deliberately not here. It describes what an adversary does across a whole intrusion, and almost all of a web scanner collapses into one technique in it. A six-row ATT&CK matrix would look impressive and tell you nothing, which is the opposite of what this section is for.

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