Solvbeat vs Intruder: which fits a small business in 2026?
If you've been comparing Solvbeat and Intruder, you're almost certainly a lean team that wants real security without an enterprise budget. Both tools scan your external attack surface and rank what they find — but they're built around different centres of gravity. Here's the honest breakdown.
What Intruder is genuinely good at
Intruder is a mature, well-regarded external vulnerability scanner. It runs a very large number of checks against your internet-facing assets (140,000+ by its own count), watches for new exposures as your infrastructure changes, and integrates cleanly with AWS, Azure, Slack and Jira. Public pricing starts around $119/mo (Essential) and climbs through Cloud and Pro tiers. If external attack-surface scanning is the only thing you need, it's a safe pick.
Where it leaves gaps for a smaller team
- It stops at the perimeter. Intruder is about your external surface. Continuous internal monitoring on your actual servers — patch state, suspicious processes, log-based threat detection — isn't the same product.
- It's not a SOC. You get findings, not correlated incidents with an investigation graph and MITRE ATT&CK coverage.
- Human pentest and remediation are separate. A certified-human pentest is a paid add-on, and nobody fixes the issue on your server for you.
How Solvbeat is different
Solvbeat is built to be the whole picture for any business, not one slice of it. The same account gives you the external scan (219 checks, OWASP + MITRE mapped), a read-only server agent for internal monitoring, a real SOC layer that groups alerts into incidents, an optional human-verified pentest from £1,400, and — uniquely — a "we'll fix it for you remotely" option from £99. Plans run £38–£625/mo.
So which should you choose?
Choose Intruder if external attack-surface scanning at serious depth is your single priority and you have other tooling for everything else. Choose Solvbeat if you'd rather one affordable place cover your website, your servers, your monitoring and your fixes — with real people who answer in plain English.
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Pricing and capabilities are taken from each vendor's publicly available information as of September 2026 and can change — always check the vendor's own site for the latest. This comparison reflects our reading of what each product is documented to do, written to help you choose, not to disparage anyone. Intruder™, Detectify™, Aikido™, UpGuard™, Qualys™, Tenable™ and Snyk™ are trademarks of their respective owners.