Most security tools force a trade-off: cheap and shallow, or thorough and eye-wateringly expensive and complex. Solvbeat is built to give a small or mid-sized team the rigour of a platform and the judgement of a real analyst — without the enterprise price tag or a month of setup.
| A free / cheap scanner | Solvbeat | An enterprise platform | A security agency | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free scan, no card | Yes | Yes | Sales demo first | No |
| Findings mapped to a real framework | Rarely | OWASP + MITRE ATT&CK | Yes | Yes |
| External scan + internal server agent | External only | Both | Usually add-ons | Depends |
| Continuous monitoring & a real SOC layer | No | Yes | Yes | Retainer |
| Human-verified pentest available | No | Yes | Separate vendor | Yes |
| We'll fix it for you, remotely | No | Yes | No | Extra project |
| Plain-English findings, real people answer | Jargon dump | Yes | Portal + tickets | Yes |
| Setup time | Minutes | Under a minute | Weeks | Weeks |
| Price range | £0 — limited | £38–£625/mo from a single site to unlimited / MSP | £1,000s/mo | £1,000s/project |
Comparison is against typical products in each category, to help you place Solvbeat — not a claim about any specific competitor. Every "Yes" for Solvbeat reflects a feature that's live today.
Fair question. When something in security costs far less than the alternatives, you should ask why. Here's the honest answer: it isn't cheaper because it's thinner. It's cheaper because we cut the cost, not the rigour.
219 checks, CVE matching, log correlation — the repetitive work a machine does faster and more consistently than any human. You're not paying analyst hours for what software should do.
A certified pentester verifies real exploits; our team triages what the engine flags. We spend expensive human time on judgement calls — not on watching a dashboard 24/7 that automation already watches.
No field sales team in suits, no six-week onboarding, no per-GB ingestion fees quietly inflating your bill. That overhead is most of what you pay a big platform for — we don't have it, so you don't fund it.
Same frameworks, same rigour, far less overhead — that's the whole trick. The certifications we hold (ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials) are the same ones the expensive platforms hold.
The tools most small and mid-sized teams weigh up alongside us — with their own public pricing. Each is genuinely good at what it's built for; the point is that they're built for different things, at a different price.
| Solvbeat | Intruder | Aikido | Qualys / Tenable | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entry price (public) | £38/mo | from ~$119/mo | $350/mo (after free dev tier) | Enterprise quote |
| Free scan, no card | Yes | Free tier | Free dev tier | No |
| Best known for | Website + server + SOC + we-fix-it, for SMBs | External attack-surface scanning | Code & cloud security for dev teams | Enterprise vulnerability management |
| External website scan | Yes | Yes | Dev/DAST-focused | Yes |
| Continuous SOC layer (incidents, investigation graph, MITRE) | Yes | Not a SOC | Not a SOC | Separate product |
| Human-verified pentest | From £1,400 | Paid add-on | Separate, from $4,000 | Separate |
| We fix it on your server, remotely | Yes, from £99 | No | Code auto-fix only | No |
| Built for | Small & mid-sized business | Cloud / hybrid teams | Developer teams | Large enterprise |
Pricing and capabilities are taken from each vendor's publicly available information as of September 2026 and can change — always check their own site for the latest. Rows reflect our reading of what each product is documented to do, chosen to show where Solvbeat fits, not to disparage anyone. Intruder™, Aikido™, Qualys™ and Tenable™ are trademarks of their respective owners.
Enterprise scanners are priced for enterprises. You get framework-mapped findings and continuous monitoring starting at £38/mo, with no per-GB ingestion surprises.
An agency engagement is a point-in-time snapshot that takes weeks to book. Solvbeat runs continuously and gives you a first report in under a minute — with human pentesting available when you want depth.
Free scanners stop at your homepage headers. We check 219 things, look inside your servers, and back it with a real detection engine and human analysts.