Alternatives to 42Crunch at Enterprise organizations

Enterprises require a consistent way to assess API risk without exposing internal infrastructure. This scanner performs black-box assessments using only network interactions. It supports any language, framework, or cloud target and completes a scan in under one minute.

The scanner covers 12 categories aligned to the OWASP API Top 10 (2023) and maps findings to PCI-DSS 4.0 and SOC 2 Type II controls. It detects authentication bypass, JWT misconfigurations such as alg=none, BOLA and IDOR via sequential ID probing, BFLA and privilege escalation attempts, over-exposed properties, input validation issues like CORS wildcard usage, rate-limiting indicators, and data exposure patterns including emails, card Luhn validity, and API key formats. It also identifies insecure encryption settings, SSRF indicators in URL and body fields, and inventory issues like missing versioning. For LLM-facing APIs, it runs 18 adversarial probes across Quick, Standard, and Deep tiers, including system prompt extraction and jailbreak techniques.

Authenticated scans are available from the Starter tier onward, supporting Bearer tokens, API keys, Basic auth, and cookies. Domain verification requires a DNS TXT record or an HTTP well-known file to ensure only domain owners can scan with credentials. The scanner uses a strict header allowlist including Authorization, X-API-Key, Cookie, and X-Custom-* headers. Read-only methods are enforced, destructive payloads are never sent, and private IPs, localhost, and cloud metadata endpoints are blocked at multiple layers. Customer data can be deleted on demand and is never used for model training.

The Web Dashboard centralizes scans, report viewing, score trends, and branded compliance PDF downloads. The CLI npm package supports commands such as middlebrick scan <url> with JSON or text output. A GitHub Action can gate CI/CD, failing the build when the score drops below a set threshold. The MCP Server enables scanning from AI coding assistants. For ongoing risk management, the Pro tier provides scheduled rescans every 6 hours, daily, weekly, or monthly, diff detection across scans, email alerts limited to 1 per hour per API, and HMAC-SHA256 signed webhooks that auto-disable after 5 consecutive failures.

The Free tier offers 3 scans per month with CLI access. The Starter tier at 99 dollars per month supports 15 APIs, monthly scans, dashboard access, email alerts, and the MCP Server. The Pro tier at 499 dollars per month supports 100 APIs with additional APIs billed at 7 dollars each, adding continuous monitoring, GitHub Action gates, CI/CD integration, Slack and Teams alerts, compliance reports, and signed webhooks. Enterprise tier is offered at 2000 dollars per month or higher, providing unlimited APIs, custom rules, SSO, audit logs, an SLA, and dedicated support.