Panoptes vs Aikido vs Pentera

A year ago the line was simple: scanners don’t pentest. That line is gone. Aikido’s “Infinite” and Pentera both run continuous, autonomous testing with proof-of-exploit. So the comparison that matters is no longer whether a tool can pentest — it is how deeply it reasons, how independent its assurance is, and how much of your stack one platform actually covers.

Panoptes’ agent reasons about the whole running system and chains attack paths across code, cloud and surface. Aikido Infinite is diff-scoped — it triggers on a code push and tests the code that changed, which is excellent for catching regressions but narrower than a system-wide engagement. Pentera runs deep internal-network kill-chains, but it deploys a node in your environment and leaves application and code security out of scope.

Before anything runs, Panoptes verifies you own the asset and works under a signed, per-run rules-of-engagement with human-gated exploitation — so the report is one a customer or auditor can trust. Aikido’s pentest is a self-serve credit product; Pentera sells the human-signed report (SECTOR11) as a separate engagement. All are valid models — ours is built so the assurance, not just the scan, is independent.

Panoptes is the autonomous pentest and the Proof Loop and the continuous scanning underneath it — code, containers, cloud and surface — priced flat per organization and free to start. Pentera is validation-only and quote-only; Aikido’s scanning suite is deep but its pentest is the newer half. If you want proof and coverage in one self-serve platform, that is the gap this fills.