Comparison

SecPortal vs Probely
managed DAST scanner vs delivery workspace

Probely is a SaaS automated web and API vulnerability scanner aimed at internal AppSec, product security, and engineering teams that want to run dynamic application security testing on a schedule. The product anchors on authenticated crawls behind login, spec-driven API testing through OpenAPI or Postman, OWASP Top 10 and OWASP API Security Top 10 coverage, per-finding evidence with request and response, and a scan engine that aims for a low false-positive rate so the engineering owner can act without long triage. Integrations push the output into Jira, Slack, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps. SecPortal is a different shape: scoped engagements, manual finding entry, AI report generation, branded client portal, native external scanning across 16 modules, authenticated DAST across 17 modules behind stored credentials, and SAST plus dependency analysis through Semgrep on connected GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket repositories all live inside one workspace. This page is the side-by-side for buyers comparing a managed automated DAST product to a security testing workspace that scans, records, reports, and delivers findings on its own.

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Feature	SecPortal	Probely
Primary use case	Security delivery workspace with scanning, findings, AI reports, branded client portal, and engagement record on one tenant	Managed SaaS automated web and API DAST scanner running on a recurring schedule against a configured target portfolio, with findings piped into the engineering workflow
Engagement model with scope, ROE, and deliverables		Target, scheduled scan, and finding model rather than scoped engagement with a kickoff and a deliverable
Client model with onboarding, contacts, and access control		Internal application owner, engineering team, and user role model inside the Probely tenant
Branded white-label client portal on a tenant subdomain
Built-in external vulnerability scanning (16 modules: SSL, headers, DNS, ports, subdomains, technology fingerprinting, CVE correlation)
Authenticated web application scanning (DAST, 17 modules)		Probely scan engine covers authenticated crawls behind login through stored credentials and browser-based authentication flows
Spec-driven API DAST (OpenAPI, Postman)	Authenticated DAST against API endpoints on verified domains	API testing module runs spec-driven active scans against an OpenAPI specification or Postman collection
Code scanning (SAST and SCA via Semgrep)
Subdomain enumeration and external attack surface discovery
Managed false-positive engine on scanner output	Operator-driven validation, retest workflow, and exception register rather than a vendor-managed confidence model	Probely scan engine aims for a low false-positive rate as part of the managed product
Recorded browser session for complex authenticated flows		Probely supports authenticated crawls behind login through stored credentials and browser-based authentication flows
Manual finding entry with full editor		Findings originate from Probely scan output and the API testing module rather than from operator-authored manual entry inside the workspace
AI-powered narrative report generation (executive, technical, remediation)		Console dashboards, scan reports, and prebuilt PDF templates for OWASP Top 10, OWASP API Security Top 10, PCI DSS, and ISO 27001 rather than engagement-shaped executive, technical, and remediation deliverables
300+ finding templates with remediation guidance		Vendor-curated vulnerability records and per-rule remediation guidance from the Probely rule set
CVSS 3.1 vector parsing and auto-scoring		Severity normalised through the Probely severity model with per-finding evidence and OWASP/CWE classification
Scanner result import (Nessus, Burp Suite, CSV)		Probely native scan output and the API testing module are the primary intake paths rather than third-party scanner ingestion
Encrypted credential vault for authenticated scans (AES-256-GCM)		Credentials and tokens managed inside the Probely target configuration for authenticated crawls and API testing
Continuous scheduled scanning cadence (daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly)		Scheduled scans on a recurring cadence per target inside the Probely tenant
Scan-to-scan diff and change-event generation across scheduled runs		Per-target finding trend views and new-versus-existing finding breakdowns inside the Probely console
Retest workflow paired to original finding		Re-evaluation through the next scheduled scan or a manually triggered scan against the same target
Exception register with eight-field decision chain		Per-finding accept-and-suppress workflow scoped to the target rather than an engagement-shaped per-finding decision chain
Compliance framework templates	21 frameworks including OWASP, OWASP ASVS, OWASP MASVS, OWASP API Security Top 10, ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, FedRAMP, MITRE ATT&CK, DORA, NIS2, CIS Controls, and Essential Eight	Prebuilt PDF report templates aligned to OWASP Top 10, OWASP API Security Top 10, PCI DSS, and ISO 27001; framework-side audit-evidence mapping is not the primary lane
Integrated invoicing and Stripe Connect payments for engagements
Activity audit trail with CSV export		Console audit logs inside the Probely tenant
MFA enforcement on every workspace		SSO and IdP-driven controls available on higher tiers
Free plan available		Free trial available before commitment; ongoing usage is a tiered SaaS subscription rather than a free tier
Pricing model	Free, Pro, Team	Tiered SaaS subscription priced per scan target, with the API testing module, scan frequency, integrations, and additional seats moving the buyer up the tier ladder
Setup time	2 minutes	Target onboarding inside the Probely tenant, authentication configuration, scan-profile tuning, and integration setup over a multi-day or multi-week ramp depending on the portfolio size
Best fit for	AppSec teams, internal security teams, vulnerability management teams, product security teams, pentest firms, MSSPs, and consultancies that want scanning, findings, AI reports, branded portal, and the engagement record on one workspace	Internal AppSec, product security, and engineering teams that already run an engagement record elsewhere and want a managed SaaS DAST product to scan a portfolio of web apps and APIs on a schedule with a low false-positive rate and engineering-workflow integrations

SecPortal vs Probely: automated DAST scanner vs delivery workspace

Probely is a SaaS automated web and API vulnerability scanner aimed at internal AppSec, product security, and engineering teams that want to run dynamic application security testing on a schedule against a portfolio of web applications and APIs. The product anchors on authenticated crawls behind login, spec-driven API testing through OpenAPI or Postman collections, OWASP Top 10 and OWASP API Security Top 10 coverage, per-finding evidence with request and response, and a scan engine that aims for a low false-positive rate so the engineering owner can act on the output without long triage. Integrations push the output into Jira, Slack, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps so findings show up in the engineering workflow rather than only in the Probely console.

SecPortal is a different shape. SecPortal is the security delivery and findings workspace for AppSec teams, product security teams, vulnerability management teams, internal security teams, penetration testing firms, MSSPs, and consultancies that run scoped engagements and ship findings to application owners, business unit stakeholders, auditors, or external clients. The engagement, the scoping, the manual and scanner findings, the AI-drafted report, the branded client portal, the retest, the exception register, and the invoice all sit inside one workspace. If the buying question is whether to license a dedicated automated DAST scanner or run a delivery workspace that holds scoped engagements and ships deliverables, this page is the side-by-side.

Where the automated DAST scanner model stops for delivery work

These are not Probely-specific criticisms; they are properties of an automated DAST scanner when the buyer compares it to a delivery workspace that holds scoped engagements, ships engagement-shaped reports, and runs under the security team brand.

Built around an automated DAST scanner, not a scoped engagement record

Probely is a SaaS automated web and API vulnerability scanner. Targets, scheduled scans, and the findings those scans produce are the primary records. There is no concept of a scoped engagement that opens with a kickoff, runs against a defined target list and timebox, ships a signed-off final report under a stakeholder name, schedules a tester-driven retest paired to an original manual finding, and closes with an invoice. AppSec teams, internal security teams, product security teams, pentest firms, MSSPs, and consultancies that ship findings under a deliverable contract have to model that lifecycle outside the Probely console.

No branded client portal on your own subdomain

Probely findings live inside the Probely console. The console serves the internal security team and the engineering team that owns the application. There is no white-label tenant subdomain a security team can hand to an external client, an application owner, a business unit stakeholder, a regulator, or an auditor under their own brand. SecPortal serves a branded client portal on the tenant subdomain so every finding, retest, remediation thread, and report download lives under your name rather than under a scanner vendor name. That matters whenever the DAST output goes to a recipient who is reading a deliverable, not operating the scanner.

No AI-drafted engagement-shaped narrative reports

Probely produces issue records with severity, evidence, OWASP and CWE classifications, and report templates that summarise the scan output for compliance-style consumers (PCI DSS, ISO 27001, OWASP Top 10, OWASP API Security Top 10). It does not draft engagement-shaped executive summaries, narrative technical writeups, or remediation roadmaps from a scoped finding set on demand. SecPortal uses Claude to draft executive, technical, and remediation deliverables from the live engagement findings, including CVSS vectors, evidence, severity, asset context, and proof-of-exploit details, so the team edits a draft rather than starting from a blank page.

No native external attack surface modules across SSL, headers, DNS, ports, and CVE correlation

Probely focuses on dynamic application security testing (DAST) against web applications and APIs. It does not run a dedicated external attack surface workflow with SSL and TLS configuration analysis, security header audit, DNS posture, exposed port enumeration, subdomain discovery, technology fingerprinting, and CVE correlation as separate modules wired into one record. SecPortal runs 16 external modules covering those surfaces alongside its 17-module authenticated DAST and code scanning so the surface, the application, and the source live on the same engagement.

No code scanning (SAST or SCA) inside the same workspace

Probely is a DAST product. It covers the running application surface (REST and GraphQL API endpoints, single-page applications, traditional web applications) and adds authenticated session handling for crawls behind login. It does not run static application security testing or software composition analysis against connected source repositories as part of the same workspace. Programmes that combine DAST with secure code review or supply-chain dependency analysis stitch the code-side output together through a separate code scanning tool. SecPortal runs SAST and dependency analysis through Semgrep against repositories connected via GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket OAuth, and the code-side findings sit on the same engagement record as the external, authenticated, and (where in scope) API DAST output.

No invoicing, no engagement billing, no Stripe Connect

Probely is licensed per target with a tiered SaaS subscription. There is no built-in invoicing for a firm or consultancy to bill its own clients out of the platform, no Stripe integration to collect payment, and no invoice generation tied to engagement deliverables. SecPortal ships invoicing and Stripe Connect so engagement scope and pricing become invoice line items the client can pay inside the workspace, with the platform fee collected through Stripe Connect on every successful charge.

Automated DAST vs delivery workspace as buyer shapes

The honest framing is that the two models solve adjacent problems for different buyer shapes. Saying one is universally better than the other misses the underlying buying decision the security team is making.

An automated DAST scanner is built around the running web and API surface and the scan engine

Probely and adjacent automated DAST products (Detectify, Acunetix, Invicti, StackHawk, Bright Security) start from the assumption that the buyer has a live web or API estate, wants the scanner to crawl or spec-walk the estate on a recurring cadence, wants per-finding evidence and OWASP/CWE classification, and wants the output piped to engineering owners. The economic value is converting noisy generic scanner output into reproducible, validated, low-false-positive findings that show up on the developer pull request, the Jira ticket, or the security dashboard. The scanner is the product; the platform is the supporting record.

A delivery workspace is built around the engagement record and the deliverable

SecPortal does not assume that automated DAST output is the entire programme. The workspace runs its own external scanning across SSL, headers, DNS, ports, subdomains, technology fingerprinting, and CVE correlation, runs authenticated DAST against verified domains, runs SAST and dependency analysis against connected repositories, supports manual finding entry from a tester or reviewer, calibrates severity through CVSS 3.1 with environmental adjustment, ships the AI-drafted deliverable, and runs the retest workflow paired to the original finding. The same record holds for a scoped pentest, a continuous vulnerability assessment, an AppSec code review, a cloud security assessment, and a compliance-driven engagement. The finding lives where the work is delivered.

The right answer depends on whether the buyer is consolidating DAST or running engagement delivery

If the team is an AppSec or product security team that already runs a clean engagement record elsewhere and only needs a SaaS DAST product to scan a portfolio of web apps and APIs on a schedule with a low false-positive rate, Probely is a clean fit. If the team is shipping engagement deliverables to application owners, external clients, business unit stakeholders, regulators, or auditors and the buyer wants the scanner, the manual finding entry, the AI report, the branded portal, the invoice, the retest, and the exception register on one workspace without buying a dedicated managed DAST product, a delivery workspace like SecPortal is the right shape. Both can be true: many enterprise teams run a dedicated DAST scanner alongside a delivery workspace for the engagement record and deliverable.

Who each platform is the right fit for

Buyer fit is the operating question, not feature parity. The right platform depends on whether the security team is paying for a SaaS DAST scanner on a target portfolio or shipping engagement deliverables on a delivery workspace.

Probely fits internal teams running automated DAST against a portfolio of web apps and APIs

If you are an internal security or product security team with a portfolio of web applications and APIs, want a SaaS scanner that runs on a schedule, want spec-driven API testing through OpenAPI or Postman, want authenticated crawls behind login, want a managed false-positive feel through the Probely scan engine, and want pull-request and ticket integrations into the engineering workflow, Probely was built for that shape. The buyer is paying for low-noise automated DAST and the workflow integrations that route findings into the engineering owner inbox.

SecPortal fits teams shipping engagement deliverables on a delivery workspace

If you are an AppSec team, a product security team, a vulnerability management team, an internal security team, a penetration testing firm, an MSSP, or a consultancy that wants the scanner, the engagement record, the manual finding entry, the AI report, the branded portal, the invoice, and the retest all on one tenant, SecPortal carries that lifecycle without forcing the team to license a dedicated DAST product before the first deliverable lands. The same workspace serves an internal team shipping reports to application owners and a firm shipping reports to external clients.

SecPortal fits buyers who want the deliverable, the brand, and the engagement record on one workspace

If the security testing output is read by an application owner, a business unit stakeholder, an auditor, a regulator, or an external client, and every finding, retest, remediation thread, and report download has to live under your brand rather than under a scanner vendor brand, SecPortal is the workspace that holds the record. Findings can still be imported from Nessus, Burp Suite, or CSV when a dedicated DAST product like Probely sits next to SecPortal as the automated scanner layer. The same record holds for an internal team that wants the deliverable shape (executive summary, technical writeup, remediation roadmap, retest closure pack) without running the DAST engine from inside the same console.

Pricing comparison

SecPortal publishes pricing on the website. Probely pricing scales with the number of scan targets, the scan cadence, the API testing add-on, the integration set, and the user seat count, with monthly and annual billing and a free trial available before commitment. The tiers below are illustrative of the buying shape rather than a direct per-feature equivalence.

SecPortal Free

Free forever

1 user, 3 clients, 2 engagements per client, 3 AI credits, 6 core scan modules.

SecPortal Pro

$149 per month

Unlimited clients and engagements, AI reports, full external scanner suite, authenticated scanning, code scanning, retesting workflow, and branded client portal.

SecPortal Team

$299 per month

Everything in Pro plus team management, RBAC, invoicing, continuous monitoring schedules, scan diff, and additional AI credits.

Probely

Sales-led tiered SaaS pricing

Per-target tiered SaaS subscription with monthly or annual billing, scaling on the number of scan targets, scan frequency, API testing add-on, integrations, and user seats. Higher tiers add team features, role-based access, and API access to the platform.

Why teams pick SecPortal alongside or instead of Probely

Move from a per-target SaaS DAST subscription to a workspace that holds engagements, findings, AI reports, retests, exceptions, and a branded portal on one record
Generate executive summaries, technical writeups, and remediation roadmaps from engagement findings rather than exporting scanner output into a separate reporting tool
Hand application owners, external clients, regulators, or auditors a branded portal on your subdomain instead of access to a scanner vendor console
Bring external scanning (SSL, headers, DNS, ports, subdomains, technology fingerprinting, CVE correlation) and code scanning (SAST and dependency analysis through Semgrep) into the same workspace as the engagement record instead of running a DAST-only product
Capture manual findings (business logic flaws, chained exploits, manual SSRF and IDOR walkthroughs, broken access control across multi-step flows, hardcoded credential traces) alongside scanner output rather than translating them into a scanner rule
Pair every retest to the original finding so the closure record holds up under audit rather than relying on the next scheduled scan to confirm the fix
Track exceptions on an eight-field decision chain (rationale, approver, owner, scope, compensating control, evidence, expiry, review cadence) on the same engagement record as the open finding population
Map findings across 21 frameworks including OWASP Top 10, OWASP ASVS, OWASP MASVS, OWASP API Security Top 10, ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, NIST 800-53, NIST CSF 2.0, NIST 800-171, FedRAMP, MITRE ATT&CK, DORA, NIS2, CIS Controls, and Essential Eight from one workspace
Bill the engagement from the same platform with Stripe Connect rather than handling DAST licensing in a separate procurement cycle
Start on a free plan and pay for the seats and storage you actually use rather than committing to a tiered annual DAST subscription priced per target
Run SecPortal alongside Probely when a dedicated automated DAST scanner sits next to scoped engagement delivery to application owners, auditors, or external clients

How SecPortal scanning compares to the Probely model

SecPortal scanning is operator-driven and engagement-shaped rather than target-portfolio-shaped. The same workspace runs the external scan, the authenticated DAST scan, and the code scan, then surfaces the findings on the engagement record the operator owns. Probely runs the DAST engine against a list of configured targets on a recurring cadence and pipes the output into the engineering workflow. The trade is a managed DAST engine optimised for low false-positive rate on web and API targets against operator control of the testing surface and the deliverable.

The external scanning feature runs 16 modules across SSL, headers, DNS, ports, subdomains, technology fingerprinting, and CVE correlation. The authenticated scanning feature adds DAST behind stored credentials through cookie, bearer, basic, or form authentication so issues that only surface inside an authenticated session do not slip past anonymous scanning. The code scanning feature runs SAST and dependency analysis through Semgrep against a repository connected via GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket OAuth. The continuous monitoring feature runs daily, weekly, biweekly, or monthly scans on a schedule and writes the results back to the same engagement record.

How credentials and authorisation are handled before any scan runs

Authenticated scanning needs credentials to live somewhere durable, and external scanning needs proof of target ownership before any module fires. SecPortal stores credentials in an encrypted credential vault with AES-256-GCM, scoped to a verified domain. Every external scan is gated on domain verification through DNS TXT or meta tag, and the scan-guard codes (DOMAIN_NOT_VERIFIED, CREDENTIAL_DOMAIN_MISMATCH, AUTH_NOT_ALLOWED) refuse to run when the chain of evidence does not hold. The authorisation discipline lives in the workspace rather than inside a vendor-managed scan engine.

From scan to deliverable

The output of a scan is the beginning of a deliverable, not the end. SecPortal turns scan results into draft findings, the operator triages and validates them, the findings management layer holds the consolidated record with CVSS vectors, evidence, and remediation, and the AI reports feature generates the executive and technical narrative the recipient receives. The branded client portal is where the deliverable lands; the web application testing workflow covers how authenticated DAST output, manual findings, and application-layer proofs come together on one engagement.

For internal security teams that want to run a Probely deployment for automated DAST and a SecPortal workspace for engagement delivery in parallel, the remediation tracking workflow and the security testing programme management workflow cover how findings from multiple sources move from intake to closure with named owners, SLA tiers, and an audit trail. The importing third-party scanner results guide documents the verified Nessus, Burp Suite, and CSV import paths if the team wants to consolidate Probely DAST output and SecPortal native findings on the same engagement record.

How a managed DAST scan engine translates into engagement findings

A managed DAST scanner such as Probely produces validated application-layer findings (a reflected cross-site scripting payload that returned unescaped on a parameter, a broken object-level authorisation pattern across two endpoints, a missing security header set, a misconfigured cookie attribute, a vulnerable library version surfaced through fingerprinting). Promoting those findings to engagement findings is the operator workflow on the SecPortal side: the AppSec or product security operator reviews the scanner record, validates the proof, calibrates severity through CVSS 3.1 with environmental adjustment, writes the finding through the findings management layer using the 300+ template library, and routes it to the engineering owner through the ownership and routing workflow. The scanner captures the reproducible exploit attempt; the engagement finding captures the underlying defect that has to be fixed in code or configuration alongside the deliverable record the recipient reads.

Honest scope: what SecPortal does not do

SecPortal is a security testing and delivery workspace. It is not a replacement for a dedicated managed DAST product on every dimension. The capabilities below are intentionally out of scope so the buyer can read the comparison accurately.

SecPortal does not run a vendor-managed false-positive engine on scanner output; the operator validates each finding through manual review, retest, and the exception register rather than relying on a managed scan-engine confidence model.
SecPortal does not ingest OpenAPI or Postman API specifications as a primary scanning lane. The authenticated DAST scanner runs against verified domains under stored credentials rather than spec-walking an enumerated endpoint list.
SecPortal does not provide a recorded browser session for capturing complex authenticated flows. Authentication is configured through cookie, bearer, basic, or form-based credentials in the encrypted credential vault.
SecPortal does not ship packaged push connectors into Jira, ServiceNow, Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, SIEM, SOAR, WAF, GRC, or CMDB systems; integration into those systems is the workspace consumer responsibility, not a managed offering.
SecPortal does not provide enterprise SSO, SCIM provisioning, or SAML federation; workspace authentication uses email and password with mandatory MFA via TOTP.
SecPortal does not provide a managed on-demand pentesting service delivered by a vendor team; the workspace serves the team delivering its own engagements rather than acting as the bench delivering them.

Adjacent comparisons

If the evaluation is between Probely and other DAST products, web application security testing platforms, or AppSec delivery workspaces, the comparisons below cover the same buying decision from different angles.

SecPortal vs Acunetix for the dedicated web and API vulnerability scanner comparison.
SecPortal vs Invicti for the DAST-anchored enterprise web application scanning comparison.
SecPortal vs Detectify for the external attack surface monitoring and crowdsourced modules comparison.
SecPortal vs StackHawk for the developer-first CI-pipeline-native automated DAST comparison driven by OpenAPI, Postman, GraphQL, and HAR specs.
SecPortal vs Burp Suite for the manual web and API testing tool comparison.
SecPortal vs Intruder for the SaaS continuous external and authenticated scanner comparison.
SecPortal vs Edgescan for the Hybrid PTaaS continuous managed-validation comparison.
SecPortal vs Wallarm for the inline runtime API protection comparison.
SecPortal vs Escape for the AI-powered offensive security platform comparison covering Attack Surface Management, Business-Logic-Aware DAST, and AI Pentesting.
SecPortal vs Checkmarx for the enterprise AppSec portfolio comparison.
SecPortal vs Veracode for the enterprise AppSec platform comparison.
SecPortal vs Snyk for the developer-first AppSec platform comparison.
SecPortal vs Aikido for the bundled developer-first AppSec platform comparison.

When the work is scoped engagement delivery, native scanning, AI reporting, and a branded portal on a workspace your team operates, not a managed DAST scanner running on a target portfolio

Run scoped AppSec, pentest, and vulnerability management engagements, generate AI reports, and ship findings through a branded portal on one workspace. SAST plus dependency analysis plus DAST plus external scanning live on the same engagement record alongside manual finding entry, the exception register, the retest workflow, and the activity audit trail. Pair alongside a Probely deployment when a managed automated DAST scanner sits next to scoped engagement delivery. Start free.