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AgentDAST vs Intruder: website assessment or broader monitoring?
By Tornike@realtornikeo
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Intruder covers infrastructure, cloud resources, container images and web applications across its plans. Its application licensing guide distinguishes infrastructure checks from deeper application testing. AgentDAST focuses on assessments of a live website.
The useful comparison starts with what you operate. A single app on managed hosting has a different security workload from a company maintaining servers, cloud accounts and several applications.
Scope and access
| Consideration | Intruder | AgentDAST |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage | Infrastructure, cloud and container checks, with application testing on relevant plans and licenses. | Live website assessment; no infrastructure inventory or code scan. |
| Behind login | Application licenses support authentication and API schema files. | Hosted runs use HTTP. A managed browser-login setup is not part of self-service onboarding. |
| Ongoing work | Scheduled scans and monitoring, with features varying by plan. | Assessments started through the console, REST or MCP. |
| Free allowance | Five infrastructure targets; web application testing excluded from the listed Free plan. | 100 website assessments per calendar month. |
| Paid usage | Plan pricing depends on infrastructure and application counts. | US$19 for 100 additional assessments, purchased once. |
Choose Intruder for a broader estate
Intruder makes sense when you need to keep track of exposed infrastructure as well as application behavior. Its current plan table includes cloud checks and container scanning, with wider monitoring and internal scanning on higher tiers. Compare the assets covered by your quote with the systems you operate.
For your own web application, check the license type carefully. Intruder's application license adds DAST and authenticated coverage to the infrastructure checks. Its documentation also describes scanning from multiple authentications on one target. This is useful when the same app has different user roles.
Choose AgentDAST for an agent-driven release check
AgentDAST gives a coding agent a small integration surface: register, verify, assess and retrieve evidence. You can start without a repository connection or browser signup. A request and time budget makes each run bounded, and signed webhooks let your workflow collect the result.
Choose it for that website workflow. If you need a maintained inventory of servers, cloud configuration checks or container image analysis, include another tool. A general AgentDAST observation remains a claim to review against its recorded evidence.
Evaluate the coverage you need
Write down your important workflows before choosing: account access, private records, administrator actions and public endpoints. Give each tool suitable test data and measure which parts it reaches. Keep manual checks for business rules that the tool cannot establish from outside the application.
Plan details checked on 4 November 2026. Intruder's pricing calculator changes with target counts and billing terms; consult the linked plan page for a quote. AgentDAST's current allowance and credit pricing are public. For tools that inspect the repository, see SAST vs DAST.
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