Procurement comparison · checked 2026-10-05

Entry Audit, pentest, AI security platform or GRC: what are you actually buying?

These purchases answer different questions. The table uses specific public vendor examples, not market averages, and does not claim feature equivalence. Price and source status below were checked on 2026-10-05.

Bounded engineering decisionBitEvo Entry Audit
Scope
One consequential action chain and one primary control or failure hypothesis, tested in staging/test by default.
Time
The public Entry Audit page does not state a fixed delivery time. The scope is bounded before testing.
Primary result
Expected-vs-observed evidence, reproducible finding or blocked/rejected result, limitations and one concise owner decision memo.
Public price
$1,500 fixed
Public BitEvo price.
Sources · checked 2026-10-05BitEvo Entry Audit ↗BitEvo pricing ↗

Not full penetration testing, certification, legal/compliance opinion, unrestricted production exploitation or a system-wide safety claim.

Penetration testing exampleCobalt Autonomous Pentest
Scope
Web-application offensive testing with Cobalt Core pentester plan review, in-flight oversight and scope enforcement.
Time
Cobalt states findings in 24 hours for this offering.
Primary result
Findings with proof of exploit and remediation guidance in Cobalt’s offensive-security platform.
Public price
$3,500 per test
Limited-time public offer; Cobalt says the test must be initiated and completed by 2026-12-31 to qualify.
Sources · checked 2026-10-05Cobalt pricing ↗

Cobalt says this autonomous offering is for portfolio-wide coverage and risk reduction, not a replacement for compliance-bound human-led pentesting.

AI security platform exampleMindgard Platform
Scope
Ongoing AI discovery and reconnaissance, AI red teaming and assessment, plus runtime protection across models, agents and applications.
Time
Mindgard describes deployment as operational in minutes; the product is an ongoing platform rather than a one-off bounded audit.
Primary result
Continuous AI attack-surface visibility, exploitable-risk findings, assessment output and runtime protection workflows.
Public price
Public list price not shown
The cited public product and demo pages direct buyers to book a demo rather than publishing a list price.
Sources · checked 2026-10-05Mindgard platform ↗Mindgard demo ↗

A continuous platform purchase is not the same object, duration or deliverable as a one-action Entry Audit.

GRC / compliance platform exampleSecureframe Fundamentals
Scope
Compliance automation for one framework with automated evidence collection, continuous control monitoring, risk and policy management, and a Trust Center.
Time
Annual subscription.
Primary result
Ongoing compliance evidence and control-management workflow, rather than an exploit finding or a reproduced action-chain failure.
Public price
Starting at $7,000/year
Public Secureframe Fundamentals starting price.
Sources · checked 2026-10-05Secureframe pricing ↗

GRC automation organizes and monitors compliance evidence; it is not a substitute for testing whether one consequential agent action actually respects its authority boundary.

Selection rule

Start with the owner question, not the product category.

A procurement comparison is useful only if the decision object is explicit. These four rows are not interchangeable security products.

Is one consequential agent/workflow failure real enough to repair?

Entry Audit

Can an attacker exploit this application or API?

Penetration test

Do we need continuous AI attack-surface testing or runtime protection?

AI security platform

Do we need an ongoing compliance-control and evidence program?

GRC platform
Comparison boundary

Dated vendor examples, not a market-price claim.

External prices, packaging and availability can change after 2026-10-05. Where a vendor did not publish a list price on the cited page, this comparison says so instead of estimating one.

BitEvo does not claim that an Entry Audit replaces penetration testing, an AI-security platform, GRC, certification, legal advice or a broader security program.