Perimetry Cloud vs Detectify
Detectify discovers your attack surface and tests it with payloads, alongside application and API scanning, for development and security teams; Perimetry Cloud reads what your domains show the world, without testing anything, from a free plan to a few dozen euros a month.
Perimetry Cloud and Detectify side by side
| What | Perimetry Cloud | Detectify |
|---|---|---|
| Approach | Passive audit: public DNS, certificate logs, the pages your servers already serve to anyone, public data sets. Nothing is attacked | Discovery of the attack surface and payload-based security tests (Surface Monitoring), application scanning, API scanning (REST and GraphQL) |
| Requests with test payloads | Not in the plans. Our verified active scan, on your signed authorization, is coming soon | Yes: web vulnerability tests every 4 days on the assets found, takeover checks every 8 hours, TLS and certificates every 24 hours |
| Finding subdomains | Certificate Transparency logs and the hosts the Internet Archive kept; no brute-forcing | Certificate Transparency logs, DNS enumeration, brute-forcing of common names from a word list |
| Proof of ownership | A DNS TXT record before the full audit. The free check without an account shows only the score and three findings | Required before testing: DNS TXT record or file at the root of the site; IP ranges verified by its staff |
| Entry plan | Free plan: 1 domain, one full audit a month, no card | Starter: from €0 annual platform fee, up to 5 users |
| Paid plans | Public prices: Solo €19, Agency €79, Agency Plus €199 a month, excluding VAT; every plan runs the same 45 checks | Annual platform fee: Standard from €2,500, Professional from €5,000, Enterprise from €15,000; plus a cost per domain for Surface Monitoring and per target for application and API scanning, amounts not published |
| Internal networks | Not offered: the outside view only | Internal scanning agents: one environment on Professional, three on Enterprise |
| Users | 1 / 1 / 5 (Free / Solo / Agency), unlimited on Agency Plus | Up to 5 (Starter), 10 (Standard), unlimited from Professional |
| Single sign-on | No enterprise single sign-on; passkeys and Google sign-in | Okta, Ping Identity, OneLogin, SAML 2.0, from Standard |
What we say about Detectify was read on its official pages on 12 November 2026; prices and features may have changed since. Sources: detectify.com/pricing · docs.detectify.com: How Surface Monitoring works · docs.detectify.com: Asset verification
Key differences
- Testing versus reading
- Detectify sends requests built to trigger vulnerabilities, which can confirm problems that only a test reveals. Perimetry Cloud never does: it reads public sources and the answers your servers already give anyone, so its audit can run on any domain you own without warning your host.
- What the audit looks at
- Perimetry Cloud spends much of its 45 checks on what surrounds the websites: e-mail authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MTA-STS, DANE), DNS, domain expiry, certificates, look-alike domains, and your suppliers' domains. Each finding comes with the record or setting to change, ready to paste.
- How the price is built
- Detectify charges an annual platform fee by tier, then by domain and by target. Perimetry Cloud charges a monthly or yearly plan with a number of domains, every check included, prices on the pricing page.
- Who it is made for
- Detectify addresses development and security teams (SSO, internal scanning agents, customer success manager on the higher tiers). Perimetry Cloud addresses freelancers, small businesses and agencies that look after many client domains.
Which one fits you
The two can also work together: they do not look at the same things.
Choose Detectify if
- You build web applications or APIs and want them tested with real payloads, continuously.
- You have a security team to triage the findings, and need single sign-on, internal scanning or CI/CD integration.
- Your budget is planned in thousands of euros a year for application security.
Choose Perimetry Cloud if
- You want to know what your domains expose and how to fix it, without anything being tested on your sites.
- Your risks are e-mail spoofing, DNS mistakes, expiring certificates or domains, look-alike sites and your suppliers.
- You want to start free, pay a few dozen euros a month at most, and get fixes written for people who are not security specialists, in English, French or German.
Questions
- Is Perimetry Cloud a Detectify alternative?
- For the outside view of your domains, e-mail and DNS, yes. For testing your applications with payloads, not today: our verified active scan, on your signed authorization, is coming soon. Some teams use both: passive monitoring of every domain, active testing of the main applications.
- Why does Detectify ask for proof of ownership before anything?
- Because it attacks what it tests, and the results can reveal sensitive information. Perimetry Cloud asks for the same proof (a TXT record) before the full report and before any alert, but its free check can read any domain, since it only reads public data.
- Are these prices up to date?
- They were read on the official Detectify pricing page on 12 November 2026. Prices change: check the source before you decide.
See what your domain shows the world
Score and three most serious findings in about two minutes, without an account. Nothing is attacked.
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