Invicti vs. Escape comparison

Comprehensive AppSec platform vs. niche API tool

Invicti is an enterprise-grade application security solution that combines its native DAST, IAST, dynamic SCA, and API security on a unified platform and adds SAST, static SCA, and Container Security via partner integrations. It is purpose-built for modern web apps and APIs, with deep capabilities for web application vulnerability scanning, automation, remediation workflows, and integration into DevSecOps pipelines. Uniquely, it also incorporates web asset discovery as well as multi-layered API discovery.

Escape, by contrast, is narrowly focused on API security (GraphQL in particular) and business logic fuzzing. Despite marketing itself as a full dynamic application security testing (DAST) tool, application scanning support is limited to API-backed frontends. There’s no support for broader application testing scenarios such as full-stack scanning, authenticated workflows, or complex user sessions. Organizations need to secure their entire attack surface—and Escape can only cover a small fraction of it.

Invicti supports a far wider range of application security needs, including:

• Vulnerability scanning across a wide range of applications and technologies, including SPAs and other JavaScript-heavy web apps
• Vulnerability scanning for REST, SOAP, GraphQL, and gRPC APIs
• Support for authenticated scans, including OAuth
• Integration with modern DevOps and CI/CD tools and workflows
• Thousands of mature security checks for active and passive detection of security vulnerabilities (including out-of-band detection)

Proven accuracy vs. unverified AI assumptions

Network scanners like Tenable Nessus can perform a few high-level checks related to your web presence, such as identifying vulnerable versions of web servers or known open-source platforms, but this is only scratching the surface of your web security posture. To check if your websites and applications could be compromised by attackers, a web application scanner is specifically equipped to map out all web pages and user inputs. Unlike a network scanner, it offers thorough vulnerability tests for security vulnerabilities such as cross-site scripting (XSS), SQL injection, remote file inclusion (RFI), and more.

Invicti combines web asset discovery and advanced crawling with web application scanning and API security testing. As a DAST-based security platform that also provides optional IAST and dynamic SCA functionality, Invicti is the automated counterpart to manual penetration testing. At the same time, it also identifies security misconfigurations and outdated web technologies, much as a network scanner would when pointed at a web server. A web vulnerability scanner can run automatically or on demand to keep testing your web attack surface in between manual tests and automatically submit any identified security issues for fixing – but that requires accuracy.

Scalable integrations and mature workflows make all the difference

Security testing is not just about detection—it’s about integrating into the development lifecycle and helping teams fix real issues fast. Invicti offers deep SDLC integration, from scanning code pushed to Git repositories, to assigning issues in ticketing systems like Jira, to synchronizing scan results with vulnerability management platforms.

Escape, while offering some DevOps-friendly features, lacks the mature ecosystem support, scalability, and proven integrations that enterprise security teams rely on. It is primarily a point solution designed for security engineers already familiar with API schemas, not by any stretch a platform built to support entire AppSec programs.

Invicti enables streamlined vulnerability management and remediation through:

• Industry-leading set of 50+ out-of-the-box workflow integrations
• Predictive Risk Scoring to prioritize testing and remediation
• Proof-based vulnerability confirmation
• Extensive internal REST API for automation, customization, and orchestration

Enterprise-grade, DAST-first application security is the way

Invicti has been trusted for years by thousands of organizations, including government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and global software teams. It combines the best of the Acunetix and Netsparker web vulnerability scanners into a single DAST-first application security platform with a proven track record of finding real-world vulnerabilities like SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and authentication bypasses across diverse app and API environments.

Escape is a promising newcomer in the API space but remains unproven at scale. Its capabilities don’t even add up to a full-featured DAST tool but instead are focused on specific API types and use cases, relying on heuristic fuzzing with no reliable way to validate exploitability. For security teams that need repeatable, automated, enterprise-grade application security, Escape is no substitute for a real AppSec platform.