Maced AI
Summary
Traditional pentests run quarterly, cost tens of thousands of dollars, and arrive as PDFs two weeks after the engagement ends — by which point your codebase has moved on. Maced exists to close that gap.
Maced deploys AI agents that crawl, fuzz, and attempt exploitation across your web apps, APIs, source code, and cloud infrastructure — then deliver audit-grade reports with proof-of-exploit payloads and merge-ready fix PRs. Every finding is auto-validated before it surfaces, which means triage queues shrink instead of growing. The continuous monitoring model means your attack surface is tested on every deploy, not just once a quarter. The ceiling shows up when your environment demands the kind of adversarial creativity a seasoned human tester brings to a novel business-logic flaw — agents that follow a structured probe loop will miss what only lateral thinking finds. Teams with that requirement use Maced for baseline and point a human at what the agents flag as high-severity.
Bottom line: Pick Maced if you need SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audit evidence without paying for a manual engagement every cycle — but plan to augment it with human review when your threat model depends on chaining obscure business-logic flaws the agents were not trained to discover.
Pricing Plans
SubscriptionLast verified 2 days ago- Price
- $249/mo
Starter
1 pentest per month with $199 each overage
- 1 pentest included per month
- Additional pentests at $199 each
- Full vulnerability reports
- Issue tracking & export
- API access
Professional
5 pentests per month with $149 each overage
- 5 pentests included per month
- Additional pentests at $149 each
- Full vulnerability reports
- Issue tracking & export
- API access
- Priority support
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Pros
Sign in to edit- Auto-validation with proof-of-exploit payloads for every finding, so your team stops spending sprint time manually reproducing scanner noise before deciding whether to act.
- Merge-ready fix PRs generated and retested automatically, which means remediation moves from 'ticket in backlog' to 'reviewed and merged' without a separate engineering investigation cycle.
- Continuous scanning triggered on every deploy rather than quarterly, so a misconfiguration introduced in Tuesday's PR is caught before it reaches production — not six weeks later in an audit.
- SOC 2 and ISO 27001 audit-ready report output, so compliance documentation is a byproduct of your normal security workflow rather than a separate manual engagement you schedule and budget for.
- Self-hosted deployment option, so teams operating in air-gapped or strict data-residency environments can run the platform without routing source code or infrastructure details through a third-party cloud.
Cons
Sign in to edit- Agents follow a structured crawl-fuzz-exploit loop, which means multi-step business-logic attacks that require contextual judgment — an attacker who knows your domain and chains three unrelated weak points — fall outside what the platform reliably discovers. Teams whose threat model centers on that class of vulnerability still require a human penetration tester; Maced becomes a first-pass filter, not a full engagement replacement.
- The platform is paid-only with no free tier beyond an initial scan, so teams evaluating at scale against a large or complex environment cannot fully assess fit before committing to a subscription — at which point switching cost is real if the agents' coverage does not match the environment's actual attack surface.
- White-box testing requires handing over source code access, and for teams at organizations where that creates legal, contractual, or procurement friction, onboarding stalls at the approval stage rather than the technical one — a problem self-hosting solves only if your ops team has bandwidth to stand up and maintain the infrastructure.
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About
- Platforms
- Web-based SaaS; on-premises and air-gapped deployment available
- API Available
- Yes
- Self-Hosted
- Yes
- Last Updated
- 2026-06-09T06:56:38.351Z
Best For
Who it's for
- Engineering teams seeking continuous automated security validation
- Organizations needing audit-ready SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance reports
- Startups and mid-market companies avoiding expensive traditional pentesting
- Teams integrating security testing into CI/CD pipelines
- Enterprises with on-premises or air-gapped deployment requirements
What it does well
- Continuous vulnerability discovery in code repositories and source code
- API security testing and threat validation
- Cloud infrastructure and configuration compliance scanning
- Web application penetration testing and OWASP Top 10 coverage
- Audit-ready security assessment generation for compliance frameworks
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Is Maced AI free?
- Maced AI is a paid tool ($249/mo). No permanent free tier is offered.
- Is Maced AI open source?
- No — Maced AI is a closed-source tool. Source code is not publicly available.
- Does Maced AI have an API?
- Yes. Maced AI exposes a developer API. See the official documentation at https://maced.ai for details.
- Can I self-host Maced AI?
- Yes. Maced AI supports self-hosting on your own infrastructure.
- What platforms does Maced AI support?
- Maced AI is available on: Web-based SaaS; on-premises and air-gapped deployment available.
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Maced is an autonomous AI pentesting platform built by Goated Ventures that runs agents across your full stack — source code repositories, APIs, web applications, and cloud infrastructure — and outputs validated findings with proof-of-concept payloads, attack path graphs, and remediation PRs. The core workflow is three steps: agents discover the attack surface, reproduce each finding to confirm it is actually exploitable, then generate a fix and retest to confirm the vulnerability is gone before delivering a merge-ready pull request. The vendor states the platform covers OWASP Top 10, business logic flaws, authentication bypasses, injection flaws, hardcoded secrets, insecure dependencies, and cloud misconfiguration.
The differentiating feature is auto-validation with proof of exploit. Most automated scanners dump a list of potential issues and leave your team to reproduce them manually — a process that routinely consumes more engineering time than the scan saved. Maced’s agents reproduce each finding, attach an evidence payload and reproduction steps, and deduplicate related issues before they ever reach your queue. The output is an audit-ready PDF report described by the vendor as equivalent to a manual pentest, formatted for SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certification requirements.
Maced fits engineering teams that need continuous security validation baked into CI/CD rather than a quarterly snapshot, and organizations that need compliance-grade documentation without the cost and scheduling overhead of a traditional engagement. It supports both black-box testing (external surface only, no source code) and white-box testing (full repository access for deeper analysis). The platform is available as a cloud service or self-hosted, which matters for air-gapped environments and enterprises with data residency requirements. Where it breaks: agents operating in a structured probe loop will not replicate the lateral, context-driven reasoning a skilled human tester applies to complex multi-step business-logic attacks. For applications where that class of vulnerability is in scope, Maced functions as a first pass rather than a complete engagement.