--- title: "Penligent Alternative: Security Models for Your Own Agent" canonical: https://pentestllm.ai/penligent-alternative generated: 2026-11-11T18:05:17.259Z source: https://pentestllm.ai/penligent-alternative base_url: https://api.pentestllm.ai/v1 --- ![Components on a printed circuit board](https://pentestllm.ai/img/circuit.webp) ## What Penligent is, as of November 2026 Penligent’s site, read on 11 November 2026, describes an AI pentesting product available as a download for Windows, macOS and Linux. It says the product goes from a natural-language prompt to verified findings, coordinates more than 200 security tools and produces reports aligned with SOC 2 and ISO 27001. Its pricing page on the same day listed a Free plan at $0 a month, a Pro plan at $99.90 a month with 13,000 monthly credits included, and Team and Enterprise plans through sales. The Enterprise plan lists private model integration through an inference gateway. ## Product or component - What you get: Penligent: an application that runs the workflow. PentestLLM: a model endpoint you plug into a workflow you own. - How you pay: Penligent: plans and credits, per its pricing page. PentestLLM: per token, prepaid, no plan. - Where it runs: Penligent: its desktop app. PentestLLM: any OpenAI-compatible or Anthropic-compatible client. - Who drives: Penligent: its own agent, with the controls its app provides. PentestLLM: your agent, your approval rules. These are different purchases. Many teams will want one and not the other. ## Why testers choose the component Experienced testers already have a method, a toolset and a report template. A packaged workflow asks them to adopt someone else’s. A model API asks for nothing: it sits behind [OpenCode](https://pentestllm.ai/agents/opencode), [Claude Code](https://pentestllm.ai/agents/claude-code) or a Python script and does the reading, the reasoning and the drafting. The builds are tuned or abliterated to answer security questions other models decline, which is the property a general coding agent lacks. That is reduced refusals, not none. ## What the API includes The endpoint is `https://api.pentestllm.ai/v1`, with a Messages endpoint for Anthropic-format clients on the same key. `auto/security` picks a fast, balanced or frontier build per request and bills at that build’s price. Declared in a request, web search ($0.01 per search), page fetch ($0.001 per page fetched), a code sandbox ($0.05 per container-hour, 1-minute minimum) and remote MCP run on the API side. For tool execution on your own Kali machine, the [Kali MCP guide](https://pentestllm.ai/agents/kali-mcp) shows the setup. ## When Penligent is the better choice If you want a guided product that orchestrates tools and writes a compliance-aligned report without you assembling anything, that is what Penligent’s site says it does, and an API will not give you that out of the box. If you are a small team without a house method, a packaged workflow can be the faster start. Whichever you use, the rule is the same: test only systems you own or have written permission to test. PentestLLM’s [acceptable use policy](https://pentestllm.ai/acceptable-use) states it, and Penligent’s site carries a similar notice. ## 9 security builds, priced per token Read from the live catalog on 2026-11-11. Prices are US dollars per million tokens, paid from a prepaid balance that starts at $10. The id `auto/security` has no price of its own: each request is billed at the build that answered. | Build | Input | Output | Context | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Qwen3.8 27B Cybersecurity](https://pentestllm.ai/models/qwen3.8-27b-cybersecurity) | $0.40 | $2.40 | 262,144 | | [Gemma 4 26B A4B Cybersecurity](https://pentestllm.ai/models/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it-cybersecurity) | $0.4224 | $1.3376 | 262,144 | | [GLM-5.3 Flash Cybersecurity](https://pentestllm.ai/models/glm-5.3-flash-cybersecurity) | $0.5093 | $1.6975 | 1,048,576 | | [Red Team (Flash)](https://pentestllm.ai/models/uplink-red-team-flash) | $0.90 | $3.00 | not published | | [Red Team (Pro)](https://pentestllm.ai/models/uplink-red-team-pro) | $1.50 | $6.00 | not published | | [OrcaCyber MiniMax M3.1 Flash](https://pentestllm.ai/models/minimax-m3.1-flash-cybersecurity) | $2.00 | $4.00 | 261,632 | | [OrcaCyber Qwen3.8 Flash Next](https://pentestllm.ai/models/orcacyber-qwen3.8-flash-next) | $2.00 | $4.00 | 261,632 | | [Cyber Frontier](https://pentestllm.ai/models/cyber-frontier) | $5.25 | $15.75 | 1,048,576 | | [OrcaCyber Zero 1.5](https://pentestllm.ai/models/orca-zero-1.5-cybersecurity) | $7.50 | $18.75 | 999,488 | [Full price list and tool fees](https://pentestllm.ai/pricing) · [Every model](https://pentestllm.ai/models) · [API docs](https://pentestllm.ai/docs) ## Questions - Per its own site in November 2026, an AI penetration testing application for Windows, macOS and Linux that coordinates security tools and produces reports. - On 11 November 2026 its pricing page listed Free at $0 a month, Pro at $99.90 a month with 13,000 monthly credits, and Team and Enterprise through sales. Check penligent.ai for current prices. - No. It is a model API. It answers requests from your agent or script; the workflow, the tools and the approvals are yours. - Per token from a prepaid balance with a $10 minimum top-up and no plan. On 2026-11-11 input prices for security builds start at $0.40 per million tokens. - Yes, in the sense that a model drafts findings and summaries from your notes in your template. There is no built-in report product; you supply the structure and check the content. ## Read next - [PentestGPT alternative The model endpoint to run PentestGPT on, or to use in place of a chat subscription.](https://pentestllm.ai/pentestgpt-alternative) - [HackerGPT alternative Pay-per-token security models with an API, next to the hosted assistants.](https://pentestllm.ai/hackergpt-alternative) - [Red team Models for authorized adversary emulation: planning, tooling review, detection notes and reporting.](https://pentestllm.ai/red-team) - [Agent guides Where the base URL and key go in OpenCode, Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, aider, Kali MCP and PentestGPT.](https://pentestllm.ai/agents) Facts about other products and tools on this page were read from their own pages on 11 November 2026: [penligent.ai](https://www.penligent.ai/), [penligent.ai pricing](https://www.penligent.ai/pricing). They change; check the source before relying on a figure. ## One key, from $10 PentestLLM is for systems you own or have written permission to test. The [acceptable use policy](https://pentestllm.ai/acceptable-use) says what is not allowed. [Get a key](https://app.pentestllm.ai/console) usage, 1,000 agent turns on Qwen3.8 27B Cybersecurity - Input, 8,000 tokens at $0.40 per million: $0.0032 - Output, 1,000 tokens at $2.40 per million: $0.0024 - One turn: $0.0056 - 1,000 turns: $5.60 output price per million tokens, 9 builds $1.3376 Gemma 4 26B A4B Cybersecurity OrcaCyber Zero 1.5 $18.75