Comprehensive AppSec platform vs. API-centric testing product

Invicti is an enterprise-grade application security platform that combines native DAST, IAST, dynamic SCA, and API security on one platform and adds SAST, static SCA, and container security via partner integrations. It’s built for modern web apps and APIs, with deep capabilities for crawling, automation, remediation workflows, and DevSecOps integration. Uniquely, it also incorporates web asset discovery as well as multi-layered API discovery.

Escape focuses on security testing for APIs and modern web applications, including SPAs and other JavaScript-heavy apps. Its documentation shows support for multiple API styles (for example, REST and GraphQL) and workflows that can use provided or derived schemas. It also emphasizes business-logic and data-exposure testing. Teams evaluating scope should note that Invicti covers a broader set of AppSec functions on a single platform – including IAST, dynamic SCA, container security, and proof-based ASPM – to help standardize and scale programs across large environments.

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

• Vulnerability scanning across diverse 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) and complex workflows
• Integration with modern DevOps and CI/CD tools and processes
• Thousands of mature security checks for active and passive detection (including out-of-band techniques)

Proven accuracy with exploit validation vs. heuristic detection

Invicti leads the industry in detection accuracy thanks to proof-based scanning – a capability that safely confirms exploitability during scans. Validated results eliminate guesswork and reduce manual verification, so teams can remediate faster with confidence.

Escape aims to minimize noise using rules and machine-assisted techniques, but its public materials don’t indicate an exploit-validation mechanism comparable to proof-based scanning. Buyers who require confirmed, reproducible evidence for prioritization and developer hand-off should consider Invicti’s proof-of-exploit advantage as a core differentiator.

Scalable integrations and mature workflows make all the difference

Security testing only delivers value when it fits the way your teams build and ship software. Invicti offers deep SDLC integration, from source and build systems to ticketing and collaboration tools, paired with automation via an extensive REST API.

Escape provides DevOps-friendly options (including CI/CD examples and preset authentication workflows such as OAuth). For organizations standardizing on a single platform to run application discovery, validated testing, vulnerability management, and posture management at scale, Invicti provides a broader ecosystem with enterprise-grade extensibility.

Invicti enables streamlined vulnerability management and remediation through:

• 50+ out-of-the-box workflow integrations
• Predictive Risk Scoring to focus testing and remediation on high-risk assets
• Proof-based vulnerability confirmation to cut false positives
• Extensive internal REST API for automation, customization, and orchestration
• New: proof-based ASPM that correlates validated DAST findings with posture data across tools to drive precise, risk-based action
  
  

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 issues across diverse app and API environments.

Escape is a newer vendor with a strong focus on APIs and SPAs. If you’re looking for a single platform to standardize discovery, validated testing, and posture management across your entire web application estate, Invicti provides the breadth and depth to support enterprise programs at scale.