Pentesting Payloads is a free penetration testing tool. Red Specter POLTERGEIST is a commercial penetration testing tool by Red Specter Security. Compare features, ratings, integrations, and community reviews side by side to find the best penetration testing fit for your security stack.
CST VerdictBased on our analysis of NIST CSF 2.0 coverage, core features, integrations, company size fit, here is our conclusion:
Pentesters at startups and small consultancies running time-constrained assessments will move fastest with Pentesting Payloads; the web-based payload library eliminates the friction of hunting, encoding, and formatting exploits across SQLi, XSS, LFI, and command injection vectors. It's free and cloud-deployed, so there's no infrastructure lift. Skip this if you need payload generation tied to active reconnaissance data or custom encoding chains; Pentesting Payloads is a static reference tool, not an exploitation framework.
A web-based payload repository that generates ready-to-use exploits for pentesting
Autonomous web app pentest swarm with 10 agents and 55 attack vectors.
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Pentesting Payloads: A web-based payload repository that generates ready-to-use exploits for pentesting. Core capabilities include SQLi Payloads, URL Encoding, XSS Payloads..
Red Specter POLTERGEIST: Autonomous web app pentest swarm with 10 agents and 55 attack vectors. built by Red Specter Security. Core capabilities include 10 autonomous attack agents covering distinct web attack phases, 55 attack vectors across reconnaissance, injection, evasion, auth, API, client-side, infrastructure, business logic, and exfiltration, 532 static payloads with 17 mutation techniques for WAF evasion..
Both serve the Penetration Testing market but differ in approach, feature depth, and target audience.
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