# Kiterunner

Kiterunner is a Penetration Testing product. It runs on-premises. Pricing is free.

Kiterunner is a tool for lightning-fast traditional content discovery and bruteforcing API endpoints in modern applications.

Checked October 2026.

## What is Kiterunner?

For the longest of times, content discovery has been focused on finding files and folders. While this approach is effective for legacy web servers that host static files or respond with 3xx’s upon a partial path, it is no longer effective for modern web applications, specifically APIs.

Kiterunner is a tool that is capable of not only performing traditional content discovery at lightning fast speeds, but also bruteforcing routes/endpoints in modern applications. Modern application frameworks such as Flask, Rails, Express, Django and others follow the paradigm of explicitly defining routes which expect certain HTTP methods, headers, parameters and values. When using traditional content discovery tooling, such routes are often missed and cannot easily be discovered. By collating a dataset of Swagger specifications and condensing it into our own schema, Kiterunner can use this dataset to bruteforce API endpoints by sending the correct HTTP method, headers, path, parameters.

Tags: Brute Force

## Quick facts

- Category: [Offensive Security](https://cybersectools.com/categories/offensive-security-testing) · [Penetration Testing](https://cybersectools.com/categories/pentesting-tools)
- Deployment: On-Premises
- Company size fit: Startup, SMB, Mid-Market, Enterprise
- Pricing model: Free
- GitHub stars: 3,119
- Website: github.com

## Kiterunner FAQ

### What is Kiterunner?

Kiterunner is a product in the Penetration Testing category. It covers Brute Force.

### What is the pricing for Kiterunner?

Kiterunner is free. Download and setup instructions are at https://github.com/assetnote/kiterunner/.

### What are alternatives to Kiterunner?

Alternatives to Kiterunner listed on CybersecTools:

1. [Mgm Security Partners Infrastructure Penetration Testing](https://cybersectools.com/tools/mgm-security-partners-infrastructure-penetration-testing) - Infrastructure penetration testing service covering external, internal, identity (Commercial)
2. [Managed Autonomous Pentesting (MAP)](https://cybersectools.com/tools/hackurity-art-stack) - Managed continuous autonomous pentesting using payload-less exploitation and attack paths (Commercial)
3. [XBOW Captcha Bypass Tool](https://cybersectools.com/tools/xbow-captcha-bypass-tool) - AI-powered automated penetration testing platform for vulnerability discovery (Commercial)
4. [Burp Suite Professional](https://cybersectools.com/tools/burp-suite-professional) - A web application security testing platform that combines manual and automated testing tools for conducting comprehensive security assessments and penetration testing. (Commercial)
5. [FireCompass AI-powered Pen Testing](https://cybersectools.com/tools/firecompass-ai-powered-pen-testing) - AI-powered automated pen testing & continuous red teaming platform (Commercial)

Compare all Kiterunner alternatives at [https://cybersectools.com/alternatives/kiterunner](https://cybersectools.com/alternatives/kiterunner)

### What deployment and organization size does Kiterunner fit?

Kiterunner is available as on-premises software. It is listed for startups, small businesses, mid-market companies and enterprises. It is free.

## Compare Kiterunner with similar solutions

- [Kiterunner vs Mgm Security Partners Infrastructure Penetration Testing](https://cybersectools.com/compare/kiterunner-vs-mgm-security-partners-infrastructure-penetration-testing)
- [Kiterunner vs Managed Autonomous Pentesting (MAP)](https://cybersectools.com/compare/hackurity-art-stack-vs-kiterunner)
- [Kiterunner vs XBOW Captcha Bypass Tool](https://cybersectools.com/compare/kiterunner-vs-xbow-captcha-bypass-tool)

All alternatives to Kiterunner: [/alternatives/kiterunner](https://cybersectools.com/alternatives/kiterunner)

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