FlawPilot vs HostedScan
Hosted vulnerability scanning built on OWASP ZAP, Nmap and OpenVAS, covering web apps, network ports, TLS configuration and API specs.
FlawPilot
Free
to start, no card
- Four pillars on the live scan, plus source code from a connected repo
- Live scan needs no credentials or agent
- Engineers available to do the fixes
HostedScan
From $39/mo
No free tier published.
No permanent free tier; 14-day trial on all plans.
FlawPilot vs HostedScan, feature by feature
What each tool actually delivers, not a checkbox count. Read from HostedScan’s own public pages on 2026-09-07; where those pages do not settle something, it is not counted against them.
| Feature | FlawPilot4/4 | HostedScan0/4 |
|---|---|---|
| FullAll four pillars in one ranked report, no account and no card. | PartialNo HTTP security headers and 4 more | |
| HTTP security headers | Yes | Not stated |
| TLS / SSL configuration | Yes | Yes |
| Cookie security flags | Yes | Not stated |
| DNS records | Yes | Not stated |
| Email auth (SPF/DKIM/DMARC) | Yes | Yes |
| Performance | Yes | No |
| SEO | Yes | No |
| FullThree engines scored separately - insecure code, secrets across full git history, and CVEs with an SBOM. | PartialNo Source-code scanning and 1 more | |
| Source-code scanning | Yes | No |
| Hardcoded secrets | Yes | No |
| Dependency CVEs | Yes | Yes |
| FullNative MCP servers for both Claude and ChatGPT. | None | |
| MCP server (Claude, ChatGPT) | Yes | Not stated |
| FullDocumented REST API, plus an embeddable status badge. | PartialNo Embeddable status badge |
"Partial" means real but narrower coverage, and does not count toward the score - the cell says what is missing. Open a feature to see the individual checks behind it.
Where each tool wins
A comparison page where the competitor never wins reads as an advert. Here is the case for HostedScan, and the case against us, alongside the case for FlawPilot.
What HostedScan does better
Network and port scanning with OpenVAS CVE detection reaches infrastructure FlawPilot never looks at, and OpenAPI spec testing is a real capability we lack.
Where FlawPilot differs
FlawPilot is free to start with no card, and adds performance, SEO, email authentication and source code to the same report.
Pick HostedScan when
You need network-layer and port scanning with CVE detection.
One scan, or HostedScan plus 7 more
HostedScan fully delivers 0 of 4 features. Watch what a single pass has to check, and who checks it.
- TLS / SSL configurationHostedScan
- Email auth (SPF/DKIM/DMARC)HostedScan
- Dependency CVEsHostedScan
- REST APIHostedScan
- Performance+ Lighthouse
- SEO+ SEO crawler
- Source-code scanning+ SAST tool
- Hardcoded secrets+ secrets scanner
- All five pillars covered+ several tools
- Live scan with no signup+ an account
- Engineers available to fix it+ agency or contractor
8 dashboards, 8 severity scales, one manual triage.
one pass1 tool1tool. FlawPilot, one scan, no card
All 4 features in a single pass - including the 7 checks HostedScan does not cover, which would otherwise mean 7 more tools to buy, learn and reconcile.
- One dashboard, not 8
- One severity scale, so findings rank against each other
- One ranked list, already triaged
Free to start, no card.
Common questions
What people ask before running a scan against HostedScan.
Compare them on your own site
Run a free FlawPilot live scan and read the ranked list yourself. No account, no card.
HostedScan details read from hostedscan.com/pricing on 2026-09-07. Pricing changes - if something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.