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IBugcrowd vs HackerOne
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
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Choose Bugcrowd if…
- you're in its core audience: enterprise security teams, cisos
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Choose HackerOne if…
- you're in its core audience: enterprise security teams, cisos
Side by side
Feature Bugcrowd HackerOne
Pricing modelContact for pricingContact for pricing
Starting price——
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
PlatformsWebWeb
CompanyBugcrowdHackerOne
Full feature lists
B Bugcrowd
- Managed bug bounty programs where you pay only for results
- Vulnerability disclosure program intake and coordination
- Pen testing as a service for web, mobile, API, IoT and cloud
- Red team as a service and social engineering tests
- AI pen testing and AI bias assessment
- Engineered triage of submissions, with 24/7 response for critical issues
- CrowdMatch pairing of researchers to engagements
- Integrations with Slack, Jira and other tools
H HackerOne
- Bug bounty programs run with vetted security researchers
- Time-boxed Bounty Challenges for a specific scope
- Agentic AI pentesting combined with human experts
- Continuous testing across the attack surface
- Hai AI agent for validating and prioritizing findings
- Fix plans informed by source code, sent to engineering
- AI pull request review through H1 Code
- AI red teaming mapped to OWASP LLM Top 10 and NIST AI RMF
What you'd pay
The cheapest plan that fits, per month, billed yearly where the plan offers it.
Bugcrowd
Contact for pricing. Plan details aren't published.
HackerOne
ProfessionalContact sales
EnterpriseContact sales
Enterprise PlusContact sales
Strengths and limitations
Bugcrowd
- Covers bug bounty, VDP, pen testing and red teaming on one platform
- Bugcrowd's team triages findings before they reach internal teams
- Integrates with Slack and Jira
- Customers include T-Mobile, Atlassian, HP and NASA
- No public pricing; quotes come through sales
- No self-serve free plan or trial
HackerOne
- Large researcher community, with 600k+ bugs found
- Covers bounty, pentest, code security and AI red teaming in one platform
- Used by companies such as Snap and Shopify
- Validation claimed at 95% accuracy
- Pricing is only available through sales
- Aimed mainly at enterprises
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Facts from each vendor's public pages, prices checked Nov 12, 2026. Editorial policy