Cobalt

What is Cobalt?

Cobalt is a pentest as a service (PTaaS) platform from Cobalt Labs that combines AI-driven automation with human pentesters. Security and engineering teams use it to run application, network and cloud penetration tests and track findings in one place.

Key features of Cobalt

• Cobalt Sage AI: Powers testing workflows, alongside autonomous pentest agents.
• Fast onboarding: The vendor says teams can launch in hours and see findings in real time.
• Direct tester access: Teams collaborate with pentesters directly.
• Remediation workflows: Connects to 50+ integrations to route findings.
• On-demand reports: Reports available when a test completes.
• DAST: Continuous monitoring of web applications and APIs.
• Broad test types: Web app, API, mobile, desktop, AI and LLM, network, cloud, red team and secure code review.

How Cobalt works

A team scopes a test, and Cobalt matches it with testers from its Cobalt Core network of 500+ vetted experts, supported by AI. Findings appear in the platform as testing proceeds, and remediation workflows send them to ticketing and other tools. Engineers can retest and download reports.

Who uses Cobalt?

The vendor lists financial services, SaaS and technology, healthcare, insurance and small businesses, with named customers including Dropbox, Pendo, Personio, MuleSoft and Algolia. Use cases include compliance-driven testing and secure SDLC integration.

Cobalt pricing

Cobalt uses a flexible credit model that scales with usage and does not list prices on its site. A pricing page exists and quotes are available on request.

Cobalt integrations

The vendor says remediation workflows connect to 50+ integrations, though the homepage does not name them.

Cobalt alternatives

Burp Suite is a widely used web security testing toolkit that testers operate themselves rather than a managed service. Snyk and Semgrep are code and dependency scanners that find issues in source rather than running pentests. Horizon3.ai offers autonomous pentesting and StackHawk focuses on automated API and web testing in CI.