What about HackerOne's pentest product specifically?

Apples-to-apples on the find side, both deliver triaged findings against an agreed scope. The fix side is where we differ: we ship the remediation PRs as part of the SKU, theirs ends at the report.

Do you do CVE assignment or coordinated disclosure?

Not as a product offering. If you find a 0-day in someone else's software during the engagement, we'll help you draft the disclosure and route it to the maintainer or to MITRE — but the public-disclosure orchestration HackerOne offers isn't in scope.

How do you compare on report quality?

Both produce structured reports with finding ID, severity, repro steps, and impact analysis. Ours additionally include the actual remediation patch as a linked PR with commit history. Auditor-friendly either way.

Yes — common pattern. HackerOne for the always-on bug-bounty, Hayaiti for one-off remediation cycles or pre-launch hardening of new products before opening them to the bounty.

What if a finding requires more remediation work than the SKU allows?

We're transparent at finding-time: 'this finding will take ~3 days of remediation work, the SKU covers up to ~2 days for this severity tier — here's what we recommend.' You can scope an extension, add a follow-on SKU, or take the patch in-house.

Are your pentesters CREST/OSCP certified?

Our team holds OSCP and OSWE certifications. CREST certification (UK-government-recognized) is on the roadmap but not held today — if your procurement requires CREST specifically, we'll tell you upfront.

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Hayaiti vs HackerOne

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The 60-second comparison

Six rows. Same row, same definition. The orange column is us — the grey column is HackerOne.

Capability

Hayaiti

you are here

HackerOne

Pricing model

Fixed-price pentest SKU

Bug-bounty payouts + platform subscription · or per-pentest credits

Starting price

$14,995 per pentest · published

Quote-based · platform fee + variable bounty pool

Turnaround

21 days, scoped to delivery date

Bug-bounty: ongoing · Pentest: 1–2 week scoping then test window

Remediation help

Pull requests in your repo for High/Critical

You triage and fix internally · platform tracks state

Disclosure model

Private engagement · NDA-bound

Coordinated disclosure with researcher community

Best for

Bounded scope · need fixes shipped

Continuous discovery via researcher crowd

If you need continuous bug-bounty pressure, public disclosure infrastructure, or researcher-crowd breadth across exotic specializations, pick HackerOne. If you need one private pentest with the findings fixed and shipped on a calendar date, pick Hayaiti.

We won't oversell. If HackerOneis the right answer for your situation, we'd rather you know that now — even if it costs us the lead.

If you're still comparing vendors, start with the full comparison matrix. If you're already using HackerOne, the switching guide below shows how to transition.

Frequently asked

Hayaiti vs HackerOne — common questions

Real questions we get from teams comparing the two. If yours isn't here, we'll answer it on the 15-minute call.

No, and we won't pretend otherwise. Bug bounties find what point-in-time pentests can't. We're the right fit for scheduled pentests (pre-launch, compliance milestones, M&A diligence) — not for ongoing crowd-sourced discovery.

Where Hayaiti wins

What you get with us that you don't with HackerOne

Specific, not generic. Each one of these maps to a structural difference in how the two models are built — not a marketing adjective.

We close findings, not just file them

HackerOne's deliverable ends at a triaged report. Engineering is on you. Our pentest SKU includes a remediation pull request for every High/Critical finding — same engineers who found the issue write the fix and the regression test.

Fixed total cost, no bounty pool variance

HackerOne's bug-bounty model has variable cost — payouts depend on what researchers find. Our SKU is one fixed line item: $14,995 for the pentest, remediation included. CFO-friendly when budget needs to be locked at procurement time.

No platform subscription overhead for one-off engagements

HackerOne is built for ongoing programs — the platform fee makes sense at scale. For a single pentest before a launch or compliance milestone, paying for an annual platform seat is overhead.

One point of contact, not a researcher pool

HackerOne's strength is the researcher crowd; the variance in how findings are written, scoped, and triaged is also part of that model. Our team writes findings in one consistent voice with one contact for follow-up questions.

Same delivery commitment as the rest of our SKUs

Pentest finding date and remediation date are calendar dates, refunded 25% if we slip — same accountability as our marketing site or iOS SKUs. HackerOne's per-pentest engagement timing is best-effort within the platform's window.

Where HackerOne wins

And here's where HackerOne is genuinely the better choice

We're not going to pretend they don't win some shapes of problem. If your situation matches one of these, pick them — we mean it.

Continuous discovery via crowd

HackerOne's bug-bounty model finds issues that point-in-time pentests structurally miss — chained vulnerabilities discovered weeks after a deploy, novel attack vectors from researchers with unusual specializations. If your threat model demands continuous external pressure, ours is the wrong shape.

Researcher community depth

Tens of thousands of vetted researchers across exotic specializations — hardware, smart contracts, AI/ML adversarial inputs, mobile binary analysis. Our team can't match that breadth, and we'll say so when it matters.

Procurement and compliance maturity

HackerOne is a mature procurement vendor with SOC 2, FedRAMP, and the contract templates Fortune 500 expects. We sign mutual NDAs and SOWs quickly for under-$25K work; for procurement gauntlets, theirs is more polished.

Public disclosure infrastructure when it matters

If responsible-disclosure CVE issuance, public hall-of-fame, and researcher acknowledgement are part of your security brand, HackerOne owns that machinery. We do private engagements only.

If any of the above describes your project, the honest move is to evaluate HackerOnefirst. We'd rather you find the right fit than buy the wrong tool from us.

Migration path

Switching from HackerOne to Hayaiti

Most of the time you don't need to fully switch — you peel off the SKU-shaped slice and keep what already works. Here's the honest playbook.

1
Identify the engagements that need fixes shipped, not just found
If you're closing HackerOne pentest findings months after they're filed because engineering is queued, those are the SKU-shaped slots. Move pre-launch hardening and remediation cycles to us; keep the bug-bounty program running.
2
Keep the bug-bounty program
Continuous crowd-sourced discovery is structurally different work. We can complement it on the remediation side, not replace the discovery side.
3
Send the open finding backlog to scope a remediation SKU
The cleanest switching path is: share the unfixed High/Critical findings list from HackerOne, we re-quote a remediation-focused SKU directly against that list. No new pentest cycle needed.
4
Run them in parallel, not as a switch
Bug-bounty and bounded pentests are complementary — keeping HackerOne live for ongoing discovery while running scheduled pentests with us is the standard pattern in the industry.