Automated OWASP Top 10 Scanning: $25.00 Per Audit, No Subscription

Security scanning tools love subscriptions. Snyk starts at $25.00/developer/month. Checkmarx and Veracode charge hundreds per month for their platforms. Even the "affordable" options lock you into annual contracts with per-seat pricing.

24K Labs security audit costs $25.00. Per scan. Not per month. Not per seat. You send your code, you get back a comprehensive OWASP Top 10 analysis with CVSS scores and remediation steps. One payment, one result.

What the Audit Covers

Every scan evaluates your code against all ten categories of the OWASP Top 10 -- the industry standard for web application security risks:

• A01: Broken Access Control -- missing authorization checks, privilege escalation paths, insecure direct object references
• A02: Cryptographic Failures -- weak hashing, plaintext secrets, inadequate encryption, exposed keys
• A03: Injection -- SQL injection, command injection, XSS, template injection, LDAP injection
• A04: Insecure Design -- missing rate limits, business logic flaws, trust boundary violations
• A05: Security Misconfiguration -- default credentials, verbose errors, unnecessary features enabled, missing headers
• A06: Vulnerable Components -- outdated dependencies, known CVEs, unmaintained libraries
• A07: Authentication Failures -- weak passwords, credential stuffing, session management issues
• A08: Data Integrity Failures -- insecure deserialization, unsigned updates, CI/CD pipeline risks
• A09: Logging Failures -- missing audit trails, insufficient monitoring, log injection
• A10: Server-Side Request Forgery -- unvalidated URLs, internal network exposure, cloud metadata access

What You Get Back

The audit report is not a list of line numbers with cryptic error codes. It is a structured analysis powered by Claude Opus -- the most capable model available. For every finding, you receive:

• CVSS score -- standardized severity rating (0-10) so you can prioritize
• Attack scenario -- a concrete description of how an attacker could exploit this vulnerability
• Affected code -- the specific files and lines where the issue exists
• Remediation steps -- actual code fixes, not just "fix the vulnerability"
• OWASP category -- which Top 10 category the finding falls under

You also get an overall risk score from 1 to 100. Below 30 is low risk. 30 to 60 is moderate. Above 60 means you have issues that need attention before deploying.

When to Use It

The security audit is designed for specific moments in your development cycle, not continuous monitoring:

Before deploying to production. Run a scan on your release branch. Catch the injection vulnerability that code review missed. Fix it before it is live.

After major changes. Refactored the authentication system? Added a new API endpoint? Changed how you handle file uploads? Scan the affected code to make sure you did not introduce new attack surfaces.

During compliance prep. SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS -- all of them ask about your security testing. A documented OWASP Top 10 scan with CVSS scores is evidence that you are testing. It is not a penetration test, but it is a concrete artifact for your compliance file.

When onboarding a new codebase. Inherited a legacy project? Evaluating an acquisition target? Run a scan to get a baseline understanding of the security posture before you commit.

What It Is Not

Let us be direct about limitations. This is a static analysis tool powered by an LLM, not a penetration test. It does not:

• Run your application and probe live endpoints
• Test for runtime vulnerabilities like race conditions under load
• Scan your infrastructure, network configuration, or cloud permissions
• Replace a human security auditor for high-stakes applications

What it does is read your source code with the most capable AI model available and identify the patterns that lead to the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities. For most teams, this catches 80% of the issues for 1% of the cost of a full pentest.

A professional penetration test costs $10,000.00 to $50,000.00 and takes weeks. A 24K Labs security audit costs $25.00 and takes minutes. They serve different purposes, but for the vast majority of code changes, the $25.00 scan is all you need.

The Pricing Math

Compare the cost over a year:

• Snyk Team: $25.00/dev/month x 5 developers = $1,500.00/year
• 24K Labs: $25.00/scan x 12 monthly scans = $300.00/year

Even if you scan weekly, that is 52 x $25.00 = $1,300.00/year -- still cheaper than most subscription tools. And you only pay when you scan. Take a month off? Your security tooling costs $0.00 that month.

How to Run a Scan

curl -X POST https://api.24klabs.ai/api/security-audit \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "code": "<your source code>",
    "language": "python",
    "options": {
      "categories": "all",
      "severity_threshold": "low",
      "include_remediation": true
    }
  }'

The first request returns a 402. Your x402 client pays $25.00 in USDC, retries with the receipt, and gets the full audit report. No account. No API key. No subscription to cancel.

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