Penetration Test Pricing Calculator

The Base Price for a Red team engagement is $40,000, versus $3,000 for a Vuln scan -- roughly a 13x difference before any scope or environment multipliers are applied. A vulnerability scan is largely automated tooling run against a target list, while a Red team engagement is a multi-week, hands-on simulated attack involving reconnaissance, social engineering, and manual exploitation, which is why it also carries a much longer Estimated Duration (15 days versus 1) and later Report Delivery timeline.

Setting Compliance Required to Yes (for frameworks like PCI-DSS, HIPAA, or SOC2) adds a flat 25% to the total price, applied after the test type, scope, and environment multipliers. That premium reflects the extra time testers spend mapping findings to specific compliance controls and producing the more detailed evidence and documentation those frameworks require compared to a standard technical report.

Including a retest adds 20% to the total price but verifies that previously reported vulnerabilities were actually fixed rather than just documented as fixed. Without a retest, there's no independent confirmation that remediation worked, which is often a specific requirement for compliance frameworks like PCI-DSS that expect evidence vulnerabilities were closed, not just identified.

Standard on-premises environments carry no environment premium (1.0x), cloud or hybrid environments add 20% (1.2x) to account for the different tooling and permissions cloud platforms require, and OT/ICS (operational technology / industrial control systems) environments add 80% (1.8x) because testing production industrial equipment demands extra caution to avoid disrupting physical processes. That extra caution also extends Testing Duration -- OT/ICS engagements run 40% longer (1.4x) and cloud/hybrid ones 10% longer (1.1x) than an equivalent standard on-prem engagement, so the higher price for a specialized environment comes with a genuinely slower, more careful methodology, not just a bigger invoice.