Same scope can come back at $2,999 from one vendor and $45,000 from another. This calculator gives you an honest industry-range estimate based on your specific scope — and shows where CyberGrid's flat fee fits in.
Same scope can be quoted at the low end (boutique with junior testers) or the high end (Big-4 with senior partners and overhead). Our flat fee uses senior pen-testers with heavy automation for coverage — so we get tier-3 quality at tier-2 prices. For very large scopes (200+ endpoints, complex auth, multi-tenant + PCI), we'll quote separately rather than try to fit our flat fee.
Pen-test pricing is mostly a function of tester-days × blended day rate. A modern web-app engagement runs 5–15 tester-days. Senior testers cost $1,200–$2,000/day fully loaded in the US/EU. The rest of the variance comes from: report quality, retest inclusion, procurement support, and how much overhead the firm needs to cover.
This calculator estimates a reasonable industry mid-range for your scope, then shows our flat fee for comparison. Our number doesn't move with scope because we use heavy automation (nuclei full template set, authenticated ZAP, ffuf, sqlmap, IDOR replay) for coverage breadth, then put senior human time on business-logic and writeup. The economics let us hold $4,999 flat for the standard SaaS pen test. For unusual scope (200+ endpoints, complex multi-tenant with payments, or HIPAA + PCI together), we quote separately.
If a vendor quotes you below the low end of the industry estimate, ask hard questions about who is doing the testing. If they quote above the high end, ask what justifies the premium beyond senior labor. Most of the unhappy customers in this market are paying tier-4 prices for tier-2 outcomes.