NodeZero vs PentAGI
NodeZero (Horizon3.ai) and PentAGI (VXControl) side by side on public data, as of Oct 6, 2026.
PentAGI shipped 1 stable releases in the past 90 days.
Side-by-side numbers
| Metric | NodeZero | PentAGI |
|---|---|---|
| Pulse Score | 18 | 30 |
| Overall rank | #185 | #133 |
| Downloads, last 7 days | — | — |
| Downloads, 7-day change | — | — |
| Downloads, 30-day change | — | — |
| VS Code installs | — | — |
| Marketplace rating | — | — |
| GitHub stars | — | 25.3K |
| Homebrew installs, 30 days | — | — |
| Hacker News mentions, 30 days | 0 | 0 |
| Latest stable release | — | 2.2.0 · yesterday |
| Stable releases, 90 days | 1 | |
| Terminal-Bench (best run) | — | — |
| Price | Custom | Free (OSS) |
| License | MIT | |
| First released | — | January 2025 |
| Interfaces | — | — |
| Models |
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NodeZeroPentAGI
NodeZero
Horizon3.ai's autonomous pentesting platform that runs real attack techniques against internal, external, cloud, Kubernetes, Active Directory and web-app environments to show which weaknesses can be exploited.
Pricing: Four packages (Flex, Core, Pro, Elite) plus support tiers; no public prices.
PentAGI
A self-hosted multi-agent system that carries out penetration testing tasks in a sandboxed environment, written in Go and React and working with several model providers.
Pricing: Free and open source (MIT), self-hosted; users pay their own model costs.
Latest release 2.2.0:
- Reasoning the way each vendor expects it — adaptive thinking, effort levels, thinking budgets, and a real "off" are sent in each model family's native form. Combinations a vendor would reject are…
- Three new providers — MiniMax, Mistral, and xAI, for 13 provider types in total. Any other OpenAI-compatible endpoint works through the custom provider, which now also calls Azure OpenAI…
- Tested, not just listed — every built-in provider, plus example configurations for OpenRouter, DeepInfra, Ollama Cloud, self-hosted vLLM, and others, ships with a ctester report in examples/tests/…
- Current catalogues — GPT-6, Claude Opus 5.x and Fable 5.x, Gemini 3.x, Qwen 3.8, GLM 5.3, DeepSeek V4, and Grok 4.7, with prices checked against vendor pages. Agent chains are compacted to the…