NodeZero vs Strix
NodeZero (Horizon3.ai) and Strix (Strix) side by side on public data, as of Oct 6, 2026.
Strix shipped 14 stable releases in the past 90 days.
Side-by-side numbers
| Metric | NodeZero | Strix |
|---|---|---|
| Pulse Score | 18 | 24 |
| Overall rank | #185 | #156 |
| Downloads, last 7 days | — | 8,244 |
| Downloads, 7-day change | — | up 9.7% |
| Downloads, 30-day change | — | down 57.0% |
| VS Code installs | — | — |
| Marketplace rating | — | — |
| GitHub stars | — | 66.8K |
| Homebrew installs, 30 days | — | — |
| Hacker News mentions, 30 days | 0 | 1 |
| Latest stable release | — | 1.7.0 · yesterday |
| Stable releases, 90 days | 14 | |
| Terminal-Bench (best run) | — | — |
| Price | Custom | Free + $29/mo |
| License | Apache-2.0 | |
| First released | — | August 2025 |
| Interfaces | — | — |
| Models |
Trends
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.
Strix
An open-source multi-agent penetration testing tool that runs dynamic tests against applications, validates findings with working proofs of concept and proposes fixes; it runs locally with Docker or as a hosted service.
Pricing: Open-source version free to run locally. Strix Cloud Pro is $29 per seat a month with pentests billed separately; Enterprise custom.
Latest release 1.7.0:
- fix(models): frontier model check matches the model name only, never the provider route
- feat(reporting): link HTTP exchange evidence
- feat(prompts): require httpexchangeids for proxy-validated findings
- docs: add Vercel AI Gateway provider guide