The Cyver Core alternative that starts before delivery.
Cyver Core is a pentest-management platform with a productized client portal and a PTaaS delivery model, available cloud, private-cloud or on-prem. Cairn covers the same delivery ground and adds the pre-sales engine, a scoping questionnaire that writes the SoW, five pricing models and e-signature, plus AI drafting that can run fully on-prem.
Reporting is table stakes. The lifecycle is the difference.
On core reporting and delivery, both are capable. The gap opens on everything around it: Cyver Core focuses on part of the engagement; Cairn owns the pre-sales, scoping and pricing that get you there, and the delivery that follows.
| Capability | Cairn | Cyver Core |
|---|---|---|
| Pentest reporting and findings library | ✓✓ | ✓ |
| Scanner imports | ✓✓ | ◐ |
| Findings dedup and correlation | ✓✓ | ✓ |
| Collaborative authoring with review workflow | ✓ | ◐ |
| Client delivery portal | ✓✓ | ✓ |
| Retest cycles and remediation tracking | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pre-sales CRM and pipeline forecasting | ✓✓ | ✓ |
| Scoping questionnaire that writes the SoW | ✓✓ | ◐ |
| Pricing models, proposals and e-signature | ✓✓ | ◐ |
| On-prem / air-gapped AI drafting | ✓✓ | ◐ |
| Published pricing | ✓✓ | ✓ |
| Self-host and SaaS | ✓✓ | ✓ |
Cyver Core marks are drawn from its public 2026 documentation and are directional, not hands-on tested. We did not find a capability where Cyver beats Cairn. Its standout is a productized client portal: findings delivered as tickets with risk maps and time-to-fix, native Jira export, and client self-service pentest and retest requests.
The number, up front.
Published, per seat, billed annually. On-prem from a stated $30,000/year floor. A five-person firm on the Team tier pays $745/month, all in — replacing a CRM, a proposal tool, e-signature, a reporting platform and a portal.
Public starting price $99/month (Starter to Ultimate tiers, 15-day trial, annual discounted); higher tiers are largely quote-gated, and quotes/invoicing, continuous assessments and deployment isolation are paid add-ons.
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How Cairn compares to the rest of the field.
Is Cairn a good Cyver Core alternative?
For firms that want the whole engagement in one place, yes. Cyver Core is a pentest-management platform with a productized client portal and a PTaaS delivery model, available cloud, private-cloud or on-prem. Cairn covers the same delivery ground and adds the pre-sales engine, a scoping questionnaire that writes the SoW, five pricing models and e-signature, plus AI drafting that can run fully on-prem.
How does Cairn pricing compare to Cyver Core?
Cairn publishes per-seat pricing (Starter $99, Team $149, Business $249 per seat/month, on-prem from $30,000/year). Cyver Core: Public starting price $99/month (Starter to Ultimate tiers, 15-day trial, annual discounted); higher tiers are largely quote-gated, and quotes/invoicing, continuous assessments and deployment isolation are paid add-ons.
What does Cairn do that Cyver Core does not?
Less than with a reporting-only tool: Cyver has pentest-pipeline management and can send quotes and SoWs (as add-ons). Where Cairn goes further: a scoping questionnaire that auto-writes the SoW, five pricing models with e-signature, and AI drafting that can run fully on-prem or air-gapped rather than only in the cloud.
How does Cyver Core compare to Cairn overall?
We did not find a capability where Cyver beats Cairn. Its standout is a productized client portal: findings delivered as tickets with risk maps and time-to-fix, native Jira export, and client self-service pentest and retest requests.