Learn what type of assets you can scan and exploit with Pentest-Tools.com, what's the difference between Assets and Targets, and what you're actually paying for.
Assets and Targets defined
Pentest-Tools.com defines an Asset as the network host being scanned (e.g. hostname, IP address). The Asset is your main licensing limitation.
An Asset gets broken down into one or more Targets, depending on its type.
A Target is the specific URL or IP address that our tools run scans on.
Let’s take an example so it’s easy to make the difference:
The Asset example.com has two Targets:
By contrast, the following are individual Assets:
What about scanning IP ranges?
You can also scan IP ranges but they are expanded into individual Assets. For instance, scanning the IP range 8.8.8.1-100 creates 100 distinct Assets. Find out more on how to scan an IP range.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the maximum number of Assets per month or per year?
We differentiate between added Assets and scanned Assets.
The maximum number of added Assets is calculated as a lifetime number in your account. You can have up to 20x the maximum number of scanned assets included in your plan, at any given time.
Let’s say you’re on our Advanced plan and have 50 scanned Assets in your account. That means you can have up to 1,000 added Assets in your account at any given time.
Also, you can always delete old/unused Assets to make space for new ones.
The maximum number of scanned Assets is calculated per plan and resets every billing cycle. We define a scanned Asset as such if at least a scan started successfully (no connection error / no VPN error / no failed to start issues). You can have up to 5/50/500 scanned Assets in your scan cycle (depending on your plan) and these limits reset every month.
Here’s an example for an Enterprise plan:
You can always check these stats in My Account > Plan details & billing > Active plan.
How do you count Assets and Targets against plan limits?
We only count Assets against your plan limits, meaning only the hostname or IP address of the scanned system.
All URLs belonging to the same Asset (ex. same hostname) only get counted once.
Also, important to know:
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each scanned Asset can have multiple Targets, but we only charge by scanned Assets.
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you can rescan each Asset multiple times, we only count it once as a scanned Asset
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the number of scanned Assets resets monthly in accordance with your plan limit