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Overview

Service Information on Hackrate

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Hackrate?

Hackrate is a software designed to facilitate vulnerability assessment and penetration testing through a managed bug bounty platform. It enables organizations to identify, report, and address security weaknesses in digital assets by engaging ethical hackers who submit findings for review. This software streamlines the process of collecting reports, validating issues, assigning severity levels, and tracking remediation efforts. Hackrate provides dashboards for monitoring security posture, assists with compliance standards, and allows users to customize the scope of testing based on business requirements. It aims to support organizations in enhancing cybersecurity by improving the visibility and resolution of vulnerabilities in web applications and infrastructure systems.

Hackrate Pricing

Hackrate is a service that follows a pay per vulnerability pricing model, where organizations set a budget or scope for security testing and make payments based on the vulnerabilities discovered and validated by ethical hackers within the set program parameters.

Overall experience with Hackrate

SENIOR INFORMATION SECURITY ENGINEER
<50M USD, Software
FAVORABLE

“Great Value with Efficient Reporting and Setup Features”

5.0
Apr 30, 2026
Hackrate is quite easy for organizations to set up and maintain their bug bounty programs. They are very responsive to custom requests and always available for assistance.
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About Company

Company Description

Updated 2nd August 2024

Hackrate makes cybersecurity testing transparent by providing a crowdsourced approach for continuous security testing and the solution called HackGATE for controlling and monitoring ethical hacking projects.

Company Details

Updated 2nd August 2024
Year Founded
2020
Head office location
Hungary
Website
https://www.hckrt.com/

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5.0

(13 Ratings)

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Evaluation & Contracting

4.8

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4.8

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5.0

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  • SENIOR INFORMATION SECURITY ENGINEER
    <50M USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Great Value with Efficient Reporting and Setup Features

    5.0
    Apr 30, 2026
    Hackrate is quite easy for organizations to set up and maintain their bug bounty programs. They are very responsive to custom requests and always available for assistance.
  • Director
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Hackrate is the ultimate choice for a bug bounty program

    5.0
    Apr 30, 2026
    The team is great. They clearly explain the entire process and set the right expectations, providing transparent and accurate information throughout
  • Software Developer
    <50M USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Small, but very effective team with great precision.

    5.0
    May 14, 2026
    Communication and planning is really easy to do. They are precise and talented people.
  • Chief Executive Officer
    <50M USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Penetreation testing on autopilot

    5.0
    Apr 15, 2025
    Doing the penetration testing with Hackrate was seamless. They recruited all the testers, orchestrated the testing, and we only needed to keep an eye on the progress using a simple online dashboard
  • VP, IT Security and Risk Management
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Seamless Service Experience With a New Approach

    5.0
    Apr 8, 2025
    Using the service was seamless and allowed us to concentrate on the real critical issues
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Reviewer Insights for: Hackrate
Performance of Hackrate Across Market Features

Hackrate Likes & Dislikes

Like

- Very good responsiveness. - Top-quality reporting triage. - Easy to set up and maintain.

Like

It is effective and the team behind it is serious.

Like

- velocity - precision - ease of communication

Dislike

- Small details to improve within the user interface. - Still not as big ethical hacker pool as the industry leaders.

Dislike

the reporting is very serious, with steps to replicate the issue and someone doing checkups as well from hackrate,

Dislike

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