StackHawk Customer Reviews 2026 | API Security Tools

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StackHawk

Composite Score

7.4 /10

CX Score

7.6 /10

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What is StackHawk?

StackHawk is a dynamic application and API security testing tool built for developers. With powerful automation and integration capabilities, StackHawk gives engineers the ability to find and fix security vulnerabilities. StackHawk makes it simple for developers to find, triage, and fix application security bugs. Scan your application for AppSec bugs in the code your team wrote, triage and fix with provided documentation, and automate in your pipeline to prevent future bugs from hitting prod.

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StackHawk Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

82 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

76 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+91 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love StackHawk?

0% Negative

0% Neutral

100% Positive

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Trustworthy

Cons

Leverages Incumbent Status

Feature Ratings

Average 79

Reporting and Analytics

Oversight

Code based API Discovery

Dynamic Application Policy Generation

OWASP Top 10

API Security Testing

API Traffic Analysis

API Protection Against Automated Threats

Risk Analytics

Schema Enforcement

Data Leakage Prevention

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 81

Vendor Support

Quality of Features

Ease of Customization

Usability and Intuitiveness

Breadth of Features

Business Value Created

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Implementation

Ease of IT Administration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Data Integration

StackHawk Reviews

Jeremy S.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2025

Amazing onboarding experience and support team!

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates StackHawk from other similar products?

Price and quality of features.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Ease of use and customer support.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Not being able to come up with enough bird related puns!

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Utilize the support and implementation team as much as possible. They are impressive.

Pros

Reliable
Caring
Respectful
Client Friendly Policies

Ted Q.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Finance
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2025

The Warning System Your Code Needs

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates StackHawk from other similar products?

Its ability to identify and prioritize vulnerabilities during the development process—before applications go live—sets it apart. For financial organizations handling sensitive data, this early intervention is critical

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

StackHawk identified a critical SQL injection vulnerability during a test run, complete with step-by-step remediation guidance that allowed the developers to resolve the issue immediately.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The lack of customization options for reports can make it challenging to generate compliance-ready documentation for auditors.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

StackHawk is a must-have if you prioritize application security in your development workflow. Start with smaller projects to familiarize your team with its features, and gradually scale its use to larger applications.

Pros

Reliable
Enables Productivity
Caring
Acts with Integrity

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Healthcare
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Anonymous Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2025

Excellent product with outstanding vendor support

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

Pros

Efficient Service
Effective Service
Caring
Respectful

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StackHawk Ratings

82 Likeliness to Recommend

100 Plan to Renew

76 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

Emotional Footprint Overview

+91 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love StackHawk?

Pros

Cons

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Reporting and Analytics Radware’s Cloud WAF Application Analytics simplifies security event management by taking massive amounts of alerts and consolidating them into manageable sets.

Oversight Streamlined view of the applications and the security status across environments. Ability to easily manage testing efforts at scale.

Code based API Discovery Discovers unknown APIs and applications at the source of truth - the source code.

Dynamic Application Policy Generation Automatically generates policies for new applications.

OWASP Top 10 Identify vulnerabilities documented by OWASP Top 10.

API Security Testing Uses dynamic application security testing (DAST) and/or fuzzing techniques to identify security misconfigurations and vulnerabilities.

API Traffic Analysis Gain deep insights into sessions, infrastructure resources and their dependencies.

API Protection Against Automated Threats Machine-learning algorithms to detect malicious bot activities targeting APIs from automated attacks such as account takeover attacks, content scraping, etc.

Risk Analytics Able to record qualitative and quantitative data from API requests to be used in a meaningful way.

Schema Enforcement All API (content requests API parameters, headers and body) are scanned and ensure they conform to defined schema parameters.

Data Leakage Prevention API responses requests are inspected to detect sensitive data (CCN/SSN/ID etc.) and masked if needed.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

StackHawk Reviews

Jeremy S.

Amazing onboarding experience and support team!

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Ted Q.

The Warning System Your Code Needs

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Excellent product with outstanding vendor support

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Feature Ratings

Reporting and Analytics

Oversight

Code based API Discovery

Dynamic Application Policy Generation

OWASP Top 10

API Security Testing

API Traffic Analysis

API Protection Against Automated Threats

Risk Analytics

Schema Enforcement

Data Leakage Prevention

Vendor Capability Ratings

Vendor Support

Quality of Features

Ease of Customization

Usability and Intuitiveness

Breadth of Features

Business Value Created

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Implementation

Ease of IT Administration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Data Integration