Free — instant & automated

Free website security check, in seconds.

See what attackers already see about your domain — subdomains, tech stack, DNS and email posture, security headers. Fully automated, completely passive, genuinely free. When you want a real person to dig deeper, that's what our paid audits are for.

Is my website secure? The only honest way to find out is to look at it from the outside, the way an attacker does. Bug Circuit’s free check maps your public attack surface in seconds — subdomains, tech stack, DNS and email posture, security headers — with no login and no impact on your site. For a person to actually test your site by hand and tell you what’s exploitable, a full manual audit with a written report is a one-time $49.

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Passive recon only — subdomains, tech stack, DNS and headers. No login, no signup, no impact on your site. Results in seconds.

Passive recon only. No login, and no impact on your site. Deeper testing needs domain verification.

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What the free check covers

The instant check is passive reconnaissance — it collects what your domain already exposes to anyone who looks, without sending a single hostile request. That is exactly the information attackers gather first, so seeing it yourself is the fastest way to understand your real exposure:

  • Subdomains — forgotten staging sites, old admin panels and dev boxes are the classic quiet way in.
  • Tech stack & versions — what software your site advertises, and whether it flags you as an easy target.
  • DNS & email posture — SPF, DKIM and DMARC configuration that decides whether criminals can spoof email from your domain.
  • Security headers & TLS — the browser-level protections (CSP, HSTS, cookie flags) most small sites are missing.

No login, no code snippet, no agent to install, and zero impact on your site — the check reads public records and response headers the same way a search engine does. Results appear in seconds.

Want a real person to actually test it?

The free check tells you what’s publicly exposed. It can’t tell you whether your login form has a broken access-control bug, whether your checkout logic can be abused, or whether an old admin panel is quietly reachable — those only surface when a person reasons through how your site is supposed to work. That’s what a manual audit is for.

The Circuit audit is $49 one-time: a full manual audit of your site with a written report of every vulnerability found — severity, evidence, plain-English impact and exact fix steps, suitable to share with enterprise customers who ask for proof of testing. Signal ($299) adds the fixes: we repair the high and critical issues with you and provide 3 months of cover. Both carry a 14-day money-back guarantee before the audit begins. The honest caveat: $49 buys a productized small-site scope, not a multi-week enterprise engagement — for most small businesses that is precisely the right size, and if your scope is bigger we’ll say so before taking your money.

Free scanners stop at version-matching — so does ours, until you go manual

Every free security scanner, ours included, works the same basic way: compare what your domain publicly exposes against known patterns and CVE lists. That’s useful — it catches real, common issues — but it can’t find what actually gets small sites hacked: broken access control, authentication weaknesses, and business-logic bugs in your forms and checkout. Those only surface when a person reasons about how your site is supposed to work. That is exactly why sub-$1,500 “pentests” from big firms are usually rebranded automated scans, while real manual engagements average around $18,000 — and why we built Circuit as an honest middle ground: a real engineer, for $49.

Typical free scanner vs the Bug Circuit free check vs the $49 audit
Typical free scannerBug Circuit free checkCircuit audit — $49
Who / what does the workA botA bot — but a thorough one (10+ OSINT sources)A human engineer, end to end
Finds logic & access-control flawsNoNo — no scanner canYes — tested by hand
False positivesCommonNone — read-only public data, nothing to misjudgeNone — every finding verified
OutputAutomated grade or PDFSubdomains, tech stack, DNS/email posture, headersFull written report + exact fixes
CostFree (often a lead trap)Free — no email required to see results$49 one-time, 14-day guarantee

More on where bots stop and humans start in manual vs automated penetration testing.

Privacy and authorization — how we keep it clean

We take the legal and ethical side seriously, because you should expect that from anyone touching your security:

  • Passive only, until you say otherwise. The free check never attacks, probes or logs into anything — it reads what your domain already publishes.
  • Ownership verified before active testing. Any hands-on testing requires you to prove you control the domain (email, DNS, file or meta-tag verification).
  • Recorded Authorization to Test. Before an audit begins, you explicitly authorize it in writing — so everything is legal, documented and above-board.
  • No pressure funnel. The free results are yours either way. No mandatory sales call, no auto-enrollment, and published pricing if you want more.

We serve customers worldwide, and we also publish free security tools you can use yourself, whether or not you ever pay us anything.

Common questions

Is my website secure? How do I actually check?
Start from the outside, the way an attacker would: map what your domain publicly exposes (subdomains, software versions, DNS and email records, security headers), then have a person look for the flaws that matter — broken access control, authentication weaknesses, logic bugs. Our free check does the first part in seconds, for free, automatically. The second part — a person actually testing your site — is what the Circuit audit ($49) is for.
Is this a website vulnerability assessment?
It’s the automated first half of one. A full vulnerability assessment usually means matching your public-facing software and configuration against known weaknesses — which is exactly what our free check does instantly, for any domain, with no login. What it can’t do is find logic or access-control flaws that don’t show up in a version number, which is why we also offer a human-tested manual audit ($49) as the next step, rather than pretending automation alone is a complete assessment.
Is the free website security check really free?
Yes. The passive recon scan is entirely free and instant — no login, no card, no limit on how many domains you check. It stops there: no manual review is included at that tier. We only charge if you want a real person to test your site by hand, either the full manual audit with a written report ($49 one-time) or the audit plus fixes and 3 months of cover ($299). Pricing is published on the pricing page — no quote calls.
Will the check slow down or break my website?
No. The free check is passive — it reads publicly available information (DNS records, response headers, certificate data) the same way a browser or search engine does. Nothing is attacked, nothing is logged into, and your site never notices. Active testing only ever happens after you verify domain ownership and sign a recorded Authorization to Test.
How can I check if my website is hackable?
A scanner alone can’t tell you — it matches version numbers against known CVEs and misses the business-logic, access-control and authentication flaws that actually get small sites hacked. The honest sequence is: free passive check to see your exposure, then a $49 manual audit if you want a person to actually test the site and document every issue found. We wrote up the warning signs in Is my website hackable?
Do I need to give you login access or install anything?
No. The free check needs only your domain name. No login, no plugin, no code snippet, no agent. If you later buy the full audit and want authenticated paths tested, you can optionally provide a low-privilege test account — recommended, never required.
What happens after the free check?
You see your passive results immediately — subdomains, tech stack, DNS and email posture, headers. If you want a person to actually test the site, the Circuit audit ($49 one-time) is a complete manual audit with a written report you can share with customers. There is no auto-billing, no subscription trap, and a 14-day money-back guarantee before any audit begins.

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Passive recon only. No login, and no impact on your site. Deeper testing needs domain verification.

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