# PlexTrac alternative: purple-team platform or pentest operations? > An honest comparison of PlexTrac and Tandera. PlexTrac is a strong reporting and prioritisation platform, especially for purple teams; Tandera runs the consultancy engagement lifecycle. Which fits depends on your model. PlexTrac is a well-built platform, and a broad one. It centralises findings, streamlines reporting, tracks remediation, and has invested heavily in prioritisation and purple-teaming workflows — running and measuring attack scenarios, scoring risk, closing the loop with defenders. For an enterprise security team or a firm whose work spans offensive and collaborative defensive engagements, PlexTrac covers a lot of ground and covers it seriously. Tandera overlaps with part of that and differs in emphasis. This page is about which emphasis matches how your team actually works. ## What PlexTrac is built to do PlexTrac's centre of gravity is the finding lifecycle and prioritisation, with strong purple-team support. It is good at taking findings from many sources, giving them a consistent risk treatment, tracking them to closure, and supporting the back-and-forth between red and blue teams. Organisations with a mature internal security function, or service firms doing continuous and collaborative engagements, get a lot from that breadth. It is a capable, polished product. A team whose work is shaped like PlexTrac's model will find it fits well. ## Where the emphasis differs PlexTrac assumes the findings arrive and focuses on what happens to them — prioritisation, tracking, collaboration. The parts Tandera emphasises sit earlier and are shaped differently: - **Recon as part of the platform.** PlexTrac is not where you map the attack surface; that happens in your tooling, and the findings flow in. - **The consultancy delivery shape.** Tandera is organised around how a testing firm runs a client engagement — scope, test, QA, branded delivery, client-facing retest — rather than around an internal programme's risk-tracking. - **Automated recon-to-finding.** Correlating scanner output into deduplicated findings and attack paths automatically is a different starting point from managing findings that already exist. Neither shape is more correct. They serve different operating models. ## What Tandera is built to do Tandera is pentest operations for a consultancy: automated recon that opens findings, 120+ tool importers that deduplicate into one record, attack-path synthesis, white-label PDF and PPTX generated from the canonical findings, and a white-label client portal for retest and remediation. The whole engagement, organised the way a firm delivers to clients. ## When PlexTrac is the right call If your work is purple teaming, continuous prioritisation, or an enterprise programme tracking its own risk at scale — and especially if the red/blue collaboration loop is central — PlexTrac's breadth is built for that, and it is a strong platform for it. Tandera is for offensive teams and consultancies whose engagement runs recon → findings → attack paths → branded report → client retest, and who want that specific lifecycle on one record. If that is your shape, Tandera is built around it directly; if your shape is prioritisation and purple teaming, PlexTrac is built around that. --- Canonical: https://tandera.io/compare/plextrac This page as markdown: https://tandera.io/compare/plextrac.md Index for agents: https://tandera.io/llms.txt Every page here is also available as markdown: append `.md` to the path (e.g. `/recon.md`, `/index.md` for this homepage, `/blog/.md`), or request the canonical path with `Accept: text/markdown`.