Compare / AI-SPM vs Manual LLM Pentest
AI-SPM vs Manual LLM Pentest
Manual LLM Pentest is one-time engagement that produces a bespoke report. AI-SPM is the broader programme that adds asset discovery, adversarial testing, runtime gateway controls, and control-ID compliance evidence.
Last reviewed June 2026
Problem
What AI-SPM vs Manual LLM Pentest really means
Manual LLM Pentest covers a slice of AI risk. The gap is the rest of the AI control surface: months to evidence, snapshot-aged the moment foundation models update, no control-mapped output, prompts shared outside the customer trust boundary.
How Penaxtra approaches it
How Penaxtra closes the gap
AI-SPM is purpose-built for the full AI control surface: 11 AI asset kinds today, three-judge adversarial testing, self-hosted runtime gateway, and six-framework compliance evidence. Most customers run AI-SPM alongside Manual LLM Pentest rather than replacing it.
Technical capabilities
What Penaxtra adds
Self-hosted runtime gateway with Ed25519-signed policy distribution
Three judges (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google) + meta-judge consensus on every adversarial finding
Six-framework compliance mapping at control-ID level
PDF + JSON audit-evidence export with twenty-two cross-framework overlaps
Compliance mapping
Compliance coverage compared
AI-SPM evidence stands alongside Manual LLM Pentest findings; the two are complementary, not substitutes.
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