Does either company's published profile state a minimum project size?

Qualysec's published profile states a minimum project size of $1,000, sourced from its Clutch profile, checked 2 September 2026. NetSPI's published profile states no minimum project size, checked 2 September 2026. A buyer scoping a small engagement has no published floor to weigh a NetSPI quote against before the first call. Qualysec's published figure gives a buyer a baseline to compare its own project size against ahead of any conversation.

Which industries does each company's published profile name?

NetSPI names three industries on its published profile, Banking, Healthcare and Insurance, checked 2 September 2026. Qualysec's published profile lists nine industries, Medical devices, Education, Energy and utilities, Fintech, Healthcare, SaaS, Ecommerce, Public sector and Telecom, checked 2 September 2026. Healthcare is the only industry named on both profiles. Every other industry on either list belongs to just one of the two companies.

NetSPI vs Qualysec

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NetSPI meets the conditions for Nearshore for the USA; Qualysec meets none that NetSPI does not. The catalog has Certificates only for NetSPI, and Client stages, Published rates, Minimum project only for Qualysec. Neither publishes Frameworks, Signs a BAA / GDPR DPA, Onboarding, Crowd tester pool, Device lab, so the table cannot answer those.

Field by field

NetSPI and Qualysec compared on the fields published for every company in this catalog
Field	NetSPI	Qualysec
Headquarters	Minneapolis, the USA	Bhubaneswar, India
Delivery locations	the USA, Canada, the UK, India	India
Team size	501-1000 people	51-200 people
Founded	2001	2020
Ownership	Independent	Independent
Services	Penetration testing, Security testing, Red teaming, Secure code review, Attack surface management	Penetration testing, API testing, Red teaming, Secure code review, Security testing
Industries	Banking, Healthcare, Insurance	Medical devices, Education, Energy and utilities, Fintech, Healthcare, SaaS, Ecommerce, Public sector, Telecom
Frameworks	Not published	Not published
Engagement models	Managed testing service, Continuous testing program	Managed testing service, On-demand testing
Client stagespublished by one of the two	Not published	Startups, Enterprises
Certificates	CRESTregister entry	No certificate confirmed by a register entry
Signs a BAA / GDPR DPA	Not confirmed / Not confirmed	Not confirmed / Not confirmed
Published ratespublished by one of the two	Not published	Blended $25-49/hclutch.co
Minimum projectpublished by one of the two	Not published	$1,000clutch.co
Onboarding	Not published	Not published
Crowd tester pool	Not published	Not published
Device lab	Not published	Not published

Who each one fits

NetSPI's published practice reaches past the bounded assessment into standing watch over what an organisation exposes, work that has no end date because the estate it watches keeps changing shape. Qualysec's published practice stays inside the engagement: interfaces and code examined against a scope agreed beforehand, delivered and closed. A buyer arrives at this pair when the same budget has to cover a recurring obligation and a set of discrete product checks.

Whichever side the money goes to, the tooling question stays open on each page, and it does not weigh the same on each side. A discrete assessment ends in a document, and a document is a usable deliverable. Standing work produces findings continuously, and a continuous stream is only worth paying for if it lands where the people who fix things already work. Nothing published says which systems that stream reaches, or whether it reaches any at all. Ask on the first call how a finding gets to an engineer and who marks it closed. Check the answer later against whatever appears in the frameworks field.

A tag is attached when the company's published fields meet its condition, never by judgement. Both lists come from the same closed vocabulary, so a tag missing from one side means the condition was not met, not that nobody looked.

NetSPI

Nearshore for the USA

Qualysec

Qualysec meets no applicability condition in this catalog. That is a statement about what its published fields show, not about the company.

Both meet the conditions for Security focus, so those conditions do not separate them.

Where the data runs out

Completeness against the 14 fields of the comparison checklist is 71% for NetSPI and 79% for Qualysec. A field is counted as filled when a source confirms it, so a gap means nobody published it.

Neither company has a value recorded for these fields: Frameworks, Signs a BAA / GDPR DPA, Onboarding, Crowd tester pool, Device lab. The table shows those rows empty rather than estimating them.

Field definitions and the completeness checklist are on the methodology page. The sources behind each field are listed on the NetSPI profile and the Qualysec profile.

Questions

Does either company's published profile state a minimum project size?: Qualysec's published profile states a minimum project size of $1,000, sourced from its Clutch profile, checked 2 September 2026. NetSPI's published profile states no minimum project size, checked 2 September 2026. A buyer scoping a small engagement has no published floor to weigh a NetSPI quote against before the first call. Qualysec's published figure gives a buyer a baseline to compare its own project size against ahead of any conversation.
Which industries does each company's published profile name?: NetSPI names three industries on its published profile, Banking, Healthcare and Insurance, checked 2 September 2026. Qualysec's published profile lists nine industries, Medical devices, Education, Energy and utilities, Fintech, Healthcare, SaaS, Ecommerce, Public sector and Telecom, checked 2 September 2026. Healthcare is the only industry named on both profiles. Every other industry on either list belongs to just one of the two companies.

Published by QA RatingUpdated on September 6, 2026

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