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BreachRx beside Hack The Box: training types and facts side by side
Short answer
BreachRx sells tabletop and crisis simulation; Hack The Box sells hands-on lab libraries and tabletop and crisis simulation, and, with a condition, cyber range. They differ on 2 of 4 training types and 3 of 8 checks on the pages we read. This page sets their published facts side by side; it does not pick one.
By The Range Desk · Cyber Range Compare · Published 2026-10-11 · Updated 2026-10-13
Desk research from public vendor, standards and regulator pages read on 27 September, 11 October and 13 October 2026. Profiles follow our published method; we did not run the products.
Which training types does each sell?
- Targets: BreachRx
- Diamonds: Hack The Box
- RANGE · Cyber range: Not in our sources; Hack The Box: Sold with a condition
- LABS · Hands-on lab libraries: Not in our sources; Hack The Box: Sold
- CRISIS · Tabletop and crisis simulation: Sold; Hack The Box: Sold
- AWARE · Awareness training: Not in our sources; Hack The Box: Not in our sources
- Filled target: the platform sells this training type on the pages we read
- Hatched target: sold with a condition (an add-on, an adjacent product, or part of the type)
- Dashed target: not in our sources (it may exist; we did not find it)
| Type | BreachRx | Hack The Box |
|---|---|---|
| Cyber range | Not in our sources Not described on the pages we read. | Sold with a condition HTB PRO, an individual plan announced in September 2026, lists SOC Range access from Q4 2026; a team range on your own tools is not described on the pages we read. Source: Hack The Box blog: HTB PRO plan announcement · Read 27 Sep 2026 |
| Hands-on lab libraries | Not in our sources Not described on the pages we read. | Sold Academy modules, Professional Labs, machines and capture-the-flag content for business teams. Source: Hack The Box for business · Read 27 Sep 2026 |
| Tabletop and crisis simulation | Sold AI Tabletops designs, runs and documents cyber incident simulations inside the Rex Platform, for executives or a single team, from scenario design to after-action report. Source: BreachRx: AI Tabletops (Rex Platform) · Read 13 Oct 2026 | Sold Crisis Control runs platform-led tabletop exercises with scenario waves, injects, emails, news and social updates, and optional hands-on investigation. Source: Hack The Box: tabletop exercises (Crisis Control) · Read 27 Sep 2026 |
| Awareness training | Not in our sources Not described on the pages we read. | Not in our sources Not described on the pages we read. |
Where do their published facts differ?
Cyber range: BreachRx Not in our sources, Hack The Box Sold with a condition
BreachRx: Not described on the pages we read.
Hack The Box: HTB PRO, an individual plan announced in September 2026, lists SOC Range access from Q4 2026; a team range on your own tools is not described on the pages we read.
Hands-on lab libraries: BreachRx Not in our sources, Hack The Box Sold
BreachRx: Not described on the pages we read.
Hack The Box: Academy modules, Professional Labs, machines and capture-the-flag content for business teams.
Hands-on keyboard work: BreachRx Not in our sources, Hack The Box Matches
BreachRx: Not in our sources.
Hack The Box: Academy modules and Professional Labs, plus optional hands-on investigation inside Crisis Control.
Price published: BreachRx Not in our sources, Hack The Box Matches
BreachRx: Not in our sources.
Hack The Box: Professional plan: $250 per seat per month or $2,500 per seat per year.
Free start (free tier, trial or free material): BreachRx Partly, Hack The Box Matches
BreachRx: A free, facilitated tabletop is offered to qualifying hospitals and healthcare providers only (announced 6 October 2026).
Hack The Box: The Lite business plan lists a 14-day free trial.
Where do they match?
- Sold Tabletop and crisis simulation
- Matches Executives and non-technical roles take part
- Partly Built around your own environment or tools
- Matches Reports or evidence for auditors, boards or regulators
Neither platform's pages describe: Awareness training, Sessions of an hour or less, Reaches the whole workforce.
What do they cost?
Not published; the route in is a demo. A free, facilitated exercise is offered to qualifying healthcare providers.
Source: BreachRx homepage · Read 13 Oct 2026
Professional: $250 per seat per month or $2,500 per seat per year. Lite, Base and Ultimate are not priced publicly; Lite lists a 14-day free trial. Crisis Control: price not published.
Source: Hack The Box business pricing · Read 27 Sep 2026
How do their strengths and limits compare?
Strengths
- Exercises run in the same platform used for live incident response, so gaps feed straight into playbooks and owners.
- Enterprise-wide seats: security, legal, privacy, communications, risk, executives and outside partners.
- After-action reports with executive summaries, gap analyses and prioritised improvements.
Limits
- Not a lab platform or a cyber range: no hands-on technical environment is described.
- No published price; the exercise comes as a module of an incident response platform.
Strengths
- Deep technical content: Academy modules, Professional Labs, machines and capture-the-flag events, with 4.3m+ learners.
- A published business price, $2,500 per seat per year on the Professional plan, and a 14-day trial on Lite.
- Crisis Control adds a tabletop with optional hands-on investigation for technical players.
Limits
- A team range on your own tools is not described; SOC Range access is listed for an individual plan from Q4 2026.
- Crisis Control pricing is not published, and its scenarios are tailored with facilitator guidance, which takes more lead time than a self-serve generator.
Which one fits which team?
Look at BreachRx if you want exercises to run in the same platform as your live incident response, or if your gap is ownership and coordination across security, legal and leadership. Look at Hack The Box if your technical team needs labs and certifications first and a tabletop second, or if you want a business price you can budget against before a call.
Not sure which training type you need first? The training type finder weighs your answers before it lists platforms.
Questions people ask
Is BreachRx or Hack The Box cheaper?
Hack The Box publishes a price: Professional: $250 per seat per month or $2,500 per seat per year. Lite, Base and Ultimate are not priced publicly; Lite lists a 14-day free trial. Crisis Control: price not published. BreachRx does not publish a price on the pages we read.
Do BreachRx and Hack The Box sell the same kind of training?
They both sell tabletop and crisis simulation. Hack The Box also sells cyber range and hands-on lab libraries.
Can I compare several platforms at once?
Yes. The platform fact grid puts up to twelve side by side, and you can pick which ones.
Read next
- BreachRx profile
An incident response management platform whose AI Tabletops module runs exercises in the same system the team uses in a live incident, then feeds the gaps back into playbooks and owners.
- Hack The Box profile
A technical training platform with a large learner community, Academy modules and Professional Labs, plus Crisis Control, a platform-led tabletop with optional hands-on investigation.
- Tabletop and crisis simulation
The people who own decisions in an incident work through a scenario and decide what to do, from a scripted discussion to an adaptive simulation.
- Cyber range
A team detects and responds to a live simulated attack in a realistic environment, using real security tools.
- Platform fact grid
Every platform's facts in one table.