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Cyberbit beside Hack The Box: training types and facts side by side
Short answer
Cyberbit sells cyber range and hands-on lab libraries, and, with a condition, 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: Cyberbit
- Diamonds: Hack The Box
- RANGE · Cyber range: Sold; Hack The Box: Sold with a condition
- LABS · Hands-on lab libraries: Sold; Hack The Box: Sold
- CRISIS · Tabletop and crisis simulation: Sold with a condition; 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 | Cyberbit | Hack The Box |
|---|---|---|
| Cyber range | Sold Cyberbit Readiness is a cloud-based cyber range with 100+ team exercises. Source: Cyberbit homepage · Read 27 Sep 2026 | 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 | Sold 2,800+ solo labs on the same platform. Source: Cyberbit homepage · Read 27 Sep 2026 | 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 with a condition Crisis Sim 360 brings executive, legal, communications, risk and SOC teams into one exercise, but is only offered as an add-on to a Cyberbit Readiness plan. Source: Cyberbit: Crisis Sim 360 · Read 27 Sep 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: Cyberbit Sold, Hack The Box Sold with a condition
Cyberbit: Cyberbit Readiness is a cloud-based cyber range with 100+ team exercises.
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.
Tabletop and crisis simulation: Cyberbit Sold with a condition, Hack The Box Sold
Cyberbit: Crisis Sim 360 brings executive, legal, communications, risk and SOC teams into one exercise, but is only offered as an add-on to a Cyberbit Readiness plan.
Hack The Box: Crisis Control runs platform-led tabletop exercises with scenario waves, injects, emails, news and social updates, and optional hands-on investigation.
Executives and non-technical roles take part: Cyberbit Partly, Hack The Box Matches
Cyberbit: Crisis Sim 360 includes executive, legal, communications and risk teams, sold only as an add-on.
Hack The Box: Crisis Control covers executives, SOC, IT, legal and communications.
Price published: Cyberbit Not in our sources, Hack The Box Matches
Cyberbit: 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): Cyberbit Not in our sources, Hack The Box Matches
Cyberbit: Not in our sources.
Hack The Box: The Lite business plan lists a 14-day free trial.
Where do they match?
- Sold Hands-on lab libraries
- Matches Hands-on keyboard work
- 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 cyberbit.com/pricing address returned a 404 when we read it.
Source: cyberbit.com/pricing (returned 404) · Read 27 Sep 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
- A cloud cyber range with 100+ team exercises and 2,800+ solo labs on one platform.
- Exercises use tools from CrowdStrike, Splunk, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet and Microsoft.
- Four certificate programmes accredited by ANAB in July 2026, each ending in a hands-on capstone.
Limits
- Crisis Sim 360 is sold only as an add-on to a Cyberbit Readiness plan, so the executive exercise comes with a range purchase.
- No published price, no free tier, and nothing aimed at the wider workforce.
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 Cyberbit if your SOC needs team exercises on a live-fire range, or if you want accredited certificates for analysts' hands-on work. 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.
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Questions people ask
Is Cyberbit 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. Cyberbit does not publish a price on the pages we read.
Do Cyberbit and Hack The Box sell the same kind of training?
They both sell cyber range, hands-on lab libraries and tabletop and crisis simulation.
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
- Cyberbit profile
A cloud cyber range for SOC and incident response teams, now combined with RangeForce, with Crisis Sim 360 sold as an add-on that brings executives into the same incident.
- 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.
- 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.