---
id: 5237
title: "XBOW Now Matches the Capabilities of a Top Human Pentester"
source_domain: xbow.com
source_url: "https://xbow.com/blog/xbow-vs-humans"
published_at: "2024-08-05T12:00:00Z"
tags: ["ai-security", "pentesting", "benchmark", "offensive-security", "ai-pentesting", "human-vs-ai"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/5237"
lang: en
---

# XBOW Now Matches the Capabilities of a Top Human Pentester

## Summary

Head-to-head numbers: five pentesters versus XBOW on 104 original benchmarks — the principal tester matched XBOW's 85% solve rate, but XBOW needed 28 minutes to the humans' 40 hours.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** xbow.com
- **Published:** 2024-08-05T12:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://xbow.com/blog/xbow-vs-humans
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/5237