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Hack The Box beside Reflex Security: training types and facts side by side
Short answer
Hack The Box sells hands-on lab libraries and tabletop and crisis simulation, and, with a condition, cyber range; Reflex Security sells tabletop and crisis simulation. They differ on 2 of 4 training types and 5 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: Hack The Box
- Diamonds: Reflex Security
- RANGE · Cyber range: Sold with a condition; Reflex Security: Not in our sources
- LABS · Hands-on lab libraries: Sold; Reflex Security: Not in our sources
- CRISIS · Tabletop and crisis simulation: Sold; Reflex Security: Sold
- AWARE · Awareness training: Not in our sources; Reflex Security: 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 | Hack The Box | Reflex Security |
|---|---|---|
| Cyber range | 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 | Not in our sources Not described on the pages we read. |
| Hands-on lab libraries | Sold Academy modules, Professional Labs, machines and capture-the-flag content for business teams. Source: Hack The Box for business · Read 27 Sep 2026 | Not in our sources Not described on the pages we read. |
| Tabletop and crisis simulation | 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 | Sold Builds the scenario from the organisation's public footprint, can enrich it with telemetry, and runs an unscripted adversary that reacts to each decision. Source: Reflex Security blog: Reflex Security vs Immersive Labs · 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: Hack The Box Sold with a condition, Reflex Security Not in our sources
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.
Reflex: Not described on the pages we read.
Hands-on lab libraries: Hack The Box Sold, Reflex Security Not in our sources
Hack The Box: Academy modules, Professional Labs, machines and capture-the-flag content for business teams.
Reflex: Not described on the pages we read.
Hands-on keyboard work: Hack The Box Matches, Reflex Security Partly
Hack The Box: Academy modules and Professional Labs, plus optional hands-on investigation inside Crisis Control.
Reflex: Technical players can run plain-English queries against simulated logs, endpoint telemetry and network traffic in an Investigation Console; there is no lab library or range.
Built around your own environment or tools: Hack The Box Partly, Reflex Security Matches
Hack The Box: Six documented baseline scenarios, tailored on request.
Reflex: Reflex states it builds the crisis from your real environment; org context listed as AWS, GitHub, Cloudflare and six more.
Price published: Hack The Box Matches, Reflex Security Not in our sources
Hack The Box: Professional plan: $250 per seat per month or $2,500 per seat per year.
Reflex: Not in our sources.
Free start (free tier, trial or free material): Hack The Box Matches, Reflex Security Not in our sources
Hack The Box: The Lite business plan lists a 14-day free trial.
Reflex: Not in our sources.
Sessions of an hour or less: Hack The Box Not in our sources, Reflex Security Matches
Hack The Box: Not in our sources.
Reflex: "Sixty minutes, your real environment, no slides."
Where do they match?
- Sold Tabletop and crisis simulation
- Matches Executives and non-technical roles take part
- Matches Reports or evidence for auditors, boards or regulators
Neither platform's pages describe: Awareness training, Reaches the whole workforce.
What do they cost?
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
Not published. reflexsecurity.io/pricing returned a 404 when we read it.
Source: reflexsecurity.io/pricing (returned 404) · Read 11 Oct 2026
How do their strengths and limits compare?
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.
Strengths
- Builds the crisis from your own environment and runs an unscripted adversary that reacts to each decision.
- Puts technical, legal and executive teams in one exercise, with AI agents in the seats nobody fills, including the CEO's.
- Short to run: sixty-minute sessions, an AI facilitator in Zoom, Meet or Teams, and an after-action report in which each finding points to the moment it came from.
Limits
- Not a hands-on lab platform or a cyber range: technical players can query simulated logs in its Investigation Console, but there is no lab library and no live-fire range.
- No published price and no free tier.
- Not awareness training: it exercises the response team, not every employee.
Which one fits which team?
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. Look at Reflex if you want to replace the annual scripted tabletop with exercises the response team can run often, or if your gap is decisions and coordination across security, legal and leadership.
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Questions people ask
Is Hack The Box or Reflex Security 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. Reflex Security does not publish a price on the pages we read.
Do Hack The Box and Reflex Security 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
- 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.
- Reflex Security profile
A crisis simulation that replaces the scripted tabletop: it builds a live crisis from your real environment, runs an adaptive adversary and pressured stakeholders, and produces an after-action report.
- Cyber range
A team detects and responds to a live simulated attack in a realistic environment, using real security tools.
- 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.
- Platform fact grid
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