Comparison
HeaderHawk vs URIports
URIports is the closest comparison on price and the least direct on scope. It is a monitoring platform for web and email — DMARC, TLS-RPT, DNS, certificates, Network Error Logging and CSP — with plans from USD 7 a month and a USD 15-a-year hobby tier.
CSP is one of many report types for them. It is the entire product here. That single difference explains most of what follows: where their depth goes, where ours goes, and why both can genuinely be the right answer for the same company.
Side by side
Every figure in the URIports column is quoted from their own published page, read on 11 September 2026. The HeaderHawk column is generated from the same data as our pricing page, so it cannot drift from it. Prices change — check theirs before you decide, and tell us if this table is out of date.
| URIports | HeaderHawk | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | None | Free: $0, 3 sites, 10,000 reports a month, 15-day retention, no card |
| Cheapest paid plan | Sand, USD 15/year (personal and hobby projects); Pebble, USD 7/mo (USD 72 annually) | Team, $39/month or $390/year |
| Sites on that plan | 3 domains on Sand; 5 on Pebble | 10 sites |
| Reports a month | 10,000 on Sand; 100,000 on Pebble | 100,000 |
| Report retention | 30 days | 30 days |
| Team members | Team Access starts on Stone, USD 33/mo | 10 |
| Trial | Free one-month trial, no payment method required | 30-day Team trial, no credit card |
Checked on 11 September 2026, from uriports.com/pricing.
What URIports does better
A comparison that finds no advantage anywhere is the one readers stop trusting. These are the things HeaderHawk does not do.
- Email authentication, in full
- DMARC monitoring is their founding product, alongside TLS-RPT, DNS monitoring, certificate monitoring and hosted MTA-STS. If you are looking at CSP and DMARC in the same week, one subscription covers both there and only half of it here.
- More browser report types
- Network Error Logging, permissions policy, and COOP and COEP reports are all collected. HeaderHawk collects CSP violations and script integrity hashes only.
- Exports and an API
- “JSON & CSV exports” are listed as included in all subscriptions, with API access for managing domains from Stone upwards and webhooks carrying ready-made Slack, Microsoft Teams and Discord templates. HeaderHawk has no export and no read API.
- Domains are cheap and elastic
- Five domains at USD 7 a month, and packs of ten added for USD 12 a month at any time without changing plan. If your domain count is the constraint and your report volume is low, that arithmetic is hard to beat.
- Account security and hosting posture
- Two-factor authentication and SSO are listed as included in all subscriptions, with OpenID Connect from Mountain upwards, and the service states that it is hosted in the Netherlands. HeaderHawk lists SSO as coming soon and offers no choice of hosting region.
Where HeaderHawk is stronger
Each of these is something the product does today, not something on a roadmap.
- Free, permanently, for 3 sites
- URIports' entry to the platform is a one-month trial and then USD 15 a year at the very least. HeaderHawk's Free plan has no clock: 3 sites, 10,000 reports a month, 15 days of history, no card.
- CSP is the product, so the CSP view is deeper
- Violations group by directive, blocked source and page, and each group opens onto the pages it affects and the raw reports underneath — source file, line, column, and the script sample where the policy asks for one. That is the screen you spend a rollout in.
- Noise classification built for CSP specifically
- Browser-extension URIs, data:, about: and blob: URLs, and bot user agents are classified as known noise and held out of alerts while staying visible in the dashboard. Extension traffic is the single largest source of junk in a CSP feed, and it needs a CSP-shaped answer.
- Alerting that scores a window rather than counting one
- Violations accumulate into 15-minute windows, and each window is scored on how many browser families reported it: two or more families, or twenty signal reports from one, alerts immediately, and quieter windows go to a daily or weekly digest instead.
Which one to pick
Pick URIports if…
- Email authentication is on the same list as CSP. DMARC, TLS-RPT and MTA-STS are real work, they do it well, and consolidating them with your CSP reports on one bill is a good reason on its own.
- You have many domains and modest traffic. Five domains at USD 7 a month, or three at USD 15 a year, is less than HeaderHawk's paid entry — and if you need CSV or JSON exports, HeaderHawk has none.
Try HeaderHawk if…
- CSP is the actual job and everything else on that list belongs to somebody else. A rollout goes faster on a screen that is only about violations.
- You want to start at zero rather than at a trial, or 10 sites and 10 teammates at $39 a month fit better than the plan where their team access begins.
HeaderHawk has no data export, no API for reading your data, no HTTP response-header monitoring, no configurable alert thresholds and no spike detection. If any of those is a requirement, the comparison above is already decided.
Other comparisons
- HeaderHawk vs Report URIThe incumbent, now sold as a client-side security platform. Far more product; a much higher floor.
- HeaderHawk vs CsperThe other developer-first CSP tool. It writes and grades policies; this one reads reports. Two small products, honestly compared.
- HeaderHawk vs CentralCSPStrong on policy building and PCI tooling: a builder, scanner, evaluator and Chrome extension around the endpoint.
- HeaderHawk vs building it yourselfThe real default: a Lambda writing to S3. The endpoint is an afternoon; everything after it is the product.
Try it against your own reports
Point a report-only policy at HeaderHawk and see what a week of real traffic looks like. No comparison table settles that.