Crossfyre vs Amass
A best-in-class subdomain tool vs a full distributed recon platform.
OWASP Amass is an excellent, free, open-source tool for subdomain enumeration and attack-surface mapping. It is one stage of recon, run on one machine, with output you parse yourself. Crossfyre does that stage too (its voyage engine combines passive OSINT with active DNS brute-forcing), then keeps going: distributing the work across your node fleet, chaining it into port and content discovery, surviving crashes, and turning the firehose into ranked findings.
Amass
- Free and open source (OWASP); excellent passive + active subdomain enumeration
- Runs on a single machine; you manage scale, scheduling, and storage
- Covers the subdomain stage; port scanning, content discovery, and triage are separate tools
- Raw output (text/JSON); correlation and prioritization are on you
- No dashboard, teams, or findings history out of the box
Crossfyre
- voyage covers passive OSINT plus active DNS brute-forcing, run standalone or orchestrated
- Distributes enumeration across your own nodes, then chains into pulse (ports) and mach (content)
- Crash-safe runs resume across node failures; recurring schedules keep surface fresh
- Live dashboard, teams, findings history, CSV/JSON/Markdown export
- Valkyrie AI triages output into ranked findings
The honest take
Amass is a great tool and voyage owes a debt to the techniques it popularized. Use Amass if a single-stage CLI tool is all you need. Choose Crossfyre when you want subdomain enum as one orchestrated stage of a distributed, crash-safe, schedulable recon pipeline with triage on top.
Frequently asked
Does Crossfyre replace Amass?
For the subdomain stage, voyage covers the same passive-plus-active ground inside the platform. If you love Amass specifically, you can still run it standalone; Crossfyre is about orchestrating the whole pipeline, not just one tool.
Is voyage open source like Amass?
Yes. voyage, mach, and pulse are open-source Rust engines you can run standalone with no account. The platform adds the distributed orchestration, resilience, and triage around them.