Aqua
How does Fluid Attacks' solution compare to Aqua's? The following comparison table enables you to discern
the performance of both providers across various attributes essential for meeting your company's cybersecurity
needs. To better understand each attribute, read their descriptions in the dedicated page.
Organization
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Attribute
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Essential
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Advanced
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Aqua
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Focus
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Cloud Native Application Product
Platform (CNAPP)
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Extras
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None
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None
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CNDR, CSPM, CWP and SCA
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Headcount
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546 | ||
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Headcount distribution
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Engineering 42%, IT 13%, sales 13%,
marketing 2%, operations 4% and others 26%
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Engineering 30%, IT 9%, sales 14%,
marketing 2%, operations 5% and others 40%
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Headcount growth
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+8%, +10%, -8%
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+1%, -12%, -10%
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Headquarters
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CO and US
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IL, IN and US | |
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Countries
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AR, BO, CA, CL, CO, DO, MX, PA, PE and
US
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IL, IN and US
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Reputation
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Same
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7.93 from 117 reviews over 6 years on
G2, Gartner, PeerSpot and TrustRadius
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|
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Followers
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Same
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75K based on the following: Facebook,
Instagram, LinkedIn, X and YouTube
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|
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Research firms
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None
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None
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451 Research, Forrester, Frost & Sullivan, Gartner and IDC
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Founded
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2001 |
2015
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Funding
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Bootstrapped
|
Same
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$325M USD in 8 rounds from 12 investors
|
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Acquisitions
|
None
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None
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Acquired 0 times and made 3
acquisitions
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Revenue
|
10M to 15M
|
1M to 750M
|
|
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CVEs as CNA Researcher
|
Not applicable, as it is not a CNA
Researcher
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Compliance
|
SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3
|
CSA STAR Level 1, FedRAMP Authorized, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017, ISO/IEC 27018 and
SOC 2 Type II
|
|
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Bug bounty
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Yes
|
||
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Visits
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21K
per month. Top 3: 26% CO, 8% FR, 7% US. Others 59%
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61K per month. Top 3: 22% US, 12% IN,
11% UK. Others 55%
|
|
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Authority
|
40 out of 100
|
||
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Public vulnerability DB
|
Discovered and third-party
|
Third-party
|
|
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Content
|
Same
|
Blog, documentation, e-books, product
sheets, videos, webinars and white papers
|
|
| Comprehensive documentation |
No information available
|
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Community
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Chat (slack)
|
||
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Sync training
|
1 workshop
|
3 live security education courses
(subscription-based)
|
|
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Async training
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3 product use courses, all free
|
3 product use courses with
certification (paid)
|
|
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Distribution
|
Same
|
Direct or with any of its 4 partners
|
|
| Marketplaces | AWS, Azure and GCP | ||
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Freemium
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
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Free trial
|
Free trial
|
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Demo
|
Yes
|
||
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Open demo
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
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Pricing
|
Contact sales and marketplaces
|
||
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Pricing tiers
|
1 plan
|
1 plan
|
3 plans (standard, advanced, ultimate).
All transparent
|
|
Minimum term
|
Annually
|
||
|
Minimum payment period
|
Annually
|
||
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Minimum capabilities
|
ASPM, binary SAST, containers, CSPM, DAST, IaC, SAST, SCA and
secrets
|
Same plus: API
security testing, PTaaS, RE and SCR
|
CNAPP
|
|
Minimum scope
|
1 author
|
No information available
|
|
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Pricing drivers
|
Repositories and workloads
|
||
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Minimum monthly payment
|
4,167 USD
|
||
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Free implementation
|
No information available
|
||
|
Free support
|
No
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Service
|
Attribute
|
Essential
|
Advanced
|
Aqua
|
|
PTaaS
|
No
|
No
|
|
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Reverse engineering
|
No
|
No | |
|
Secure code review
|
No
|
No
|
|
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Pivoting
|
No
|
No
|
|
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Exploitation
|
No
|
No
|
|
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Manual reattacks
|
Not applicable
|
Not applicable
|
|
|
Zero-day
vulnerabilities
|
None
|
Continuous zero-day vulnerability research
|
Continuous zero-day vulnerability
research
|
|
SLA
|
Availability and support | ||
|
Minimum availability
|
>=99.95% per minute LTM
|
>=99.9% per month
|
|
|
After-sale guarantees
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Accreditations
|
Amazon EKS Ready Product, Amazon Linux Ready Product, AWS Containers ISV Competency,
AWS Government ISV Competency, AWS Graviton Ready Product, AWS Lambda Ready Product
and AWS Security ISV Competency
|
||
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Hacker certifications
|
Not applicable
|
Not applicable
|
|
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Type of contract
|
Employee
|
Same
|
Employee
|
|
Endpoint control
|
Not applicable
|
Total
|
Not applicable
|
|
Channel control
|
Not applicable
|
Total
|
Not applicable
|
|
Standards
|
Some requirements from 67 standards, 5 in common and 62
additional
|
All requirements from the same standards
|
8 standards, 5 in common and 3
additional
|
|
Detection method
|
Automated tools, AI and human intelligence
|
Automated tools
|
|
|
False positives
|
7.47 times better
|
11.75 times better
|
8% F0.5 score per quantity
|
|
False negatives
|
12.37 times better
|
35.58 times better
|
2% F2.0 score per severity
|
|
Remediation
|
5, 4 in common and 1 additional
|
Same, plus 1
|
4, all in common
|
|
Outputs
|
5, 3 in common and 2
additional
|
Same, plus 2
|
5, 3 in common and 2 additional
|
Product
|
Attribute
|
Essential |
Advanced
|
Aqua
|
|
ASPM
|
No
|
||
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API
|
REST with JSON
|
||
|
IDE
|
5 functionalities, 2 in common and 3
additional
|
Same, plus 1 functionality
|
3 functionalities, 2 in common and 1
additional
|
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CLI
|
Yes
|
||
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CI/CD
|
Breaks the build
|
||
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Vulnerability sources
|
4 sources
|
1 source
|
|
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Threat model alignment
|
No
|
||
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Priority criteria
|
CVSS and EPSS
|
||
|
Custom prioritization
|
No
|
||
|
Scanner origin
|
External (Trivy for SCA)
|
||
|
SCA
|
23 package managers, 16 in common and 7
additional
|
22 package managers, 16 in common and 6
additional
|
|
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AI security
|
No
|
No
|
|
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Reachability
|
12 languages
|
Yes. No information available
|
|
|
Reachability type
|
Deterministic
|
||
|
SBOM
|
22 package managers, 14 in common and 8
additional
|
22 package managers, 14 in common and 8 additional | |
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Malware detection
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Autofix on components
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
|
Containers
|
4 distributions, all in common
|
13 distributions, 4 in common and 9 additional
|
|
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Source SAST
(languages)
|
No
|
||
|
Source SAST
(frameworks)
|
No
|
||
|
Custom rules
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
|
IaC
|
6, 3 in common and 3 additional
|
4, 1 in common and 3 additional
|
5, 4 in common and 1 additional
|
|
Binary SAST
|
1 type of binary
|
Same, plus 2 types of binaries. None
in common
|
4 types of binaries, none in common
|
|
DAST
|
No
|
||
|
API security testing
|
No
|
No
|
|
|
IAST
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
|
CSPM
|
Yes |
Yes
|
|
|
ASM
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
|
Secrets
|
15 secrets types, 2 in common and 13
additional
|
Same, plus verify other attack vectors
and secrets exploitability
|
8 secrets types, 2 in common and 6
additional
|
|
AI
|
3 functions, 1 in common and 2
additional
|
1 function | |
|
MCP
|
No
|
||
|
Open-source
|
Not applicable
|
Apache license 2.0. Partially
equivalent to the paid version
|
|
|
Provisioning as code
|
No
|
||
|
Deployment
|
SaaS (multi-tenant) +
on-premises (single-tenant)
|
||
| Regions |
No information available
|
||
|
Status
|
Yes
|
||
|
Incidents
|
No incidents
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Integrations
|
Attribute
|
Essential
|
Advanced
|
Aqua
|
|
SCM
|
None
|
||
|
Binary repositories
|
None
|
None
|
10
|
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Ticketing
|
3, 1 in common and 2 additional
|
1 in common
|
|
|
ChatOps
|
None |
None
|
1 |
|
IDE
|
3, 2 in common and 1 additional
|
14, 2 in common and 12 additional
|
|
|
CI/CD
|
21, 5 in common and 16 additional
|
5, all in common
|
|
|
SCA
|
Native powered by Trivy
|
||
|
Container
|
Native | ||
|
SAST
|
None
|
||
|
DAST
|
None
|
||
|
IAST
|
None |
None
|
None
|
|
Cloud
|
3, all in common
|
6, 3 in common and 3 additional
|
|
|
CSPM
|
Native and 2 integrations | ||
|
Secrets
|
Native
|
||
|
Remediation
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
|
Bug bounty
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
|
Vulnerability management
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
|
Compliance
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
The latest update to this comparison was on Dec 15, 2025. The primary source of information was
aquasec.com, which was supplemented by specialized information-gathering sites, social media, and other sources.
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