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How does Fluid Attacks' solution compare to DataDog'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

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	DataDog
Focus	Native ASPM with in-house scanners	AI-powered PTaaS on top of native ASPM with in-house scanners	Application monitoring
Extras	None	None	App and API Protection, App builder, Cloudcraft, Cloud security, Cloud SIEM, Code security, Continuous testing, Event management, Incident response, Internal developer portal, LLM observability, Test optimization, Workflow Automation and Workload protection
Headcount	143	Same	10,357
Headcount Distribution	Engineering 42%, IT 13%, sales 13%, marketing 2%, operations 4% and others 26%	Same	Engineering 34%, IT 10%, sales 21%, marketing 2%, operations 3% and others 30%
Headcount Growth	+8%, +10%, -8%	Same	+12%, +31%, +79%
Headquarters	CO and US	Same	ES, IE, IT, FR, NL, UK, US and SE
Countries	AR, BO, CA, CL, CO, DO, MX, PA, PE and US	Same	FR and US
Reputation	9.77 from 209 reviews over 7 years on Gartner and Clutch	Same	8.91 from 1,263 reviews over 11 years on Capterra, G2, Gartner, PeerSpot and TrustRadius
Followers	20K based on the following: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X and YouTube	Same	620K based on the following: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X and YouTube
Research firms	None	None	451 Research, Everest Group, Forrester, Frost & Sullivan, Gartner, GigaOM, IDC, Info-Tech Research Group, Nucleus Research and Omdia
Founded	2001	Same	2010
Funding	Bootstrapped	Same	$1B USD in 9 rounds from 16 investors
Acquisitions	None	None	Acquired 0 times and made 16 acquisitions
Revenue	10M to 15M	Same	1B to 10B
CVEs as CNA Researcher	276 CVEs reported to MITRE, ranked in the top 10 CVE labs worldwide	Same	Not applicable, as it is not a CNA Researcher
Compliance	SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3	Same	CSA STAR Level 1, DORA, EU-US DPF, FedRAMP, HIPAA, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017, ISO/IEC 27018, ISO/IEC 27701, PCI DSS, SOC 2, SOC 2 Type I and TISAX
Bug Bounty	Yes	Yes	Yes
Visits	21K per month. Top 3: 26% CO, 8% FR, 7% US. Others 59%	Same	3.2M per month. Top 3: 39% US, 7% BR, 6% IN. Others 48%
Authority	32 out of 100	Same	52 out of 100
Public vulnerability DB	Discovered and third-party	Same	None
Content	Blog, documentation, e-books, glossary, reports, success stories, videos, webinars and white papers	Same	Blog, documentation, events, news and webinars
Comprehensive documentation	13 documentation sections, 2 in common and 11 additional	Same	7 documentation sections, 2 in common and 5 additional
Community	Forum	Same	Chat (slack)
Sync training	1 workshop	Same	No
Async training	3 product use courses, all free	Same	Security education platform (subscription based)
Distribution	Direct or with any of its 14 partners	Same	Direct or with any of its 1,161 partners
Marketplaces	AWS	Same	AWS, Azure, GCP and GitHub
Freemium	No	No	Yes
Free trial	21-day free trial	PoV	14-day free trial
Demo	Yes	Yes	Yes
Open Demo	No	No	No
Pricing	Contact sales, marketplace and public web	Contact sales and public web	Contact sales, marketplaces and public web
Pricing tiers	1 plan	1 plan	1 plan
Minimum term	Monthly	Monthly	Monthly
Minimum payment period	Monthly	Monthly	Monthly
Minimum capabilities	ASPM, binary SAST, containers, CSPM, DAST, IaC, SAST, SCA and secrets	Same plus: API security testing, PTaaS, RE and SCR	IAST, SAST, dynamic SCA and run-time SCA
Minimum scope	1 author	Same	1 developer
Pricing drivers	Authors	Same	Developers
Minimum monthly payment	143 USD	592 USD	40 USD
Free implementation	Yes	Yes	No
Free support	Yes	Yes	No

Service

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	DataDog
PTaaS	No	Yes	No
Reverse engineering	No	Yes	No
Secure code review	No	Yes	No
Pivoting	No	Yes	No
Exploitation	No	Yes	No
Manual reattacks	Not applicable	Unlimited reattacks	Not applicable
Zero-day vulnerabilities	None	Continuous zero-day vulnerability research	None
SLA	Availability	Accuracy, availability and response	Availability and support
Min availability	>=99.95% per minute LTM	Same	>= 99.8% per month
After-sale guarantees	No	Yes	Yes
Accreditations	CNA and Penetration testing by CREST	Same	None
Hacker certifications	Not applicable	202 from 59 different types	Not applicable
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, 17 in common and 50 additional	All requirements from the same standards	26 standards, 17 in common and 9 additional
Detection method	Automated tools	Automated tools, AI and human intelligence	Automated tools and AI
Remediation	5, 4 in common and 1 additional	Same, plus 1	4, all in common
Outputs	5, 2 in common and 3 additional	Same, plus 2	9, 2 in common and 7 additional

Product

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	DataDog
ASPM	Yes	Yes	No
API	GraphQL with JSON	Same	REST with JSON
IDE	5 functionalities, 2 in common and 3 additional	Same, plus 1 functionality	3 functionalities, 2 in common and 1 additional
CLI	Yes	Yes	Yes
CI/CD	Breaks the build	Same	Breaks the build
Vulnerability sources	4 sources, 2 in common and 2 additional	Same	3 sources, 2 in common and 1 additional
Threat model alignment	Yes	Yes	No
Priority criteria	CVSS v4.0, CVSSF, EPSS and KEV	Same	CVSS 4, EPSS and KEV
Custom prioritization	Priority score	Same	No
Scanner origin	In-house	In-house	In-house
SCA	23 package managers, 11 in common and 12 additional	Same	14 package managers, 11 in common and 3 additional
AI security	No	Yes	Yes
Reachability	12 languages	Same	No
Reachability type	Deterministic	Same	Not applicable
SBOM	22 package managers, 11 in common and 11 additional	Same	13 package managers, 11 in common and 2 additional
Malware detection	Yes	Yes	Yes
Autofix on components	No	No	No
Containers	4 distributions, 3 in common and 1 additional	Same	16 distributions, 3 in common and 13 additional
Source SAST (languages)	12, 9 in common and 3 additional	Same	10, 9 in common and 1 additional
Source SAST (frameworks)	22	Same	No information available
Custom rules	No	No	Compliance rules
IaC	6, 3 in common and 3 additional	4	3, all in common
Binary SAST	1 type of binary	Same, plus 2 types of binaries	No
DAST	7 attack surface types	Same	No
API security testing	No	4 types of APIs, 1 in common and 3 additional	1 type of API
IAST	No	No	Yes. No information available
CSPM	Yes	Yes	Yes
ASM	No	No	No
Secrets	15 secrets types, 5 in common and 10 additional	Same, plus verify other attack vectors and secrets exploitability	7 secrets types, 5 in common and 2 additional
AI	3 functions, 2 in common and 1 additional	Same	3 functions, 2 in common and 1 additional
MCP	Yes	Yes	Yes
Open-source	MPL-2 license, totally equivalent to the paid version	Not applicable	No
Provisioning as Code	Yes	Yes	No
Deployment	SaaS	Same	SaaS and on-premises
Regions	US	Same	AP, EU and US
Status	Yes	Yes	Yes
Incidents	4 per year	Same	3 per year

Integrations

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	DataDog
SCM	6, 4 in common and 2 additional	Same	4, all in common
Binary repositories	None	None	9
Ticketing	3, all in common	Same	7, 3 in common and 4 additional
ChatOps	None	None	4
IDE	3, all in common	Same	7, 3 in common and 4 additional
CI/CD	21, 13 in common and 8 additional	Same	21, 13 in common and 8 additional
SCA	Native	Same	Native and 5 integrations
Container	Native	Same	18
SAST	Native	Same	Native and 2 integrations
DAST	Native	Same	1
IAST	None	None	Native and 1 integration
Cloud	3, all in common	Same	Native and 6 integrations
CSPM	Native	Same	Native and 14 integrations
Secrets	Native	Same	5
Remediation	None	None	2
Bug bounty	None	None	None
Vulnerability management	None	None	3
Compliance	None	None	1

References were last checked on Dec 03, 2025.

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