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How does Fluid Attacks' solution compare to Mend'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	Mend
Focus	Native ASPM with Built-In Scanners	AI-Powered PTaaS on top of Native ASPM with Built-In Scanners	Built-In Scanners
Extras	None	None	None
Employees	130	Same	289
Reputation	9.82 from 60 reviews over 6 years on Gartner and Clutch	Same	8.78 from 185 reviews over 9 years on G2, Gartner and PeerSpot
Followers	18K based on the following: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X and YouTube	Same	46K based on the following: Facebook, LinkedIn, X and YouTube
Research Firms	None	None	Forrester, Frost & Sullivan, Gartner, IDC and Omdia
Founded	2001	Same	2011
Funding	Bootstrapped	Same	$121.2M USD in 5 rounds from 8 investors (3 acquisitions)
Revenue	5M to 10M	Same	1M to 100M
CVE	257 CVEs reported to MITRE, ranked in the top 10 CVE labs worldwide	Same	150 CVEs reported to MITRE
Compliance	SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3	Same	ISO/IEC 27001 and SOC 2 Type II
Documentation	Yes	Yes	Yes
Visits	26K per month. Top 3: 36% MY, 33% CO, 5% IN and others 26%	Same	67K per month. Top 3: 35% PA, 13% CN, 5% KR and others 47%
Authority	31 out of 100	Same	43 out of 100
Distribution	Direct or with any of its 14 partners	Same	Direct or with any of its 64 partners
Marketplaces	AWS	Same	AWS and Azure
Freemium	No	No	No
Free trial	21-day free trial	PoV	PoV
Demo	Yes	Yes	Yes
Pricing	Contact sales and marketplace	Contact sales	Contact sales, marketplaces and public web
Pricing drivers	Groups	Authors	Developers

Service

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	Mend
PTaaS	No	Yes	No
Reverse engineering	No	Yes	No
Secure code review	No	Yes	No
Pivoting	No	Yes	No
Exploitation	No	Yes	No
Zero-day vulnerabilities	None	Continuous zero-day vulnerability research	Continuous zero-day vulnerability research
SLA	Availability	Accuracy, availability and response	Availability and support
Accreditations	CNA and Penetration Testing by CREST	Same	CNA
Hacker certifications	Not applicable	202 from 59 different types	Not applicable
Type of contract	Employee	Same	Employee
Standards	Some requirements from 65 standards, 8 in common and 57 additional	All requirements from the same standards	8 standards, all in common
Detection method	Automated tools	Automated tools, AI and human intelligence	Automated tools
Remediation	5, 4 in common and 1 additional	Same, plus 1	4, all in common
Outputs	5, 4 in common and 1 additional	Same, plus 2	9, 4 in common and 5 additional

Product

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	Mend
ASPM	Yes	Yes	No
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
SCA	24 package managers, 10 in common and 8 additional	Same	10 package managers, all in common
Reachability	12 languages, 3 in common and 9 additional	Same	3 languages, all in common
SBOM	22 package managers, 8 in common and 14 additional	Same	10 package managers, 8 in common and 2 additional
Containers	4 distributions, all in common	Same	14 distributions, 4 in common and 10 additional
Source SAST (languages)	18, 11 in common and 7 additional	Same, plus 4	26 languages, 11 in common and 15 additional
Source SAST (frameworks)	22, 1 in common and 21 additional	Same	2, 1 in common and 1 additional
Binary SAST	1 type of binary, none in common	Same, plus 2 types of binaries	4 types of binaries, none in common
DAST	10 attack surface types	Same	No
IAST	No	No	No
CSPM	Yes	Yes	No
Secrets	15 secrets types, 4 in common and 11 additional	Same, plus verify other attack vectors and secrets exploitability	21 secrets types, 4 in common and 17 additional
AI	3 functions, 1 in common and 2 additional	Same	1 function in common
Open source	MPL-2.0 license. Totally equivalent to the paid version	Not applicable	No
Deployment	SaaS	Same	SaaS and on-premises
Regions	US	Same	EU and IL
Status	Yes	Yes	Yes
Incidents	6 per year	Same	1.2 per year

Integrations

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	Mend
SCM	4	Same	4, all in common
Binary repositories	None	None	5
Ticketing	3, 1 in common and 2 additional	Same	1 in common
ChatOps	None	None	1
IDE	2, all in common	Same	7, 2 in common and 5 additional
CI/CD	20, 9 in common and 11 additional	Same	9, all in common
SCA	Native scanner	Same	Native scanner and 1 integration
Container	Native scanner	Same	Native scanner
SAST	Native scanner	Same	Native scanner and 1 integration
DAST	Native scanner	Same	2
IAST	None	None	None
Cloud	3	Same	None
CSPM	Native scanner	Same	None
Secrets	Native scanner	Same	Native scanner
Compliance	None	None	None

References were last checked on Apr 11, 2025.

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