Comparison between Fluid Attacks and Mend | Fluid Attacks

Mend

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
AI-Powered PTaaS on top of Native ASPM with In-house scanners
Extras
None
None
 None
Headcount

290

Headcount distribution
Headcount growth
Headquarters
Countries
 CO and US
IL and US
Reputation
9.79 from 161 reviews over 7 years on Gartner and Clutch
Same
8.84 from 198 reviews over 10 years on G2, Gartner and PeerSpot
Followers
20K based on the following: FacebookInstagramLinkedInX and YouTube
Same
47K based on the following: FacebookLinkedInX and YouTube
Research Firms
None
None
Founded
2001
Funding
Bootstrapped
Same
$121.2M USD in 5 rounds from 8 investors
Acquisitions
None
None
Acquired 0 times and made 3 acquisitions
Revenue
1M to 100M
CVE
257 CVEs reported to MITRE, ranked in the top 10 CVE labs worldwide
150 CVEs reported to MITRE
Compliance
Bug bounty
Visits
19K per month. Top 3: 50% NL, 17% CO, 6% US and others 27%
71K per month. Top 3: 15% US, 14% IN, 11% CN and others 60%
Authority
Vulnerability database
None
Content
Knowledge base
13 KB sections, 6 in common and 7 additional
6 KB sections, all in common
Community
No
Sync training
No
No
No
Async training
No
Distribution
Direct or with any of its 14 partners
Same
Direct or with any of its 64 partners
Marketplaces AWS and Azure
Freemium
No
No
No
Free trial
Demo
Pricing
Pricing tiers
1 plan
Minimum commit
Minimum payment period
Minimum capabilities
Same plus: PTaaS, RE and SCR
Minimum scope
Pricing drivers
Minimum monthly payment

Service
Attribute
Essential
Advanced
Mend
PTaaS
No
No
Reverse engineering
No
Yes No
Secure code review
No
No
Pivoting
No
No
Exploitation
No
No
Manual reattacks
Not applicable
Not applicable
Zero-day vulnerabilities
None
Continuous zero-day vulnerability research
Continuous zero-day vulnerability research
SLA
Availability and support
Min availability
>=99.95% per minute LTM
>= 99.5% per year
After-sale guarantees
No
Yes
No
Accreditations
Hacker certifications
Not applicable
Not applicable
Type of contract
Employee
Same
Endpoint control
Not applicable
Total
Not applicable
Channel control
Not applicable
Total
Not applicable
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
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
No
API
IDE
functionalities, 2 in common and 3 additional
Same, plus 1 functionality
3 functionalities, 2 in common and 1 additional
CLI
CI/CD
Vulnerability sources
4 sources, 1 in common and 3 additional
2 sources, 1 in common and 1 additional
Priority criteria
CVSS v4.0, CVSSF, EPSS and KEV
Custom prioritization
No
Scanner origin
SCA
24 package managers, 10 in common and 8 additional
10 package managers, all in common
AI security
No
Reachability
12 languages, 3 in common and 9 additional
3 languages, all in common
Reachability type
SBOM
22 package managers, 8 in common and 14 additional
10 package managers, 8 in common and 2 additional
Malware detection
Yes
Yes
Autofix on components
No
No
Containers
distributions, all in common
14 distributions, 4 in common and 10 additional
Source SAST (languages)
12, 11 in common and 1 additional
26 languages, 11 in common and 15 additional
Source SAST (frameworks)
22, 1 in common and 21 additional
2, 1 in common and 1 additional
Custom rules
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, none in common
Same, plus 2 types of binaries
4 types of binaries, none in common
DAST

No

API security testing
No
No
IAST
No
No
No
CSPM
Yes
No
Environments
Left & Right (included)
Same
ASM
No
No
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
functions, 1 in common and 3 additional
1 function in common
Open-source
Not applicable
No
Provisioning as Code
Yes
No
Deployment
Regions
Status
Incidents

Integrations
Attribute
Essential
Advanced
Mend
SCM
4, all in common
Binary repositories
None
None
Ticketing
3, 1 in common and 2 additional

1 in common

ChatOps
None
None

1

IDE
2, all in common

7, 2 in common and 5 additional

CI/CD
20, 9 in common and 11 additional
9, all in common
SCA
Container

Native

SAST
DAST

2

IAST
None
None
None
Cloud
3
None
CSPM
None
Secrets
Remediation
None
None
None
Bug bounty
None
None
Vulnerability management
None
None
None
Compliance
None
None
None

Notes
 References were last checked on Aug 28, 2025.
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