Nucleus Security
How does Fluid Attacks' solution compare to Nucleus'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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Nucleus
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Focus
|
Vulnerability management
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||
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Extras
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None
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None
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None
|
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Headcount
|
103 | ||
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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 23%, IT 16%, sales 14%,
marketing 5%, operations 3% and others 39%
|
|
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Headcount growth
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+8%, +10%, -8%
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+7%, +11%, +39%
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Headquarters
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CO and US
|
US | |
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Countries
|
AR, BO, CA, CL, CO, DO, MX, PA, PE and
US
|
US
|
|
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Reputation
|
Same
|
9.02 from 35 reviews over 4 years on G2
and Gartner
|
|
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Followers
|
Same
|
15K based on the following: Facebook,
LinkedIn, X and YouTube
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|
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Research firms
|
None
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None
|
Omdia
|
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Founded
|
2001 |
2018
|
|
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Funding
|
Bootstrapped
|
Same
|
$36.4M USD in 4 rounds from 4 investors
|
|
Acquisitions
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
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Revenue
|
10M to 15M
|
1M to 10M
|
|
| CVEs as CNA Researcher |
Not applicable, as it is not a CNA
Researcher
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||
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Compliance
|
SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3
|
FedRAMP Authorized and SOC2 Type II | |
|
Bug bounty
|
Yes
|
||
|
Visits
|
21K
per month. Top 3: 26% CO, 8% FR, 7% US. Others 59%
|
7K per month. Top 3: 53% US, 12% NO, 6%
BE. Others 29%
|
|
|
Authority
|
31 out of 100
|
||
| Public vulnerability DB |
Discovered and third-party
|
Third-party
|
|
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Content
|
Same
|
Blog, customer stories, data sheets,
documentation, e-books, guides, reports, videos, webinars and white papers
|
|
| Comprehensive documentation |
13 documentation sections, 3 in common
and 10 additional
|
5 documentation sections, 3 in common
and 2 additional
|
|
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Community
|
No
|
||
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Sync training
|
1 workshop
|
No
|
|
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Async training
|
3 product use courses, all free
|
No
|
|
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Distribution
|
Same
|
Direct or with any of its 18 partners
|
|
| Marketplaces | AWS and GCP | ||
|
Freemium
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
|
Free trial
|
30-day free trial
|
||
|
Demo
|
Yes
|
||
|
Open demo
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
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Pricing
|
Contact sales and marketplaces
|
||
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Pricing tiers
|
1 plan
|
1 plan
|
No plans
|
|
Minimum term
|
Per purchase order
|
||
|
Minimum payment period
|
Per purchase order
|
||
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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
|
ASOC
|
|
Minimum scope
|
1 author
|
No information available
|
|
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Pricing drivers
|
Assets
|
||
|
Minimum monthly payment
|
No information available
|
||
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Free implementation
|
No information available
|
||
|
Free support
|
No
|
Service
|
Attribute
|
Essential
|
Advanced
|
Nucleus
|
|
PTaaS
|
No
|
No
|
|
|
Reverse engineering
|
No
|
No | |
|
Secure code review
|
No
|
No
|
|
|
Pivoting
|
No
|
No
|
|
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Exploitation
|
No
|
No
|
|
|
Manual reattacks
|
Not applicable
|
Not applicable
|
|
|
Zero-day
vulnerabilities
|
None
|
Continuous zero-day vulnerability research
|
None
|
|
SLA
|
Response | ||
|
Minimum availability
|
>=99.95% per minute LTM
|
No information available
|
|
|
After-sale guarantees
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Accreditations
|
None
|
||
|
Hacker certifications
|
Not applicable
|
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, 4 in common and 63
additional
|
All requirements from the same standards
|
4 standards, all in common
|
|
Detection method
|
Automated tools, AI and human intelligence
|
Automated tools and AI
|
|
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Remediation
|
5, 2 in common and 3 additional
|
Same, plus 1
|
2, all in common
|
|
Outputs
|
5, 2 in common and 3
additional
|
Same, plus 2
|
4, 2 in common and 2 additional
|
Product
|
Attribute
|
Essential |
Advanced
|
Nucleus
|
|
ASPM
|
No
|
||
|
API
|
REST API with JSON
|
||
|
IDE
|
Same, plus 1 functionality
|
No
|
|
|
CLI
|
No
|
||
|
CI/CD
|
Does not breaks the build
|
||
|
Vulnerability sources
|
4 sources
|
None
|
|
|
Threat model alignment
|
No
|
||
|
Priority criteria
|
CVSS 4.0
|
||
|
Custom prioritization
|
Risk score
|
||
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Scanner origin
|
None
|
||
|
SCA
|
No
|
||
|
AI security
|
No
|
No
|
|
|
Reachability
|
12 languages
|
No
|
|
|
Reachability type
|
Not applicable
|
||
|
SBOM
|
No
|
||
|
Malware detection
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
|
Autofix on components
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
|
Containers
|
No
|
||
|
Source SAST
(languages)
|
No
|
||
|
Source SAST
(frameworks)
|
No
|
||
|
Custom rules
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
|
IaC
|
No
|
||
|
Binary SAST
|
1 type of binary
|
Same, plus 2 types of binaries
|
No
|
|
DAST
|
No
|
||
|
API security testing
|
No
|
No
|
|
|
IAST
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
|
CSPM
|
Yes |
No
|
|
|
ASM
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
|
Secrets
|
Same, plus verify other attack vectors
and secrets exploitability
|
No
|
|
|
AI
|
3 functions, 1 in common and 2
additional
|
2 functions, 1 in common and 1
additional
|
|
|
MCP
|
Yes
|
||
|
Open-source
|
Not applicable
|
No
|
|
|
Provisioning as code
|
No
|
||
|
Deployment
|
SaaS (multi-tenant)
|
||
| Regions |
AU, EU, UK and US
|
||
|
Status
|
Yes
|
||
|
Incidents
|
5.7 per year
|
Integrations
|
Attribute
|
Essential
|
Advanced
|
Nucleus
|
|
SCM
|
6, 3 in common and 3 additional
|
3, all in common
|
|
|
Binary repositories
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
|
Ticketing
|
3, all in common
|
8, 3 in common and 5 additional
|
|
|
ChatOps
|
None |
None
|
2 |
|
IDE
|
None
|
||
|
CI/CD
|
21, 4 in common and 17 additional
|
5, 4 in common and 1 additional
|
|
|
SCA
|
10
|
||
|
Container
|
9 | ||
|
SAST
|
11
|
||
|
DAST
|
10
|
||
|
IAST
|
None |
None
|
None
|
|
Cloud
|
None
|
||
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CSPM
|
8 | ||
|
Secrets
|
6
|
||
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Remediation
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
|
Bug bounty
|
None
|
None
|
3
|
|
Vulnerability management
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
|
Compliance
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
The latest update to this comparison was on Dec 15, 2025. The primary sources of information
were nucleussec.com and help.nucleussec.com, which were supplemented by specialized
information-gathering sites, social media, and other sources.
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