Prisma Cloud

How does Fluid Attacks' solution compare to Prisma Cloud'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.

This comparison focuses exclusively on the product itself, even though it belongs to a larger parent company. All information collected is based on the product’s technical, functional, and theoretical capabilities, not on attributes of the parent company.

Organization

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	Prisma Cloud
Focus	Native ASPM with in-house scanners	AI-powered PTaaS on top of native ASPM with in-house scanners	Cloud Native Application Product Platform (CNAPP)
Extras	None	None	AI Security Posture Management (AI-SPM), Cloud Discovery and Exposure Management, Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM), Cloud Workload Protection, Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) and Web Application & API Security
Headcount	143	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Headcount distribution	Engineering 42%, IT 13%, sales 13%, marketing 2%, operations 4% and others 26%	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Headcount growth	+8%, +10%, -8%	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Headquarters	CO and US	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Countries	AR, BO, CA, CL, CO, DO, MX, PA, PE and US	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Reputation	9.77 from 209 reviews over 7 years on Gartner and Clutch	Same	8.52 from 411 reviews over 8 years on Capterra, Gartner, PeerSpot and TrustRadius
Followers	20K based on the following: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X and YouTube	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Research firms	None	None	451 Research, Forrester, Frost & Sullivan, GigaOM, IDC, Info-Tech Research Group and Omdia
Founded	2001	Same	2019
Funding	Bootstrapped	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Acquisitions	None	None	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Revenue	10M to 15M	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
CVEs as CNA Researcher	276 CVEs reported to MITRE, ranked in the top 10 CVE labs worldwide	Same	284 CVEs reported to MITRE by Palo Alto Networks
Compliance	SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3	Same	CSA STAR Level 2, FedRAMP Authorized, IRAP, ISMAP, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017, ISO/IEC 27018, ISO/IEC 27032, ISO/IEC 27701, ISO/IEC 22301 and StateRAMP Authorized
Bug bounty	Yes	Yes	Yes
Visits	21K per month. Top 3: 26% CO, 8% FR, 7% US. Others 59%	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Authority	32 out of 100	Same	Indeterminable (no information for this product alone)
Public vulnerability DB	Discovered and third-party	Same	Palo Alto Networks - Third-party
Content	Blog, documentation, e-books, glossary, reports, success stories, videos, webinars and white papers	Same	Analysis report, documentation, guides, reports and webinars
Comprehensive documentation	13 documentation sections, 7 in common and 6 additional	Same	8 documentation sections, 7 in common and 1 additional
Community	Forum	Same	Forum by Palo Alto Networks
Sync training	1 workshop	Same	No
Async training	3 product use courses, all free	Same	Security education platform by Palo Alto Networks (subscription-based)
Distribution	Direct or with any of its 14 partners	Same	Direct or with any of its 18 partners
Marketplaces	AWS	Same	AWS, Azure, GCP and GitHub
Freemium	No	No	No
Free trial	21-day free trial	PoV	30-days free trial and PoV
Demo	Yes	Yes	Yes
Open demo	No	No	No
Pricing	Contact sales, marketplace and public web	Contact sales and public web	Contact sales and marketplaces
Pricing tiers	1 plan	1 plan	2 plans (Business, enterprise). All transparent
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	No information available
Minimum scope	1 author	Same	100 credits
Pricing drivers	Authors	Same	Credits
Minimum monthly payment	136 USD	564 USD	750 USD
Free implementation	Yes	Yes	No information available
Free support	Yes	Yes	Yes

Service

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	Prisma Cloud
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	Continuous zero-day vulnerability research by Palo Alto Networks
SLA	Availability	Accuracy, availability and response	Availability
Min availability	>=99.95% per minute LTM	Same	>=99.9% per month
After-sale guarantees	No	Yes	Yes
Accreditations	CNA and Penetration Testing by CREST	Same	AWS Outposts Ready Product, AWS Security Incident Response Ready, Containers ISV Competency, DevOps ISV Competency, Migration and Modernization ISV Competency, Networking ISV Competency, Security ISV Competency and CNA (as Palo Alto Networks)
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	40 standards, 17 in common and 23 additional
Detection method	Automated tools	Automated tools, AI and human intelligence	Automated tools and AI
Remediation	5, 3 in common and 2 additional	Same, plus 1	3, all in common
Outputs	5, 3 in common and 2 additional	Same, plus 2	4, 3 in common and 1 additional

Product

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	Prisma Cloud
ASPM	Yes	Yes	No
API	GraphQL with JSON	Same	REST with JSON
IDE	5 functionalities, 3 in common and 1 additional	Same, plus 1 functionality	3 functionalities, all in common
CLI	Yes	Yes	Yes
CI/CD	Breaks the build	Same	Breaks the build
Vulnerability sources	4 sources	Same	No information available
Threat model alignment	Yes	Yes	No
Priority criteria	CVSS v4.0, CVSSF, EPSS and KEV	Same	CVSS v3.1, EPSS and KEV
Custom prioritization	Priority score	Same	No
Scanner origin	In-house	In-house	In-house
SCA	23 package managers, 9 in common and 14 additional	Same	10 package managers, 9 in common and 1 additional
AI security	No	Yes	Yes
Reachability	12 languages	Same	No
Reachability type	Deterministic	Same	Not applicable
SBOM	22 package managers, 7 in common and 15 additional	Same	10 package managers, 7 in common and 3 additional
Malware detection	Yes	Yes	Yes
Autofix on components	No	No	No
Containers	4 distributions, 1 in common and 3 additional	Same	9 distributions, 1 in common and 8 additional
Source SAST (languages)	12, 8 in common and 4 additional	Same	12, 8 in common and 4 additional
Source SAST (frameworks)	22, none in common	Same	1
Custom rules	No	No	Runtime
IaC	6, 3 in common and 3 additional	4, 2 in common and 2 additional	6, 5 in common and 1 additional
Binary SAST	1 type of binary	Same, plus 2 types of binaries	1 type of binary
DAST	7 attack surface types	Same	No
API security testing	No	4 types of APIs, 3 in common and 1 additional	3 types of APIs, all in common
IAST	No	No	No
CSPM	Yes	Yes	Yes
ASM	No	No	No
Secrets	15 secrets types, 4 in common and 11 additional	Same, plus verify other attack vectors and secrets exploitability	13 secrets types, 4 in common and 9 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-2.0 license. Totally equivalent to the paid version	Not applicable	No
Provisioning as code	Yes	Yes	No
Deployment	SaaS (multi-tenant)	Same	SaaS (multi-tenant) + on-premises (single-tenant)
Regions	US	Same	AU, CA, CN, EU, FR, ID, IN, JP, SG, UK and US
Status	Yes	Yes	Yes
Incidents	4 per year	Same	22.8 per year

Integrations

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	Prisma Cloud
SCM	6, 4 in common and 2 additional	Same	4, all in common
Binary repositories	None	None	None
Ticketing	3, 1 in common and 2 additional	Same	1 in common
ChatOps	None	None	2
IDE	3, 2 in common and 1 additional	Same	15, 2 in common and 14 additional
CI/CD	21, 6 in common and 15 additional	Same	6, all in common
SCA	Native	Same	Native and 1 integration
Container	Native	Same	Native and 1 integration
SAST	Native	Same	Native
DAST	Native	Same	None
IAST	None	None	None
Cloud	3, all in common	Same	4, 3 in common and 1 additional
CSPM	Native	Same	Native and 4 integrations
Secrets	Native	Same	Native
Remediation	None	None	Native and 1 integration
Bug bounty	None	None	None
Vulnerability management	None	None	Native
Compliance	None	None	None

The latest update to this comparison was on Dec 11, 2025. The primary sources of information were paloaltonetworks.com and docs.prismacloud.io, which were supplemented by specialized information-gathering sites, social media, and other sources.

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