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How does Fluid Attacks' solution compare to Tenable Nessus'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	Tenable Nessus
Focus	Native ASPM with Built-In Scanners	AI-Powered PTaaS on top of Native ASPM with Built-In Scanners	Vulnerability scanner for networks, applications and IT systems
Extras	None	None	Attack surface management, DAST and IaC scanner
Employees	130	Same	2,207
Reputation	9.82 from 60 reviews over 6 years on Gartner and Clutch	Same	8.98 from 1048 reviews over 9 years on G2, Gartner, PeerSpot, Software Advice and TrustRadius
Followers	18K based on the following: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X and YouTube	Same	27K based on the following: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X and Youtube
Research Firms	None	None	Forrester, Frost & Sullivan, Info-Tech Research Group, Nucleus Research and Omdia
Founded	2001	Same	2002
Funding	Bootstrapped	Same	$565.4M USD in 5 rounds from 5 investors (9 acquisitions)
Revenue	5M to 10M	Same	500M to 1B
CVE	257 CVEs reported to MITRE, ranked in the top 10 CVE labs worldwide	Same	Pending
Compliance	SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3	Same	CSA STAR Level 1, FedRAMP Authorized, ISO/IEC 27001, NIAP, SOC 2, StateRAMP Authorized and PCI ASV
Documentation	Yes	Yes	Yes
Visits	27K per month. Top 3: 51% BR, 8% IN, 7% CO and others 34%	Same	999K per month. Top 3: 31% US, 10% JP, 10% IN and others 49%
Authority	32 out of 100	Same	53 out of 100
Distribution	Direct or with any of its 14 partners	Same	Direct or with any of its 433 partners
Marketplaces	AWS	Same	AWS and Azure
Freemium	No	No	No
Free trial	21-day free trial	PoV	7-day free trial and PoV
Demo	Yes	Yes	Yes
Pricing	Contact sales and marketplaces	Contact sales	Contact sales, marketplaces and public web
Pricing drivers	Groups	Authors	Virtual machines

Service

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	Tenable Nessus
PTaaS	No	Yes	No
Reverse engineering	No	Yes	No
Secure code review	No	Yes	No
Pivoting	No	Yes	No
Exploitation	No	Yes	Yes
Zero-day vulnerabilities	None	Continuous zero-day vulnerability research	Continuous zero-day vulnerability research
SLA	Availability	Accuracy, availability and response	Availability
Accreditations	CNA	Same	None
Hacker certifications	Not applicable	202 from 59 different types	Not applicable
Type of contract	Employee	Same	Employee
Standards	Some requirements from 65 standards, 11 in common and 54 additional	All requirements from the same standards	19 standards, 11 in common and 8 additional
Detection method	Automated tools	Automated tools, AI and human intelligence	Automated tools
Remediation	5, 1 in common and 4 additional	Same, plus 1	1 in common
Outputs	5, 3 in common and 2 additional	Same, plus 2	5, 3 in common and 2 additional

Product

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	Tenable Nessus
ASPM	Yes	Yes	No
IDE	5 functionalities	Same, plus 1 functionality	No
CLI	Yes	Yes	Yes
CI/CD	Breaks the build	Same	Breaks the build
SCA	24 package managers	Same	No
Reachability	5 languages	Same	No
SBOM	22 package managers	Same	No information available
Containers	4 distributions	Same	No
Source SAST (languages)	18, 3 in common and 15 additional	Same	5, 3 in common and 2 additional
Source SAST (frameworks)	22	Same	No information available
Binary SAST	1 type of binary	Same, plus 2 types of binaries	No
DAST	10 attack surface types, 8 in common and 2 additional	Same	11 attack surface types, 8 in common and 3 additional
IAST	No	No	No
CSPM	Yes	Yes	No
Secrets	15 secrets types	Same, plus verify other attack vectors and secrets exploitability	No
AI	3 functions	Same	No
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	AE, EU, BR, CA, EU, IL, IN, JP, KR, SG, UK and US
Status	Yes	Yes	Yes
Incidents	6 per year	Same	17.2 per year

Integrations

Attribute	Essential	Advanced	Tenable Nessus
SCM	4, 2 in common and 2 additional	Same	2, all in common
Binary repositories	None	None	None
Ticketing	3	Same	None
ChatOps	None	None	None
IDE	2	Same	None
CI/CD	20, 2 in common and 18 additional	Same	4, 2 in common and 2 additional
SCA	Native scanner	Same	None
Container	Native scanner	Same	None
SAST	Native scanner	Same	Native scanner
DAST	Native scanner	Same	Native scanner
IAST	None	None	None
Cloud	3, 2 in common and 1 additional	Same	2, all in common
CSPM	Native scanner	Same	None
Secrets	Native scanner	Same	None
Compliance	None	None	None

References were last checked on Mar 19, 2025.

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