Tenable Nessus
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.
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
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Attribute
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Essential
|
Advanced
|
Tenable
Nessus
|
|
Focus
|
Vulnerability scanner for networks,
applications and IT systems
|
||
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Extras
|
None
|
None
|
Attack surface management, DAST and IaC
scanner
|
|
Headcount
|
Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) | ||
| Headcount distribution |
Engineering 42%, IT 13%, sales 13%,
marketing 2%, operations 4% and others 26%
|
Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) | |
| Headcount growth |
+8%, +10%, -8%
|
Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) | |
|
Headquarters
|
CO and US
|
Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) | |
|
Countries
|
AR, BO, CA, CL, CO, DO, MX, PA, PE and
US
|
Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) | |
|
Reputation
|
Same
|
9.01 from 1126 reviews over 10 years on
G2, Gartner, PeerSpot, Software Advice and TrustRadius
|
|
|
Followers
|
Same
|
Indeterminable (no information for this
product alone)
|
|
| Research firms |
None
|
None
|
Forrester, Frost & Sullivan,
Info-Tech Research Group and Omdia
|
|
Founded
|
2001 |
1998
|
|
|
Funding
|
Bootstrapped
|
Same
|
No information available
|
|
Acquisitions
|
None
|
None
|
Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) |
|
Revenue
|
10M to 15M
|
Indeterminable (no information for this product alone) | |
| CVEs as CNA Researcher |
Not applicable, as it is not a CNA
Researcher
|
||
|
Compliance
|
SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3
|
StateRAMP Authorized
|
|
| Bug bounty |
No
|
||
|
Visits
|
21K
per month. Top 3: 26% CO, 8% FR, 7% US. Others 59%
|
Indeterminable (no information for this
product alone)
|
|
|
Authority
|
Indeterminable (no information for this
product alone)
|
||
| Public vulnerability DB |
Discovered and third-party
|
Tenable - Third-party
|
|
|
Content
|
Same
|
Blog, customer stories, data sheets,
documentation, infographics, glossary, guides, podcast, reports, webinars and white
papers<br/>
|
|
| Comprehensive documentation |
13 documentation sections, 7 in common
and 6 additional
|
7 documentation sections, all in common
|
|
|
Community
|
Forum by Tenable
|
||
|
Sync training
|
1 workshop
|
No
|
|
|
Async training
|
3 product use courses, all free
|
5 product use courses by Tenable (all
with paid with certification)
|
|
|
Distribution
|
Same
|
Direct or with any of its 430 partners
|
|
| Marketplaces | AWS and Azure | ||
|
Freemium
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
|
Free trial
|
7-day free trial and PoV
|
||
|
Demo
|
Yes
|
||
| Open demo |
No
|
No
|
No
|
|
Pricing
|
Contact sales, marketplaces and public
web
|
||
|
Pricing tiers
|
1 plan
|
1 plan
|
2 plans (professional, expert). All
transparent
|
|
Minimum term
|
Annually
|
||
|
Minimum payment period
|
Annually
|
||
|
Minimum capabilities
|
ASPM, binary SAST, containers, CSPM, DAST, IaC, SAST, SCA and
secrets
|
Same plus: API
security testing, PTaaS, RE and SCR
|
Vulnerability scanner for networks,
applications and IT systems
|
|
Minimum scope
|
1 author
|
No information available
|
|
|
Pricing drivers
|
Virtual machines
|
||
|
Minimum monthly payment
|
413.58 USD
|
||
|
Free implementation
|
Yes
|
||
|
Free support
|
No
|
Service
|
Attribute
|
Essential
|
Advanced
|
Tenable Nessus
|
|
PTaaS
|
No
|
No
|
|
|
Reverse engineering
|
No
|
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 | ||
|
Min availability
|
>=99.95% per minute LTM
|
>= 99.95% per month
|
|
|
After-sale guarantees
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
|
Accreditations
|
Amazon Linux Ready Product, AWS Graviton Ready Product, DevOps ISV Competency and Security ISV Competency (as Tenable) | ||
|
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, 10 in common and 57
additional
|
All requirements from the same standards
|
20 standards, 10 in common and 10
additional
|
|
Detection method
|
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
|
No
|
||
|
API
|
REST with JSON
|
||
|
IDE
|
Same, plus 1 functionality
|
No
|
|
|
CLI
|
Yes
|
||
|
CI/CD
|
Breaks the build
|
||
|
Vulnerability sources
|
4 sources, 1 in common and 3 additional
|
2 sources, 1 in common and 1 additional
|
|
|
Threat model alignment
|
No
|
||
| Priority criteria |
CCSS, CVSS v2.0, CVSS v3.0, CVSS v4.0,
EPSS, KEV and VPR
|
||
|
Custom prioritization
|
Asset criticality rating
|
||
|
Scanner origin
|
In-house
|
||
|
SCA
|
No
|
||
|
AI security
|
No
|
No
|
|
|
Reachability
|
12 languages
|
No
|
|
|
Reachability type
|
Not applicable
|
||
|
SBOM
|
Yes. No information available
|
||
|
Malware detection
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes. Only for OSs
|
|
Autofix on components
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
|
Containers
|
No
|
||
|
Source SAST
(languages)
|
No
|
||
|
Source SAST
(frameworks)
|
No
|
||
|
Custom rules
|
No
|
No
|
Plugins
|
|
IaC
|
6, 3 in common and 3 additional
|
4, 1 in common and 3 additional
|
4, all in common
|
|
Binary SAST
|
1 type of binary
|
Same, plus 2 types of binaries
|
No
|
|
DAST
|
7 attack surface types, 6 in common and
1 additional
|
7 attack surface types, 6 in common
and 1 additional
|
|
|
API security Testing
|
No
|
4 types of APIs
|
|
|
IAST
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
|
CSPM
|
Yes |
No
|
|
|
ASM
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
|
Secrets
|
Same, plus verify other attack vectors
and secrets exploitability
|
No
|
|
|
AI
|
No
|
||
|
MCP
|
No
|
||
|
Open-source
|
MPL-2.0 license, totally equivalent to the paid version |
Not applicable
|
No
|
| Provisioning as code |
No
|
||
|
Deployment
|
SaaS + on-premises (no tenancy
information)
|
||
| Regions |
AE, EU, BR, CA, EU, IL, IN, JP, KR, SG,
UK and US
|
||
|
Status
|
Yes
|
||
|
Incidents
|
18.3 per year
|
Integrations
|
Attribute
|
Essential
|
Advanced
|
Tenable Nessus
|
|
SCM
|
6, 2 in common and 4 additional
|
2, all in common
|
|
|
Binary repositories
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
|
Ticketing
|
None
|
||
|
ChatOps
|
None |
None
|
None |
|
IDE
|
None
|
||
|
CI/CD
|
21, 2 in common and 19 additional
|
4, 2 in common and 2 additional
|
|
|
SCA
|
None
|
||
|
Container
|
None | ||
|
SAST
|
None
|
||
|
DAST
|
Native
|
||
|
IAST
|
None |
None
|
None
|
|
Cloud
|
3, 2 in common and 1 additional
|
2, all in common
|
|
|
CSPM
|
None | ||
|
Secrets
|
None
|
||
|
Remediation
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
| Bug bounty |
None
|
None
|
1 |
|
Vulnerability management
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
|
Compliance
|
None
|
None
|
None
|
The latest update to this comparison was on Dec 11, 2025. The primary sources of information
were tenable.com and docs.tenable.com, which were supplemented by specialized
information-gathering sites, social media, and other sources.
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