Comparison between Fluid Attacks and Tenable Nessus | Fluid Attacks

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.

Organization
Attribute
Essential
Advanced
Tenable Nessus 
Focus
AI-Powered PTaaS on top of Native ASPM with Built-In Scanners
Extras
None
None
Headcount

2,345

Headcount distribution
Headcount growth
Headquarters
Countries
CO and US
AEAUBRCACNDEFRHKIDIEILINJPKRMY, NLNZ, SG, TWUK and US
Reputation
9.79 from 161 reviews over 6 years on Gartner and Clutch
Same
9.01 from 1116 reviews over 10 years on G2, Gartner, PeerSpot, Software Advice and TrustRadius
Followers
20K based on the following: Facebook, InstagramLinkedInX and YouTube
Same
293K based on the following: FacebookInstagram, LinkedInX and Youtube
Research Firms
None
None
Founded
2001
Funding
Bootstrapped
Same
$565.4M USD in 5 rounds from 5 investors
Acquisitions
None
None
Acquired 0 times and made 10 acquisitions
Revenue
CVE
257 CVEs reported to MITRE, ranked in the top 10 CVE labs worldwide
Not applicable
Compliance
Bug bounty
No
Visits
26K per month. Top 3: 36% MY, 33% CO, 5% IN and others 26%
1M per month. Top 3: 38% US, 6% CN, 5% IN and others 51%
Authority
Vulnerability database
Content
Knowledge base
13 KB sections, 7 in common and 6 additional
KB sections, all in common
Community
Sync training
No
Async training
9 product use courses with certification (paid) and 8 product use courses (free)
Distribution
Direct or with any of its 14 partners
Same
Direct or with any of its 430 partners
Marketplaces AWS and Azure
Freemium
No
No
No
Free trial
Demo
Open Demo
No
No
No
Pricing
Pricing tiers
2 plans (professional, expert). All transparent
Minimum term
Monthly
Minimum payment period
Minimum capabilities
Same plus: PTaaS, RE and SCR
Minimum scope
No information available
Pricing drivers
Minimum monthly payment
No information available

Service
Attribute
Essential
Advanced
Tenable Nessus
PTaaS
No
No
Reverse engineering
No
Yes No
Secure code review
No
No
Pivoting
No
No
Exploitation
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
No
No
Accreditations
Amazon Linux Ready Product, AWS Graviton Ready Product, DevOps ISV Competency and Security ISV Competency
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 67 standards, 10 common and 57 additional
All requirements from the same standards
20 standards, 10 in common and 10 additional
Detection method
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
No
API
GraphQL with JSON
IDE
Same, plus 1 functionality
No
CLI
CI/CD
Vulnerability sources
4 sources, 1 in common and 3 additional
2 sources, 1 in common and 1 additional
Threat model alignment
Yes
No
Priority criteria
Same
Custom prioritization
Scanner origin
SCA
No
AI security
No
No
Reachability
No
Reachability type
Not applicable
SBOM
No information available
Malware detection
Yes
Yes
Autofix on components
No
No
No
Containers
No
Source SAST
(languages)
No
Source SAST
(frameworks)

No

Custom rules
No
No
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
API security Testing
No
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
Regions
AE, EU, BR, CA, EU, IL, IN, JP, KR, SG, UK and US
Status
Incidents

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
20, 2 in common and 18 additional
4, 2 in common and 2 additional
SCA

None

Container

None

SAST
DAST
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

Notes
 References were last checked on Oct 08, 2025.


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