VulniosvsOpenVAS
An OpenVAS alternative without the self-hosting burden.
OpenVAS / Greenbone Community Edition is the most-trusted free vulnerability scanner — but you have to run it yourself: VM provisioning, NVT feed updates, scan tuning, false-positive triage. Vulnios orchestrates OpenVAS as 1 of 48 engines (alongside Trivy, Nuclei, Nmap, ZAP, etc.), layers EPSS+KEV prioritization on top, bundles dark web + OSINT + reporting, and hosts everything. Still free.
OpenVAS pricing
Free (self-hosted) or $7K+ / year (Greenbone appliance)
Vulnios pricing
$0 forever, hosted, no infrastructure
SOC 2 Type II
Certified
Uptime SLA
99.9 %
Scan engines
48 orchestrated
Auth
RBAC + MFA
Vulnios vs OpenVAS — feature by feature
Capability
OpenVAS
Vulnios
Permanent free tier
Yes (self-hosted only)
Yes (hosted, full platform)
Hosted (no infrastructure)
No (Greenbone appliance is $7K+)
Yes
Time to first scan
Hours (VM + feeds + tuning)
Under 90 seconds
Scan engines orchestrated
1 (OpenVAS itself)
48 (incl. OpenVAS)
EPSS + KEV prioritization
Manual
Built in
NVT / feed updates
Manual or paid feed
Continuous (operator)
Dark web monitoring
No
Built in
OSINT investigations
No
Built in (72-engine)
Penetration testing tools
Bring your own
11 tools (Nmap, Nikto, SQLMap, ZAP…)
Executive PDF / DOCX reports
Greenbone enterprise feature
PDF, DOCX, JSON, CSV (free)
Multi-user / RBAC
Manual config
Yes (RBAC + MFA)
Multi-tenant for MSSPs
No
Native
SOC 2 Type II
You operate it
Yes (Vulnios is the operator)
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No credit card required · Permanent free tier · SOC 2 Type II · 99.9 % uptime SLA