VulniosvsTenable
A Tenable alternative that costs $0 to start.
Tenable Nessus Pro is $4,790/year for one user — and it's a single-engine scanner. Vulnios orchestrates 48 OSS scan engines, layers EPSS + KEV prioritization, and bundles 10 cybersecurity modules under one SOC 2 Type II login. Free forever.
Tenable pricing
$4,790 / year per user (Nessus Pro)
Vulnios pricing
$0 forever, no credit card
SOC 2 Type II
Certified
Uptime SLA
99.9 %
Scan engines
48 orchestrated
Auth
RBAC + MFA
Vulnios vs Tenable — feature by feature
Capability
Tenable
Vulnios
Permanent free tier (no credit card)
No
Yes — full platform
Pricing transparency
Public list price
Public list price
Starting price
$4,790 / yr per user
$0 / month forever
Scan engines orchestrated
1 (proprietary)
48 (ClamAV, YARA, Trivy, Semgrep, Nuclei, Nmap…)
EPSS + KEV prioritization
Add-on (Tenable Vulnerability Intelligence)
Built in to Vulnerability Radar
Dark web monitoring
Separate product
Built in
OSINT investigations
No
Built in (72-engine enrichment)
Penetration testing tools
No
11 tools (Nmap, Nikto, SQLMap, ZAP, Nuclei…)
Executive PDF / DOCX reports
PDF only
PDF, DOCX, JSON, CSV
Multi-tenant for MSSPs
Tenable Security Center add-on
Native
Time to first scan
Days (procurement + install)
< 90 seconds
SOC 2 Type II
Yes
Yes
99.9 % uptime SLA
Enterprise tier
All tiers
Air-gapped / USB scanning
Tenable Nessus offline (manual)
Hybrid Workers (built in)
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No credit card required · Permanent free tier · SOC 2 Type II · 99.9 % uptime SLA