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Invicti Web + API (formerly Acunetix) vs Nessus Comparison (2026)

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Invicti Web + API (formerly Acunetix)

Nessus logo

Nessus

Overview

Cyber security solution that scans your website, detects vulnerabilities like XSS or SQL Injection and offers solutions.

Nessus is a cloud-based vulnerability assessment solution designed to help security practitioners identity and resolve vulnerabilities to protect organizations against various security risks. It comes with pre-defined templates which can be customized by users to scan for critical vulnerabilities.

  • Platforms supported
  • Web-based
  • iPhone app
  • Android app
  • Windows Phone app
  • Typical customers
  • Freelancers
  • Small businesses
  • Mid size businesses
  • Large enterprises
  • Customer support
  • Phone
  • Online
  • Knowledge base
  • Video tutorials
  • Platforms supported
  • Web-based
  • iPhone app
  • Android app
  • Windows Phone app
  • Typical customers
  • Freelancers
  • Small businesses
  • Mid size businesses
  • Large enterprises
  • Customer support
  • Phone
  • Online
  • Knowledge base
  • Video tutorials

Video & Screenshots

Pricing

Starting from

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No pricing info

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

Starting from

4000.2

One-time payment

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

User reviews

4.4

35

5

4

3

2

1

20

10

4

1

0

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
79%
would recommend this app

4.7

95

5

4

3

2

1

67

26

2

0

0

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
92%
would recommend this app

Pros

“Deep Scans", Complex Authentication Setup”
vp

ville p.

specialist

Pros

“Their support is excellent, licensing is simple, and the product is always up to date with scanning for zero-day issues.”
BS

Ben S.

Infrastructure Architect

“Accuracy of scans are good and detects most vulnerabilities like SQL injection, XSS, and other misconfigurations.”
KR

Kiran R.

Vulnerability Assessor

“Automated scans are very friendly to setup and compares scope to OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities.”
KR

Kiran R.

Vulnerability Assessor

Cons

Not enoughreviews yet

Cons

“performance is pretty poor, licensing experience is poor, does not normalize scope data, does not always show its work in scan output, lots of typos in finding text, filtering does not work as well as one would hope”
JB

Jeremy B.

Offensive Security Consultant

“Solid product, minus reporting. But massively overpriced and undermaintained.”
JB

Jeremy B.

Offensive Security Consultant

“Sometimes the vulnerability scan is a little too picky.”
MW

Matthew W.

AM

  • Vendor responds to reviews
  • Last review9 months ago
  • Vendor responds to reviews
  • Last review5 days ago

Key features

  • Total features49
  • AI/Machine Learning
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Monitoring
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Application Security
  • Assessment Management
  • Asset Discovery
  • Asset Tagging
  • Audit Management
  • Audit Trail
  • Compliance Management
  • Compliance Tracking
  • Data Security
  • Endpoint Management
  • Endpoint Protection
  • Firewalls
  • IOC Verification
  • Incident Management
  • Issue Tracking
  • Monitoring
  • Network Scanning
  • Network Security
  • Password Protection
  • Patch Management
  • Penetration Testing
  • Policy Management
  • Prioritization
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Real-Time Data
  • Real-Time Monitoring
  • Real-Time Reporting
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Risk Alerts
  • Risk Analysis
  • Risk Assessment
  • Risk Management
  • Runtime Container Security
  • SQL Injections
  • Search/Filter
  • Security Auditing
  • Simulated Threat Attacks
  • Source-Code Scanning
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Threat Intelligence
  • Threat Protection
  • Threat Response
  • Vulnerability Assessment
  • Vulnerability Management
  • Vulnerability Protection
  • Vulnerability Scanning
  • Vulnerability/Threat Prioritization
  • Web Scanning
  • Web-Application Security
  • Website Crawling
  • Total features35
  • AI/Machine Learning
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Monitoring
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Application Security
  • Assessment Management
  • Asset Discovery
  • Asset Tagging
  • Audit Management
  • Audit Trail
  • Compliance Management
  • Compliance Tracking
  • Data Security
  • Endpoint Management
  • Endpoint Protection
  • Firewalls
  • IOC Verification
  • Incident Management
  • Issue Tracking
  • Monitoring
  • Network Scanning
  • Network Security
  • Password Protection
  • Patch Management
  • Penetration Testing
  • Policy Management
  • Prioritization
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Real-Time Data
  • Real-Time Monitoring
  • Real-Time Reporting
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Risk Alerts
  • Risk Analysis
  • Risk Assessment
  • Risk Management
  • Runtime Container Security
  • SQL Injections
  • Search/Filter
  • Security Auditing
  • Simulated Threat Attacks
  • Source-Code Scanning
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Threat Intelligence
  • Threat Protection
  • Threat Response
  • Vulnerability Assessment
  • Vulnerability Management
  • Vulnerability Protection
  • Vulnerability Scanning
  • Vulnerability/Threat Prioritization
  • Web Scanning
  • Web-Application Security
  • Website Crawling

Integrations

  • Total integrations16
  • Akto
  • Amazon API Gateway
  • Asana
  • Avatao
  • Azure DevOps
  • Bamboo
  • Bitbucket
  • Black Duck
  • Bugzilla
  • Cloudflare
  • Contra
  • Coverity
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • Inspector
  • Jira
  • Total integrationsN/A
  • Akto
  • Amazon API Gateway
  • Asana
  • Avatao
  • Azure DevOps
  • Bamboo
  • Bitbucket
  • Black Duck
  • Bugzilla
  • Cloudflare
  • Contra
  • Coverity
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • Inspector
  • Jira