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Intruder vs Nessus Comparison (2026)

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Overview

Intruder is a cloud-based vulnerability scanner which scans digital assets, identifies threats and generates reports. Designed for small to medium businesses, it assists users with automated assessments, bug tracking, patch management, network security, data encryption & hybrid penetration testing.

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

108

Per month

  • 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

5.0

2

5

4

3

2

1

2

0

0

0

0

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
100%
would recommend this app

4.7

94

5

4

3

2

1

66

26

2

0

0

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

Pros

Not enoughreviews yet

Pros

“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

“Sometimes there are limitations in the scan exclusions.”
AK

Alex K.

Systems Engineer

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 review3 years ago
  • Vendor responds to reviews
  • Last review2 months ago

Key features

  • Total features26
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Application Security
  • Assessment Management
  • Asset Discovery
  • Asset Tagging
  • Audit Management
  • Audit Trail
  • Compliance Management
  • Compliance Tracking
  • Incident Management
  • Monitoring
  • Network Scanning
  • Network Security
  • Patch Management
  • Penetration Testing
  • Policy Management
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Real-Time Data
  • Real-Time Monitoring
  • Real-Time Reporting
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Risk Analysis
  • Risk Assessment
  • Risk Management
  • Runtime Container Security
  • Search/Filter
  • Security Auditing
  • Simulated Threat Attacks
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Threat Intelligence
  • Threat Protection
  • Vulnerability Assessment
  • Vulnerability Management
  • Vulnerability Protection
  • Vulnerability Scanning
  • Vulnerability/Threat Prioritization
  • Web Scanning
  • Web-Application Security
  • Website Crawling
  • Total features35
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Application Security
  • Assessment Management
  • Asset Discovery
  • Asset Tagging
  • Audit Management
  • Audit Trail
  • Compliance Management
  • Compliance Tracking
  • Incident Management
  • Monitoring
  • Network Scanning
  • Network Security
  • Patch Management
  • Penetration Testing
  • Policy Management
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Real-Time Data
  • Real-Time Monitoring
  • Real-Time Reporting
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Risk Analysis
  • Risk Assessment
  • Risk Management
  • Runtime Container Security
  • Search/Filter
  • Security Auditing
  • Simulated Threat Attacks
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Threat Intelligence
  • Threat Protection
  • Vulnerability Assessment
  • Vulnerability Management
  • Vulnerability Protection
  • Vulnerability Scanning
  • Vulnerability/Threat Prioritization
  • Web Scanning
  • Web-Application Security
  • Website Crawling

Integrations

  • Total integrations4
  • Amazon EC2
  • Jira
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Slack
  • Total integrationsN/A
  • Amazon EC2
  • Jira
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Slack