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Nessus vs Qualys Cloud Platform Comparison (2026)

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Qualys Cloud Platform

Overview

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.

Qualys Cloud Platform is designed to help businesses automate the security and monitoring of web applications and gain visibility into the utilization of IT assets. It enables IT professionals to detect threats related to unauthorized access across networks and conduct audits and IP scans.

  • 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

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Pricing

Starting from

4000.2

One-time payment

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

Starting from

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No pricing info

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

User reviews

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

4.0

33

5

4

3

2

1

13

13

2

3

2

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
55%
would recommend this app

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

Pros

“It also offers good value for money organization that need continuous monitoring and compliance tracking.”
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Amisha J.

Quality Executive

“Good also integration with documents and KB for remediation activities.”
IM

Ilario M.

ICT Infrastructure Manager

“Excellent tool for vulnerability scanning, easy to setup and configure to scan the IT environments”
MG

Murali G.

Architect

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

Cons

Not enoughreviews yet

  • Vendor responds to reviews
  • Last review3 months ago
  • Vendor responds to reviews
  • Last review8 months ago

Key features

  • Total features35
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Tracking
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Application Security
  • Assessment Management
  • Asset Discovery
  • Audit Management
  • Audit Trail
  • Compliance Management
  • Compliance Tracking
  • Configuration Management
  • Container Scanning
  • Continuous Integration
  • Dashboard
  • Data Security
  • Data Storage Management
  • Encryption
  • Endpoint Management
  • Endpoint Protection
  • Financial Data Protection
  • IT Asset Tracking
  • Monitoring
  • Network Scanning
  • Network Security
  • Patch Management
  • Penetration Testing
  • Policy Management
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Real-Time Data
  • Real-Time Monitoring
  • Real-Time Notifications
  • Real-Time Reporting
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Risk Analysis
  • Risk Assessment
  • Runtime Container Security
  • SSL Security
  • Search/Filter
  • Security Auditing
  • Security Management
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Threat Intelligence
  • Threat Protection
  • Threat Response
  • User Management
  • Vulnerability Assessment
  • Vulnerability Management
  • Vulnerability Protection
  • Vulnerability Scanning
  • Vulnerability/Threat Prioritization
  • Web Scanning
  • Web-Application Security
  • Website Crawling
  • Total features40
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Tracking
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Application Security
  • Assessment Management
  • Asset Discovery
  • Audit Management
  • Audit Trail
  • Compliance Management
  • Compliance Tracking
  • Configuration Management
  • Container Scanning
  • Continuous Integration
  • Dashboard
  • Data Security
  • Data Storage Management
  • Encryption
  • Endpoint Management
  • Endpoint Protection
  • Financial Data Protection
  • IT Asset Tracking
  • Monitoring
  • Network Scanning
  • Network Security
  • Patch Management
  • Penetration Testing
  • Policy Management
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Real-Time Data
  • Real-Time Monitoring
  • Real-Time Notifications
  • Real-Time Reporting
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Risk Analysis
  • Risk Assessment
  • Runtime Container Security
  • SSL Security
  • Search/Filter
  • Security Auditing
  • Security Management
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Threat Intelligence
  • Threat Protection
  • Threat Response
  • User Management
  • Vulnerability Assessment
  • Vulnerability Management
  • Vulnerability Protection
  • Vulnerability Scanning
  • Vulnerability/Threat Prioritization
  • Web Scanning
  • Web-Application Security
  • Website Crawling

Integrations

  • Total integrationsN/A
  • Google Cloud
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Total integrations2
  • Google Cloud
  • Microsoft Azure