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Nessus vs Tenable Vulnerability Management Comparison (2026)

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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.

Tenable.io is a container security software that helps businesses assess vulnerabilities, prioritize remediation actions, monitor assets, and more on a centralized platform. The automated inspection module enables staff members to detect malware, handle hierarchy intelligence, and assess container images by layer.

  • 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

No videos yet

Pricing

Starting from

4000.2

One-time payment

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

Starting from

2275

Per year

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

User reviews

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

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

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

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

Cons

Not enoughreviews yet

  • Vendor responds to reviews
  • Last review5 days ago
  • Vendor responds to reviews
  • Last review4 years ago

Key features

  • Total features35
  • API
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Application Security
  • Assessment Management
  • Asset Discovery
  • Audit Management
  • Audit Trail
  • Authentication
  • Compliance Management
  • Compliance Tracking
  • Container Scanning
  • Continuous Integration
  • Customizable Reports
  • Data Visualization
  • Incident Management
  • 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 Alerts
  • Risk Analysis
  • Risk Assessment
  • Runtime Container Security
  • SSL Security
  • 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 features27
  • API
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Application Security
  • Assessment Management
  • Asset Discovery
  • Audit Management
  • Audit Trail
  • Authentication
  • Compliance Management
  • Compliance Tracking
  • Container Scanning
  • Continuous Integration
  • Customizable Reports
  • Data Visualization
  • Incident Management
  • 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 Alerts
  • Risk Analysis
  • Risk Assessment
  • Runtime Container Security
  • SSL Security
  • 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 integrationsN/A
    • Total integrationsN/A