Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Tenable®

The 20 closest vulnerability scanning software alternatives to Tenable®, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 8 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Tenable®? The closest matches are Qualys, New Relic and Trend Micro. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

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01 · Entity

About Tenable®

Tenable® nessus.org

Nessus Vulnerability Scanner: Network Security Solution | Tenable®

Find out more about Nessus - the trusted gold standard for vulnerability assessment, designed for modern attack surfaces - used by thousands of organizations.

Top 10K · #4,029 English 8 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit Tenable®

Summary by Claude

Product site for Tenable Nessus, a vulnerability scanner that finds missing patches, misconfigurations and security flaws across operating systems, devices and applications, with compliance checks, risk scoring and reporting.

Who it’s for
IT security teams and penetration testers
Business model
Software subscriptions

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Tenable®’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

SynologyCISASemrushElasticTaniumWPGuardianSentryTrend MicroNew RelicQualys

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Tenable®

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Tenable®, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    Qualys qualys.com Top 10K

    Enterprise Cyber Risk and Security Platform | Qualys

    Discover how Qualys helps your business measure & eliminate cyber threats through a host of cybersecurity detection & remediation tools. Try it today!

  2. 02
    New Relic newrelic.com Top 1K English

    AI-powered Observability

    New Relic is an AI-powered observability platform that correlates your telemetry across your entire stack, so you can isolate the root cause and reduce MTTR.

  3. 03
    Trend Micro trendmicro.com Top 1K English

    Global Enterprise AI Cybersecurity Platform | Trend Micro

    Enterprise AI cybersecurity platform with layered protection, cyber risk exposure management and SecOps—62 global offices, the United States HQ office is in Texas.

  4. 04
    Sentry sentry.io Top 1K English

    Application Performance Monitoring & Error Tracking Software | Sentry

    Application performance monitoring for developers & software teams to see errors clearer, solve issues faster & continue learning continuously. Get started at sentry.io.

  5. 05
    WPGuardian wpguardian.com Top 1K English

    Effective Security for WordPress Sites- WPGuardian

    Your All Seeing Eye to proactively scan & identify threats

  6. 06
    Tanium tanium.com Top 10K English

    Autonomous IT, endpoint intelligence and control | Tanium

    Tanium is a unified endpoint management and security platform: agentic AI for real-time visibility, patching, and risk remediation across endpoints.

  7. 07
    Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures cve.org Top 10K English

    a list of publicly known cybersecurity vulnerabilities

  8. 08
    Elastic elastic.co Top 10K English

    Elastic: The search database for AI | Search, AI agents, Observability, and Security | Elastic

    Powered by Elasticsearch. Ready to deploy your data? Start free.

  9. 09
    Semrush semrush.com Top 10K English

    Semrush: Your Unfair Advantage for Growing Brand Visibility

    Semrush is the leading platform to grow and measure brand visibility across AI search, SEO, PPC, social, and more.

  10. 10
    CISA cisa.gov Top 10K English

    Home Page | CISA

    Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency: America's Cyber Defense Agency

  11. 11
    Synology synology.com Top 1K English

    Synology Inc.

    Synology uniquely enables you to manage, secure, and protect your data - at the scale needed to accommodate the exponential data growth of the digital world.

  12. 12
    Check Point checkpoint.com Top 1K English

    Check Point Software: Leader in Cyber Security Solutions

    Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is a leading provider of cyber security solutions to corporate enterprises and governments globally.

  13. 13
    Zscaler zscaler.com Top 10K English

    Leading Cloud Enterprise Security Provider for Zero Trust

    Zscaler is a leading cloud enterprise security provider helping global businesses adopt zero trust for secure digital transformation.

  14. 14
    Netgate netgate.com Top 10K English

    Netgate | Firewall, VPN and Routing Solutions

    Netgate is an open-source driven secure networking company that provides appliance and software-based firewall, VPN and routing solutions including pfSense

  15. 15
    ESET eset.com Top 1K English

    ESET Cybersecurity | Enterprise, Business and Home Solutions | ESET

    Best IT security solutions for your home and business devices. Try ESET antivirus and internet security solutions for Windows, Android, Mac or Linux OS.

  16. 16
    Turnitin turnitin.com Top 10K

    ERROR: The request could not be satisfied

    Internet-based plagiarism-prevention service

  17. 17
    DefensX defensx.com Top 10K English

    DefensX | Secure Workspace

    DefensX offers a powerful secure browser and enterprise browser solution that protects users from web-based threats while enabling safe, compliant, and efficient browsing.

  18. 18
    Arkose Labs arkoselabs.com Top 10K English

    Arkose Labs | See Every AI Agent, Even After It Changes

    Personal AI agents like Muse never stop changing. Arkose Titan changes with them and lets you decide what each one can do.

  19. 19
    Rapid7 rapid7.com Top 10K English

    Rapid7 Managed Cybersecurity: Outpace Attackers

    Outpace attackers with the only endpoint to cloud, unified cybersecurity platform. Build business resilience with expert-led 24/7 MDR.

  20. 20
    HashiCorp hashicorp.com Top 10K English

    Vercel Security Checkpoint

    American software company

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to nessus.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Tenable® uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Tenable® is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

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CMS
  • Drupal header x-drupal-cache: MISS
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Marketing automation
  • Marketo page source: munchkin.marketo.net
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Languages & backends
  • PHP implied by Drupal (header x-drupal-cache: MISS)
Email hosting
  • Google Workspace TXT v=spf1 include:us._netblocks.mimecast.com include:_spf.google.com ip4…
  • Mimecast MX us-smtp-inbound-1.mimecast.com
DNS hosting

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