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Alternatives to Wiz
21 cloud tools sit alongside Wiz in this directory. Below is what separates each from Wiz on the figures we hold, price, model, tier count and rating, and a direct comparison for every one.
- Alternatives listed
- 21
- With a free tier
- 18
- Cheaper to start
- -
- Wiz starts at
- On request
Why people look past Wiz
Only what the record supports. Each point below is a figure on the Wiz entry measured against the tools listed beside it.
There is no free tier
The record for Wiz carries no free tier, so evaluating it means paying first. 18 of the 21 alternatives below can be used without paying.
What each alternative does differently
Ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry. Differences are drawn from price, pricing model, tier count and rating, the fields the category listing carries. For a feature-level difference, follow the head-to-head link on each card: those pages read both full records.
Agentless cloud-native application protection platform for code-to-runtime security.
Priced and rated the same as Wiz on the figures we hold. The difference, if there is one, is in the feature records.
Open source distributed block storage for Kubernetes, incubating at the CNCF
- Can be used without paying; Wiz cannot.
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than quote.
Kubernetes operator that deploys and manages Ceph storage clusters
- Can be used without paying; Wiz cannot.
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than quote.
Open source container-attached storage for Kubernetes
- Can be used without paying; Wiz cannot.
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than quote.
Free self-hosted platform built on Docker Swarm with a dashboard and automatic certificates
- Can be used without paying; Wiz cannot.
- Sold on a Open source, no licence fee model rather than quote.
Cloud cost estimates in pull requests, with governance in the paid tier
- Can be used without paying; Wiz cannot.
- Publishes an entry price of $250/month, where Wiz does not.
- Sold on a Free open source tool, then per month by run volume model rather than quote.
Every Wiz alternative at a glance
A dash means the catalogue entry carries no figure, not that the answer is nothing.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Tiers | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wiz (this page) | On request | Quote | - | |
| Orca SecurityBoth provide agentless cloud-native application protection platforms (CNAPP). | On request | Quote | - | vs Wiz |
| Longhorn | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Wiz |
| Rook | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Wiz |
| OpenEBS | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Wiz |
| CapRover | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Wiz |
| Infracost | Free, then $250/month | Free open source tool, then per month by run volume | 4 | vs Wiz |
| Dokku | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 2 | vs Wiz |
| Coolify | Free, then $5/month | Open source, no licence fee | 2 | vs Wiz |
| Zipkin | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Wiz |
| HAProxy | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Wiz |
| Thanos | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Wiz |
| Flux | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Wiz |
| Kustomize | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Wiz |
| Rancher | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Wiz |
| VictoriaMetrics | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Wiz |
| Caddy | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Wiz |
| Cilium | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Wiz |
| Jaeger | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Wiz |
| Linkerd | Free | Open source, no licence fee | 1 | vs Wiz |
| Portworx | $0.33/node hour | Per node hour | 2 | vs Wiz |
| Qovery | On request | Quote | 3 | vs Wiz |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry; Softwr hosts no reviews of these products. How each figure is used is set out on the Wiz badges page.
Cheaper ways to solve the same problem
What you would be giving up
Wiz is most often brought in for identifying cloud misconfigurations across multi-cloud environments, securing code from ide through ci/cd deployment, detecting and responding to active threats at runtime, governing ai workloads and models in the cloud, prioritizing risk with cross-environment attack path analysis. Anything replacing it has to cover the ones you actually depend on, and a cheaper tool that misses one of them is not cheaper.
Two things this page cannot settle. It compares on price, model, tier count and rating, because those are the fields the category listing carries, feature-level differences need both full records, which is what the head-to-head pages load. And the ratings are third-party aggregates imported with each entry rather than reviews written here, so a 0.2 difference between two tools is noise rather than a finding.
If Wiz is broadly right and the question is cost, the Wiz pricing breakdown covers every tier and what each one adds. If you want the whole field rather than a shortlist, the Cloud category lists everything the directory holds, and best cloud tools ranks them.
Wiz runs on web, api. Platform coverage is not carried on the category listing for the alternatives, so it is one more thing to check on each head-to-head page rather than here.
Questions about Wiz alternatives
- What are the main alternatives to Wiz?
- 21 other cloud tools are listed in this directory, led by Orca Security, Longhorn, Rook, OpenEBS. They are ordered by the aggregated rating on each catalogue entry, not by any Softwr ranking.
- What is the best free alternative to Wiz?
- 18 of the alternatives listed here can be used without paying: Longhorn, Rook, OpenEBS, CapRover, Infracost.
- Why do people look for an alternative to Wiz?
- On the figures on record, one thing stands out: there is no free tier. Each is set out with the numbers behind it above.
- What would I give up by switching from Wiz?
- Wiz is most often brought in for identifying cloud misconfigurations across multi-cloud environments, securing code from ide through ci/cd deployment, detecting and responding to active threats at runtime, governing ai workloads and models in the cloud, prioritizing risk with cross-environment attack path analysis. Anything you replace it with has to cover the ones you actually rely on, the side-by-side comparisons linked from each alternative below put the two feature records against each other.
- Is there an open-source alternative to Wiz?
- None of the cloud tools listed here are recorded as open source. That is what the licence field on each entry says, and the field is not always filled in, so it is worth checking directly for any tool you are serious about.
- How were these Wiz alternatives chosen?
- They are the tools filed in the same category, Cloud, ordered by the aggregated rating on each entry. There is no editorial shortlist, and nothing on this page is paid: no sponsored placement runs on alternatives pages and the order cannot be bought. Softwr has not used these products.
- Where can I compare Wiz against one of these directly?
- Every alternative below has a side-by-side page against Wiz covering price, platforms, features and what each one is used for. Those pages read the full record for both products rather than the summary shown here.
- Does this list cover every cloud tool?
- No. It covers what this directory holds in the Cloud category, 21 tools beside Wiz. The category page lists the rest of the catalogue as it grows.