Authelia
Open-source authentication and two-factor portal for reverse proxies
Free
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The best Cybersecurity software
Security & Cybersecurity software and applications
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All 50 cybersecurity tools
Every listing shows its published starting price on the same footing, so a shortlist does not take ten tabs.
Legit Security
AI-native ASPM platform securing AI-generated code before deployment
Pricing on request
Sysdig
Cloud-native runtime security platform with real-time detection and response
Pricing on request
Aikido
Unified security platform automating vulnerability detection and fixing across development
Free
What cybersecurity software costs
Counted from the published pricing of the 50 listings on this page. A tool counts as free only where it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence or a starting price of zero.
- Cheapest paid plan
- $1.99Enpass
- Median entry price
- $21across 31 priced
- Dearest entry price
- $19,000Chainguard
- Publish a $0 plan
- 29of 50
Paid cybersecurity plans in this set start anywhere from $1.99 a month for Enpass to $19,000 for Chainguard. The median entry price across the 31 tools that publish one is $21, half of them start below that figure and half above it.
Entry price is not the ceiling. The dearest published tier anywhere in this category is Nessus's at $19,304.19 a month. Read the top of each ladder as well as the bottom, because that is where you land after two years of growth.
29 of 50 publish a $0 plan, and 10 of those charge nothing at all. 12 tools have no free tier of any kind.
16 of 50 keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote, which in practice means the number you end up paying at the top end is not on this page or on theirs.
How these vendors bill
The billing model each of the 50 cybersecurity listings publishes, counted. Two tools at the same headline price are not the same purchase if one of them charges per seat.
- subscription
- 13
- freemium
- 11
- quote
- 4
- usage-based
- 4
- Open source, no licence fee
- 3
- Contact sales for custom pricing
- 1
- Custom pricing based on number of hosts, events processed, or time series data
- 1
- Licensing by artifact type and team size
- 1
- open-source
- 1
- Open-source core with a paid enterprise tier
- 1
- Open-source self-hosted, with a paid managed network
- 1
- Per-developer monthly subscription with tiered access
- 1
- Per-identity subscription with annual discount
- 1
- Seat-based per contributing developer with volume discounts
- 1
- Subscription with free tier
- 1
- Usage-based pricing units that vary by product module
- 1
Separately, 16 of 50 publish at least one tier with no price attached. Those are sold by quote, so the top of the ladder is negotiable, and unknowable, until you talk to sales.
What comes as standard, and what you pay extra for
Every capability named in a published pricing tier by any of the 44 cybersecurity tools here that break their plans down, counted once per vendor. This measures what vendors choose to advertise as a selling point, not everything the software does, an absence below is silence, not a missing feature.
Named most often
- Community support , 7 of 44
- Unlimited devices , 4 of 44
- Dedicated account manager , 3 of 44
- Antivirus , 2 of 44
- CI/CD integration , 2 of 44
Named by fewer
- Custom pricing , 2 of 44
- Dedicated support , 2 of 44
- Dynamic secrets , 2 of 44
- Firewall , 2 of 44
- Full functionality , 2 of 44
Named by exactly one vendor: Access requests, B2B organizations (max 3), Custom SLAs and support, Includes Defender Suite, Per GB ingested, Slack alerts for threats. Those are differentiators rather than table stakes.
What “Cybersecurity” covers in practice
The subject tags that recur across these 50 listings, with the number of tools carrying each. A category label is a filing decision; this is the closer read of what is actually filed under it.
- security15
- Open Source12
- privacy9
- vpn8
- authentication7
- compliance7
- encryption6
- devsecops5
- identity5
- secrets-management5
- vulnerability-management5
- Enterprise4
Carried by a single tool: Ad Blocking, azure, Consumer Vpn, digital-wallet, Kill Switch, ngfw, Runtime Security, streaming. If one of those is the reason you are here, the category page is the wrong lens, go straight to that product.
How to choose between them
Four things the numbers above should change about your shortlist.
Start with the free tiers if there are enough of them
29 of 50 cybersecurity tools here publish a $0 plan, which is enough to run a real trial without a purchase order. A free tier is worth more than a free trial when you are evaluating: a trial expires on the vendor's schedule, a free plan expires when you outgrow it. The thing to check before you commit is which of the capabilities below sit above the free line, starting with community support, the single most frequently named capability in this category's published tiers.
Read the spread before you read the features
$1.99 to $19,000 is a $18,998.01 spread on entry price alone, and a spread that wide is never about polish, it is about who the vendor built for. Tools at the bottom of this ladder are priced for one person or a small team; tools near $19,000 are priced for a department with a procurement process. Decide which of those you are before you compare capability, or you will shortlist four tools that were never competing for the same buyer.
Check which tier you actually land on
30 of 50 tools here publish three or more tiers, and the median vendor in this category ships 3 of them. The advertised price is the first rung, and the things teams tend to need, community support, unlimited devices, dedicated account manager, are named in higher plans far more often than in entry ones. Price your shortlist at the tier that contains what you need, not at the tier on the pricing page's left edge.
The billing model matters more than the headline number
This category splits across 16 billing models: subscription on 13 listings, freemium on 11, and 14 other arrangements across the rest. A per-user price and a flat subscription at the same headline figure are not the same purchase, the first one grows with headcount and the second does not. Multiply by your real team size before you compare two numbers side by side.
Compare cybersecurity tools directly
Every pairing below is a full comparison: the same checklist applied to both, so a gap in one is a gap in the other.
- Authelia vs Grype
- Grype vs Ory Kratos
- Ory Kratos vs authentik
- authentik vs Trivy
- Trivy vs Socket
- Socket vs Akeyless
- Akeyless vs Endor Labs
- Endor Labs vs Legit Security
Go straight to the numbers
- Autheliapricingalternatives
- Grypepricingalternatives
- Ory Kratospricingalternatives
- authentikpricingalternatives
- Trivypricingalternatives
- Socketpricingalternatives
Questions people ask about cybersecurity software
Answered from the listings on this page, and nowhere else.
- How much does cybersecurity software cost?
- Across the 50 cybersecurity tools listed here, paid plans start between $1.99 and $19,000 a month, with a median entry price of $21. The most expensive single tier published in the category is $19,304.19 a month (Nessus). 29 of 50 also publish a $0 plan.
- What is the cheapest cybersecurity software?
- 10 of the 50 tools listed here cost nothing at all. Among the ones that charge, Enpass has the lowest published entry price at $1.99 a month. Cheapest and best value are different questions: check which tier the capability you need actually appears in before you compare starting prices.
- Is there free cybersecurity software?
- Yes, 29 of 50 tools in this category publish a plan priced at $0. 10 of them are free outright, with no paid tier above. A tool is only counted as free here when it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence, or a starting price of zero, a free trial does not count.
- What features should cybersecurity software have?
- Judging by what vendors put in their own published pricing tiers, the most frequently named capabilities in this category are community support (7 of 44 tools that publish plan detail), unlimited devices (4) and dedicated account manager (3). Treat those as the category baseline. Anything named by only one vendor, such as access requests or b2b organizations (max 3), is a differentiator rather than a standard, so it is worth deciding whether you need it before it narrows your shortlist to one.
- How is cybersecurity software usually billed?
- subscription (13), freemium (11), quote (4), usage-based (4), plus 12 less common arrangements, counted across the 50 listings on this page. The distinction that costs money is per-seat versus flat: a per-user plan at the same headline price scales with your headcount and a flat subscription does not. 16 of 50 tools also keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote.
- What does cybersecurity software actually cover?
- The 50 tools on this page do not describe themselves the same way. The subject tags they carry most often are security (15), open source (12), privacy (9), vpn (8), authentication (7). That spread is the honest answer to what the category means in practice: it is not one product shape, and two tools filed under cybersecurity may overlap on very little.
- How many pricing tiers do cybersecurity tools offer?
- 44 of 50 tools here publish a plan breakdown, and the median one has 3 tiers. 30 of 50 publish three or more. More tiers is not generosity, it usually means the capability you are buying for sits two rungs above the advertised price, so price your shortlist at the tier that contains it.
- How many cybersecurity tools are listed on Softwr?
- 50 approved cybersecurity listings appear on this page, including Authelia, Grype, Ory Kratos, authentik. Each links to a full breakdown with its pricing tiers and plan detail, and the category can be filtered by price and sorted by rating above. You can also read the shortlist view at /best/cybersecurity, which ranks the same set by published rating.
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