How much does Tenable cost?

Tenable publishes 5 tiers, from $3500/year for Tenable One Vulnerability Management up to On request for Enterprise. The cheapest paid tier is $3500/year.

Does Tenable have a free plan?

Not on the record we hold: Tenable is listed as subscription. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.

What is the difference between Tenable One Vulnerability Management and Tenable One Web App Scanning on Tenable?

Tenable One Web App Scanning costs $3578/year against $3500/year, and adds per 5 fqdns, annual subscription.

Is the Enterprise plan on Tenable worth it?

That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is cloud security (custom pricing), ot exposure (custom pricing), identity exposure (custom pricing), attack surface management (custom pricing). It costs On request against $3500/year for Tenable One Vulnerability Management. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.

Which cybersecurity tools can I use without paying?

8 of the 8 cybersecurity tools listed alongside Tenable have a free tier: Authelia, Grype, Ory Kratos, authentik, Trivy.

Does Tenable charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 5 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these Tenable prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare Tenable against before paying?

The closest cybersecurity tools in this directory are Authelia, Grype, Ory Kratos, authentik. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Tenable covering price, platforms and features.

Cybersecurity · pricing

Tenable pricing

Tenable publishes 5 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

Entry price: $3500/year
Model: Subscription
Tiers: 5
Free tier: Not on record

Tenable plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

Tenable pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Tenable One Vulnerability Management	$3500/year	2	Entry tier
Tenable One Web App Scanning	$3578/year	2	+$78/year, 2 more features
Nessus Professional	$4790/year	3	+$1212/year, 3 more features
Nessus Expert	$6790/year	4	+$2000/year, 2 more features
Enterprise	On request	7	Priced on request

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Tenable One Vulnerability Management

$3500/year

The entry tier. It covers per 100 assets, multi-year discounts available.

Tenable One Web App Scanning

$3578/year

Over Tenable One Vulnerability Management, this tier adds:

Per 5 FQDNs
Annual subscription

Nessus Professional

$4790/year

Over Tenable One Web App Scanning, this tier adds:

Vulnerability scanning
Multi-year discounts available
Optional advanced support: $400/year

Nessus Expert

$6790/year

Over Nessus Professional, this tier adds:

Advanced vulnerability scanning
Optional training: $275-$385/year

Enterprise

On request

Over Nessus Expert, this tier adds:

Cloud Security (custom pricing)
OT Exposure (custom pricing)
Identity Exposure (custom pricing)
Attack Surface Management (custom pricing)
AI Exposure (custom pricing)
Custom credit volume
Dedicated technical support

What the product covers

The full Tenable feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.

Core

Unified attack surface mapping
Exposure intelligence enrichment

AI

Tenable Hexa AI orchestration

Cloud

Cloud Exposure (CNAPP)

OT

OT Exposure

Identity

Identity Exposure

Security

Vulnerability Management
Attack Surface Management

People bring Tenable in for comprehensive vulnerability scanning for enterprise networks, cloud security monitoring and compliance for aws, azure, gcp, identity and access management risk assessment, operational technology security for industrial systems, attack surface management for third-party risk. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Tenable are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Cybersecurity

Too few cybersecurity tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.

Tenable entry price against other Cybersecurity tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Tenable (this page)	$3500/year	subscription	-
Authelia	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Tenable
Grype	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Tenable
Ory Kratos	Free	Open-source self-hosted, with a paid managed network	-	vs Tenable
authentik	Free	Open-source core with a paid enterprise tier	-	vs Tenable
Trivy	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Tenable
Aikido	Free	Subscription with free tier	-	vs Tenable

Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Tenable badges page.

Before you pay for Tenable

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 5 tiers between $3500/year and On request, with the jump itemised above. With no free tier on record, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to compare Tenable against the tools that do have one before committing.

Tenable runs on cloud, web, and is published by Tenable. The full record is on the Tenable review, and the rest of the category is under best cybersecurity tools.

Tenable pricing on the vendor's own site

Tenable pricing questions

How much does Tenable cost?: Tenable publishes 5 tiers, from $3500/year for Tenable One Vulnerability Management up to On request for Enterprise. The cheapest paid tier is $3500/year.
Does Tenable have a free plan?: Not on the record we hold: Tenable is listed as subscription. Whether a free trial is offered is not something this record captures, so check the vendor's site.
What is the difference between Tenable One Vulnerability Management and Tenable One Web App Scanning on Tenable?: Tenable One Web App Scanning costs $3578/year against $3500/year, and adds per 5 fqdns, annual subscription.
Is the Enterprise plan on Tenable worth it?: That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is cloud security (custom pricing), ot exposure (custom pricing), identity exposure (custom pricing), attack surface management (custom pricing). It costs On request against $3500/year for Tenable One Vulnerability Management. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
Which cybersecurity tools can I use without paying?: 8 of the 8 cybersecurity tools listed alongside Tenable have a free tier: Authelia, Grype, Ory Kratos, authentik, Trivy.
What am I actually paying for with Tenable?: The record lists 8 features across 6 areas: core, ai, cloud, ot, identity, security. In practice it is brought in for comprehensive vulnerability scanning for enterprise networks, cloud security monitoring and compliance for aws, azure, gcp, identity and access management risk assessment.
Does Tenable charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 5 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
Are these Tenable prices current?: They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
What should I compare Tenable against before paying?: The closest cybersecurity tools in this directory are Authelia, Grype, Ory Kratos, authentik. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Tenable covering price, platforms and features.