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Tenable Nessus pricing
Tenable Nessus publishes 3 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
- Free
- Model
- Subscription
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Yes
Tenable Nessus 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.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nessus Essentials | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
| Nessus Professional | $2600/year | 3 | +$2600/year, 3 more features |
| Nessus Expert | $5200/year | 3 | +$2600/year, 3 more features |
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.
Nessus Essentials
FreeThe entry tier. It covers up to 16 ips, network scanning, vulnerability assessment, free forever.
Nessus Professional
$2600/yearOver Nessus Essentials, this tier adds:
- Unlimited targets
- Enterprise features
- Advanced analytics
Nessus Expert
$5200/yearOver Nessus Professional, this tier adds:
- All Professional features
- Cloud integration
- Advanced reporting
Where Tenable Nessus stops being free
Nessus Essentials, Free
- Up to 16 ips
- Network scanning
- Vulnerability assessment
- Free forever
Nessus Professional, $2600/year
The first thing you pay for:
- Unlimited targets
- Enterprise features
- Advanced analytics
What the product covers
The full Tenable Nessus 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
- Network scanning
- Vulnerability detection
- Configuration assessment
- Malware detection
- Compliance checking
- Cloud security assessment
- Mobile scanning
- API access
Integrations
- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud
- Splunk
- ServiceNow
- Jira
Security
- SOC2 Type 2
- ISO 27001
- GDPR
Deployment
- Cloud deployment
- On-premises deployment
Platform
- Windows support
- Linux support
- Macos support
- Cloud support
Localization
- English language support
- German language support
- French language support
- Spanish language support
- Japanese language support
- Portuguese language support
People bring Tenable Nessus in for vulnerability scanning of servers, network devices and web applications, configuration and compliance auditing against hardening benchmarks, point in time assessments by consultants and penetration testers. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Tenable Nessus are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for Tenable Nessus
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: 3 tiers between Free and $5200/year, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Tenable Nessus runs on windows, linux, macos, cloud, and is published by Tenable Holdings, Inc. of Columbia, Maryland, USA. The full record is on the Tenable Nessus review.
Tenable Nessus pricing questions
- How much does Tenable Nessus cost?
- Tenable Nessus publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Nessus Essentials up to $5200/year for Nessus Expert. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Tenable Nessus have a free plan?
- Yes. The Nessus Essentials tier costs nothing and covers up to 16 ips, network scanning, vulnerability assessment. Paying starts at $2600/year for Nessus Professional.
- What is the difference between Nessus Essentials and Nessus Professional on Tenable Nessus?
- Nessus Professional costs $2600/year against Free, and adds unlimited targets, enterprise features, advanced analytics.
- Is the Nessus Expert plan on Tenable Nessus worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is all professional features, cloud integration, advanced reporting. It costs $5200/year against $2600/year for Nessus Professional. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- What am I actually paying for with Tenable Nessus?
- The record lists 29 features across 6 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform, localization. In practice it is brought in for vulnerability scanning of servers, network devices and web applications, configuration and compliance auditing against hardening benchmarks, point in time assessments by consultants and penetration testers.
- Does Tenable Nessus charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 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 Nessus 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 Nessus against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to Tenable Nessus to make a useful price comparison.