Nessus 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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User Reviews

Overview

Nessus

4.7

(93)

Pricing

Starting at $4,000.20 one time

About Nessus

Nessus is a cloud-based solution designed to help businesses identify potential vulnerabilities across the system and prioritize critical issues to facilitate threat remediation processes. Professionals can maintain an audit trail and view scan information with details, such as status, severity base, start/end timings and elapsed minutes.

With the built-in Tenable Vulnerability Priority Rating (VPR) tool, organizations can determine critical issues using data science and threat intelligence capabilities. Managers can utilize preconfigured templates for various administrative processes, including audits or patch management, and generate customizable reports in HTML, CSV, and XML formats. Additionally, it lets users select specific issues and categorize them in groups according to requirements.

Nessus is designed for businesses across various industry verticals, such as finance, healthcare, automotive manufacturing, transportation and more. Pricing is available on annual subscriptions and support is extended via documentation and an inquiry form.

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Nessus Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $4,000.20 one time

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$4,000.20

flat rate, one time

Plan includes:

Accurate Visibility
Advanced Detection
Easy-to-Use
Phone/Community/Chat Support

Plan 2

$7,800.39

flat rate, one time

Plan includes:

Accurate Visibility
Advanced Detection
Easy-to-Use
Phone/Community/Chat Support

Plan 3

$11,400.60

flat rate, one time

Plan includes:

Accurate Visibility
Advanced Detection
Easy-to-Use
Phone/Community/Chat Support

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Nessus Features

Popular features found in Compliance
Access Controls/Permissions
Archiving & Retention
Audit Trail
Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA)
Document Management
Incident Management
Monitoring
Regulatory Reporting
Risk Management
Training Management
Version Control
More features of Nessus
Activity Dashboard
Alerts/Notifications
API
Application Security
Assessment Management
Asset Discovery
Audit Management
Compliance Management
Compliance Tracking
Network Scanning
Network Security
Patch Management
Penetration Testing
Policy Management
Real-Time Analytics
Real-Time Data
Real-Time Monitoring
Real-Time Reporting
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Risk Analysis
Risk Assessment
Runtime Container Security
Threat Intelligence
Threat Protection
Vulnerability Assessment
Vulnerability Management
Vulnerability Protection
Vulnerability Scanning
Vulnerability/Threat Prioritization
Web-Application Security
Web Scanning
Website Crawling

Nessus User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

70%

28%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.6

Value for money

4.5

Customer support

4.3

Functionality

4.6

Giuseppe T.

Verified reviewer

Computer & Network Security

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2024

Great vulnerability scanner

My overall experience with Nessus has been extremely positive. It's reliable, regularly updated, and the scan reports are easy to read and actionable. The speed at which it identifies vulnerabilities is impressive, and it's saved me countless hours of manual checks.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Nessus is hands down the most popular vulnerability scanner for good reason. It runs incredibly comprehensive vulnerability scans, catching everything from outdated software to complex misconfigurations. It's quick, efficient, and can be installed almost anywhere, which is a huge plus. The free version for personal use, covering up to 16 hosts, is more than enough for home networks or small businesses to get started.

Cons:

No cons I can think of. It has all the features that a decent vulnerability scanner should have.

Geoffrey R.

Verified reviewer

Law Practice

201-500 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2019

Nessus for vulnerability scanning

After our first major client security audit, we implemented Nessus to run weekly internal and external vulnerability scans. Not only does this help satisfy our client demands, but it helps us find vulnerabilities in our systems and helps us find patches and solutions to the vulnerabilities.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to set up, use and report on. We started using this application after our first major client security audit a few years ago. It's a been great tool.

Cons:

Not much to dislike with Nessus. Maybe some better reports, and the cost could always be better, although it's not bad.

Reasons for choosing Nessus

It was what several security companies use and it was recommended by the security expert we hired to perform a risk assessment of our network.

Mohamed H.

Verified reviewer

Banking

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2022

Good Choice for some

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Great scannerOld pro version was a perfect choiceAbility to rescan one item

Cons:

Tenable kept removing core functionsWeak web scanning capabilities

Josh A.

Verified reviewer

Retail

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2019

We use and we like it

We implemented Nessus very easy, with the support from the vendor. Good price and very good solution.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We use Nessus because is very good tool to manage you vulnerabilities. Fast scan and easy to make reports and to monitor vulnerabilities. Easy to adjust the profile scan, easy to add scan targets. Good price and a lot of features.

Cons:

We did not find any problems with the Nessus vulnerability management.

Reasons for choosing Nessus

The features. Easy installation. Mature tool. Very good support from the vendor.

Darius O.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2019

Good vulnerability manager

The project was a success. I recommend Nessus.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The soft is very useful to identify and manage vulnerabilities. The implementation was fast. Easy to scan and easy to generate reports. Predefined report for the management. Also you can generate compliance reports.

Cons:

We did not find problems. Nessus is working very well.

Reasons for choosing Nessus

Very good price. Easy to use. Fast scans. Very good reports.

Carol L.

Verified reviewer

Chemicals

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed October 2022

Spectacular vulnerability assessment tool

Nessus has done a spectacular job in vulnerability assessment in our company which has helped us to maintain secure environments in the cloud and on premise. Configuring nessus was a straightforward forward task and it carries out in depth scans within a short time. Nessus comes with build in vulnerabilities which you scan against your systems to find out if there are vulnerabilities present.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

I like how you get an alert promptly when nessus detects an attack on any of your systems. I also like the wide variety of plug ins made available by nessus for specific vulnerabilities. I'm also impressed with how nessus allows you to create your own tests related to you company. I like how it is always releasing updates on new vulnerabilities which you can check in your systems. Nessus provides suggestions for alleviating detected vulnerabilities in your systems.

Cons:

Nessus still has the issue of false positives which is common in most vulnerability scanners whereby nessus detects vulnerabilities that are not present. It is not user friendly in terms of costs since it is expensive if you want to access more features through the paid versions. Aside from that, I am certain that we have been able to get the best from this tool.

Tushar G.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2023

Vulnerability assessment solution for small network

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Nessus is easy to use and easy to deploy vulnerability assessment solution available. One of the best features is nessus can be easily deployed to air gapped environments without much changes to the environment.

Cons:

Nessus has limited reporting and vulnerability management features as compared to other tools.

Stephan v.

Verified reviewer

Computer & Network Security

2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2023

Why I love Nessus

Simply love using this tool

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Perfect tool for consultants as you can load it on a laptop and move from client to client. Without paying for more licenses

Cons:

Reporting is a little lacking and can do with some rework.

Manoj P.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2023

Best Vulnerability Managemnt Partner Nessus

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of use and variety of dashboards we can make.

Cons:

UI can be improved a bit features like customizing themes, colors/tool bars can be added more frequently.

Héctor Joel B.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2019

Nessus, a great tool for the analysis and remediation of vulnerabilities

Tenable, in its variety of versions has a large section to train its customers, it is not a surprise that escalate positions with the passage of time and with every improvement that creates true expectations. Within the company we have deployed Nesss and it really has been helpful to fin every vulnerability that the scans throw at us, the information is very complete from the discovery stages, we feel very satisfied, that the tool has been implemented in other infrastructure and the results are very heplful.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Nessus and its graphical interface is attractive, I would say that minimalist but punctual and charming, it is very clean, it should be applauded that in each version they improve it and include some types of scans that can bring you more complete results when you carry out an analysis. It is very remarkable that the plugins in your database are up to date and that your community generates an adequate response on time.

Cons:

For now all the experience I have with Nessus has been nice, with the constancy that you have in your team working every day to improve it I know it will be a good tool for vulnerability detection.

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