Free Nessus AlternativesTop Vulnerability Scanners and other similar apps like Nessus

The best free alternative to Nessus is SiteOne Crawler, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Nessus and many of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Nessus are Metasploit, OpenVAS, PhoneSploit Pro and Whatoblock.

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  1. SiteOne Crawler icon
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    A free in-depth website analyzer providing audits of security, performance, SEO, accessibility and other technical aspects. Available as a desktop application for Windows/macOS/Linux and as a CLI tool for advanced users and CI/CD processes. It also includes an offline web page exporter.

    36 SiteOne Crawler alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Metasploit icon
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    Metasploit Community Edition simplifies network discovery and vulnerability verification for specific exploits, increasing the effectiveness of vulnerability scanners such as Nexpose - for free. This helps prioritize remediation and eliminate false positives, providing true...

    23 Metasploit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  3. OpenVAS icon
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    The Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS) is a framework of several services and tools offering a comprehensive and powerful vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management solution.

    34 OpenVAS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
     
  4. Whatoblock icon
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    Whatoblock is a real-time cybersecurity threat intelligence platform with global botnet tracking, scanner detection, interactive threat search, and a live threat map.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  5. Sucuri icon
     8 likes

    A web security portfolio offering a combination of on-premise installed security software in conjunction with a cloud hosted web application firewall and CDN.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
  6. CVEFinder icon
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    CVEFinder is a freemium web-based security tool that scans websites to detect technologies and identify known CVE vulnerabilities affecting them. Allows to see public exploits for the CVEs, monitor websites weekly, export affected CVEs and more.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. OpenSCAP icon
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    SCAP is a line of standards managed by NIST. It was created to provide a standardized approach to maintaining the security of enterprise systems, such as automatically verifying the presence of patches, checking system security configuration settings, and examining systems for...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. Pabit icon
     1 like

    Pabit is a modern project management and task tracking tool designed to help teams organize work without unnecessary complexity. It provides tasks, sprints, project modules, and real-time analytics in a clean and intuitive interface.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  9. nuclei icon
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    Nuclei is used to send requests across targets based on a template, leading to zero false positives and providing fast scanning on a large number of hosts. Nuclei offers scanning for a variety of protocols, including TCP, DNS, HTTP, SSL, File, Whois, Websocket, Headless etc.

    26 nuclei alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. Whitespots icon
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    📈 Measure and control your application security state; 🔎 Scan your code, containers, web and mobile applications; 🔥 Remove duplicates, validate results, and create Jira tasks in seconds; 🕜 Save your engineers time and automate your processes; ? Self-hosted.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. Probely icon
     16 likes

    Probely is a top-tier cloud-based DAST Scanner designed for DevOps, empowering Security and Development teams to work together to secure their web applications and APIs.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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