The top alternatives to OpenVAS are Tenable Nessus, Nessus and Nmap, ranked by Staquest on relevance, shared use cases, and pricing. Tenable Nessus is the strongest free option.
Staquest ranks Tenable Nessus as the top alternative to OpenVAS — Industry-standard vulnerability assessment and configuration auditing.. The full ranked list above compares 10 options.
Tenable Nessus offers a free tier and is the highest-ranked free alternative to OpenVAS in Staquest's analysis.
Staquest identifies 10 tools similar to OpenVAS using graph relationships, embedding similarity, and shared categories. The closest are Tenable Nessus, Nessus, Nmap.
Nmap is an open-source alternative to OpenVAS listed in this ranking.
Alternatives are ranked by verified relationships, semantic similarity, and category overlap.
