Detectify vs Nuclei
No leader: the top candidate Nuclei has only 0.26 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for attack surface management. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Detectify
A cloud-based security platform that continuously discovers, monitors, and tests your external attack surface across domains, applications, and APIs. Uses payload-based scanning, ethical hacker research, and AI-driven vulnerability testing to identify exploitable weaknesses before attackers can exploit them.
Nuclei
A cloud-based security platform that uses AI-driven automation to test applications, APIs, code, and infrastructure for vulnerabilities in real time. It combines continuous scanning with community threat intelligence to detect and verify security issues faster than traditional security tools, with integrated remediation workflows.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Detectify
Free tier available. Subscription plans from €2,500–€15,000 annually. 14-day free trial.
- StarterFree
- API scanning (REST & GraphQL)
- Standard integration templates
- Email support
- Standard€2,500/year (up to 10 users)
- Up to 10 users
- API scanning (REST & GraphQL)
- Single sign-on (Okta, Ping Identity, OneLogin, SAML 2.0)
- 2 hours expert onboarding
- Dedicated professional support
- Professional€5,000/year (unlimited users, 2 teams)
- Unlimited users across 2 teams
- CI/CD integration with internal scanning
- Advanced discovery (IP ranges & apex domains)
- All integrations access
- White-labeled scan reports
- +4 more
- EnterpriseContact sales
- Unlimited users and teams
- 3 internal scanning agents included
- Fully customized vulnerability tests and modules
- Service level agreement (SLA)
- Dedicated customer success manager and solutions engineer
- +4 more
Nuclei
From $250 entry point. Usage-based credit system at $5 per credit. Enterprise custom pricing available.
- Pay as you goStarts at $250, 50 credits per seat, $5 per additional credit
- Application and API pentesting
- Attack surface management
- Code and PR review
- Red teaming
- Mobile app security
- +4 more
- EnterpriseContact sales
- All Pay as you go features
- Volume credit discounts
- Bring your own key (BYOK)
- Internal network auditing
- SSO and SAML provisioning
- +4 more
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- Slack
Detectify
- Jira
- Okta
- Ping Identity
- OneLogin
- SAML 2.0
- AWS Marketplace
- Workato
Nuclei
- GitHub
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Cloudflare
- Vercel
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.