Detectify vs Nuclei
No clear leader: Detectify (53.4) and Nuclei (52.4) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. 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
Detectify performs continuous discovery and mapping of internet-facing assets combined with payload-based vulnerability testing to identify real exploitable security gaps across your external infrastructure.
Nuclei
A security discovery platform that identifies vulnerabilities and exposed assets across external-facing systems, internal infrastructure, and application code in real-time. It centralizes asset discovery and helps teams detect and remediate exposures before exploitation.
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
Free tier available; Pay as you go from $200/seat/month for up to 5 seats; Enterprise pricing on request
- FreeFree
- Every Neo workflow
- Custom automations
- Project workflows
- Standard models
- Pay as you go$200/$400/$800 per seat/month (save 12.5% annually)
- Everything in Free
- Frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google
- Weekly usage allowance (resets every 7 days)
- Top-ups available
- EnterpriseContact sales
- Everything in Pay as you go
- On-prem or dedicated VPC deployment
- Private network access
- SSO/SAML
- Bring your own key (BYOK)
- +3 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
- AWS
- Azure
- Cloudflare
- GCP
Detectify
- Jira
- Okta
- Ping Identity
- OneLogin
- SAML 2.0
- AWS Marketplace
- Workato
- Microsoft Teams
- ServiceNow
- Splunk
- PagerDuty
- OpsGenie
- GoDaddy
- HTTP Webhooks
Nuclei
- GitHub
- Vercel
Detectify or Nuclei: which one depends on you
A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.
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