Prowler vs Wiz
No clear leader: Wiz (76.9) and Prowler (75.2) 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 cloud security software. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Prowler
An open-source and managed platform that automatically scans cloud environments for security misconfigurations and compliance violations. Offers multiple deployment options—cloud-hosted, self-hosted, or air-gapped—with 2,500+ checks, customizable compliance frameworks, remediation guidance, and integrations with security and workflow tools.
Wiz
Wiz is a cloud security platform that integrates code scanning, cloud infrastructure assessment, and runtime protection into a single context graph. It enables security teams to identify exploitable risks across the entire application lifecycle—from development to production—and automatically generate fixes for the highest-impact issues.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Prowler
Free trial and open-source options. Managed SaaS from $99/cloud account/month. Private Cloud pricing available on quote.
- Free TrialFree
- All checks and compliance frameworks
- Cloud infrastructure posture scanning
- Access to Prowler Hub
- SOC 2 Type 2 assurance
- Prowler Cloud$99/cloud account/month; 20% discount with annual billing
- Continuous compliance across 70+ frameworks
- Onboard whole AWS Organizations, Azure Management Groups, GCP Organizations
- Jira, Slack and email alerts
- SAML SSO and API access
- Enterprise support
- +5 more
- Prowler Private CloudContact sales
- Deployment in customer's cloud, data center or air-gapped environment
- Data residency of choice and unlimited resources
- Private Registry for custom providers, checks and frameworks
- AWS Security Lake (Parquet) and custom SIEM integration
- White glove onboarding
- +3 more
- Open SourceFree
- 2,500+ checks across all cloud providers
- Run from terminal, CI/CD pipeline or Kubernetes
- All public compliance frameworks
- Custom checks and frameworks support
- Optional integration with Prowler Cloud
- +1 more
Wiz
Pricing not documented yet.
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.
- AWS
- Google Cloud
- Kubernetes
- AWS Security Hub
- Jira
- Slack
Prowler
- Microsoft Azure
- GitHub
- Microsoft 365
- Oracle Cloud
- Alibaba Cloud
- Cloudflare
- OpenStack
- Microsoft Power BI
- AWS Security Lake
- Censys
- GitHub Code Scanning
- Terraform
- AWS CloudFormation
- Custom SIEM
- Power BI
- GitHub Actions
- Vercel
- Claude Code
Wiz
- ServiceNow
- Azure DevOps
- Cisco Webex
- ClickUp
- Freshservice
- GitHub Issues
- Google Chat
- Linear
- Microsoft Teams
- monday.com
- Opsgenie
- PagerDuty
- Rootly
- Zendesk
- Backline
- Blinkops
- Botprise
- Cortex XSOAR
- Cyware
- D3 Security
- DevOcean
- Dropzone AI
- Exaforce
- IBM QRadar SOAR
- +32 more
Prowler or Wiz: 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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