Nuclei
Continuously discover and manage security exposures across cloud infrastructure, internal networks, code, and endpoints
- Also known as
- nuclei
Available worldwide · Popular in: US
What is 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.
Nuclei pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free tier available; Pay as you go from $200/seat/month for up to 5 seats; Enterprise pricing on request
Free
FreeFor researchers and engineers with limited one-time usage
- seats
- 1
- usage
- limited one-time
- Every Neo workflow
- Custom automations
- Project workflows
- Standard models
Pay as you go
For MSSPs and startups with self-serve seats and usage tiers
- seats
- up to 5
- usage
- weekly allowance per seat
- Everything in Free
- Frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google
- Weekly usage allowance (resets every 7 days)
- Top-ups available
Enterprise
Contact salesFor regulated industries and government with on-prem deployment and SSO
- seats
- unlimited
- usage
- custom
- Everything in Pay as you go
- On-prem or dedicated VPC deployment
- Private network access
- SSO/SAML
- Bring your own key (BYOK)
- Dedicated onboarding and support
- Unlimited seats
- Org-level usage controls
What Nuclei does
The capabilities that matter for attack surface management, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Deployment model
- Standalone CLI
- Continuous daily scanning
- ✓
- Agentless external discovery
- ✓
- Automated asset attribution
- -
- Cloud cspm integration
- -
- Certificate transparency monitoring
- ✓
- Dark web exposure monitoring
- -
- Servicenow CMDB sync
- -
- Jira ticketing integration
- -
- Cve vulnerability mapping
- ✓
- SOC2 type ii
- -
- ISO 27001
- -
- Pricing model
- Open source
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Self-hosted
Integrations (7)
Independently observed- GitHub
- Slack
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Cloudflare
- Vercel
Nuclei FAQ
Common questions about Nuclei, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Nuclei?
A command-line tool that discovers subdomains by querying public data sources without active scanning, optimized for speed and operational stealth. It is indexed under Attack Surface Management.
Source: https://projectdiscovery.io
Is Nuclei free to use?
Nuclei is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. A commercial or hosted edition starts at $5. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
What platforms does Nuclei support?
Nuclei supports a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Source: https://projectdiscovery.io
Can Nuclei be self-hosted?
Yes. Nuclei can be deployed self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.
Source: https://projectdiscovery.io
What does Nuclei integrate with?
We have confirmed 7 integrations for Nuclei, including GitHub, Slack, AWS, GCP, Azure, Cloudflare and Vercel. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
What security certifications does Nuclei have?
We have independently confirmed GDPR for Nuclei. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Nuclei not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Where is Nuclei available?
Nuclei is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.
Nuclei alternatives
Other attack surface management we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- CyCognitoDiscover your external vulnerabilities before attackers exploit themlow · 19%
- DetectifyExternal attack surface testing platform that identifies exploitable vulnerabilities using research from hacker communities and AI analysismedium · 55%
- Microsoft Defender EASMDiscover vulnerabilities and security exposures on internet-facing resourceslow · 37%
- Censys ASMInternet intelligence platform providing real-time visibility into external assets and internet-facing infrastructurelow · 19%
- AmassOpen-source framework for automated network mapping and external asset discoverylow · 27%
- Tenable Attack Surface ManagementMonitor your internet-connected assets to discover external threats and eliminate security blind spotslow · 7%
Compare Nuclei
Side by side against other attack surface management, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Nuclei, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing transparency | 100 | 0.05 | 5.2 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 67 | 0.05 | 3.4 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 26 | 0.05 | 1.3 | ✓ |
| Price level | 25 | 0.04 | 1.1 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.09 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 5 | 0.21 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 7 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 64% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Pricing model: open_source · Deployment model: standalone_cli · Continuous daily scanning: Yes · Cve vulnerability mapping: Yes · Agentless external discovery: Yes · Certificate transparency monitoring: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-09-24 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 7 | mediumsource · 2026-08-18 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | mediumsource · 2026-09-24 · 50% |
Pricing
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gdpr | Yes | highsource · 2026-08-18 · 75% |
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