G2 Vendor Directory

Akto API Security Platform vs. Tenable Nessus

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAkto API Security Platform

by Akto.io

Tenable Nessus

by Tenable

Overall rating4.54.5
Review count55320
Ease of use8.89.1
Ease of setup8.99.0
Quality of support9.28.7
Meets requirements8.69.2
NPS66.66666768.852459
Small Business34.5%27.1%
Mid-Market43.6%39.7%
Enterprise21.8%33.1%
Total page views5821,872
Total LLM citations1,29524,390

Akto API Security Platform

Akto is a trusted platform for application security and product security teams to build an enterprise-grade API security program throughout their DevSecOps pipeline. Our industry-leading suite of — API discovery, API security posture management, sensitive data exposure, and API security testing solutions enables organizations to gain visibility in their API security posture. 1,000+ Application Security teams globally trust Akto for their API security needs. Akto use cases: 1. API Discovery 2. API Security Testing in CI/CD 3. API Security Posture Management 4.

Pros

  • Ease of Use
  • Security
  • Automation Testing
  • API Testing
  • API Management
  • Features

Tenable Nessus

Built for security practitioners, by security professionals, Nessus products by Tenable are the de-facto industry standard for vulnerability assessment. Nessus performs point-in-time assessments to help security professionals quickly and easily identify and fix vulnerabilities, including software flaws, missing patches, malware, and misconfigurations - across a variety of operating systems, devices, and applications.

Pros

  • Vulnerability Identification
  • Vulnerability Detection
  • Automated Scanning
  • Ease of Use
  • Features
  • User Interface