G2 Vendor Directory

Astra Pentest vs. Tenable Nessus

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

MetricAstra Pentest

by ASTRA IT, Inc.

Tenable Nessus

by Tenable

Overall rating4.74.5
Review count259320
Ease of use9.29.1
Ease of setup9.39.0
Quality of support9.48.7
Meets requirements9.59.2
NPS80.23255868.852459
Small Business68.6%27.1%
Mid-Market27.8%39.7%
Enterprise3.5%33.1%
Total page views2,0661,872
Total LLM citations8,36624,390

Astra Pentest

Astra Security is a leading continuous penetration testing platform that combines AI-powered autonomous pentesting with certified expert-led assessments. Powered by Attack AI, trained on 6.8M+ security findings and insights from 5,000+ real-world pentests. Astra deploys intelligent agents that continuously discover, validate, prioritize, and help remediate vulnerabilities at scale.

Pros

  • Customer Support
  • Vulnerability Detection
  • Ease of Use
  • Pentesting Efficiency
  • Vulnerability Identification
  • User Interface

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