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Nessus

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Agent-Ready SaaS Index · tenable.com · scored 2026-05-06 · rubric v1.1
Score 40 / 100
Vulnerability Management
Self-serve checkout

Nessus publishes a pricing page with 5 discoverable plan tier(s). No per-unit price was found on the page; an agent has no direct way to estimate the cost of a single task. Self-serve signup exists alongside a sales-led / custom tier. No public API documentation URL was discovered.

See Nessus pricing summaryLive pricing page
Pricing snapshot
Pricing summary
As of 2026-05-06 · derived from www.tenable.com/buy
Starts at

$2790

Sales-led
Tier 2

Higher volume

Tier 3

Higher volume

Tier 4

Higher volume

Snapshot rendered from xpay's extracted pricing signals. The full tier list lives on the live page — see source link above.
Score breakdown · rubric v1.1
How Nessus scores on the agent-ready dimensions

Public pricing

15 / 15

Usage-based / metered

0 / 25

Self-serve checkout

15 / 15

Public API

0 / 15

Low / no minimum

0 / 10

Unauth automated payment

3 / 10

Bonus (machine-readable pricing)On top of /100 base

0 / 5

Total
40 / 100
Agent purchase verdict
Can an autonomous agent transact here?
Sales-gated
LLM score: 10/100

Can create account

Yes

Can enter payment method

Unknown

Can upgrade plan

No

Can buy more usage

No

Can cancel online

Unknown

Payment methods

Unknown

Human approval recommended

Yes

Pricing transparency

contact_only

Purchase motion

sales_led

Demo required

Unknown

Quote required

Yes

Annual commit required

Unknown

Auto-renewal mentioned

No

Cancellation policy visible

No

Refund policy visible

No

Invoice payment available

Unknown

Purchase orders supported

Unknown

MSA required

Unknown

DPA available

Unknown

Security review required

Unknown

Competitive intel
Positioning & ecosystem
Headline

“Close your cyber risk with Tenable's pricing and purchase options”

Agent purchase simulation
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from Nessus?
✓

Discover price

✓

Select a plan

✗

Pay per task

✓

Avoid a sales call

✗

API docs without auth

✗

Estimate cost upfront

Analysis
Pros and cons for AI agents
Observational summary written by xpay from the signals captured on 2026-05-06. Not a review of the product — only of its current pricing posture for agent buyers.
✓ For an AI agent
  • Pricing is publicly visible on an indexable page — agents can read tiers without scraping past auth.
  • Every advertised tier is self-serve; no tier requires scheduling a call.
◐ Opportunities for the provider
  • No per-unit price was advertised, so an agent has no way to estimate the cost of a single task.
  • API documentation is gated or absent; an agent cannot inspect the integration surface without authentication.
  • PPU requires account creation and an issued API key; a fully unauthenticated agent purchase is not yet supported.
  • No /.well-known/ai-pricing.json or equivalent machine-readable pricing manifest is published — agents must rely on HTML scraping.
One-line fix
How Nessus could lift its score

Add a per-unit price (e.g. $X / 1K calls) to the pricing page so an agent can compute its own cost before committing.

pricing_visible

true

headline_phrasing

Close your cyber risk with Tenable's pricing and purchase options — Use Tenable One Connectors to seamlessly combine data from third-party security tools with Tenable’s native sensor data.

tier_count

5

lowest_paid_entry_usd

null

free_tier

false

free_tier_terms

null

per_unit_price

null

annual_required

false

self_serve_paid_tiers

4

sales_only_tiers

0

public_api_docs_url

null

api_docs_auth_walled

null

ai_pricing_json_present

false

agents_txt_present

false

anonymous_purchase_path

false

per_unit_classification

null

usage_headline_present

false

custom_tier_present

true

agent_friendly

{"ai_pricing_json":false,"agents_txt":false,"llms_txt":false,"sitemap_xml":true,"mcp_server_card":false,"agent_skills_index":false,"x402_supported":false}

View raw extracted page text →
Page heading: Close your cyber risk with Tenable's pricing and purchase options
CTAs (40): Skip to Main Navigation · Skip to Main Content · Skip to Footer · Tenable · Platform · Products · Solutions · Why Tenable · Resources · Partners · Support · Company
Price tokens (30): $4 · $9 · $13 · $6 · $13 · $19 · $3 · $3 · $6 · $9 · $6 · $6
Skip to Main Navigation Skip to Main Content Skip to Footer Tenable Platform Products Solutions Why Tenable Resources Partners Support Company contact_icon English Deutsch Français (France) Español (América Latina) Português (Brasil) Italiano 简体中文 繁體中文 日本語 한국어 العربية Tenable Product Login Community & Support Try Buy Try Tenable One Exposure Management Platform Explore the platform Tenable One Connectors FAQ Exposure management Explore exposure management resources Platform categories Cloud Exposure Vulnerability Exposure AI Exposure OT/IoT Exposure Identity Exposure Platform capabilities Asset inventory Emergency response Exposure analytics Exposure prioritization Security hygiene Threat investigation Request a demo Tenable One Connectors Use Tenable One Connectors to seamlessly combine data from third-party security tools with Tenable’s native sensor data. Explore the connectors Exposure Management Platform Tenable One Exposure Management Platform enables you to gain visibility across your attack surface, focus efforts to prevent likely attacks, and accurately communicate cyber risk to support optimal business performance. Learn more Request a demo Cloud Exposure Tenable Cloud Security (CNAPP) Request a demo Tenable Cloud Vulnerability Management Request a demo Tenable CIEM Request a demo Secure your cloud Vulnerability Exposure Tenable Vulnerability Management Try for free Tenable Security Center Request a demo Tenable Web App Scanning Try for free Tenable Patch Management…
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Agent-Ready Spec
Nessus
Not Agent-Ready Yet

40

/ 100 (rubric v1.1)
Category

Vulnerability Management

Pricing model

Not advertised

Tier count

5

Free tier

No

Lowest paid entry

Sales-led

Self-serve / sales-only tiers

4 / 0

Public API docs

Auth-walled

Anonymous purchase path

No

Machine-readable pricing

Not published

Last refreshed

2026-05-06

Pricing intelligenceInsights extracted from www.tenable.com/buy
Pricing model

Sales-led pricing

Agent-purchase verdict
Sales-gated
10/100 · v2.1
Cheapest entry

Try for free

Actions
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Verdict reflects Not Agent-Ready Yet status under rubric v1.1. Source observed at https://www.tenable.com/buy.
Agent-friendly features1 of 7 present
Discovery files and protocols
Side-channel signals — informational, not part of the score. Each protocol is independent; adoption signals the publisher is thinking about agent buyers.

ai-pricing.json

agents.txt

llms.txt

sitemap.xml

MCP Server Card

Agent Skills

x402 / MPP

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