Nessus Professional Coupons & Pricing
How to Use the Nessus Pro Coupon Code
- Click Copy on the coupon section above to copy the code and open the Nessus Professional buy page, then pick your term: 1, 2, or 3 years.
- Add Advanced Support or the Nessus Fundamentals course now if you want them.
- At checkout, paste the Tenable coupon code into the promo or coupon field and apply it.
- Confirm the total, then complete payment. Your activation code arrives by email.
How well does Nessus Professional work?
What you are paying for here is coverage and accuracy, not a pretty dashboard. Tenable Nessus Professional puts the check library at 319,000+ plugins with 100+ added weekly, and the 450+ prebuilt templates do most of the thinking: pick a CIS benchmark or a PCI DSS audit and you get a usable report without writing policy from scratch. Live Results is the feature that quietly earns its keep, because it re-evaluates your stored scan data against every new plugin batch and flags likely exposures before you spend an evening rescanning.
Key features
- Unlimited IP scanning from one licensed scanner, with no per-asset counting and no overage bill
- 450+ prebuilt policy and compliance templates covering CIS benchmarks, PCI DSS, NIST and FDCC
- Live Results, which re-checks stored scan data against each plugin update so you see likely exposures without launching a new scan
- Risk scoring with CVSS v4, EPSS and Tenable VPR, so you triage by real-world exploitability instead of working down a flat critical list
- Deployment on Windows, macOS, 15+ Linux distributions, Raspberry Pi 4 and Docker
What we think
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Which Nessus Professional term should you buy?
| Term | List | With WinningPC discount | Effective cost per year | The trade-off |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Year | $4,790 | $4,311.00 | $4,311.00 | Re-priced at every renewal, but you can walk away |
| 2 Years | $9,330.95 | $8,397.86 | $4,198.93 | Rate locked for 24 months |
| 3 Years | $13,637.54 | $12,273.79 | $4,091.26 | Cheapest per year, longest commitment |
Is there a cheaper or free option?
| Tool | Price (1 year) | Target limit | The catch | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nessus Professional (with discount) | $4,311 | Unlimited IPs, 1 scanner | Community support only | Consultants, pen testers, SMB security teams |
| Nessus Essentials | Free | 5 IPs | Plugin feed runs 30 days behind, so you learn about new CVEs late | Home labs, learning the tool |
| Nessus Expert | $6,790 list | Unlimited IPs, plus 5 web apps and 5 domains per 90 days | Costs $2,000 more a year | DevSecOps and AppSec teams needing DAST, EASM and IaC scanning |
| OpenVAS / Greenbone Community Edition | Free, self-hosted | Unlimited | Smaller check library, heavier setup, no vendor support | Linux-comfortable teams with no budget |
Questions people ask about Nessus Professional
Is the 3-year licence actually cheaper?
Yes, but by less than the “Save” label suggests. Three years at $13,637.54 works out to $4,545.85 a year against $4,790 bought annually, a 5.1% saving. Two years saves 2.6%. Both are smaller than the 10% this code gives you on any single term.
Does Nessus Professional include web application scanning?
No, according to the Tenable Nessus 10.12 licensing table, which lists DAST web application scanning and external attack surface scanning as Expert-only. Tenable’s Nessus family page contradicts this and shows both under Professional. Confirm with Tenable before buying if you need them.
Can I get a refund if I buy the wrong term?
Tenable does not publish a money-back window for Nessus Professional. Refunds on store orders are requested by emailing ecommerce@tenable.com with your order reference number, and Tenable says they are typically processed within 7 business days.
Does the subscription auto-renew?
Yes, and you can switch it off yourself. Sign in at community.tenable.com, open “My Products” in the top right, and you will find options to turn auto-renewal on or off, update your payment method and review renewal pricing.
How many machines can one activation code run on?
One at a time. You can transfer the code to a different system, and that system becomes the active instance, but older instances stop receiving plugin updates and show a feed access error.
Is there a free trial before I pay?
Yes, a 7-day Nessus Professional trial. It is the full feature set including compliance checks, SCADA plugins and exportable reports, but it caps you at 32 IPs per scan. Paid licences remove that cap entirely.
I already own Professional. Can I move to Expert?
Yes, and it is pro-rated. Sign in to your Tenable account, find the licence, and if more than 90 days remain you will see an “Upgrade to Nessus Expert” link that charges only for the remaining term. Inside 90 days you renew and upgrade in the same checkout.
System Requirements & Details
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Operating system | Windows 10, 11, Server 2012 through 2025 (not Server Core) · macOS 14, 15, 26 (Intel and Apple Silicon) · Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL, Rocky, AlmaLinux, SUSE, Oracle Linux, Fedora, Amazon Linux, Kali, CentOS Stream · Raspberry Pi OS |
| Processor / RAM / disk | Up to 50,000 hosts per scan: 4 × 2GHz cores, 4GB RAM (8GB recommended), 30GB disk. Above 50,000 hosts: 8 × 2GHz cores, 8GB RAM (16GB recommended), 30GB disk |
| Storage | 5,000MB temporary space minimum. Direct-attached storage recommended; NAS and NFS are not supported |
| Browser | Chrome 76+, Firefox 50+, Safari 10+, Edge 102+ |
| Ports | Inbound TCP 8834 for the interface. Outbound TCP 443 for plugin updates, TCP 25 for email alerts, UDP 53 for DNS |
| Report output | PDF export requires Oracle Java or OpenJDK, and it must be installed before Nessus. Install it afterwards and you have to reinstall Nessus for PDF reports to work |
| Other | Raspberry Pi 4 Model B needs 8GB memory. Docker containers have no storage volume support. Disable NIC teaming and IPv6 tunnelling on the scanning interface |
