Nuclei vs Vega
Nuclei
nuclei.projectdiscovery.ioVega
subgraph.comSide by side
| Figure | Nuclei | Vega |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · Web Application Security Scanners | 8.3 (#5) | 7.1 (#19) |
| Authentication | Nuclei supports authentication mechanisms including HTTP basic authentication and JWT token authentication. | Automated scans support HTTP Basic, HTTP Digest, NTLM, and macro based form authentication; scanner requests can also include configured cookies. |
| Purpose | Nuclei is a vulnerability scanner for probing applications, infrastructure, cloud platforms, and networks using YAML templates. | Vega is a GUI-based platform for testing the security of web applications. |
| Support | The open-source page says maintainers answer questions in Discord and template requests can be filed as GitHub issues. | Subgraph points users to online documentation, the #subgraph OFTC IRC channel, the Vega-Users Google Group, and GitHub issues for bug reports and feature requests. |
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In their own words
Nuclei
Nuclei is a free, open-source vulnerability scanner for applications, infrastructure, cloud platforms, and networks. It uses YAML templates to define checks, drawing on more than 6,500 community-contributed templates; users can also create custom templates. Bulk and parallel scans, multiple target formats, and inclusion and exclusion filters are supported. Modules cover HTTP, DNS, TCP, headless, JavaScript, code, and file scanning, and authentication options include HTTP basic authentication and JWT. Nuclei can run in CI/CD pipelines, including through GitHub Actions, and export SARIF results to GitHub Code Scanning. It is distributed under the MIT License and is primarily a standalone CLI tool, with installation options including Go, Homebrew, Docker, GitHub, downloadable binaries, and Helm. It is actively developed, but has no LTS or stable version, so updates may bring breaking changes. Some templates can fuzz or take actions that risk denial of service; these are tagged and excluded from default scans. The tool is intended for security engineers, analysts, red teams, DevOps teams, bug bounty hunters, and penetration testers.