Aqua Security vs NordLayer Pricing (2026)

How do these two stack up on price? Here's what each one costs, what you get, and where the value sits.

Aqua Security

Custom

Code repo discovery and code scanning
Vulnerability and risk scanning of container images
Dynamic Threat Analysis (DTA) in a secure sandbox to detect sophisticated malware
Open source health scoring
Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) scanning
Pipeline security with static pipeline analysis
CI/CD posture management
Integrity checks of code throughout the lifecycle
Automated next-gen SBOM generation and analysis
CI/CD, registry and SCM toolchain integrity and governance

Custom

Auto-discovery, inventory and risk assessment across cloud accounts
Agentless cloud workload scanning
Support of AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle and Alibaba Cloud environments
Hundreds of configuration checks across compute, database, storage and identity resources
Out-of-the-box compliance reporting
eBPF-based real-time detection of malicious behavior
Drift prevention to ensure immutability of workloads at runtime
Advanced malware protection with malware blocking and deletion
Service identity-based segmentation (firewall)
Event audit trails, incidents view, and response policies

Custom

$8/mo

Popular

$11/mo

$14/mo

$6/mo

Which one is cheaper?: One or both use custom pricing, so it depends on your specific needs.
Can I use either one for free?: Neither has a free plan. But Aqua Security and NordLayer offer a free trial.
How do they charge?: Different approach here. Aqua Security uses custom pricing, while NordLayer goes with per-seat. That changes the math depending on your team size and usage.
Which one is a better deal?: Depends on what you need. Aqua Security: Full-stack cloud-native security with no self-serve entry point screams enterprise-only — they're not competing with Snyk on developer tooling price points or Wiz on PLG motion. Aqua is going after security-mature orgs with real budgets, likely landing in the same deals as Palo Alto Prisma and Wiz at the high end. NordLayer: At $8–$14/user/month they're sitting in the mid-market lane, undercutting Zscaler and Perimeter 81 but not trying to be the cheapest option in the room. The $6/user Enterprise floor signals they're actively hunting larger deals and willing to compress margin to win volume.

Keep tabs on both.

We'll monitor pricing changes for Aqua Security and NordLayer and let you know when something moves.