Licensing Tenable Products

This guide explains how to license Tenable products, which components are purchased separately, and what happens during license overages or expirations. To get the best experience, use it in collaboration with your Tenable representative, who can guide you on how Tenable customizes each license for your organization.

Note: This guide does not cover Tenable Cloud Security. For more information on licensing that product, contact your Tenable representative.
Tip: To view license agreements, visit the Tenable Software License Agreements page.

Tenable Licensing Overview

For all Tenable products except Tenable Nessus, which is subscription-based, you purchase licenses for assets in your environment: resources identified by—or managed in—your Tenable products.

When your environment expands, so does your asset count, so you purchase more licenses to account for the change. Tenable licenses use progressive pricing, so the more you purchase, the lower the per-unit price. For prices, contact your Tenable representative.

Tip: On the Tenable platform, assets are any data, device, or environmental component that supports information-related activities and needs to be protected from threats. Assets can be desktop computers, web servers, cloud resources, name servers, IoT devices, network printers, enabled users, or other items—and have elements such as hostnames, web application names, IP addresses, or DNS records. Assets are defined differently in each Tenable product.

To purchase Tenable products, contact your Tenable Representative.

Platform Performance and Fair Use

The TenableCloud Platform uses a multi-tenant architecture with shared scanner and processing pools. We implement fair use to ensure the platform remains performant. To ensure equitable service quality, if a customer's activity negatively impacts the platform or other tenants, Tenable reserves the right to activate rate and concurrency maximums. Performance varies based on region and traffic and is provided without guarantee.

What to Do Next

Important! To purchase Tenable products, contact your Tenable Representative.

If you have already purchased your Tenable products, do one of the following: