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.
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.
Tenable Products
The following table lists Tenable’s products and summarizes their licensing methods.
Product | Licensing Method |
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Tenable One | Purchase licenses and allocate them to your Tenable One products based on the asset types you want to scan or manage. |
Tenable Vulnerability Management |
Purchase licenses for assessed assets from the past 90 days and imported assets with vulnerabilities. |
Tenable Web App Scanning |
Purchase licenses for unique fully qualified domain names (FQDNs) assessed in the past 90 days. If you only scan IP addresses, the system licenses those instead. |
Tenable Cloud Security | Purchase licenses for billable cloud resources. For more information, contact your Tenable representative. |
Tenable Security Center | Purchase licenses for assessed hosts from Tenable Security Center or imported from other Tenable products. |
Tenable Identity Exposure | Purchase licenses for enabled users in your directory services. |
Tenable Attack Surface Management |
Purchase licenses for observable objects, which include domain names, subdomains, or IP addresses for internet-connected or internal network devices. |
Tenable OT Security |
Purchase licenses for detected devices with IP addresses, one license for each IP address. |
Tenable Nessus |
Purchase a subscription to Tenable Nessus Expert or Tenable Nessus Professional. |
What to Do Next
If you have already purchased your Tenable products, do one of the following:
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(Cloud products only) On the Tenable License Information page, check your license usage.
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In the Tenable documentation, learn more about each product.