Warin vs Qualys: enterprise power vs founder-friendly simplicity
Qualys is one of the most comprehensive security platforms on earth — and it's built for enterprises with a dedicated security team and budget. Warin gives a startup the external attack surface essentials in a tool you can actually run yourself.
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The short version
Warin vs Qualys: the bottom line
Qualys is enterprise software; Warin is built for founders. Warin covers your external attack surface with breach monitoring, AI fix guides, and public $49–$99/month pricing — no security team, training, or enterprise contract required.
Qualys is a powerful enterprise platform — comprehensive, complex, and priced for large organizations with a security team. For a startup, the differences that matter are:
- No security team required — Warin is built to be run by a founder; Qualys assumes dedicated security staff.
- Email breach monitoring and AI fix guides are included in Warin; Qualys offers neither in that form.
- Flat, public $49–$99/month vs Qualys's opaque, modular enterprise pricing.
Feature by feature
Warin vs Qualys at a glance
| Capability | Warin Best for startups | Qualys |
|---|---|---|
| Web application scanning (DAST) | Included | WAS module |
| Network & port scanning | Included | Yes (core strength) |
| Subdomain discovery | Every plan | EASM module |
| Asset discovery & inventory | Automatic | Yes (enterprise) |
| SSL / TLS monitoring (deep) | Config + expiry | Partial |
| Email breach monitoring | Included | Not available |
| AI fix guides | Per finding, plain English | Remediation data |
| Runs without a security team | Built for it | Team required |
| Pricing model | Flat, public | Custom enterprise |
Included Limited / add-on Not available
Pricing and capabilities verified from public vendor sources, June 2026. We update these pages as vendors change their plans.
Why teams choose Warin
Where Warin comes out ahead
No security team required
Warin is designed for founders and small teams. Qualys is enterprise software: deploying, configuring, and interpreting it effectively assumes dedicated security staff and training.
Email breach monitoring built in
Warin continuously checks your team's credentials against breach databases and the dark web. This isn't part of the Qualys vulnerability-management platform.
Plain-English fix guides
Every Warin finding includes step-by-step remediation anyone can follow. Qualys surfaces remediation data, but turning it into action is a job for a security analyst.
Transparent, public pricing
Warin is $49 or $99 a month, listed on the site. Qualys pricing is opaque, modular (per module × per asset), and negotiated through enterprise sales.
Value in minutes, not a rollout
Warin starts mapping and scanning your attack surface in minutes. Qualys is a deployment project with onboarding, asset mapping, and tuning.
Focused on what startups need
Warin covers the external attack surface a startup must watch — without 20 enterprise modules you'll never configure. Less noise, less triage, less to learn.
Pricing
What you'll actually pay
- Starter $49/mo 5 assets · 3 users · every feature included
- Pro $99/mo 25 assets · 10 users · 14-day free trial
Flat, transparent pricing. Every feature on every plan — only asset and user counts change.
- Enterprise TruRisk Platform Custom quote Modular: priced per module × per asset
- Express Lite (small orgs) Custom quote Entry offering, limited asset counts
Qualys does not publish list pricing. Costs are negotiated through enterprise sales and stack up per module (VMDR, WAS, EASM, compliance, and more) and per asset. There's no flat, self-serve startup plan.
A fair look
Where Qualys might be the better fit
Qualys is a category leader for a reason. We'd point you to Qualys if:
- You're an enterprise with a security team. Qualys is built for large organizations with the staff to operate a deep, multi-module platform.
- You need broad internal + compliance coverage. 20+ modules span internal infrastructure, cloud, endpoints, patch management, and compliance/GRC (PCI DSS, SOC 2, and more).
- Regulatory scale and assurance matter. Qualys holds FedRAMP High authorization and is trusted by the largest regulated enterprises and governments.
- You want everything under one enterprise platform. If consolidating many security functions for a big org is the goal, Qualys's breadth is a genuine advantage.
Common questions
Warin vs Qualys: FAQ
For startups and small SaaS teams, yes. Warin delivers the external attack surface monitoring a startup needs — discovery, web and network scanning, SSL/TLS, breach monitoring, and AI fix guides — without the complexity, security-team requirement, and enterprise pricing of Qualys. For large enterprises needing deep internal and compliance coverage, Qualys remains the broader platform.
Qualys is an enterprise vulnerability-management and compliance platform with 20+ modules, built for dedicated security teams. Warin is a focused external attack surface monitor for founders and small teams, with a flat public price and guided remediation. They target different buyers.
Qualys does not publish pricing; it's quoted through enterprise sales and priced modularly (per module and per asset), so costs add up quickly. Warin is a flat $49/month (Starter) or $99/month (Pro) with every feature included.
Effectively, yes. Qualys is powerful but complex, and getting value from it typically requires dedicated security staff to deploy, tune, and interpret it. Warin is built to be run by a founder or generalist engineer with no security background.
Qualys's vulnerability-management platform does not include email/credential breach monitoring, and while it provides remediation data, it does not offer plain-English, per-finding AI fix guides. Warin includes both.
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