ALTERNATIVES

Orca Security Alternatives: 7 Options Compared (2026)

Orca built its name on agentless scanning, and that part is hard to fault. The reasons teams look elsewhere are mostly about buying it. Orca's website has no pricing page. Its AWS Marketplace listing shows monthly tiers sized by concurrent workloads, and the way to evaluate it is a personalised demo. Some buyers also want a runtime agent to be a core part of the product rather than an optional sensor, and others want a free plan to prove value on one account before involving procurement. If you are weighing Orca against Secorvia directly, the head-to-head comparison goes into more detail.

Last reviewed 17 October 2026

The options at a glance

Prices and product details below were checked on 17 October 2026. Where a vendor publishes no price, the table describes how it charges instead of guessing a figure.

Orca Security alternatives compared, as of 17 October 2026
Product	Best for	Pricing model	Deployment	Free tier
Wiz	Widest cloud coverage and a mature security graph	Custom quote; marketplace list prices per 100 workloads	Agentless, optional eBPF sensor	None; trial or proof of concept
Prisma Cloud / Cortex Cloud	Large estates that want many modules in one platform	Credits or protected workloads, annual; no list prices	Agentless posture, agent for runtime	None; demo only
Sysdig Secure	Runtime detection in containers and Kubernetes	Per host; marketplace lists $72 a month, minimum 20 units	Agentless posture, eBPF agent for runtime	None found; demo
Lacework FortiCNAPP	Fortinet customers	Quote; marketplace starter packs at $25,000 for 12 months	Agentless and agent	None confirmed; demo
Microsoft Defender for Cloud	Azure-centred estates	Free baseline posture; paid plans billed per resource	Agentless and agent-based	Free Foundational CSPM; 30 days on paid plans
Secorvia	Small teams that want a free start and flat prices	Flat plans: Free, $149 and $499 a month billed annually	Agentless for posture; Linux host agent on Growth	Free forever, no card
Prowler	Engineers who want open source or a per-account price	Free open source; hosted cloud at $99 per account per month	CLI, self-hosted app or hosted service	Open source; 7-day trial of the hosted service

Wiz

Wiz is the product Orca is most often measured against. It runs primarily agentless, reading snapshots with read-only access, and offers an optional lightweight eBPF sensor for runtime. Its security graph draws attack paths, and one platform covers posture, identity entitlements, data, AI and infrastructure-as-code.

Its clearest advantage is reach. Wiz's own documentation lists AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle, Alibaba Cloud, VMware vSphere, Kubernetes and OpenShift. Google completed its acquisition in March 2026 and said the brand stays.

On price, wiz.io asks for a custom quote. Its AWS Marketplace listing is more specific: Essential at $24,000 and Advanced at $38,000 per 100 workloads on a 12-month contract, with the sensor, code scanning and Defend as add-ons. There is no free tier, only a trial or proof of concept. It suits mid-size and larger organisations with several clouds.

Prisma Cloud and Cortex Cloud

If Orca feels narrow, Palo Alto Networks' answer is breadth. In February 2025 it merged Prisma Cloud with Cortex CDR to form Cortex Cloud, described as the next version of Prisma Cloud, and both names still turn up in its documentation.

The posture plan covers cloud posture, entitlements, data, AI and Kubernetes, and a runtime plan adds workload protection through an agent. Onboarding docs list AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Alibaba Cloud.

Licensing counts protected workloads on an annual subscription for Cortex Cloud, and credits for Prisma Cloud. Neither has published list prices. A reseller's AWS Marketplace listing for Prisma Cloud shows $9,000 a year for 100 Business Edition units and $18,000 for Enterprise, which is the reseller's figure and not Palo Alto's list price. The trial page now shows only a demo booking.

It fits large teams that already run Palo Alto Networks and want one vendor across network, endpoint and cloud.

Sysdig Secure

Sysdig comes at the problem from runtime. It created Falco, which was open sourced in 2016 and graduated in the CNCF in February 2024, and its agent uses eBPF to watch what containers and hosts do as it happens. Its Risks view marks a risk as Live when a high-confidence event occurred on the resource within the last three hours, and ranks Live risks higher at the same severity.

Agentless posture, identity and threat detection cover AWS, Google Cloud and Azure, and Oracle Cloud has posture only.

It is the stronger pick than Orca, and than Secorvia, when you want to catch a shell in a container as it opens. Licensing is by host. Sysdig's site shows no prices, while its AWS Marketplace listing shows $72 a month for the enterprise CNAPP tier on a one-month contract, with a minimum of 20 units for a public purchase. We found no self-serve trial, only demos.

Lacework FortiCNAPP

Fortinet announced it would acquire Lacework on 10 June 2024 and completed the deal on 2 August 2024. In October 2024 it introduced Lacework FortiCNAPP, built on Lacework's platform, and Fortinet's own docs now say "FortiCNAPP (formerly Lacework)".

The product covers cloud posture, Kubernetes posture, identity entitlements and workload protection. Fortinet describes a combined approach: agentless collection through cloud APIs plus an optional agent for intrusion detection, file integrity and process monitoring. The product page names AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.

Fortinet publishes no prices on the product page. Its AWS Marketplace listing shows starter packs at $25,000 each for 12 months, capped by vCPU count, with the cap lower on the higher tiers. We could not confirm a trial specific to the product.

The main reason to pick it is integration with the Fortinet Security Fabric, so it fits teams already standardised on Fortinet.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Defender for Cloud is Microsoft's cloud security platform, and it protects Azure, AWS and Google Cloud, plus on-premises machines. Two things make it worth a look next to Orca. A free Foundational CSPM tier gives recommendations and a secure score on all three clouds, and the paid Defender CSPM plan adds attack path analysis and a cloud security explorer.

Both agentless and agent-based collection are available, depending on the plan. Microsoft bills Defender CSPM by the resources it covers, for example virtual machines, storage accounts, databases and, on AWS, EC2, S3 and RDS. Its pages say paid plans are free for 30 days.

Its limits show on the other clouds. For GCP, the paid plan counts only compute, storage buckets and Cloud SQL. It is the obvious choice when most of your estate is Azure and you want one Microsoft bill, and a weaker fit for an AWS-only shop that wants deep workload inspection.

Secorvia

Secorvia is far younger and smaller than Orca, and for workload inspection it does less. It reads configuration and metadata through a read-only connection and does not read the disks of your virtual machines. Orca does, so if that depth is what you bought Orca for, Secorvia is not a replacement.

The difference is in what you can try and what it costs. There is a free plan that does not expire, with one account per provider and three users. Starter, at $149 a month billed annually, adds the security graph and attack paths, and Growth at $499 adds identity analysis and runtime security on Linux hosts. Plans are flat, with limits on accounts and users, and DigitalOcean is covered along with AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.

It does not connect Oracle or Alibaba accounts. See the Secorvia vs Orca comparison for the full table.

Prowler

Prowler takes the opposite route to Orca's closed platform. Its code is open under the Apache-2.0 licence, and you can run it from a command line, as a library or as a self-hosted web app. The repository lists many hundreds of checks for AWS and large sets for Azure and Google Cloud, plus Kubernetes, Microsoft 365, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Alibaba Cloud, and it maps results to CIS, NIST, PCI-DSS, HIPAA and SOC 2.

It is actively maintained: version 5.45.0 was published on 15 October 2026. If you would rather not run it yourself, Prowler Cloud is the hosted version. Its pricing page lists $99 per cloud account per month on monthly billing, with a lower rate for annual, and a seven-day trial with no card required.

It beats Secorvia on provider coverage and cost of entry, and it asks for more of your own time. The per-account price also grows with every account you add.

How to choose

Decide what you were buying Orca for, then look for the product that keeps that and fixes the rest.

You want agentless inspection and a visible price. Wiz and Prowler Cloud publish list prices somewhere, Wiz on a marketplace and Prowler on its site. Check both against your workload count.
You need runtime detection. Sysdig is built for it, and Cortex Cloud and FortiCNAPP have agents too.
You are mostly on Azure. Start with Defender for Cloud and its free baseline.
You already buy from Fortinet or Palo Alto Networks. Their cloud products will come up in that renewal, so price them first.
You want to start free on one account. Use Secorvia's free plan or Prowler's open source tool, and see whether the output is something you would act on.

A short, honest trial beats a long comparison. Connect one real account to your top two candidates and count how many of the first ten findings you would actually fix this week. For what a good ranking looks like, read attack path analysis.

Sources

Every price, name and ownership claim above was read from these pages on 17 October 2026. Vendors change them often, so check the live page before you rely on a figure.