ALTERNATIVES

Prisma Cloud Alternatives: 8 Options Compared (2026)

Prisma Cloud covers more ground than almost anything else in the category, which is also why teams leave it. Palo Alto Networks merged it with Cortex CDR into Cortex Cloud in 2025, and its documentation uses both names, so it is not always clear which product and which licence you are looking at. Licensing is by credits or protected workloads, there are no list prices, and its old trial page now shows only a demo booking. If you mainly want posture, identity and attack paths without a platform to administer, the field is wide. The Secorvia vs Prisma Cloud comparison covers that one pairing in 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.

Prisma Cloud alternatives compared, as of 17 October 2026
Product	Best for	Pricing model	Deployment	Free tier
Wiz	Security graph and the widest cloud list	Custom quote; marketplace list prices per 100 workloads	Agentless, optional eBPF sensor	None; trial or proof of concept
Orca Security	Agentless workload inspection	Monthly tiers by workload band on AWS Marketplace	Agentless, optional runtime sensor	None found; demo or vendor trial terms
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
Aqua Security	Air-gapped and regulated environments	By workload or code repository; no list prices	Agentless posture and agent-based enforcement	None; trial on request
CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security	Teams already running Falcon endpoints	Quote only; packages without prices	Agent and agentless	15-day free trial
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
Lacework FortiCNAPP	Fortinet customers	Quote; marketplace starter packs at $25,000 for 12 months	Agentless and agent	None confirmed; demo
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

Wiz

Wiz is the usual first stop for teams leaving Prisma Cloud, and the draw is focus. It runs mainly agentless, reading snapshots with read-only access, with a lightweight eBPF sensor if you want runtime data. Its security graph draws attack paths, and one platform covers posture, entitlements, data, AI and infrastructure as code.

Wiz also has wide cloud coverage in its own documentation: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle, Alibaba Cloud, VMware vSphere, Kubernetes and OpenShift. Google completed its acquisition in March 2026 and said the brand stays.

Wiz.io shows no prices and asks for a custom quote. The AWS Marketplace listing shows Essential at $24,000 and Advanced at $38,000 per 100 workloads on a 12-month contract. It has no free tier. It beats Secorvia on breadth and maturity, and it is built for organisations with a real cloud security budget.

Orca Security

Orca is the agentless specialist. Its SideScanning reads a workload's block storage out of band, so virtual machines, containers and serverless functions are inspected without anything installed on them. An optional sensor adds runtime visibility, and attack paths are scored on exploitability and business impact.

The simplicity is the pitch for a Prisma Cloud refugee: connect accounts, get results, skip the agent rollout. The trade is that Orca has no pricing page, and its AWS Marketplace listing shows monthly tiers from $7,000 to $30,000 sized by concurrent EC2 workloads. Evaluation starts with a personalised demo, and the marketplace listing refers to vendor free-trial terms without stating a length.

It is independent and venture backed, and it suits teams that want agentless depth with less module sprawl than Cortex Cloud.

Sysdig Secure

Sysdig is the pick when runtime is your priority. It created Falco, graduated in the CNCF in February 2024, and its agent watches containers and hosts through eBPF. A risk is tagged Live when a high-confidence event occurred on that resource within the last three hours, and Live risks rank higher at the same severity.

Agentless posture, identity and threat detection work on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure, and Oracle Cloud gets posture only. That is narrower than Cortex Cloud, which lists Alibaba as well.

Licensing is by host. Sysdig's site shows no prices, and 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. It beats Secorvia on runtime depth by a wide margin and suits container-heavy estates.

Aqua Security

Aqua sells a cloud native security platform that runs from code to runtime. It is privately held, founded in 2015, and its site lists investors including TLV Partners, Lightspeed and Insight Partners. Its product page states a FedRAMP High authorisation, and its homepage says its agent-based architecture keeps enforcing protection locally even in disconnected or air-gapped environments.

Posture is agentless, runtime enforcement uses an agent, and the homepage lists AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, IBM Cloud and Oracle Cloud alongside on-premises systems.

Pricing is by workload for cloud security and by repository for code security, with no dollar figures on the site. A reseller's AWS Marketplace listing shows private-offer tiers of $50,000, $100,000 and $150,000 for 12 months, which are the reseller's numbers. There is no free tier, only a trial on request. It beats Secorvia for regulated and air-gapped estates.

CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security

CrowdStrike's cloud product covers posture, workload protection, cloud detection and response, vulnerability management and application security under the Falcon platform. Posture and scanning are agentless, and runtime protection uses the Falcon sensor. Its pages list AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

CrowdStrike says it recorded full detection and protection with no false positives in MITRE's 2025 cloud evaluation, and that is the company's own claim, so read the evaluation before relying on it. The more practical draw is consolidation. If you already run Falcon on endpoints, cloud detections can be correlated with endpoint and identity signals in one console.

Prices are not published. The pricing page lists packages and asks for a custom quote. A 15-day free trial is offered. It fits Falcon customers, and for everyone else it is one more platform to adopt.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Defender for Cloud is Microsoft's platform for Azure, AWS and Google Cloud, plus on-premises servers. What stands out against Prisma Cloud is the free end of the range: Foundational CSPM gives recommendations, a secure score and a benchmark across all three clouds at no charge.

The paid Defender CSPM plan adds attack path analysis, a cloud security explorer and governance rules, billed on covered resources such as virtual machines, storage accounts and databases. Workload plans for servers, containers, storage and databases are billed separately. Microsoft says paid plans are free for 30 days.

Support outside Azure is narrower. On GCP, the paid plan bills only compute, storage buckets and Cloud SQL, so check which of your resource types are covered. It suits estates that are mostly Azure and teams that want a single Microsoft invoice.

Lacework FortiCNAPP

Lacework was acquired by Fortinet, with the deal announced on 10 June 2024 and completed on 2 August 2024. Fortinet then introduced Lacework FortiCNAPP in October 2024, and its docs now say FortiCNAPP, formerly Lacework.

It covers posture, Kubernetes, entitlements and workload protection, and it combines agentless collection through cloud APIs with an optional agent for intrusion detection and file and process monitoring. The product page names AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.

Fortinet's site shows no prices. The AWS Marketplace listing shows starter packs at $25,000 each for 12 months, capped by vCPU count. We could not confirm a free trial. The product integrates with the Fortinet Security Fabric, which is the reason to choose it. For teams without Fortinet in place, it is an acquired product still settling into its new parent.

Secorvia

Secorvia is a small product aimed at one slice of what Cortex Cloud covers: posture, identity and attack paths, without a platform to administer. It connects AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and DigitalOcean with read-only access and needs no agent for posture.

The free plan does not expire and allows one account per provider and three users. The security graph and attack paths begin on Starter at $149 a month billed annually, and Growth at $499 adds identity analysis, runtime security on Linux hosts and full API access. Prices are flat and sized by accounts and users.

Prisma Cloud beats it on nearly every axis of scope: Oracle and Alibaba support, data and AI posture, runtime depth, compliance mapping beyond SOC 2, ISO 27001, CIS and NIST CSF, and a long enterprise track record. Choose Secorvia for simplicity, not for coverage. Details are in the head-to-head comparison.

How to choose

Prisma Cloud buyers tend to leave for one of three reasons, and each points somewhere different.

Too much platform. If you use a fraction of the modules, look at Wiz or Orca for agentless focus, or at Secorvia if your needs are posture, identity and attack paths.
Pricing you cannot predict. Credit and workload models are hard to forecast. Datadog-style host pricing and flat plans are easier to budget, and a few vendors publish marketplace prices you can read.
Runtime or compliance depth. If you need to enforce at runtime, or to operate in air-gapped or FedRAMP-bound environments, Sysdig, Aqua and CrowdStrike are built for it.

Also check the brand you already pay. Defender for Cloud, FortiCNAPP and CrowdStrike all appear in renewals for customers of their parent companies, so price them before assuming a new vendor is cheaper.

Before you commit, run two candidates against one real account and see which gives you a shorter, more believable list. If attack paths are your reason to switch, attack path analysis explains what to ask each vendor.

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.