ALTERNATIVES

Sysdig Alternatives: 7 Options Compared (2026)

Sysdig is the runtime specialist, and the reasons to look elsewhere are the flip side of that. It is licensed by host, and its AWS Marketplace listing shows $72 a month for the enterprise tier with a minimum of 20 units for a public purchase, so cost follows your fleet size. If your main questions are about posture and identity, you may be paying for runtime depth you do not use. We also found no self-serve trial. Sysdig's website lists no prices and leads to demos. For a direct comparison with Secorvia, read the head-to-head.

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.

Sysdig alternatives compared, as of 17 October 2026
Product	Best for	Pricing model	Deployment	Free tier
Aqua Security	Runtime enforcement in 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
Prisma Cloud / Cortex Cloud	Large estates that want many modules	Credits or protected workloads, annual; no list prices	Agentless posture, agent for runtime	None; demo only
Wiz	Security graph and cloud coverage	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
Datadog Cloud Security	Teams already running Datadog	Per host per month plus per container, list prices published	Agent and agentless	14-day trial of the Datadog suite
Secorvia	Teams that need posture and attack paths, not runtime	Flat plans: Free, $149 and $499 a month billed annually	Agentless for posture; Linux host agent on Growth	Free forever, no card

Aqua Security

Aqua is the closest match to Sysdig's runtime focus. Its platform spans code to runtime, with an agent that enforces protection on the workload itself. Its homepage says enforcement continues locally even in disconnected or air-gapped environments, and its product page states a FedRAMP High authorisation. It describes runtime forensics that preserve memory and process lineage before a workload terminates.

Posture is agentless. The homepage lists AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, IBM Cloud and Oracle Cloud, as well as on-premises systems.

Aqua is privately held and was founded in 2015. Its pricing page shows no dollar figures, only that cloud security is priced by workload and code security by repository. A reseller's AWS Marketplace listing shows tiers of $50,000, $100,000 and $150,000 for 12 months. It beats Secorvia clearly on runtime enforcement and on regulated or disconnected environments.

CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security

For a team that watches endpoints through CrowdStrike already, extending that into cloud workloads is a natural move. Falcon Cloud Security covers posture, workload protection, cloud detection and response, vulnerability management and application security. Runtime protection uses the Falcon sensor, and posture scanning is agentless. Its pages list AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Its cloud detection and response product correlates cloud, endpoint and identity signals and ties detections to CrowdStrike's adversary intelligence. CrowdStrike also reports full detection with no false positives in MITRE's 2025 cloud evaluation, which is the vendor's own claim.

Prices are not published. The pricing page lists packages and asks for a custom quote, and a 15-day free trial is available. It beats Secorvia on runtime detection and threat intelligence, and it fits Falcon customers best.

Prisma Cloud and Cortex Cloud

Palo Alto Networks merged Prisma Cloud with Cortex CDR in 2025 to form Cortex Cloud. It spans several plans, and the one that matters here is the runtime plan, which adds workload protection through an agent on top of agentless posture.

The posture plan covers cloud posture, entitlements, data, AI and Kubernetes. Onboarding docs list AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Alibaba Cloud, so it is a wider cloud list than Sysdig's.

Licensing is by protected workload on an annual subscription, with no list prices published. Prisma Cloud's older model uses credits, billed hourly for active resources. The trial page now shows only a demo booking. It makes sense for large organisations buying across Palo Alto Networks, and less sense for a team that wants one runtime tool, since the scope is a platform and the contract is sales-led.

Wiz

Wiz is the posture-first alternative. It scans mainly without agents, using read-only snapshots, and it offers an optional lightweight eBPF sensor if you want runtime data. A security graph draws attack paths across the platform's coverage of posture, entitlements, data, AI and infrastructure as code.

If you were using Sysdig mainly for its cloud posture side, Wiz is the usual benchmark. Its documentation lists AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle, Alibaba Cloud, vSphere, Kubernetes and OpenShift. Google completed its acquisition in March 2026 and said the Wiz brand will continue.

Wiz.io lists no prices. On AWS Marketplace, Essential is listed at $24,000 and Advanced at $38,000 per 100 workloads for 12 months, and the sensor is a separate add-on. There is no free tier, only a trial or proof of concept. Runtime is the weaker side compared with Sysdig.

Orca Security

Orca reads a workload's block storage out of band, which it calls SideScanning, so it can inspect virtual machines, containers and serverless functions without agents. A separate sensor is available for runtime observability and protection, which makes it a middle path between pure agentless and a Sysdig-style agent.

It builds attack paths across accounts and providers and scores them on exploitability and business impact.

Orca has no pricing page. Its AWS Marketplace listing shows monthly tiers from $7,000 to $30,000, each a starter pack of concurrent EC2 workloads, rather than per-host pricing. That can be easier to forecast if your host count moves around. Evaluation begins with a personalised demo, and the listing refers to vendor free-trial terms without giving a length. Orca is independent and venture backed. Its runtime depth is lighter than Sysdig's.

Datadog Cloud Security

Datadog's security product sits on its monitoring platform, so the pitch is shared context: the same agent, the same console and the same tags. Cloud Security, previously called Cloud Security Management, covers posture, identity entitlements, vulnerability management and compliance, and its price list shows a separate Workload Protection product.

Datadog publishes its list prices, though the price list still uses the old names. Cloud Security Management Pro is $10 per host per month on an annual plan ($12 on demand) and Enterprise is $25 ($30), with $0.50 or $1 per container per month on annual terms. Workload Protection is listed at $15 per host annual. Like Sysdig, the unit is the host, so the same forecasting issue applies.

A 14-day trial of the Datadog suite is offered. It fits teams that already run Datadog and want security alongside observability.

Secorvia

Secorvia does not compete with Sysdig on runtime, and it says so. Its runtime security is a Linux host agent on the Growth plan, and it has nothing like Falco's depth in containers. If catching live behaviour is your reason for buying Sysdig, this is not the replacement.

If your reason is posture, identity and attack paths, it is lighter and cheaper to try. It connects AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and DigitalOcean with read-only access, needs no agent for posture, and has a free plan that does not expire. The security graph and attack paths begin on Starter at $149 a month billed annually, and prices are flat, not per host.

Sysdig covers Oracle Cloud for posture and has far more compliance mapping, including PCI DSS, HIPAA and NIST 800-53, where Secorvia maps four frameworks. Many teams would run both. See the Secorvia vs Sysdig comparison.

How to choose

The question is how much of Sysdig you actually use.

You use runtime detection daily. Stay in that category: Aqua and CrowdStrike are built for it, and Cortex Cloud has a runtime plan.
You bought it for posture and attack paths. Wiz and Orca are posture-first, and Secorvia is the lightest and cheapest to trial.
Per-host cost is the problem. Orca prices by workload band and Wiz by workload count. Secorvia is flat, and Datadog is per host like Sysdig.
You already run Datadog or Falcon. Compare their security add-on before adding a vendor.
Regulated or air-gapped. Aqua states support for disconnected environments and FedRAMP High.

Many teams end up with two tools, one for runtime and one for posture, and that is a reasonable outcome. If you are weighing how to rank what the posture side finds, 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.