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Orca Alternative: Secorvia vs Orca (2026)

Written by Rohaan · Last verified 3 October 2026

Secorvia is a lower-cost alternative to Orca Security for teams on AWS, Azure, GCP and DigitalOcean that want a permanent free plan and published prices. Orca is the stronger product for deep agentless inspection of virtual machine disks, which its patented SideScanning was built for, and for Oracle Cloud or Alibaba Cloud estates.

Quick verdict

Choose Orca if you need to see inside every VM, container and function without installing anything, and you have an enterprise budget. Choose Secorvia if your main questions are about configuration, identity and attack paths, and you want to start without a sales process.

Pricing compared

Orca does not publish list prices on its website. Reported figures suggest a broad spread: Vendr's data from 93 purchases shows a median of $95,625 a year, with recorded contracts between $16,380 and $215,450. Orca has also offered a 30-day free trial through AWS Marketplace, announced in November 2022. We could not find a permanent free plan on Orca's own site.

Secorvia's plans are on the pricing page: Free at $0 with no expiry, Starter at $149 a month billed annually ($199 monthly), Growth at $499 a month billed annually ($649 monthly), and Enterprise on quote.

The two are priced on different units. Orca's pricing is driven by the workloads it scans. Secorvia's is a flat rate per plan, with limits on connected accounts, users and images rather than a per-asset meter.

Feature comparison

Cells are written as complete statements so each one still makes sense when read alone. Orca details come from its own pages, a government marketplace listing and integration documentation, listed under Sources.

Secorvia and Orca compared, as of 3 October 2026
Capability	Secorvia	Orca
Published pricing	Yes: Free, $149 a month and $499 a month plans, billed annually	No public list prices on Orca's website; reported contracts have a median of $95,625 a year
Free plan	Free forever: one account per provider, 3 users, no credit card	No permanent free plan found; a 30-day free trial has been offered through AWS Marketplace
Self-serve signup	Yes: sign up and connect an account without talking to sales	Trial available through AWS Marketplace; purchase is usually through sales or partners
Cloud providers	AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and DigitalOcean	AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud and Oracle Cloud
How workloads are inspected	Read-only cloud APIs, plus optional agents for Kubernetes and Linux runtime	Patented SideScanning reads workload block storage out of band, with no agent
Security graph and attack paths	Security graph, attack paths and blast radius from the Starter plan	Attack path analysis, including cross-account and cross-cloud paths, scored on probability and impact
Finding status model	Two states per result: detection, set by scans, and operational, set by your team	One alert status: Open, In Progress, Closed or Dismissed, plus Snooze
Runtime security	Linux host runtime agent on Growth and Enterprise	Cloud detection and response offered as part of the platform
Infrastructure as code	IaC scanning on every plan, including Free	Shift-left security for code and pipelines
Containers and Kubernetes	Container and Kubernetes security from the Starter plan	Container and Kubernetes security, including images found by SideScanning
CIEM	Entitlement analysis on Growth and Enterprise	CIEM included in the platform
Data security	Not offered as a separate module	Data security posture management (DSPM) included
Compliance frameworks	SOC 2, ISO 27001, CIS and NIST CSF	Multi-cloud compliance with a large built-in framework library

How findings are tracked

Both products track work on each result, but they hold the state differently.

Orca uses a single alert status. Its integration documentation lists Open, In Progress, Close and Dismiss, with a separate Snooze action that hides an alert for a while. That is simple to learn, and Snooze covers the common case of "not now, but not never".

Secorvia separates the scanner from the team. The detection state is set only by scans. The operational state is yours: assignee, investigating, resolved, suppressed or risk accepted. Suppression needs a written reason, can expire, and still counts towards risk and compliance scores. A result your team marks resolved shows "marked resolved, awaiting verification" until a scan confirms the fix, and only then "verified resolved".

The practical gain is an honest audit trail. You can see both what the team decided and what the last scan actually found, without one overwriting the other. The triage guide shows it in the product.

Where Orca is the better choice

Seeing inside workloads without agents. SideScanning reads the block storage of running VMs out of band. That finds vulnerable packages, malware and exposed secrets on disk across every instance, with nothing to deploy. Secorvia needs its agent for host-level runtime data, so on a large fleet of VMs Orca will see more, sooner.
Oracle Cloud and Alibaba Cloud. Orca supports both. Secorvia does not connect either. If they matter to you, Orca is the better choice today.
Breadth of modules. Orca bundles DSPM, API security and cloud detection and response alongside posture. Secorvia does not offer a separate data security module.
Compliance reporting at scale. Orca's built-in framework library is much larger than Secorvia's four frameworks.

Orca deserves credit here. It was early to agentless workload scanning, and its approach shaped how the rest of the market talks about it. Secorvia's cloud posture is agentless too, but it does not read disks the way SideScanning does.

Where Secorvia fits better

You want a free plan that does not expire. Secorvia's Free plan has no end date and no card. A 30-day trial is a different decision.
Your risk is mostly configuration and identity. Public endpoints, wildcard roles and trust policies are where most cloud incidents start. Secorvia ranks them on one graph from the Starter plan.
You run DigitalOcean. Secorvia maps it next to AWS, Azure and GCP. Orca's published provider list does not include it.
You want a price you can read. No per-workload meter and no negotiation for the self-serve plans.

New to the terms? Read what CSPM covers, how attack paths are found and how CVSS, EPSS and KEV differ, since both products lean on all three.

Getting started

Sign up free at app.secorvia.com, then connect a cloud account with read-only access. The connection guide covers all four providers. Results appear as soon as the first scan completes.

Running an Orca trial at the same time is a fair test. Both tools only read, so they can scan the same account side by side.

FAQ

Is Secorvia cheaper than Orca Security?

At list price, yes. Secorvia publishes plans from $0 to $499 a month billed annually. Orca does not publish prices, and Vendr's buyer data reports a median of $95,625 a year.

Does Orca have a free plan?

We could not find a permanent free plan on Orca's site. Orca has offered a 30-day free trial through AWS Marketplace. Secorvia's Free plan has no expiry.

What is Orca SideScanning?

Orca's patented method of reading a workload's block storage out of band, through the cloud provider's infrastructure, so it can inspect VMs and containers without installing an agent.

Does Secorvia scan VM disks like Orca?

No. Secorvia reads cloud configuration through APIs and uses an optional agent for Linux host runtime data. It does not read disk snapshots.

Which clouds does each one support?

Secorvia supports AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and DigitalOcean. Orca lists AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud and Oracle Cloud.

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Sources

Competitor details were checked against these pages on 3 October 2026. Pricing figures from third parties are estimates, not list prices.