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Axonius tells you what exists and what your tools are missing. Alvor makes the asset record the spine of the program: ownership, data governance, dependencies, continuity, risks, and evidence on the same record.
Scope at a glance
Alvor
9 of 9 · one graph
Axonius
1 of 9 · 3 partial
Read from Axonius's public materials, July 2026: the Asset Cloud suite (Cyber Assets, Software Assets, SaaS Applications, Identities, Exposures), CIS-benchmark compliance checks on assets, and Axonius AI. Partial means lighter-weight or adjacent coverage rather than a dedicated module. Spot something out of date? Tell us and we will fix it.
The quick verdict
Choose Alvor when
Choose Axonius when
The bigger picture
Axonius built the cyber asset attack surface management (CAASM) category: agentless aggregation across 1,200+ adapters, deduplicated into one enterprise inventory with coverage-gap detection and automated enforcement.
Axonius created the CAASM category and still defines it: agentless, API-based aggregation across 1,200 or more adapters, deduplicated into a single inventory that shows every device, identity, SaaS app, and cloud instance, and, crucially, which of them your security tools are missing. It rode that idea to Fortune 500 customers and one of the fastest revenue ramps in cybersecurity. If the question is what exists in this environment and what is unprotected, Axonius is the enterprise-grade answer.
But aggregation is visibility, not stewardship. The Axonius asset record is assembled from other tools so you can find gaps and push enforcement actions; it is not the place where risk, compliance, policy, continuity, or vendor work actually happens (third-party risk tools appear in Axonius as data sources to ingest, not as a capability). In Alvor the asset record is where the program lives: the owner, classification, and data governance fields sit on the record, dependencies and business continuity plans hang off it, and the risks it carries, the controls that protect it, and the evidence auditors read all link back to it. One is a lens over your estate; the other is the ledger your program runs on.
The pricing shapes differ the same way. Axonius does not publish pricing and meters per asset under management (its public AWS Marketplace listing prices a 500-asset package at $90,625 per year as of July 2026). Alvor publishes flat tiers by company size, every module included. If you are an enterprise reconciling forty tools' views of a two-hundred-thousand-asset estate, buy Axonius and give it the mandate. If you want the asset record to drive architecture, risk, compliance, and continuity in one governed platform, that is Alvor.
Side by side
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Capability
Alvor
Axonius
Primary category
Alvor
Unified security architecture management and compliance platform
Axonius
Cyber asset attack surface management (Axonius Asset Cloud)
Scope
Alvor
Eight integrated modules: asset management, secure by design (security architecture), risk, compliance, policy, program, third-party risk, and business continuity, plus an embedded AI assistant.
Axonius
Asset intelligence suite: Cyber Assets, Software Assets, SaaS Applications, Identities, Exposures, Cyber-Physical Assets, Verified Assets.
Asset model
Alvor
System of record: ownership, classification, data governance, dependencies, continuity plan, risks, controls, and evidence on one record.
Axonius
System of visibility: agentless aggregation from 1,200+ adapters, deduplicated into a unified inventory with coverage-gap detection.
Discovery mechanism
Alvor
Cloud, SaaS, and identity discovery feeding the register; not an aggregation engine over your other security tools, and we say so.
Axonius
Its genuine strength: API aggregation across the tools you already run, at enterprise scale, without agents, plus automated enforcement actions.
Risk management
Alvor
Full risk register: heat maps, threat libraries, MITRE ATT&CK mapping, inherent vs residual scoring, treatment and acceptance workflows.
Axonius
Exposure prioritization over technical findings with business context; no enterprise risk register or acceptance workflow.
Compliance
Alvor
Compliance automation across ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST CSF 2.0, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS, with evidence collection and audit workflows.
Axonius
CIS benchmark and endpoint compliance checks on assets; not audit evidence automation for certification frameworks.
Policy, continuity, third-party risk
Alvor
Dedicated modules: policy lifecycle with acknowledgement, BCM with guided BIA and activation board, TPRM with SIG / SIG Lite / CAIQ.
Axonius
Not covered: policy means saved technical queries, continuity is not addressed, and TPRM tools are ingested as data sources.
Security architecture / Secure by Design
Alvor
Seven-phase workflow, threat modeling (STRIDE, LINDDUN), AI design and threat modeling studios, decision records.
Axonius
Not covered.
AI
Alvor
Agentic studios on your own model provider (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Azure, Bedrock), approval-gated writes, audit-logged.
Axonius
Axonius AI: natural-language queries, risk prioritization, orchestrated remediation; announced October 2025 with GA targeted for H1 2026; model hosting not publicly documented.
Pricing
Alvor
Published. Starter $8K, Growth $18K, Scale $48K. One seat per employee. 10% renewal cap.
Axonius
Not published; metered per asset under management. Public AWS Marketplace listing: $90,625/year for a 500-asset Complete package (July 2026).
Module gating
Alvor
Every plan includes every module.
Axonius
Suite components and asset counts priced individually; SaaS management metered per user.
Comparison based on each product's publicly described scope at the time of writing. Capabilities and pricing may change; we update this page when we notice. If something here is out of date, write to us and we'll fix it.
Questions
Common questions security leaders ask while shortlisting.
They do different jobs, and it is worth being precise. Alvor's Asset Management module is the system of record: discovery for cloud, SaaS, and identity feeding a governed register where ownership, data governance, dependencies, continuity plans, risks, and evidence live together. Axonius is an aggregation engine that reconciles what dozens of other tools each believe about your estate. If your need is enterprise-wide reconciliation across forty tool APIs, Axonius is built for exactly that. If your need is an asset record that drives the rest of the security program, that is Alvor.
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