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Prowler vs Wiz comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 24, 2026

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Prowler
Ranking in Cloud Security Remediation
4th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Wiz
Ranking in Cloud Security Remediation
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
68
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (1st), Container Security (1st), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (2nd), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (1st), Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (1st), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (1st), Compliance Management (1st), Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (2nd), Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) (2nd), Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) (1st), Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) (1st), AI Security (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Cloud Security Remediation category, the mindshare of Prowler is 9.6%, down from 9.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Wiz is 27.4%, down from 35.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Security Remediation Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Wiz27.4%
Prowler9.6%
Other63.0%
Cloud Security Remediation
 

Featured Reviews

Dhruv Vaghasiya - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer at Titanslab Inc.
Continuous assessments have strengthened our cloud security posture and compliance readiness
Prowler would benefit from improvements in dashboards and visualization. Currently, dashboards are only available for the default configuration. If Prowler could provide custom dashboards and querying into our data, it would be more useful for organizations. Additionally, more automated suggestions and reporting customization would be valuable. Currently, Prowler only provides PDF reports for their default posture and does not provide reports for frameworks like SOC 2 Type 2. While the scanning capabilities are strong, the most significant improvements would focus on visualization, automation, and enterprise workflow integration. Deeper integration with ticketing tools and SIEM tools would enhance the platform's value. Stronger enterprise reporting and automated remediation capabilities would add significant value to Prowler.
Peter Whelan - PeerSpot reviewer
CISO at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Improved our security posture thanks to comprehensive visibility
I have contacted Wiz technical support frequently. The support is excellent. We contact via an in-application portal. We can see the support cases we personally open, and also the cases that other people have opened from our company. I appreciate that feature. Generally, support gets back to us within a few days with a good answer. There was one fellow in particular who has been knocking it out of the park. He is a great support person to deal with. We are happy with the support experience. If I were to put Wiz support on a scale from one to ten, I would give them a ten.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Prowler has positively impacted our organization by improving our security posture, increasing visibility into our cloud misconfigurations, and helping us strengthen our compliance processes."
"Using Prowler scans is definitely very helpful."
"Prowler has positively impacted our organization by improving our security posture, increasing visibility into our cloud misconfigurations, and helping us strengthen our compliance processes."
"Prowler has saved us a lot of time, as our engineers previously wasted time manually checking all the configurations of cloud resources maintained in Excel sheets; after switching to Prowler, we save 60 to 70% of our engineers' time, as they no longer need to check each cloud account and resource individually."
"Before using Prowler, we were spending hours of our engineers' efforts on compliance and misconfiguration checks, saving that configuration in Excel sheets, and after switching to Prowler, these processes are super smooth and easy, and we are currently saving our engineers' time."
"Prowler offers real-time scanning, which is crucial when improving our cloud security posture, as updates can be immediately reflected on the scoreboard."
"Prowler has positively impacted my organization by helping us on the security front by improving compliance."
"For any organization who want to think of moving to Wiz, the Security Graph feature is amazing and awesome, giving you deeper information than any other tools does and allowing a small security team to manage a massive complex cloud environment without hiring dozens of additional users to look into it."
"One feature I particularly appreciate about Wiz is that, similar to other cloud-native security tools like Microsoft's Defender for Cloud, it allows you to define policies as code and deploy them through a version control system with a continuous deployment pipeline."
"I like Wiz's reporting, and it's easy to do queries. For example, it's pretty simple to find out how many servers we have and the applications installed on each. I like Wiz's security graph because you can use it to see the whole organization even if you have multiple accounts."
"Wiz gives a very good insight into how secure your software and code are and is quite good at consolidating the scanning results."
"Wiz is a very mature platform that we use daily as an end-to-end cloud management tool, and it is great as it reduces your company's security risk and actively monitors your entire cloud infrastructure, so you do not need to worry about any cloud risks affecting your organization."
"The granularity of visibility that the platform provides is the most valuable aspect."
"The automation roles are essential because we ultimately want to do less work and automate more. The dashboards are easy to read and visually pleasing. You can understand things quickly, which makes it easy for our other teams. The network and infrastructure teams don't know as much about security as we do, so it helps to have a tool that's accessible and nice to look at."
"Our most important features are those around entitlement, external exposure, vulnerabilities, and container security."
 

Cons

"Some of the findings in Prowler are not that critical but come in the critical category, so that could be improved."
"One limitation is that after scanning the cloud account, Prowler provides reports of compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO certified, but we only receive an Excel sheet; I think a PDF report along with remediation steps is needed to help us improve our cloud accounts better."
"Prowler would benefit from improvements in dashboards and visualization."
"Prowler would benefit from improvements in dashboards and visualization."
"I do have one pain point using Prowler. Every time I use Prowler to output results, they have three formats available: CSV, HTML, and JSON."
"I give Prowler a score of seven or eight due to its inclusion of multiple security policies and the lack of a feature for adding false positives."
"For the reports, Prowler does not provide PDF reports for all compliances; it only gives reports for the Prowler configuration."
"The remediation workflow within the Wiz could be improved."
"Wiz does encounter some glitches similar to other tools in the market; I remember facing certain challenges, such as problems scanning encrypted disks or discrepancies in the findings from already remediated vulnerabilities not reflecting accurately in the tool."
"There are various ways to improve Wiz, particularly focusing on posture prioritization and enhancing runtime detections while comparing to solutions like CrowdStrike or Defender which have more mature runtime capabilities and can work on stronger behavior-based detections."
"I have a big improvement in mind for Wiz Code, not a small improvement."
"Two percent would be that the loading time is taking a bit longer while loading the graph, and while navigating to other links, that is also taking some time."
"In Brazil, the cost is a significant issue due to the currency exchange rate."
"I rate the accuracy and reliability as good, but not yet at a level where I trust it without validation."
"More or less, Wiz is doing well, but the false alerts at random times would be another area for improvement."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Regarding pricing, it’s more than $100k because we have a very big infrastructure. Our environment supports around three thousand people, and we offer business-to-client financial services to around one million clients, so we rely heavily on Wiz."
"The pricing is fair and comparable to their competitors. The cost seems to be going up, which is a concern. There are potential savings from consolidating tools, but we're uncertain how Wiz's pricing will change over time."
"The pricing seems pretty simple. We don't have to do a lot of calculations to figure out what the components are. They do it by enabling specific features, either basics or advanced, which makes it easy to select."
"I wish the pricing was more transparent."
"If one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the tool's price as a five out of ten."
"The cost of the other solutions is comparable to Wiz."
"Wiz is a moderately priced solution, where it is neither cheap nor costly."
"Based on the features and capabilities, the product pricing seems reasonable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
12%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Retailer
11%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Computer Software Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Large Enterprise4
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business16
Midsize Enterprise12
Large Enterprise48
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Prowler?
I have not deep dived into the pricing and setup cost, but the setup cost is very minimal, and using Prowler's cloud platform requires a small amount of money for securing and complying with our cl...
What needs improvement with Prowler?
Prowler is open source and easy for me to access. I know there are many other tools such as Trend Micro or Trivy. Trivy is open source as well, but because I always use it for my POC environment, I...
What is your primary use case for Prowler?
I recently used Prowler for a POC use case rather than a production environment. Prowler enables me to keep my POC environment secure so it is ready for promotion to next environments like producti...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Wiz?
No involvement occurred with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Wiz since it was a free proof of concept. Approximately 200 licenses were provided for the initiative, but pricing moving forward...
What needs improvement with Wiz?
While Checkmarx may perform better in some deep code scanning aspects, Wiz is considerably easier to use, has a better user interface, and offers a more compelling argument for its use. It is more ...
What is your primary use case for Wiz?
Wiz is being tested to compare against Checkmarx, examining scanning capabilities, native visibility, ease of deployment, and code-level analysis. The proof of concept has completed, and we had int...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

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Wiz Code, Wiz Defend
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

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Wiz is the fastest growing software company ever - $100M ARR in 18 months: Wiz becomes the fastest-growing software company ever | Wiz Blog  Discover why companies, including Salesforce, Morgan Stanley, Fox, and Bridgewater choose Wiz as their cloud security partner. Read their success stories here: Customers | Wiz
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