Template-based vulnerability scanner with thousands of community templates
AI-assisted template generation from natural-language prompts in the ProjectDiscovery ecosystem
MIT licensed
Nuclei — straight answers
What is Nuclei?
Nuclei is listed under Security & IT Operations, in the Industry-Specific Tools category on Flocci AI Tools. Template-based vulnerability scanner with thousands of community templates. It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at github.com.
Is Nuclei free?
Nuclei is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 397 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.
Can I use Nuclei in a browser, or is there an app?
Nuclei needs to be installed or self-hosted — it doesn't run in a browser tab. It is available on the command line, Mac, Windows, Linux and self-hosting.
What can Nuclei do?
Nuclei does 3 things the catalog singles out: Template-based vulnerability scanner with thousands of community templates; ai-assisted template generation from natural-language prompts in the projectdiscovery ecosystem; mit licensed.
What is the best free alternative to Nuclei?
Magika (Google) is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Security & IT Operations sub-category and is free. Strix, garak (NVIDIA) and PentestGPT also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.