3 categories · RankedOpenVAS
OpenVAS is a full-featured vulnerability scanner used to scan networks for known vulnerabilities · openvas.org ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Intruder is first at 45%.
Rapid7 InsightVM is first at 33%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Tenable Vulnerability Management is first at 54%.
Why models recommend it
“Intruder for SaaS simplicity and Greenbone Community Edition for zero licence cost are the most frequently recommended options”Muse Glimmer 30B · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“OpenVAS (Greenbone Community Edition) is the most capable free vulnerability management tool”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Best Free/Open-Source Option ... Completely free and open-source”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“If your budget is tighter and you have internal Linux‑admin talent, OpenVAS + Greenbone Enterprise can give you solid coverage at essentially no license cost”MiniMax M2.5 · Paraphrase question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Standalone Nessus (without a console), OpenVAS (without Kubelet/KQL integration) | Lacks the "Management" layer”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Avoid if you need production-grade reliability — use it only for learning or very small lab environments.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
“avoid pure scanners (e.g., OpenVAS) as they lack full VM features”Grok 4.20 · Direct question · warning
“open-source scanners often produce high false-positive rates, require heavy manual maintenance, lack enterprise reporting dashboards”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as OpenVAS, over the 86 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 47 | 11 | Compare → | |
| 46 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 41 | 20 | Compare → | |
| 40 | 3 | View → | |
| 39 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 28 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 19 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 14 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 9 | 4 | View → | |
| 9 | 2 | View → |
What the models named instead of OpenVAS →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 71 of the 86 answers that named OpenVAS and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
190 of the 190 domain citations in answers naming OpenVAS came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |