7 categories · RankedQualys VMDR
Qualys VMDR is a vulnerability management, detection and response product from Qualys, delivered as a SaaS platform · qualys.com ↗
Strongest at enterprise. Ranked 82 of 82 for small business buyers.
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%. 1 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Tenable Vulnerability Management is first at 54%.
Why models recommend it
“Qualys VMDR or Rapid7 InsightVM are the strongest choices. They are purpose-built for this market segment.”MiniMax M2.5 · Direct question · first choice
“Qualys VMDR or Rapid7 InsightVM are probably your best bets for a mid-sized B2B company”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Paraphrase question · first choice
“I'd recommend Qualys VMDR (Vulnerability Management, Detection & Response) as the top pick”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Start with: Tenable or Qualys for most organizations due to maturity and breadth.”Grok 4.20 · Comparative question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Avoid if support and ease-of-use are priorities; test against Tenable or Rapid7.”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
“Tanium, Ivanti, and Qualys can suit large or security-led environments, but licensing, modules, administration, and implementation effort may outweigh their value for smaller fleets.”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“False positive rates: Documented cases of up to 30% false positives... Overkill for SMBs — very complex for newcomers.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
“UpGuard's security report for Qualys lists observations such as: "Data leakage" noted under the Qualys security rating”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Qualys VMDR, over the 199 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 163 | 65 | Compare → | |
| 153 | 15 | Compare → | |
| 83 | 14 | Compare → | |
| 56 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 50 | 19 | Compare → | |
| 46 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 35 | 5 | View → | |
| 32 | 1 | View → | |
| 26 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 22 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Qualys VMDR →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Qualys VMDR's own site, not checked by Gane.
- Free plan or trial
- Try Qualys for free
- Integrations
- 100
- Certifications
- FedRAMP
- Customers named
- Banco Pan
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 165 of the 199 answers that named Qualys VMDR and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
452 of the 452 domain citations in answers naming Qualys VMDR 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 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1,171 | 41 | 2026-09-28 | Patching, ASM | |
| Report or ebook | 403 | 0 | 2024-01-01 | CNAPP | |
| Glossary or explainer | 62 | 0 | 2025-12-30 | Patching, CNAPP | |
| Conference or event | 57 | 0 | 2023-11-01 | ||
| Template or tool | 16 | 0 | 2017-04-01 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 12 | 0 | 2023-07-01 | ||
| Case study | 11 | 0 | 2017-11-01 | ||
| Comparison | 8 | 1 | 2026-09-10 | PAM, IGA | |
| News or press | 4 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Developer new perimeter supply chain cloud breaches blog
- 2026-09-23Cisa bod 26 04 timelines for three linux kernel cves blog
- 2026-09-17End of point in time compliance continuous audit readiness blog
- 2026-09-17The autonomous engine behind remediation and what finally makes it safe blog
- 2026-09-16Oracle critical security patch update september 2026 review blog
- 2026-09-15Before you patch why patch reliability matters for confident deployment blog
Events in person
- October 7, 2026Scotland Roadshow Event 2026DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Edinburgh City Centre, Edinburgh · hosts
- March 24, 2026 to March 26, 2026Qualys at KubeCon EMEA 2026RAI Amsterdam · exhibited
- December 4, 2025La Tribune 2025Fuga Space, Paris, France · took part
As the event pages on qualys.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page qualys.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.