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Vulnerability management platforms · September 2026 Edition

Intruder vs ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus

Zero of twelve models named Intruder first on the direct prompt; zero named ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus. Intruder was named by ten of the twelve models and ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus by nine and Intruder carries 19 labels and ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus 14, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Intruder

accepted challenger

Named in three categories this edition.

ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus

accepted challenger

Named in one category this edition.

First-choice share16%9%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate0%0%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#2#3A position in a field of 12; printed, not drawn.
Labels1914A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Intruder reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Rapid7 InsightVM was named alongside these two in ten of the twelve direct answers. Rapid7 InsightVM vs Intruder · Rapid7 InsightVM vs ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all twelve models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the vulnerability management platforms page.

By framing

How many of the twelve models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
IntruderFirst choices, of twelve modelsManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus
Direct00
Paraphrase10
Comparative00
Budget-constrained64
Scale-constrained00
Negative00
Bars are first choices, 0 to 12 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to twelve.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Intruder and ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus stood in it.

Neither was the first choice, one was named

3 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Gemini 3.5 FlashVicarius vRx alternatives: CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management, Intruder, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management, Orca Security, Tenable Vulnerability Management, Wiz
Perplexity SonarRapid7 InsightVM alternatives: ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Vicarius vRx
Qwen 3.7 FlashRapid7 InsightVM alternatives: ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus, Qualys VMDR, Tenable Vulnerability Management

Neither was named

9 of 12 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Claude Haiku 4.5Rapid7 InsightVM alternatives: Aikido Security, ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management, UpGuard
GPT-5.4 miniTenable Vulnerability Management alternatives: Arctic Wolf, Qualys VMDR
Grok 4.1 FastRapid7 InsightVM alternatives: CrowdStrike Falcon Spotlight / Exposure Mgmt, Qualys VMDR, Tenable Vulnerability Management
Mistral SmallRapid7 InsightVM alternatives: ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management, UpGuard
DeepSeek V4 FlashRapid7 InsightVM alternatives: Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management, Qualys VMDR, Tenable Vulnerability Management
Llama 4 MaverickRapid7 InsightVM
Kimi K2Rapid7 InsightVM alternatives: Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management, Qualys VMDR, Tenable
GLM 4.7 FlashXRapid7 InsightVM alternatives: Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management, Qualys VMDR, Tenable Vulnerability Management
MiniMax M2.5Rapid7 InsightVM alternatives: Cisco Vulnerability Management, Orca Security, Tenable Vulnerability Management, Wiz

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Intruder leads by fifty-two points.
Intruder59%#1 of 12
ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus7%#3 of 12
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Intruder leads by seven points.
Intruder16%#2 of 12
ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus9%#3 of 12
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Intruder leads by two points.
Intruder2%#– of 11
ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus0%#– of 11
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Intruder

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. One of one in this category shown.

“The "Lean Security" Pick: Intruder ... Best for: Companies with small security/IT teams who need simple, automated, and continuous vulnerability scanning.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · paraphrase prompt · first choice

What the models said about ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of four in this category shown.

“For a low-cost commercial solution: ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus at $695/year or Intruder at $149/month” GLM 4.7 FlashX · budget prompt · first choice
“or ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus if you need the lowest-cost broader endpoint-focused option” Perplexity Sonar · budget prompt · first choice
“If you have limited budget but some technical capacity, ManageEngine is your best commercial bet.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · budget prompt · first choice
Also compared
Rapid7 InsightVM vs IntruderRapid7 InsightVM vs ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager PlusThe full vuln management standing

Comparisons are drawn for the top three products in each category. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.