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ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management

26Judge labels

1First choices

1Negative labels

8 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Best standing

2% in Vuln management for small business buyers

Rank 17 of 80 in the mid-market standing

0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 7 labels there were negative.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business5 of 78

accepted challenger

Mid-market17 of 80

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In vuln management · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Vulnerability management platforms	Security operations	0%	17 of 80	0%	7	under 10 labels · led by Rapid7 InsightVM at 45%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	1	1	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	1

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct7 labelsNone

Paraphrase4 labelsNone

Comparative9 labelsNone

Budget-constrained3 labels1

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative26 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Other notable options include ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management, which is praised for its scalability and intuitiveness” Mistral Small · Vuln management · direct prompt · alternative

“scales well for mid-market organizations while remaining intuitive” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Vuln management · direct prompt · alternative

“Alternative 2 – ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Vuln management · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Best for SMEs” MiniMax M2.5 · Vuln management · comparative prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management, over the 26 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Intruder21 of 2616Not in the top three

Rapid7 InsightVM13 of 264Not in the top three

Tenable Vulnerability Management13 of 262Not in the top three

Qualys VMDR13 of 261Not in the top three

OpenVAS10 of 261Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management9 of 260Not in the top three

ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus8 of 261Not in the top three

Syxsense7 of 260Not in the top three

Tenable6 of 262Not in the top three

Qualys6 of 260Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 26 of the 26 answers that named ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

axis-intelligence.com24

techrepublic.com24

upguard.com19

expertinsights.com14

orca.security12

riskwatch.com11

intruder.io9

beaglesecurity.com8

tech-insider.org8

blueheadline.com7

136 of the 136 domain citations in answers naming ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

axis-intelligence.com/best-vulnerability-management-tools-tested24

techrepublic.com/article/top-vulnerability-management-tools24

upguard.com/blog/top-vendor-vulnerability-tools18

expertinsights.com/security-operations/the-top-vulnerability-management-solutions14

orca.security/resources/blog/best-vulnerability-management-tools12

riskwatch.com/vulnerability-management-software11

blueheadline.com/cybersecurity/best-vulnerability-scanners-small-business7

intruder.io/pricing7

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management; a claim can dispute any of them.

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