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ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus

41Judge labels

7First choices

2Negative labels

12 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

9% in Vuln management for mid-market buyers

Rank 3 of 80 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger

0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 14 labels there were negative.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business3 of 78

under the label threshold

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 ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus 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	9%	3 of 80	0%	14	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus 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 ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	1	2	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	2	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	2	2
Kimi K2	0	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0

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

Direct6 labels1

Paraphrase10 labelsNone

Comparative1 labelNone

Budget-constrained17 labels6

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative7 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative41 labels in all, every segment counted; 7 of the 8 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.

“For a low-cost commercial solution: ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus at $695/year or Intruder at $149/month” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Vuln management · budget prompt · first choice

“or ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus if you need the lowest-cost broader endpoint-focused option” Perplexity Sonar · Vuln management · budget prompt · first choice

“If you have limited budget but some technical capacity, ManageEngine is your best commercial bet.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Vuln management · budget prompt · first choice

“Best Overall Value: ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Vuln management · budget prompt · first choice

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 ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus, over the 41 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Intruder31 of 4118Compare →

OpenVAS21 of 415Not in the top three

Rapid7 InsightVM17 of 416Compare →

Tenable Nessus11 of 411Not in the top three

Tenable Vulnerability Management11 of 411Not in the top three

Qualys VMDR11 of 410Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management10 of 411Not in the top three

ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management8 of 411Not in the top three

Qualys8 of 411Not in the top three

Tenable8 of 411Not 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 ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus. 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 37 of the 41 answers that named ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

upguard.com30

axis-intelligence.com29

techrepublic.com22

riskwatch.com21

expertinsights.com18

comparitech.com15

beaglesecurity.com14

g2.com14

vicarius.io14

reddit.com10

187 of the 187 domain citations in answers naming ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

axis-intelligence.com/best-vulnerability-management-tools-tested29

upguard.com/blog/top-vendor-vulnerability-tools27

techrepublic.com/article/top-vulnerability-management-tools22

riskwatch.com/vulnerability-management-software21

expertinsights.com/security-operations/the-top-vulnerability-management-solutions16

comparitech.com/net-admin/best-vulnerability-management-tools11

vicarius.io/articles/6-best-consolidated-vulnerability-management-platforms-for-mid-market10

beaglesecurity.com/blog/article/intruder-review.html8

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus; a claim can dispute any of them.

ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus (VMP) 1ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus Professional 1

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