Every category where a model named Qualys VMDR 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%	12 of 80	4%	24	accepted challenger

Movement

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

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

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

Direct23 labels1

Paraphrase17 labels2

Comparative16 labels5not counted in share

Budget-constrained10 labels3

Scale-constrained6 labels1

Negative11 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative83 labels in all, every segment counted; 7 of the 13 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.

“top vulnerability management platforms in 2026 are typically Tenable, Qualys VMDR, and Rapid7 InsightVM for broad enterprise vulnerability management” Perplexity Sonar · Vuln management · comparative prompt · first choice

“a large hybrid enterprise probably wants Tenable or Qualys” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Vuln management · comparative prompt · first choice

“Qualys VMDR ... combines traditional vulnerability management with advanced threat detection and automated response capabilities” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Vuln management · comparative prompt · alternative

“if you have a large, distributed, or regulated environment and want cloud-delivered continuous monitoring” Perplexity Sonar · Vuln management · paraphrase 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.

“Qualys can be more platform than a lean IT team wants to run.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Vuln management · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Qualys VMDR, over the 83 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Qualys VMDR was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Rapid7 InsightVM67 of 8315Not in the top three

Tenable Vulnerability Management48 of 8321Not in the top three

Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management34 of 833Not in the top three

Wiz25 of 830Not in the top three

Intruder22 of 8313Not in the top three

Tenable19 of 836Not in the top three

OpenVAS16 of 832Not in the top three

ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management13 of 830Not in the top three

CrowdStrike Falcon Exposure Management12 of 830Not in the top three

Orca Security12 of 830Not 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 Qualys VMDR. 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 74 of the 83 answers that named Qualys VMDR and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

techrepublic.com46

gartner.com42

axis-intelligence.com40

orca.security33

upguard.com33

expertinsights.com30

riskwatch.com28

tech-insider.org27

technologymatch.com27

vicarius.io24

330 of the 330 domain citations in answers naming Qualys VMDR came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

techrepublic.com/article/top-vulnerability-management-tools46

axis-intelligence.com/best-vulnerability-management-tools-tested40

gartner.com/reviews/market/vulnerability-assessment37

orca.security/resources/blog/best-vulnerability-management-tools32

upguard.com/blog/top-vendor-vulnerability-tools32

riskwatch.com/vulnerability-management-software28

technologymatch.com/blog/tenable-vs-qualys-vs-rapid7-vm-platform-comparison27

expertinsights.com/security-operations/the-top-vulnerability-management-solutions25

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Qualys VMDR

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

Qualys VM (Qualys Cloud Platform) 1

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