Small business▲+4Since September 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 71 → 9 of 76
1 category · RankedQualys VMDR
182Judge labels
24First choices
62Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
32% in Vuln management for enterprise buyers
Rank 4 of 77 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
1 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 26% of its 65 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Qualys VMDR →By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
Small business10 of 82
4%47 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market4 of 77
9%65 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise1 of 68
32%67 labels
endorsed leader
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 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vulnerability management platforms | Security operations | 9% | 4 of 77 | 26% | 65 | criticized challenger | ▲+8Since September 2026: 0% → 8%, +8 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Qualys VMDR held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Vuln management · by segment
Mid-market▲+8Since September 2026: 0% → 8%, +8 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
8%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 3 pointsRank 11 → 4 of 74
Enterprise▲+18Since September 2026: 18% → 36%, +18 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.
36%from 18% in September 2026
Cleared the floor by 7 pointsRank 2 → 1 of 62
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vuln management | 0% | 8% | ▲+8Since September 2026: 0% → 8%, +8 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 11 → 4 of 77 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Qualys VMDR across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Qualys VMDR across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
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
Direct28 labels8
Paraphrase32 labels7
Comparative38 labels13not counted in share
Budget-constrained27 labels5
Scale-constrained24 labels4
Negative33 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative182 labels in all, every segment counted; 24 of the 38 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.
“Holistic approach with comprehensive coverage... Best for: Enterprises needing broad asset coverage and real-time insights.” Mistral Small · Vuln management · comparative prompt · first choice
“Qualys VMDR | TruRisk scoring, unified cloud architecture, easy to use | Mid-market looking for a consolidated platform” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Vuln management · scale prompt · first choice
“Tenable, Qualys, and Rapid7 InsightVM remain the three pure-play leaders that buyers should shortlist first” Muse Glimmer 30B · Vuln management · scale prompt · first choice
“### 1. Qualys VMDR (Free Trial Available) ... Good for companies needing an all-in-one solution” MiniMax M2.5 · 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.
“Full‑featured enterprise tools (Rapid7, Qualys, Tenable.io) without a dedicated security team” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Vuln management · budget prompt · hard negative
“it is frequently cited in user reviews as a platform where you should be cautious due to its high cost, high false positive rates, and poor support” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Vuln management · negative prompt · soft negative
“Qualys VMDR also produces false positive and false negative alerts, making report generation time-consuming, and its interface is complex” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Vuln management · negative prompt · soft negative
“Limited automated remediation ... No built-in patch management ... Support issues reported: slow initial response times” Kimi K2 · Vuln management · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Qualys VMDR, over the 179 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.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Qualys VMDR, over the 179 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.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 162 of the 179 answers that named Qualys VMDR and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
vicarius.io87
orca.security81
techrepublic.com79
riskwatch.com66
motadata.com58
comparitech.com54
tenable.com52
axis-intelligence.com44
upguard.com42
pdq.com39
602 of the 602 domain citations in answers naming Qualys VMDR came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
qualys.com ranks 7 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Qualys VMDR takes 9% of first choices and Rapid7 InsightVM takes 30%.ShowHide
Search and answers
qualys.com ranks 7 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Qualys VMDR takes 9% of first choices and Rapid7 InsightVM takes 30%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “vulnerability management platform”
7
Position for “vulnerability management platforms”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 320 a month (“qualys vmdr”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 16 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 26,929 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 5,871 · 526 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 15,233
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
9%
rank 4 of 77 in vuln management
Segment leader
30%
Rapid7 InsightVM
- First choices
- 24 across its categories
- Named in
- 179 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 162 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on qualys.com
11,443
subdomains included
Content
1,744
counted in the table below
Documentation
8,191
Product · Integration
314 · 73
| 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
Last twelve months
- October 7, 2026Scotland Roadshow Event 2026DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Edinburgh City Centre, Edinburgh · hosted
- 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. Of its titles that name a category, most name patching (12); 0 name the category the models place it in. 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.
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 24Qualys (VMDR) 2Qualys (VMDR - Vulnerability Management, Detection & Response) 1Qualys (VMDR - Vulnerability Management, Detection, and Response) 1Qualys (VMDR / Enterprise TruRisk) 1Qualys VMDR (Small Business tier) 1Qualys VMDR / Exposure Management 1
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The company
Qualys VMDR is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Qualys VMDR is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Vulnerability Management, Detection & Response
- Free plan or trial
- Try Qualys for free qualys.com/customers
- Integrations claimed
- 100 qualys.com/customers
- Certifications
- FedRAMP High Authorized
- Customers named
- Banco Pan
- Not stated on the pages read
- Who it is for, price, starting price, hosting
What Qualys VMDR's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: qualys.com, qualys.com/solutions/compliance, qualys.com/platform-login-ui, qualys.com/customers, qualys.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Qualys VMDR by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Qualys VMDR is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Qualys VMDR, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.