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Rapid7 InsightVM

109Judge labels
25First choices
20Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
3Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
45% in Vuln management for mid-market buyers
Rank 1 of 80 in the mid-market standingendorsed leader
10 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 8% of its 36 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentA mid-market product: leader at mid-market, not named at small business.
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 Rapid7 InsightVM 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Vulnerability management platformsSecurity operations45%1 of 808%36endorsed leader
Attack surface managementSecurity operations0%53 of 1040%1under 10 labels · led by Intruder at 59%
Cloud security posture managementCloud and infrastructure0%49 of 53100%1under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 43%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Rapid7 InsightVM 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 Rapid7 InsightVM across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.521003
GPT-5.4 mini00022
Gemini 3.5 Flash01001
Perplexity Sonar30003
Grok 4.1 Fast20114
Mistral Small21003
DeepSeek V4 Flash21104
Llama 4 Maverick20103
Qwen 3.7 Flash21115
Kimi K221104
GLM 4.7 FlashX21003
MiniMax M2.521003

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
Direct25 labels13
Paraphrase26 labels10
Comparative23 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained7 labelsNone
Scale-constrained11 labels2
Negative17 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative109 labels in all, every segment counted; 25 of the 28 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.

“Pick Rapid7 if your team (5–20 people) needs actionable, exploit-focused insights without massive setup—frequently called out for mid-market.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Vuln management · direct prompt · first choice
“For mid-market organizations (under 30,000 assets) prioritizing remediation workflow integration... InsightVM is frequently the best fit” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Vuln management · direct prompt · first choice
“Best for: Risk-based prioritization and ease of use... Choose Rapid7 if you want to focus on fixing the things that pose an actual risk” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Vuln management · direct prompt · first choice
“the best choice is usually Rapid7 InsightVM if you want the strongest balance of prioritization, usability, and fit” Perplexity Sonar · Vuln management · direct 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.

“Rapid7 InsightVM are often criticized by pure-cloud shops for high resource consumption and lower accuracy in detecting configuration drift” Qwen 3.7 Flash · CSPM · negative prompt · soft negative
“Fewer widespread complaints vs. others, but users note it's pricier for mid-market and less agent-efficient for unmanaged assets.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Vuln management · negative prompt · soft negative
“users have reported issues such as poor support, confusing tag management, weak synchronization, and documentation gaps” GPT-5.4 mini · Vuln management · negative prompt · soft negative
“Good product, but often better for teams with a bit more budget... may not be the cheapest fit.” GPT-5.4 mini · Vuln management · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Rapid7 InsightVM, over the 109 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Rapid7 InsightVM was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Qualys VMDR67 of 1096Not in the top three
Tenable Vulnerability Management45 of 10917Not in the top three
Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management36 of 1093Not in the top three
Wiz34 of 1090Not in the top three
Tenable31 of 10910Not in the top three
OpenVAS21 of 1091Not in the top three
Qualys18 of 1091Not in the top three
Orca Security17 of 1090Not 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 Rapid7 InsightVM. 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 94 of the 109 answers that named Rapid7 InsightVM and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

techrepublic.com55
axis-intelligence.com54
upguard.com47
gartner.com45
expertinsights.com39
orca.security38
riskwatch.com36
vicarius.io32
tech-insider.org28
technologymatch.com28

402 of the 402 domain citations in answers naming Rapid7 InsightVM came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Rapid7 InsightVM

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Rapid7 InsightVM; a claim can dispute any of them.
InsightVM 1Rapid7 InsightVM (Nexpose) 1Rapid7 Insightvm 1
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