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Tenable Vulnerability Management

64Judge labels
19First choices
12Negative 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
25% in Vuln management for enterprise buyers
Rank 5 of 80 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 18 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
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 Tenable Vulnerability 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Vulnerability management platformsSecurity operations7%5 of 800%18accepted challenger
Attack surface managementSecurity operations0%39 of 1040%1under 10 labels · led by Intruder at 59%
Cloud security posture managementCloud and infrastructure0%35 of 530%1under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 43%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Tenable Vulnerability 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 Tenable Vulnerability Management across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.510001
GPT-5.4 mini20002
Gemini 3.5 Flash01001
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast02002
Mistral Small10001
DeepSeek V4 Flash01001
Llama 4 Maverick01001
Qwen 3.7 Flash13105
Kimi K201001
GLM 4.7 FlashX02002
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
Direct19 labels7
Paraphrase16 labels9
Comparative11 labels7not counted in share
Budget-constrained5 labels3
Scale-constrained5 labelsNone
Negative8 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative64 labels in all, every segment counted; 19 of the 26 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.

“I'd generally recommend Tenable Vulnerability Management if you want a balance of coverage, easier operationalization, and room to grow.” GPT-5.4 mini · Vuln management · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Tenable is the detection leader with a plugin library exceeding 219,000 signatures, the largest in the market by a significant margin” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Vuln management · comparative prompt · first choice
“Positioning: The market leader for organizations already using vulnerability management.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · ASM · comparative prompt · first choice
“best overall default choice is usually Tenable Vulnerability Management” GPT-5.4 mini · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Tenable Vulnerability Management, over the 64 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Tenable Vulnerability Management was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Qualys VMDR48 of 641Not in the top three
Rapid7 InsightVM45 of 6410Not in the top three
Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management23 of 643Not in the top three
Intruder20 of 6414Not in the top three
Wiz16 of 642Not in the top three
OpenVAS14 of 641Not in the top three
Tenable Nessus13 of 641Not in the top three
ESET Vulnerability & Patch Management13 of 640Not in the top three
ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus11 of 642Not in the top three
Orca Security8 of 641Not 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 Tenable Vulnerability 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 51 of the 64 answers that named Tenable Vulnerability Management and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

axis-intelligence.com37
techrepublic.com33
upguard.com28
gartner.com23
orca.security20
riskwatch.com20
expertinsights.com18
technologymatch.com16
tech-insider.org15
pdq.com13

223 of the 223 domain citations in answers naming Tenable Vulnerability Management came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Tenable Vulnerability Management

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Tenable Vulnerability Management; a claim can dispute any of them.
Tenable.io 3Tenable Vulnerability Management (Tenable.io) 1Tenable.io (Tenable Nessus) 1Tenable.io (part of Tenable One) 1Tenable.io (with ASM Module) 1Tenable.io / Tenable Cloud Security 1
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