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.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Vulnerability management platforms	Security operations	16%	2 of 77	30%	61	criticized challenger	▲+6Since September 2026: 7% → 12%, +6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Attack surface management	Security operations	0%	63 of 100	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Intruder at 49%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Breach and attack simulation	Security operations	0%	45 of 74	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Cymulate at 24%
Cloud security posture management	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	73 of 80	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Wiz at 37%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
Container and Kubernetes security	Cloud and infrastructure	0%	62 of 77	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Trivy at 22%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
Identity threat detection and response	Identity and access	0%	72 of 105	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Huntress Managed ITDR at 51%
OT and IoT security	Security operations	0%	52 of 107	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for IoT at 21%

Movement

Since September 2026, Tenable Vulnerability Management held within the floor in all seven categories: no change cleared 11 points.

Best category · Vuln management · by segment

Small business▼−3Since September 2026: 7% → 4%, −3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

4%from 7% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 8 pointsRank 4 → 8 of 76

Mid-market▲+6Since September 2026: 7% → 12%, +6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.

12%from 7% in September 2026

Inside the floor by 5 pointsRank 5 → 3 of 74

Enterprise▼−14Since September 2026: 45% → 31%, −14 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement. Read over the models both editions asked.

31%from 45% in September 2026

Cleared the floor by 3 pointsRank 1 → 2 of 62

All categories · Mid-market

Category	September 2026	Now	Change	Reading	Rank
Vuln management	7%	12%	▲+6Since September 2026: 7% → 12%, +6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.	Within noise	Rank 5 → 2 of 77
ASM	0%	0%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.	Within noise	Rank 38 → 63 of 100
BAS	0%	0%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.	New this edition	Rank 45 of 74, unchanged
CSPM	0%	0%	=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.	Within noise	Rank 33 → 73 of 80
Container security	0%	0%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.	New this edition	Rank 62 of 77, unchanged
ITDR	0%	0%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.	New this edition	Rank 72 of 105, unchanged
OT/IoT security	0%	0%	newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.	New this edition	Rank 52 of 107, unchanged

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 Tenable Vulnerability Management across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	1	1	1	4
GPT-5.4 mini	1	1	1	0	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	1	4	6
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1	1	3
Grok 4.20	2	2	0	1	5
Mistral Small	0	1	2	2	5
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	3	0	1	5
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	1	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	7	0	2	10
Kimi K2	1	0	2	2	5
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	2	0	3	6
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	0	1	3
GPT-6 Luna	2	0	3	0	5
Muse Glimmer 30B	2	0	2	1	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

Direct27 labels11

Paraphrase27 labels12

Comparative33 labels16not counted in share

Budget-constrained25 labels3

Scale-constrained25 labels3

Negative36 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative173 labels in all, every segment counted; 29 of the 45 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.

“Also a Leader in the 2025 Gartner MQ, positioned highest in Ability to Execute and furthest for Completeness of Vision.” Grok 4.20 · Vuln management · comparative prompt · first choice

“If you need the absolute deepest vulnerability coverage across the broadest set of environments ... → Tenable One” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Vuln management · comparative prompt · first choice

“The best vulnerability management platform for a company with a limited budget is Tenable Vulnerability Management” Llama 4 Maverick · Vuln management · budget prompt · first choice

“Tenable, Qualys, and Rapid7 InsightVM remain the three pure-play leaders that buyers should shortlist first” Muse Glimmer 30B · Vuln management · comparative 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

“Standard enterprise scanners (like Tenable or Qualys) are incredibly powerful, but their interfaces and configurations are built for dedicated, full-time security operations centers” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Vuln management · paraphrase prompt · soft negative

“Tenable is known for being expensive. It is also highly complex; without a dedicated team to configure the workflows, the platform can become a repository of data” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Vuln management · negative prompt · soft negative

“Major platforms like Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7, and Veracode are all US-incorporated companies subject to the CLOUD Act” Kimi K2 · Vuln management · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Tenable Vulnerability Management, over the 171 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.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Qualys VMDR141 of 17111Compare →

Rapid7 InsightVM134 of 17114Compare →

Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management51 of 1718Compare →

ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus41 of 1716Compare →

Intruder39 of 17119Compare →

Tenable Nessus29 of 1713Compare →

Wiz29 of 1713Not among the top eight

OpenVAS27 of 1711Not among the top eight

Vicarius vRx19 of 1713Compare →

Orca Security19 of 1711Not among the top eight

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 Tenable Vulnerability Management. 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 148 of the 171 answers that named Tenable Vulnerability Management and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

vicarius.io81

orca.security65

riskwatch.com65

techrepublic.com64

motadata.com53

comparitech.com46

tenable.comYour site42

axis-intelligence.com38

pdq.com38

upguard.com37

487 of the 529 domain citations in answers naming Tenable Vulnerability Management came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

riskwatch.com/vulnerability-management-software65

orca.security/resources/blog/best-vulnerability-management-tools64

techrepublic.com/article/top-vulnerability-management-tools64

motadata.com/blog/vulnerability-management-tools53

comparitech.com/net-admin/best-vulnerability-management-tools41

axis-intelligence.com/best-vulnerability-management-tools-tested38

pdq.com/blog/best-vulnerability-management-tools38

upguard.com/blog/top-vendor-vulnerability-tools35

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

tenable.com ranks first on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Tenable Vulnerability Management takes 16% of first choices and Rapid7 InsightVM takes 30%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “vulnerability management platform”

Position for “vulnerability management platforms”

Searches for its name, Google: 1,900 a month (“tenable vulnerability management”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 22 a month
Its company's site: tenable.com shared with Tenable's other products; the figures are the site's
Organic visits to its site: about 187,567 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 16,463 · 1,337 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 22,610
Paid Google search: 7 searches its ads show for, about 368 clicks and $9,764 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

111+ ads · 49 video, 46 text, 16 image · 62 shown in the last 30 days

First shown August 2023, as Tenable, Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 95 in the year, 16 before. 9 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

16%

rank 2 of 77 in vuln management

Segment leader

30%

Rapid7 InsightVM

First choices: 29 across its categories
Named in: 171 answers
Its own site cited: in 148 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.

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 23Tenable.io 12Tenable (Tenable One / Tenable.sc) 2Tenable Vulnerability Management (formerly Tenable.io) 2Tenable (Nessus / Tenable Vulnerability Management / Tenable One) 1Tenable (Nessus / Vulnerability Management) 1Tenable (Nessus Pro / Tenable.io / Vulnerability Management) 1Tenable (Nessus/Tenable.io) 1Tenable (One/io) 1Tenable (Tenable One / Nessus) 1Tenable (Tenable.io / Nessus) 1Tenable (including Tenable.sc and Tenable.io) 1Tenable Nessus / Tenable Vulnerability Management 1Tenable Vulnerability Management (Tenable One / Nessus) 1Tenable Vulnerability Management (Tenable One) 1Tenable Vulnerability Management (Tenable.io) 1Tenable Vulnerability Management / Tenable One 1Tenable.io (Industrial Module) 1Tenable.io/One 1

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The company

Tenable is the company behind Tenable Vulnerability Management.

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On record

Company records

Also from Tenable: Tenable ASM / Tenable One, Tenable Attack Surface Management, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Nessus, Tenable OT, Tenable OT Security, Tenable One, Tenable One / Tenable ASM and 6 more

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: can be purchased alone or as part of the Tenable One Exposure Management Platform package
docs.tenable.com/vulnerability-management.htm
For: 脆弱性管理を始めたばかりの担当者、サイバーセキュリティ管理者、エクスポージャー削減のために脆弱性管理プラットフォームの購入を検討している方
jp.tenable.com/source/vulnerability-management
Price stated: 1 Year $3,500 2 Years $6,825 3 Years $9,975 tenable.com/vulnerability-management-reports
Starting price: 3500 tenable.com/vulnerability-management-reports
Free plan or trial: Try for free tenable.com/vulnerability-management-reports
Customers named: HCL Software
Not stated on the pages read: Integrations, certifications, hosting

What Tenable Vulnerability Management's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: docs.tenable.com/vulnerability-management.htm, tenable.com/vulnerability-management-reports, tenable.com/vulnerability-management-dashboards, jp.tenable.com/source/vulnerability-management, it.tenable.com/products/vulnerability-management. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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where Tenable Vulnerability Management 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 Tenable Vulnerability Management, 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.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Tenable Vulnerability Management is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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Tenable Vulnerability Management is among the products AI models recommend first in Vulnerability management platforms this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

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