6 categories · RankedTenable
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vulnerability management platforms | Security operations | 0% | 13 of 80 | 24% | 25 | accepted challenger |
| Attack surface management | Security operations | 0% | 25 of 104 | 20% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Intruder at 59% |
| Container and Kubernetes security | Cloud and infrastructure | 0% | 60 of 78 | 50% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Aqua Security at 18% |
| Data loss prevention | Security operations | 0% | 62 of 84 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Purview DLP at 39% |
| GRC platforms | Security operations | 0% | 72 of 77 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Vanta at 14% |
| Penetration testing as a service | Security operations | 0% | 68 of 76 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Cobalt at 44% |
Movement
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Tenable is widely regarded as the market pioneer... Choose Tenable or Qualys if you have a massive, hybrid, or complex physical corporate network” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Vuln management · comparative prompt · first choice
“Best for broad enterprise coverage and exposure management; it uses agent + agentless + cloud-native scanning” Perplexity Sonar · Vuln management · comparative prompt · first choice
“For most enterprises, Tenable or Qualys are the top choices depending on your deployment preferences.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Vuln management · comparative prompt · first choice
“Tenable positioned highest overall in Gartner for broad attack surface coverage and execution” Grok 4.1 Fast · 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.
“You may see vendors (like older versions of Tenable) marketing "Unified" solutions... Why to Avoid: ... these legacy stacks are often too heavy and slow.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · ASM · negative prompt · hard negative
“Many modern security vendors (like Tenable or Qualys) sell compliance add-ons... When used as a standalone GRC platform, they often lack the workflows for policy management” Qwen 3.7 Flash · GRC · negative prompt · soft negative
“powerful, highly accurate, and standard for compliance, though they can sometimes feel overly complex for smaller teams” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Vuln management · scale prompt · soft negative
“competitive concerns raised by Qualys about Tenable's platform (fragmented portals, slower zero-day remediation)” MiniMax M2.5 · Vuln management · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 70 of the 98 answers that named Tenable and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
267 of the 267 domain citations in answers naming Tenable came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Names read as Tenable
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