Four times as many customers choose Tenable over Rapid7.¹

Coverage and accuracy

As of March 2026, Tenable Research has published 319K+ plugins covering over 116K CVEs, and we update and publish vulnerability coverage and zero-day research at tenable.com/plugins.

"The biggest difference between Tenable and Rapid7 [is] its coverage…The way that the information is presented and how [Tenable] helps us prioritize the risk of certain assets and components [makes] it a better tool [than Rapid7]. "

Senior security engineer, insurance company

Vulnerability management innovation

Introduced in 2024, Vulnerability Intelligence offers granular intelligence on vulnerabilities, including tracking vulnerability history to see changes over time.

Exposure Response enables customers to uniquely track risk remediation with SLAs, instead of relying on cumulative risk scores. Tenable provides a single end-to-end workflow and takes a risk-based approach regardless of patch availability.

Vision beyond vulnerability management

Tenable has broadened its traditional vulnerability management strengths, adding: external attack surface management (EASM), cloud security, industrial OT security, and identity systems/Active Directory (AD) security. Tenable has the best coverage across the entire attack surface.

“When it came to operational technology …that's where Tenable won… When it comes to the cloud area, Tenable was by far the best solution of the finalists.”

Vulnerability management architect at the German manufacturing company²

Service and support

The vast majority of customers who moved from Rapid7 to Tenable were frustrated with support quality.³

Tenable customers say the ability to pay for a level of support and receive what you’ve paid for is a tremendous benefit.

“Rapid7's support was being difficult… One of the things that we were looking for was a company with a good track record for support. In my past experience, Tenable did a pretty good job of keeping up support.”

Security engineer, public university⁴

Leader in compliance

Tenable leads Rapid7 in CIS benchmark coverage with 31% more CIS benchmarks covered.

Tenable supports PCI DSS compliance by providing an integrated and streamlined vulnerability management and PCI ASV solution.

“With Tenable, we found that we could do [PCI scanning] within the solution provided. If we had gone with Rapid7,
they don't do [PCI scanning].”

Security infrastructure manager, business process outsourcing company⁵