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Best Alternatives to Qualys

7 other Vulnerability Management tools in the CloudTweaks Index, listed alphabetically with the same fact-backed profile. No paid placement, no computed score here — just the category's full roster.

Vulnerability management platforms continuously discover assets and scan networks, hosts, web apps, containers, and cloud for known vulnerabilities, then prioritize what to fix by real risk. They suit security teams that need broad, ongoing coverage and a defensible remediation queue rather than point-in-time scans. Weigh agent versus agentless coverage, risk-based prioritization, and self-hosted or free options.

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$$$ Premiumusage-based pricing

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Edgescan

www.edgescan.com

Edgescan is a Dublin-founded SaaS platform unifying DAST, API security testing, network vulnerability management, mobile app testing, and attack surface management, with optional human-validated PTaaS.

$$$ Premiumusage-based pricing
Strengths
Capability, Agentless scanning +3Compliance, 3 certificationsMaturity, operating 9 years
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Greenbone

www.greenbone.net

Greenbone is the German company stewarding OpenVAS, the leading open-source vulnerability scanner, with free and commercial editions.

$$ Midusage-based pricing
Strengths
Openness, Open-source & self-hostableMaturity, operating 18 yearsCompliance, 3 certifications
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Holm Security

www.holmsecurity.com

Holm Security is a Swedish Next-Gen Vulnerability/Exposure Management platform covering systems, networks, web applications, APIs, cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes and containers, and user (phishing) risk.

$$ Midusage-based pricing
Strengths
Capability, Agent-based scanning +5Maturity, operating 11 yearsOpenness, Self-hostable
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Intruder

www.intruder.io

Intruder is a SaaS vulnerability scanner aimed at lean security teams and startups, with issues triaged by severity out of the box.

$$$ Premiumfrom $153/mo · Last reviewed May 2026
Strengths
Maturity, operating 11 yearsCapability, Agent-based scanning +4
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Rapid7

www.rapid7.com

Vulnerability ManagementSIEM / Security AnalyticsCloud Security (CSPM/CNAPP)

Rapid7 InsightVM is a vulnerability-management platform spanning endpoint to cloud, using a single Insight Agent plus agentless scan engines.

$$$ Premiumusage-based pricing
Strengths
Capability, Agent-based scanning +5Maturity, operating 26 yearsCompliance, 4 certificationsOpenness, Self-hostable
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Tenable

www.tenable.com

Vulnerability ManagementCloud Security (CSPM/CNAPP)

Tenable is the vulnerability-management pioneer behind Nessus, serving enterprises and government with an asset-priced subscription portfolio.

$$$ Premiumusage-based pricing
Strengths
Capability, Agent-based scanning +5Maturity, operating 24 yearsCompliance, 3 certificationsOpenness, Self-hostable
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ZeroThreat

zerothreat.ai

ZeroThreat is a cloud-based dynamic application security testing platform that scans running web applications and APIs for exploitable vulnerabilities.

$$$ Premiumfrom $100/mo · Last reviewed August 2026
Strengths
Free tier, Free plan availableCapability, Agentless scanning +2
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