Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management vs Rapid7 Metasploit comparison

Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management vs. Rapid7 Metasploit

February 2026

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ROI

Sentiment score

4.9

Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management boosts efficiency, reduces costs, enhances security, and delivers a 95% ROI with 35% cost reduction.

Sentiment score

4.3

Rapid7 Metasploit efficiently identifies vulnerabilities and saves costs but is average for experienced users or those using Qualys/Nessus.

Improvements to our security infrastructure contributed to overall business growth of approximately 150 percent over the past year.

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Android Developer at Droidforge

By automating tasks, it significantly reduces the human resources required, leading to increased efficiency and productivity.

reviewer2590986

Senior Manager at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

It has reduced the number of development and scripting hours along with maintenance hours.

Curtis Nielson

Security Operations Manager at Solventum

Metasploit has helped save time, especially with testing websites or VIPD projects.

Information security engineer at Cyberisk

The ROI can be very rapid for organizations using vulnerability assessment for the first time.

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Senior Security Consultant at ITSEC Asia

Customer Service

Sentiment score

7.5

Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management's customer service is highly praised for its responsiveness, effectiveness, and swift problem resolution capabilities.

Sentiment score

5.9

Rapid7 Metasploit support has mixed reviews, with helpful resources but varying response times and effectiveness compared to Cisco.

The support team was knowledgeable and offered a variety of quick resolution options.

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Android Developer at Droidforge

Their SMEs have sufficient knowledge, and if they are not the right contact, they quickly redirect us to someone who can help resolve issues.

Ramachandran Sugumar

Senior Information Security Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

I would rate their customer support a ten out of ten.

reviewer2590236

Information Security Lead at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Rapid7 sometimes struggles with queries from non-security people, whereas Tenable is more patient.

Senior Security Consultant at ITSEC Asia

The customer support is excellent

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Infrastructure patching Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

7.8

Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management excels in scalability, supporting diverse environments with numerous users, networks, and large datasets efficiently.

Sentiment score

5.1

Rapid7 Metasploit's scalability opinions vary, some see limitations, others appreciate flexibility; performance varies by project and infrastructure.

We have about 300,000 assets installed with agents worldwide.

reviewer2590236

Information Security Lead at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

The scalability is excellent as we manage more than one hundred thousand assets, including over one hundred thousand endpoints, approximately 2,600 servers, and more than 1,200 network devices.

Arshad N. R.

Cyber Security Specialist at UBS Financial

Qualys Cybersecurity Asset Management has proven to be a highly scalable solution for us over the past couple of years.

reviewer2593263

Manager Information Security at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

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Metasploit can handle big projects and is already prepared for them.

Information security engineer at Cyberisk

Rapid7 Metasploit is highly scalable.

Infrastructure patching Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Rapid7 Metasploit has limited scalability based on my experience, as the customer receives the full functionality of the product with the license.

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Head of Sales Services Department at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.5

Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management is stable, highly rated, with minimal issues, and appreciated for its consistent enhancements and features.

Sentiment score

7.8

Rapid7 Metasploit's stability is highly praised, with recent versions improving and rated 8-9/10, despite occasional network issues.

I would rate the stability of Qualys CSAM a ten out of ten.

Bharawaj S

IT Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

The product stability has notably declined over the last two months, and the performance to fulfill a page request is very slow compared to its previous performance.

Christopher Mateski

SENIOR MANAGER, CYBERSECURITY THREAT, RISK & ARCHITECTURE at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

They are constantly adding capabilities.

Scott Frederick

Director of Vulnerability Management at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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I have never faced any technical issues or downtimes.

Information security engineer at Cyberisk

I find Metasploit to be very stable, and I would rate its stability as a nine out of ten.

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Senior Security Consultant at ITSEC Asia

Room For Improvement

Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management struggles with integration, configuration flexibility, tagging accuracy, and performance issues needing improvement.

Rapid7 Metasploit needs faster updates, improved tools integration, better UI, enhanced features, and updated evasion capabilities for modern defenses.

Qualys is currently not able to identify assets lacking DNS information.

reviewer2589096

Senior Information Security Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Features enhancing the interaction with IT or security teams should be added, such as a ticketing feature that, if an issue arises in the CSAM module, enables direct ticket creation in systems like ServiceNow.

SurajTripathi

Senior Security Consultant at CyberNxt Solutions LLP

If there's one key aspect to focus on, it's discovery—the ability to identify assets that you are not aware of, even when you can see they are present.

Nicki Møller

Information Security Engineer at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

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While you can check the vulnerability, and the system will tell you there is no vulnerability, usually, a human can change one, two, or three parameters and using the same technique and the same scripts can break the system.

Head of Sales Services Department at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

The database is not always updated with the latest vulnerabilities or zero-day exploits.

Information security engineer at Cyberisk

The time taken to fetch reports based on the number of events can be extensive.

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Infrastructure patching Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Setup Cost

Qualys offers high yet flexible pricing, valued for comprehensive features and cost-effectiveness, especially when bundled with other services.

Rapid7 Metasploit's pricing ranges from free to $20,000, with varied opinions on its affordability compared to competitors.

A cost-effective solution.

Arshad Nr

Senior Security Consultant at CyberNxt Solutions LLP

I believe that the stability and reliability of Qualys offer great value for the money.

Nicki Møller

Information Security Engineer at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

A monthly subscription starting at approximately $72 per month, depending on the specific package and features included.

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Android Developer at Droidforge

The cost is approximately $15 per device.

Infrastructure patching Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Metasploit is cheaper than Nessus and offers a more robust community edition that provides a good experience for studying Metasploit.

Senior Security Consultant at ITSEC Asia

After that, they usually purchase the commercial part of the solution due to its deep integration with InsightVM.

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Head of Sales Services Department at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Valuable Features

Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management enhances security with real-time visibility, integration, TruRisk scoring, and simplified asset and patch management.

Rapid7 Metasploit excels in penetration testing with strong integration, comprehensive features, and efficient management in a unified platform.

By correlating this with QDS scores, we can accurately assess the risk level of high or low QDS scores associated with each asset and monitor them accordingly.

reviewer2589096

Senior Information Security Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

The most valuable feature is the real-time visibility Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management provides into all assets across our development and operational environments.

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Android Developer at Droidforge

It also performs scans to identify any vulnerabilities, which helps to take proactive measures before those vulnerabilities are identified by any attacker.

reviewer2590236

Information Security Lead at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Rapid7 offers comprehensive features within one platform, eliminating the need to integrate multiple tools to see all alerts in one place.

Infrastructure patching Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

InsightVM searches for potential threats and vulnerabilities of the infrastructure, and after that, Rapid7 Metasploit validates whether we can break the system using this vulnerability or threat, serving as a validator component of the InsightVM solution.

Head of Sales Services Department at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

The most valuable features of Metasploit include its powerful capabilities for exploitation and scanning.

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Information security engineer at Cyberisk

Categories and Ranking

Qualys CyberSecurity Asset ...

Ranking in Vulnerability Management

9th

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Patch Management (4th), Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management (CAASM) (2nd), Attack Surface Management (ASM) (2nd), Software Supply Chain Security (3rd)

Rapid7 Metasploit

Ranking in Vulnerability Management

23rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Vulnerability Management category, the mindshare of Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management is 1.3%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Rapid7 Metasploit is 1.5%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Vulnerability Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management	1.3%
Rapid7 Metasploit	1.5%
Other	97.2%

Vulnerability Management

Featured Reviews

Arshad N. R.

Cyber Security Specialist at UBS Financial

Customized dashboards and quick deployment support comprehensive asset management

We use the True Risk Score for vulnerability prioritization, though we do not solely rely upon it since some assets may be decommissioned soon or not in use. From Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management, we primarily focus on internet-facing assets. We have created separate tasks for internet-facing assets and track the True Risk dashboard specifically for these assets. If the True Risk Score is higher for any internet-facing assets, then we take action accordingly. The True Risk Score is very helpful for prioritization. The initial setup was straightforward and easy. We needed to create customized tags, group them twice, and validate whether the operating system detection was true positive or false positive. We encountered some false positives, which required coordination with the IT team for verification. In six months, we had approximately 20-25 machines that needed verification on a weekly basis. We coordinated with the IT team to identify the exact operating system specifications.

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Extensive exploit database and seamless integration enhance penetration testing capabilities

Head of Sales Services Department at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

The automated approach in the audits or in the hacking testing with Rapid7 Metasploit could be improved because even the same attack you provide today will go in different ways another day. I prefer when the auditor or pen-tester provides the attack in a non-automated mode. For some, it might be a valuable option, but I'm not sure it's valuable for us, as after the attack has been provided, we should release a report detailing how it transpired and what the customer should improve to block this way of attack. If the attack was provided in an automated mode, you cannot receive sufficient information that helps with this final report for the customer. While you can check the vulnerability, and the system will tell you there is no vulnerability, usually, a human can change one, two, or three parameters and using the same technique and the same scripts can break the system. Rapid7 Metasploit could be improved in areas concerning the experience with finding particular scripts pre-installed in the solution. Customers, administrators, and pen-testers spend considerable time trying to locate the specific component they need by the name of the technique or the name of the attack, so any improvements in making it easier to find those predefined components by name or timeframe would be beneficial. Search filters could be a correct improvement.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	23

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	11

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management?

I'm not entirely sure about the pricing; I don't know.

What needs improvement with Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management?

I think the one thing Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management can do better is the package management and the updating process. Knowing that you can't update any of the packages until you've done the...

What is your primary use case for Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management?

I primarily use it for a small, single-site, multi-source setup with multi-WAN inputs. I have a main fiber connection and a couple of failovers while managing different networks across different se...

What do you like most about Rapid7 Metasploit?

I use Rapid7 Metasploit for payload generation and Post-Exploitation.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Rapid7 Metasploit?

The pricing of Rapid7 Metasploit is quite affordable. It has a free version that many customers start with, and after that, they usually purchase the commercial part of the solution due to its deep...

What needs improvement with Rapid7 Metasploit?

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Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management

January 2026

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Overview

Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management provides key features including asset inventory management, end-of-life tracking, dynamic tagging, and integration with CMDB, offering extensive visibility and support for proactive threat response.

Qualys offers comprehensive visibility across hardware and software assets, aiding in tracking unauthorized applications and facilitating automated vulnerability remediation. Its user-friendly interface and dynamic risk scoring enhance security posture management. Users leverage it for vulnerability management and compliance, benefiting from real-time risk identification and efficient operations in cloud and on-premises environments.

What are the key features of Qualys CyberSecurity Asset Management?

Asset Inventory Management: Provides detailed visibility over hardware and software assets.
End-of-Life Tracking: Helps identify technical debt by pinpointing outdated hardware and software.
Dynamic Tagging: Allows flexible classification and categorization of assets.
Real-Time Risk Identification: Detects risks as they arise, enhancing threat response capabilities.
CMDB Integration: Streamlines data integration for comprehensive asset insights.

What benefits should users look for in Qualys reviews?

Improved Security Posture: Enables proactive threat management and streamlined operations.
Efficient Remediation: Automates vulnerability management and patch deployment.
User-Friendly Operations: Simplifies cybersecurity operations with an intuitive interface.
Comprehensive Asset Visibility: Offers unparalleled insight into organizational assets.
Scalable Solutions: Facilitates asset tracking across cloud and on-premises environments.

Cybersecurity teams in various industries, such as financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing, utilize Qualys to manage technical debt through end-of-life tracking and facilitate robust patch management. It supports compliance and visibility initiatives, essential for maintaining data integrity and operational security in dynamic environments.

Qualys

Attackers are always developing new exploits and attack methods—Metasploit penetration testing software helps you use their own weapons against them. Utilizing an ever-growing database of exploits, you can safely simulate real-world attacks on your network to train your security team to spot and stop the real thing.

Rapid7

Sample Customers

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City of Corpus Christi, Diebold, Lumenate, Nebraska Public Power District, Prairie North Regional Health, Apptio, Automation Direct, Bob's Stores, Cardinal Innovations Healthcare Solutions, Carnegie Mellon University