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Rapid7 Penetration Testing Services vs The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Feb 8, 2026

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Rapid7 Penetration Testing ...
Ranking in Penetration Testing Services
11th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
The NodeZero Platform by Ho...
Ranking in Penetration Testing Services
1st
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.1
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
Vulnerability Management (9th), Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) (11th), Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) (1st), Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Penetration Testing Services category, the mindshare of Rapid7 Penetration Testing Services is 1.9%, down from 2.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai is 11.0%, down from 15.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Penetration Testing Services Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai11.0%
Rapid7 Penetration Testing Services1.9%
Other87.1%
Penetration Testing Services
 

Featured Reviews

Gabriel Woolverton - PeerSpot reviewer
Penetration Tester at a tech consulting company with 1-10 employees
Wide range of coverage and free
A useful improvement would be to have white papers for specific vulnerabilities readily available. It seems like they are not always linked when you are looking for a vulnerability identifier in the database. It would be useful to ensure that that information is readily available. That way, if you need to dive deeper into a vulnerability, you would have the capability to do so basically right there on the website.
Brent Hamlin - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Manager at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees
Continuous threat scanning has improved remediation time and strengthened executive reporting
The best features that The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai offers include the automated scans, which are great to use; you set it, scope it, and let it go, which works really well. The executive reporting feature is impactful for me as a manager, providing a strong foundation to give quarterly and yearly reports to our executives and board to see the state of our infrastructure from a security standpoint. The level of detail and clarity in the executive reports from The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai absolutely helps me communicate effectively with leadership. They are detailed enough for me to extract the necessary information tailored for the executives and to provide a broader perspective on our mitigation efforts or accepted risk stance and where additional controls exist. The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai has positively impacted my organization by giving us a better continuous picture of our security posture, what's exploitable, and what can be used against the organization. It allows us to run scans whenever needed, unlike a single third-party system that only provides a snapshot in time; our processes must be ongoing as the security landscape is dynamic. NodeZero's endpoint security effectiveness feature impacts my understanding of potential security threats by providing a clear picture of both the external and internal landscapes within my organization, enabling me to prioritize and adjust as needed for vulnerabilities such as WordPress plugin issues or user enumerations and software code version assessments. I have built The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai into our weekly and monthly workflows for security CI/CD, and we scan our externally accessible assets every week to address anything quickly if it comes up. That includes our firewalls, websites, and anything that is an external web server, which we scan weekly, while the monthly scans are for internal systems that feed our security CI/CD pipeline, enabling us to action across and prioritize any vulnerabilities caught by The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Rapid7's wide range of coverage, in terms of vulnerabilities and exploits linked to vulnerabilities, is its most valuable feature."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. This is not a tool that you have to set up yourself. All you have to do is just access their web-based vulnerability database application, which is open source and available to pretty much anyone."
"Penetration testing and scans are useful features."
"I believe that The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai has kept me safer in a cybersecurity sense."
"We chose The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai because, first, of its superior technical capability for the use cases we were looking for, second, the cost, which we believe was much more affordable than the other products, and third, the customer and technical support was very good for us."
"After the third party conducts the pen test, The NodeZero Platform is run, and it finds the same things they found and sometimes a few other things that they did not even identify."
"What I appreciate the most about The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai is its distinctive competitive advantage, which is the ability to bundle multiple security solutions into one single tool."
"The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai has positively impacted my organization by allowing my security team to be more efficient and focus on the most valuable work at the highest criticality."
"The best feature of The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai is that it is an autonomous pen testing tool that knows how to penetrate into the system automatically and perform lateral movement inside the network without the need for scripting."
"Overall, I'd rate NodeZero at nine to 9.5 out of ten."
 

Cons

"A useful improvement would be to have white papers for specific vulnerabilities readily available. It seems like they are not always linked when you are looking for a vulnerability identifier in the database."
"A useful improvement would be to have white papers for specific vulnerabilities readily available."
"They've added a chatbot which isn't particularly useful, but when it can't answer questions, it forwards messages to human support."
"The reports are quite useless."
"I would like to see an improvement in the notification management."
"Sometimes even their support doesn't know why we're seeing certain issues."
"The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai can be improved in some ways, particularly regarding the test scan sometimes."
"The areas for improvement for The NodeZero Platform involve integration and automation. It would be beneficial if it could integrate directly with vulnerability management tools that would allow the platform to automatically import data, identify vulnerable systems, and test targets immediately, potentially even enabling automated feedback loops for rescanning since the process is currently manual."
"When it comes to the stability of The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai, I would rate it around seven to eight because the stability is not that high initially due to the need for daily updates and modifications as new vulnerabilities appear."
"However, my team struggles with the onboarding side of our engagement, which should have been more robust; having a statement of work and a clear definition of success would have been beneficial."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
9%
University
9%
Educational Organization
7%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

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Small Business14
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise7
 

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What needs improvement with Horizon3.ai?
The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai could be improved by reducing the elapsed time from identifying a zero-day vulnerability from their QA environment to their production environment.
What is your primary use case for Horizon3.ai?
My main use case for The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai includes pen testing and vulnerability management. I use The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai to run weekly external and internal scans to ...
What advice do you have for others considering Horizon3.ai?
My advice to others looking into using The NodeZero Platform by Horizon3.ai is to do yourself a favor and see what the product will find. The platform's real attack capabilities have helped in iden...
 

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Sample Customers

Motorola, Liberty wines, Kaman Corporation
Government agencies, Defense Industrial Base organizations, and enterprises in regulated industries such as finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and criticalinfrastructure rely on NodeZero to meet rigorous security and compliance requirements with continuous, scheduled, and on-demand testing.
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