ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus vs NSAuditor AI

ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus identifies and assesses vulnerabilities across a network and helps teams prioritize and remediate them. Its risk prioritization uses AI-based scores, CVSS severity, EPSS and active attack trends. It includes out-of-the-box policies for more than 130 CIS benchmarks and supports downloading, testing and deploying patches across operating systems and more than 1,500 third-party applications. Pre-built, tested scripts can mitigate zero-day vulnerabilities. The product can discover network devices, scan firmware for vulnerabilities and remediate identified threats, but network-device management is on-premises only and requires extra licenses. Vulnerability Manager Plus supports Windows and Linux; macOS support is limited to patch management. It offers a free edition and a 30-day trial with unlimited endpoints. Listed annual prices include Professional On-Premises at $695 a year and Professional Cloud at $895 a year, each for 100 workstations and one technician. Enterprise options are listed at $1,195 a year on-premises and $1,545 a year in the cloud, on the same workstation and technician basis.

NSAuditor AI is an open-source network security scanner that runs on a customer’s infrastructure and can be configured to operate fully offline. It scans network hosts and CIDR subnets, AWS, Azure, GCP, TLS, DNS, and operational technology targets; authenticated and continuous scanning are supported. Community includes 27 scanner plugins, parallel subnet scanning, webhook alerts, and exports in JSON, HTML, SARIF, and CSV. AI analysis is available in every tier through OpenAI, Claude, or Ollama with customer-provided API keys. Pro adds offline-first NVD CVE matching and risk scoring. Enterprise adds cloud auditors and evidence packs for listed frameworks including SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI DSS v4.0.1, and ISO/IEC 27001:2022. The maker says scan data, findings, and reports remain on the customer’s machine, and license checks can work offline. Community costs nothing; Pro costs $39 a year or $49 a month. Enterprise plans cost $2,000 a year, $5,000 a year, or $10,000 a year. It supports Windows, macOS, and Linux.