ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus vs Vicarius vRx

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.

Vicarius vRx combines vulnerability management with patch management, patchless protection, and scripting to remediate security findings. It prioritizes vulnerabilities using exploitability and environment context, and discovers endpoints, servers, network devices, IoT, and containers through agent-based or agentless methods. The platform advertises automated patch deployment across more than 20,000 third-party applications and operating systems. When a patch is unavailable, vShield offers in-memory protection for vulnerable applications, including legacy and end-of-life systems. vScript runs custom, community, and AI-generated PowerShell, Bash, or Batch scripts across Windows, macOS, and Linux. vRx can ingest findings from connected scanners and EDR platforms, route suggested actions for approval, and revalidate fixes after execution. It maps findings and remediation to frameworks including HIPAA, PCI DSS, Cyber Essentials, and more than 100 CIS Benchmarks. Basic is listed at $4 a month and Essential at $5 a month, billed per asset; each covers 100 workstations and servers. Both list a 14-day free trial. Custom pricing is scope-based and not listed.