Minutes to configure, with no infrastructure to build

Lengthy, with reported deployments running from two to eight months

Scan and patch over the same agentless channel, with nothing installed on the endpoint

Agentless scanning only. There is no remediation of any kind.

Scanning, patching, configuration audit and remote access in one console

Findings sit in Rapid7 while the fix happens in a different vendor's tool

SaaS and on-premises, with fully air-gapped support

SaaS and a genuine on-premises deployment

Servers, desktops, virtual machines, network devices and cloud workloads, on-premises and in the cloud

Comparable scanning coverage

Full enterprise platform with software inventory plus kernel and package scanning

Broad vulnerability coverage

Parallel scanning finishes a full sweep in hours, with an exceptionally low false positive rate

Large networks need extra scan engines, and tuning is needed to keep the noise down

Contextual scoring with EPSS, CISA KEV and Metasploit references embedded

Real Risk and Active Risk scoring

Supported

Supported

Fully in-built. Patch straight from the vulnerability finding.

None. Rapid7 has no patch engine and depends on a third-party tool to deploy anything.

Custom and predefined policies, software deployment and custom scripts

Automation stops at ticketing. No deployment policies and no scripts.

Agentless access across Windows, Linux and macOS, with file transfer and session recording

Not offered

Syncs users, groups and devices from AD, and every device it finds is ready to scan and patch with nothing to install

Syncs from AD, but a device it finds can only be scanned, never patched

Summary and in-depth reports in PDF, JSON and CSV, with mitigation and patch mapping

Scan and dashboard reporting only, without mitigation or patch mapping

Intuitive interface with a low learning curve

Complex, with a high learning curve

24x7 support with fully remote onboarding and training

Tiered support

$

$$$

Subscription or perpetual

Subscription only

SecOps Solution delivers the best overall performance: fast scanning, exceptionally low false positives, and patching, configuration audit and remote access in one console. Everything works agentlessly, and the platform runs as SaaS, on-premises or fully air-gapped, on subscription or perpetual licensing.

Rapid7 finds vulnerabilities well enough, but it cannot fix them. Every remediation depends on buying and running a second patching product, which means a second vendor, a second console and a second bill, with no rollback, no staging and no remote access anywhere in the picture.