ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus review

Vulnerability Manager Plus is the value pick for teams that want classic agent-based scanning and patching under one license. ManageEngine publishes a full USD price table: 100 computers with one technician cost $695 a year on premises, $2,085 as a perpetual license, or $90 a month in the cloud. It ranks vulnerabilities by exploitability, severity, age, affected system count and fix availability, adds AI and ML based risk scores, and patches Windows, Mac, Linux and more than 1,100 third-party applications without a separate patching license. You also get audits against more than 130 CIS benchmarks plus UK Cyber Essentials and NIST, security configuration checks, web server hardening, an audit for end-of-life and peer-to-peer software, and scripts that mitigate zero-days before a patch exists. The console is busier than Intruder or Action1, extra technicians cost more, and it does not test web applications. For a budget-conscious IT department, the published pricing is a strong point.

Who it is for

IT teams that want on-premises or cloud vulnerability scanning plus native patching at a published per-device price.

Price

On-premises annual license from $695 for 100 computers; cloud from $90 per month.

100 $695 $2,085 $90 $895
Quoted from the vendor pricing page on November 9, 2026.

Key features

• Risk prioritization using AI and ML scores, CVSS, exploitability and age
• Native patching for Windows, Mac, Linux and 1,100+ third-party apps
• Audits against 130+ CIS benchmarks, UK Cyber Essentials and NIST
• Zero-day mitigation scripts and web server hardening
• High-risk and end-of-life software audit

Strengths and weaknesses

• Strength: Full price table published in USD, including perpetual licenses
• Strength: Patching included without extra licensing
• Strength: Choice of on-premises or cloud deployment
• Weakness: Interface is denser than cloud-native tools
• Weakness: Endpoint and server focus; no web app scanning
• Weakness: Each extra technician adds cost

Key facts

• Starting price: $695 per year for 100 computers, on premises
• Cloud: $90 per month or $895 per year for 100 computers
• Perpetual license: $2,085 for 100 computers
• Free trial: 30 days

Where it ranks

ManageEngine Vulnerability Manager Plus is No. 6 in our Best Vulnerability Management Software verdict.