Kandji vs Tenable Security Center comparison

Kandji and Tenable are both solutions in the Vulnerability Management category. Kandji is ranked #43 with an average rating of 9.0, while Tenable is ranked #6 with an average rating of 9.1. Kandji holds a 0.3% mindshare in VM, compared to Tenable’s 3.1% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Kandji users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Tenable users who would recommend it.

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100% willing to recommend

Tenable Security Center

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96% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Kandji and Tenable Security Center based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Vulnerability Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Kandji

Ranking in Vulnerability Management

43rd

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Mobile Device Management (MDM) (7th), Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) (14th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (31st)

Tenable Security Center

Ranking in Vulnerability Management

6th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (14th), Risk-Based Vulnerability Management (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Vulnerability Management category, the mindshare of Kandji is 0.3%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Tenable Security Center is 3.1%, down from 6.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Vulnerability Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Tenable Security Center	3.1%
Kandji	0.3%
Other	96.6%

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reviewer2795433

Cloud Ops Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Automated updates have strengthened security and save me time on daily device management

In my opinion, the best features Kandji offers are its UI, which is very clean and clear to use, not overly cluttered, allowing me to see the icon of all the different apps that I can install, and when I click on the little icon in my toolbar, it shows me any updates which I am able to install, making it very easy to use. The clean UI and ease of use definitely save me time, probably cutting the time in half for trying to figure out when to install updates myself, because the notifications are pushed to me, which is good since I want to keep my system up to date without interfering with my workflow. Kandji has impacted my organization positively by definitely increasing security because it notifies you when an update is ready to be installed, and if you do not install it within a reasonable time frame, it would automatically install it, which is good, and it probably has saved at least 30% of my time from manually having to look for updates since it just notifies me when the update is ready. Kandji's automatic installation feature ensures our team's compliance or security posture, as it makes sure we are up to date and all on the same version of a particular tool, which is very important for a technical IT team to avoid differences that might affect functionality.

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reviewer1534134

Head of Information Security at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

Centralized analytics have strengthened patch visibility and support efficient regulatory reporting

From my experience, I assess the product's analytics capabilities as successful. It helped us significantly with patching and managing the risk of the patching process across all our environments, including network devices with Windows and Unix systems. The product covered several environments and gave us exactly what we needed in our environment. Tenable Security Center's centralized platform helped with risk assessment and management across our IT environments. It covered the patching process, and we previously faced many issues regarding how to patch different environments, how to monitor the patching process, and whether it was successful or not. We obtained good reports showing when patches were closed and the details of each patch, including who executed it and everything related to the patching process until it was closed. This gave us good details about the process which helped us significantly in our reporting and even in audits, whether internal or external. We learned how to close audit issues safely and successfully. We used the dashboards for real-time threat insights and extracted several dashboards from Tenable Security Center. We use these dashboards in our cybersecurity dashboard and committees that we have. These dashboards are part of our committees, especially the cybersecurity committee and other committees that we attend.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"I highly recommend Kandji to others looking into using it since I have not seen any game-breaking issues; it is highly reliable, scalable, improves security, and reduces the time individuals need to spend on system configuration for security updates."

"It's a very easy plug-and-play solution where you can just enroll the devices and choose the features you want."

"The most valuable features of Tenable SC are the reports and the dashboards."

"The ROI is almost guaranteed because there is a lot of value in using the product and reporting that to our company."

"We use Tenable to scan all of our environments and plugins for vulnerabilities. Tenable helps us discover network vulnerabilities to threats and piracy."

"Tenable SC's most valuable features are the low number of false positives and the strong capability of providing prioritization for the vulnerabilities detected."

"It's a very useful tool."

"It increases the trust in the information from the tool, cuts down on accusations of false-positives, helps people do their job better, helps us to understand our cyber-exposure, and helps us focus resources on the vulnerabilities that are most likely to be exploited."

"The predictive prioritization features are pretty good. They do a lot of research and we trust the research that they do internally. They have knowledge of what's going on with many companies, where we only get a view into what's going on here. So the ability to get best practices out of them as part of this solution, is valuable to us."

"We really love the Security Center dashboard. It basically performs vulnerability scanning and then outputs a vulnerability data."

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Cons

"Kandji should give open customization."

"In terms of configuration, there is some level of flexibility that we are not able to achieve."

"The reports and plugins for reports and scans could benefit from enhancements."

"It's good at creating information, it's good creating dashboards, it's good at creating reports, but if you want to take that reporting metadata and put it into another tool, that is a little bit lacking."

"Tenable SC can improve by making it easier to create complicated reports and have more effectiveness in the remediation area for comparison between the scans."

"Current web page needs improvement, slows down processes."

"Tenable's reporting engine needs improvement. It needs to be more efficient and add more features."

"The GUI could be improved to have all concerns and priorities use the same GUI, allowing them to see all tickets, assign vulnerabilities, and assign variation failures to each member of their team."

"Security can always be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Users have to pay a yearly licensing fee for Kandji, which is expensive."

"Tenable SC is priced per asset, with the basic solution starting around US$12,000 for 500 assets."

"The price of Tenable SC is expensive, we pay approximately €70,000 for the license annually. We have to pay for each IP test. The cost of other solutions is far less, such as Nessus Professional, which is €3,000 annually."

"The tool costs around 15,000 Saudi riyals monthly."

"The tool provides competitive pricing."

"Though reasonable, the main competitor of Tenable SC, Rapid7, offers a more aggressive and better priced product."

"Compared to other companies or other products it could maybe be a little bit less, but the price is okay. I would say it's not very expensive."

"I rate the solution's price as seven on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive. The tool is quite expensive."

"We're able to save because we don't have to employ more staff members to help wit ht he scheduling of the scans, running the reports or sending them out to the systems owners. That alone is a big ROI for us."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Educational Organization

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	22
Midsize Enterprise	10
Large Enterprise	27

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Kandji?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that their pricing structure is bucket-based, requiring licenses to be bought in large groups, which is not an issue for my organization due...

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What needs improvement with Kandji?

I have not been involved in the purchase process of Kandji, but I understand it is very Apple-centric and they have very recently come out with support for Windows or Android, although I do not bel...

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What is your primary use case for Kandji?

My main use case for Kandji is that within my organization, I have a Mac as my work laptop, and Kandji is used for self-service platforms so that we can download tools, as well as secondly, automat...

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What do you like most about Tenable SC?

The tool's dashboard and reporting capabilities match our company's needs since we are able to modify the basic view to create a new dashboard, and it works out very well for our needs.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Tenable SC?

The price of Tenable Security Center is not so high; it's relatively a cheaper solution.

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What needs improvement with Tenable SC?

We did conduct a long implementation which relates to what I think can be improved about Tenable Security Center. In some cases, we needed to refer back to Tenable itself, and in other cases, we ne...

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Also Known As

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Tenable.sc, Tenable Unified Security, Tenable SecurityCenter

Overview

Kandji’s automations are a force multiplier. They free your technology team from repetitive tasks, letting you focus energy on more impactful projects. Kandji has purpose-built experiences from setup and app installs to software updates and computer restarts. It’s what your teams expect from a company with high standards. From increased efficiency to lower cost of ownership, your bottom line is our top priority.

Kandji

Get a risk-based view of your IT, security and compliance posture so you can quickly identify, investigate and prioritize your most critical assets and vulnerabilities.

Managed on-premises and powered by Nessus technology, the Tenable Security Center (formerly Tenable.sc) suite of products provides the industry’s most comprehensive vulnerability coverage with real-time continuous assessment of your network. It’s your complete end-to-end vulnerability management solution.

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IBM, Sempra Energy, Microsoft, Apple, Adidas, Union Pacific

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