Rapid7 Metasploit vs Sweet Security comparison

Rapid7 and Sweet Security are both solutions in the Vulnerability Management category. Rapid7 is ranked #24 with an average rating of 8.4, while Sweet Security is ranked #36 with an average rating of 9.0. Rapid7 holds a 1.3% mindshare in VM, compared to Sweet Security’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Rapid7 users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Sweet Security users who would recommend it.

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We performed a comparison between Rapid7 Metasploit and Sweet Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Vulnerability Management category, the mindshare of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is 2.1%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Rapid7 Metasploit is 1.3%, down from 1.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Sweet Security is 0.6%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Vulnerability Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security	2.1%
Rapid7 Metasploit	1.3%
Sweet Security	0.6%
Other	96.0%

Vulnerability Management

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Satyavijay Chavan

Information Security Engineer at DataVigilant Infotech

Enables us to prioritize and effectively address critical security issues

Evidence-based reporting helps us to prioritize and solve critical security issues. The new visualization feature demonstrates how an attacker can enter the system, highlighting the potential path that can be exploited and outlining all the steps the attacker could take. With that visibility, we can ensure the perimeter is strong and attackers cannot enter, thus reducing the risk. It has helped us prioritize issues. The visibility into how an attack could happen is valuable. For example, it highlights the system vulnerability and outlines where an attack could propagate. The visualization helps me to prioritize remediation, and if I don't know where to start, I can check to see the score that enables me to prioritize issues. I am using infrastructure-as-code scanning, and it's one of the useful features. In pre-production, it identifies embedded secrets and misconfigurations, including issues with Kubernetes or some privileged containers. This feature allows us to pass the audit and secure IaC code so that it isn't easily exploitable by attackers. We can more proactively work to identify and resolve vulnerabilities by using the dashboard and the alerting system that SentinelOne provides. It helps us with audits and compliance. We can show the compliance in percentage. We can confidently say that our company or infrastructure is very secure. It has improved our security posture by 30% to 35%. It has reduced our false positives by 30%. It has helped teams collaborate better. The security team manages SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security, and when it flags vulnerabilities, they are forwarded to DevOps for remediation. Previously, we needed to identify and report the issues, but there would be lapses in communication. Now, there is a centralized dashboard that anyone can look at and see the open issues and work on them.

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reviewer1247523

Head of Sales Services Department at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Extensive exploit database and seamless integration enhance penetration testing capabilities

The automated approach in the audits or in the hacking testing with Rapid7 Metasploit could be improved because even the same attack you provide today will go in different ways another day. I prefer when the auditor or pen-tester provides the attack in a non-automated mode. For some, it might be a valuable option, but I'm not sure it's valuable for us, as after the attack has been provided, we should release a report detailing how it transpired and what the customer should improve to block this way of attack. If the attack was provided in an automated mode, you cannot receive sufficient information that helps with this final report for the customer. While you can check the vulnerability, and the system will tell you there is no vulnerability, usually, a human can change one, two, or three parameters and using the same technique and the same scripts can break the system. Rapid7 Metasploit could be improved in areas concerning the experience with finding particular scripts pre-installed in the solution. Customers, administrators, and pen-testers spend considerable time trying to locate the specific component they need by the name of the technique or the name of the attack, so any improvements in making it easier to find those predefined components by name or timeframe would be beneficial. Search filters could be a correct improvement.

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reviewer2761083

Director of Security Operations at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

Has reduced investigation time by correlating application and infrastructure events

Sweet Security has room for improvement in two areas. One is for robust integration with automations and playbooks. We have our internally developed platform that operates around security incident playbooks, so the connection between those two systems would be great. The option to run specific playbooks through the Sweet Security platform would help us a lot, but these must be fully customizable. We prefer not to block the business from progressing unless we are fully sure that it is an incident. Most of the actions I would take would revolve around containment or notification on a specific platform and not via email or similar communications. The second area is around the code perspective. I know it's just the start of a long journey that Sweet Security is going to go through to become a platform that also handles code, but I would expect options for a complete analysis and writing policies for infrastructure as code. The next great thing that Sweet Security can do is to turn toward IAC, how it is handled and enforced, to tackle potential breaches of policy before they really happen.

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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

"The UI is very good."

"We're monitoring several cloud accounts with Singularity. It is convenient to identify issues or security failures in any account. It's nice to have all the details we need to solve these issues."

"The Offensive Security Engine, powered by impressive AI/ML capabilities, seamlessly integrates with cloud infrastructure to analyze data and provide optimal security solutions."

"Support has been very helpful and provides regular feedback and help whenever needed. They've been very useful."

"Cloud Native Security has helped us with our risk posture and securing our agenda. It has been tremendous in terms of supporting growth."

"The most valuable feature of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is its advanced AI and machine learning capabilities, which allow it to identify and respond to threats in real time."

"SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is better than other vendors because we get all the cloud-related, data center-related information."

"The real-time detection and response capabilities overall are great."

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"I would definitely recommend Metasploit to others."

"It contains almost all the available exploits and payloads."

"The most valuable features of the solution are the scripts, the modules, and the tools that the Rapid7 Metasploit framework has."

"Technical support has been helpful and responsive."

"It is scalable. It's in line with our needs."

"The greatest advantage of Rapid7 Metasploit is that it is the only system that can directly exploit vulnerabilities on the Metasploit platform."

"The most valuable features of Metasploit include its powerful capabilities for exploitation and scanning."

"The most valuable feature for us is the support for testing Linux-based web server components."

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"Before we had Sweet Security, upon any type of detection of activity, we needed to conduct lots of investigations in different platforms and logs until we could build the larger picture, but once we inserted Sweet Security, we are able to actually see each and every request being made from the application level towards the infrastructure, making it much easier and reducing the time for an analyst to understand what's really happening."

"The value we see from having real-time visibility into our cloud environment is significant, as Sweet Security serves as our eyes and ears inside AWS, telling us what we are doing wrong so we can fix it."

"The value of having real-time visibility in our cloud environment with Sweet Security changes everything because it differentiates between identifying and reacting to something that is not really a risk and something that is truly a risk that needs to be treated."

Cons

"While SentinelOne offers robust security features, its higher cost may present a challenge for budget-conscious organizations."

"I request that SentinelOne investigate this false positive, as SentinelOne has a higher false positive rate than other XDR solutions."

"In addition to the console alerts, I would like SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security to also send email notifications."

"There is room for improvement in application security posture management features, and SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is on the costlier side."

"Sometimes the Storyline ID is a bit wacky."

"There is scope for more application security posture management features. Additionally, the runtime protection needs attention."

"SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is an excellent CSPM tool, but its CWPP features need improvement, and there is scope for more application security posture management features."

"I export CSV. I cannot export graphs. Restricting it to the CSV format has its own disadvantages. These are all machine IP addresses and information. I cannot change it to the JSON format. The export functionality can be improved."

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"The solution is not very scalable, it does not provide any automation to be able to scale it."

"The database is not always updated with the latest vulnerabilities or zero-day exploits. If a vulnerability arises a month or two ago, it might not be included in the database, which is something I would like to see improved."

"If your company's patch is not up to date, but you have other detection or defense solutions such as endpoint detection and response and antivirus software, the product exploit may not work effectively. This is because its exploit database update process is slow and not real-time. For zero-day vulnerabilities or new security threats, relying on Rapid7 Metasploit alone may not be effective."

"It is necessary to add some training materials and a tutorial for beginners."

"The reporting feature needs improvement. The time taken to fetch reports based on the number of events can be extensive, unlike Tenable, which is more user-friendly and faster."

"The solution should improve the responsiveness of its live technical support."

"Better automation capabilities would be an improvement."

"I would like to see more capabilities, more functions, and more features. More types of attack vectors."

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"The option to run specific playbooks through Sweet Security platform would help us a lot, but these must be fully customizable."

"One area for improvement could be the alerts, as we have an issue with the alert time, the time it takes for the system to send the alert, but besides that, there is nothing special."

"There was something a year ago that caused a production issue in my company, but they fixed it within an hour."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The features included in PingSafe justify its price point."

"It is cost-effective compared to other solutions in the market."

"I am personally not taking care of the pricing part, but when we moved from CrowdStrike to PingSafe, there were some savings. The price of CrowdStrike was quite high. Compared to that, the price of PingSafe was low. PingSafe is charging based on the subscription model. If I want to add an AWS subscription, I need to pay more. It should not be based on subscription. It should be based on the number of servers that I am scanning."

"PingSafe is affordable."

"While I'm slightly out of touch with pricing, I know SentinelOne is much cheaper than other products."

"It's a fair price for what you get. We are happy with the price as it stands."

"SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is on the costlier side."

"SentinelOne offers excellent pricing and licensing options."

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"Rapid7 Metasploit is cheaper than Tenable.io Vulnerability Management."

"The pricing structure involves a one-time purchase cost of approximately twenty thousand dollars or euros for all customers."

"It is expensive. Our license expired, and our company is not thinking to renew because of our budget."

"I use the open-source version of this product. Pricing is not relevant."

"There are two versions available, one of which is the Pro version, and the other is the free version."

"The great advantage with Rapid7 Metasploit, of course, is that it's free."

"It is a reasonably priced solution. I would rate it from five out of ten."

"I have used the free version of Rapid7 Metasploit."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Government

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Wellness & Fitness Company

14%

Healthcare Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

Non Profit

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	48
Midsize Enterprise	21
Large Enterprise	54

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	11

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about PingSafe?

The dashboard gives me an overview of all the things happening in the product, making it one of the tool's best featu...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PingSafe?

I think the pricing of SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is a bit high.

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What needs improvement with PingSafe?

We did not try to use the threat investigations feature from SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security.Drift detection w...

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What do you like most about Rapid7 Metasploit?

I use Rapid7 Metasploit for payload generation and Post-Exploitation.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Rapid7 Metasploit?

The pricing of Rapid7 Metasploit is quite affordable. It has a free version that many customers start with, and after...

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What needs improvement with Rapid7 Metasploit?

The automated approach in the audits or in the hacking testing with Rapid7 Metasploit could be improved because even ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Sweet Security?

I'm not really into the specifics of the pricing, but as far as I know, it is cost-effective.

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What needs improvement with Sweet Security?

Sweet Security has room for improvement in two areas. One is for robust integration with automations and playbooks. W...

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What is your primary use case for Sweet Security?

We are cloud native and are using Sweet Security for call runtime protection. It is much bigger than just runtime pro...

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Overview

SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security offers a streamlined approach to cloud security with intuitive operation and strong integration capabilities for heightened threat detection and remediation efficiency.

Singularity Cloud Security stands out for its real-time detection and response, effectively minimizing detection and remediation timelines. Its automated remediation integrates smoothly with third-party tools enhancing operational efficiency. The comprehensive console ensures visibility and support for forensic investigations. Seamless platform integration and robust support for innovation are notable advantages. Areas for development include improved search functionality, affordability, better firewall capabilities for remote users, stable agents, comprehensive reporting, and efficient third-party integrations. Clarity in the interface, responsive support, and real-time alerting need enhancement, with a call for more automation and customization. Better scalability and cost-effective integration without compromising capabilities are desired.

What are SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security's standout features?

Ease of Use: Intuitive operation simplifies navigation across platforms.
Real-Time Detection: Quick identification and response to threats.
Automated Remediation: Streamlines recovery processes with integration capabilities.
Forensic Visibility: Aids in thorough threat analysis and prevention strategies.
Comprehensive Console: Offers full visibility and historical data tracking.
Platform Integration: Supports seamless operation across cloud and hybrid environments.

What benefits should users expect from SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security?

Enhanced Efficiency: Automation and third-party integration improve threat response.
Improved Detection: Reduces mean time to detect and respond to threats.
Operational Support: Comprehensive visibility and forensic tools aid operational decisions.
Cost Efficiency: Affordable integration with scaling capabilities without high overhead.

SentinelOne Singularity Cloud Security is deployed in industries needing robust cloud security posture management, endpoint protection, and threat hunting. Utilized frequently across AWS and Azure, it assists in monitoring, threat detection, and maintaining compliance in diverse environments while providing real-time alerts and recommendations for proactive threat management.

SentinelOne

Attackers are always developing new exploits and attack methods—Metasploit penetration testing software helps you use their own weapons against them. Utilizing an ever-growing database of exploits, you can safely simulate real-world attacks on your network to train your security team to spot and stop the real thing.

Rapid7

Sweet Security offers a robust cybersecurity solution designed to safeguard sensitive data with advanced monitoring features, enhancing organization-wide security protocols.

The comprehensive features of Sweet Security include real-time threat intelligence, automated incident response, and seamless integration with existing IT infrastructures. Engineered for flexibility and scalability, it effectively adapts to evolving cybersecurity landscapes, delivering actionable insights for proactive security management.

What are the key features of Sweet Security?

Real-Time Threat Intelligence: Continuously monitors network traffic for potential threats.
Automated Incident Response: Rapidly responds to security incidents to minimize impact.
Seamless Integration: Easily integrates with existing systems without disruption.
Advanced Analytics: Provides detailed analysis to predict and preempt security breaches.

What benefits can users expect?

Enhanced Security: Strengthens overall data protection and reduces vulnerability.
Cost Efficiency: Reduces expenses with automated processes and efficient resource use.
Improved Compliance: Helps meet regulatory requirements through comprehensive monitoring.
Increased Trust: Builds user confidence by ensuring high standards of data security.

Sweet Security is implemented across industries such as finance and healthcare to guard sensitive information and comply with stringent regulations. Its adaptability allows customization to meet specific industry standards, addressing unique security challenges while maintaining high levels of protection.

Sweet Security

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City of Corpus Christi, Diebold, Lumenate, Nebraska Public Power District, Prairie North Regional Health, Apptio, Automation Direct, Bob's Stores, Cardinal Innovations Healthcare Solutions, Carnegie Mellon University

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