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FRISS vs Qualys VMDR

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FRISS

Insurance

Trust automation for insurance

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
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Qualys VMDR

Cybersecurity

Cloud-delivered vulnerability management licensed per asset, using scanner appliances and a lightweight agent.

From
$3/month
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: FRISS no pricing plans, tiers, or costs are published on the website; Qualys VMDR licensing is per asset and each capability is its own subscription, so patch management, endpoint detection, web application scanning, container security and policy compliance are separate line items, and the platform demonstrated in a proof of concept is rarely the platform in the quote.
  • They diverge on capability: FRISS covers Underwriting risk scoring, Qualys VMDR covers Cloud Agent.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 30 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which FRISS and Qualys VMDR actually diverge.

Attributes where FRISS and Qualys VMDR differ
AttributeFRISSQualys VMDR
Starting priceOn request$3/month
PlatformsWeb, ApiWeb, Cloud, Api
CategoryInsuranceCybersecurity
Founded20061999

Identical on both: pricing model (subscription), free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in FRISS

  • Underwriting risk scoring
  • Claims fraud detection
  • Network analysis
  • Real-time decisioning
  • Third-party data enrichment
  • Case management
  • Predictive analytics
  • Compliance monitoring

Only in Qualys VMDR

  • Cloud Agent
  • Scanner appliances
  • Authenticated scanning
  • TruRisk scoring
  • Asset inventory
  • Patch Management
  • Cloud connectors
  • Container sensor

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

FRISS

  • Fraud detectionnot Qualys VMDR
  • Risk assessmentnot Qualys VMDR
  • Underwriting automationnot Qualys VMDR
  • Claims investigationnot Qualys VMDR
  • Compliancenot Qualys VMDR

Qualys VMDR

  • A hybrid workforce where scheduled network scans miss most laptops and continuous agent-based assessment is the only way to get real coveragenot FRISS
  • PCI DSS external scanning where an approved scanning vendor report is a contractual requirementnot FRISS
  • An estate spanning datacentre, multiple public clouds and endpoints that needs one vulnerability view rather than three toolsnot FRISS
  • Organisations replacing a manual patch-verification process with agent-reported evidence that a fix actually landednot FRISS

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

FRISS

  • No pricing plans, tiers, or costs are published on the website
  • Requires direct contact through 'Let's talk' call-to-action for pricing inquiries

Qualys VMDR

  • Licensing is per asset and each capability is its own subscription, so patch management, endpoint detection, web application scanning, container security and policy compliance are separate line items, and the platform demonstrated in a proof of concept is rarely the platform in the quote.
  • Ephemeral cloud instances consume asset entitlement until they age out of inventory, so an autoscaling group that creates and destroys hosts hourly can burn licence capacity on machines that existed for minutes, and controlling that means tuning purge policies rather than tuning the cloud.
  • Authenticated scanning produces materially better results than unauthenticated, but it requires storing and rotating privileged credentials for every target platform, which is a security project in its own right, and teams that skip it receive reports full of unconfirmed potential findings that nobody trusts.
  • The console is a set of modules with separate interfaces, search syntaxes and report engines, so an analyst moving between vulnerability management, policy compliance and web application scanning learns each one, and cross-module reporting usually ends in a spreadsheet or a script against the API.
  • The tool surfaces findings far faster than any organisation can remediate them, and it does not solve the ownership problem: without an agreed prioritisation policy and a named owner in IT operations, a first scan producing tens of thousands of findings becomes a dashboard that everyone learns to ignore.

Pricing, plan by plan

FRISS

On request
  • Underwriting$undefined/year
    • Risk scoring
    • Application fraud detection
    • Real-time assessment
  • Claims$undefined/year
    • Claims fraud detection
    • Network analysis
    • Investigation prioritization
  • Enterprise Platform$undefined/year
    • All modules
    • Custom models
    • Advanced analytics

Qualys VMDR

$3/month
  • VMDR$3/month
    • Per asset
    • Vulnerability scanning
    • Detection
  • VMDR+$5/month
    • All VMDR features
    • Advanced analytics
    • Cloud integration
  • VMDR Complete$7/month
    • All VMDR+ features
    • Threat intel
    • Response automation

Which should you pick?

Choose FRISS if

  • You need underwriting risk scoring.
  • You work on Web, Api.
  • You also want claims fraud detection.
FRISS review

Choose Qualys VMDR if

  • You need cloud agent.
  • You work on Web, Cloud, Api.
  • You also want scanner appliances.
Qualys VMDR review

Questions people ask

Is FRISS or Qualys VMDR better?
Neither clearly leads. FRISS starts at On request and Qualys VMDR at $3/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, FRISS or Qualys VMDR?
FRISS starts at On request and Qualys VMDR at $3/month.
Does FRISS or Qualys VMDR run on more platforms?
FRISS runs on Web, Api. Qualys VMDR runs on Web, Cloud, Api.
What is FRISS best used for?
FRISS is most often used for fraud detection, risk assessment, underwriting automation, claims investigation. Of those, fraud detection and risk assessment are not what Qualys VMDR is typically brought in for.
What can FRISS do that Qualys VMDR cannot?
FRISS covers Underwriting risk scoring, Claims fraud detection, Network analysis, Real-time decisioning. Qualys VMDR covers Cloud Agent, Scanner appliances, Authenticated scanning, TruRisk scoring.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

FRISS: How does FRISS publish pricing information?

FRISS does not publicly disclose pricing on their website. The company directs interested parties to contact their sales team directly for pricing and licensing details.

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Qualys VMDR: Agent or scanner: which do I need?

Usually both. The agent covers endpoints and servers you control and gives continuous data; scanners cover devices you cannot install an agent on, such as network gear, printers and appliances, and provide the external perimeter view.

FRISS: What pricing model does FRISS use?

FRISS does not specify their pricing model on publicly available pages, requiring direct contact with their sales team to discuss pricing structure and implementation costs.

Source
Qualys VMDR: Does it patch as well as detect?

Yes, through the Patch Management module, which is a separate subscription using the same agent. Core VMDR detects and prioritises but does not deploy fixes.

Qualys VMDR: How are assets counted for licensing?

By the number of assets in inventory, which includes cloud instances and containers depending on the modules in use. Short-lived cloud assets count until they are purged, so purge settings directly affect what you consume.

Qualys VMDR: Can I keep the data in a specific region?

Yes. Qualys operates several regional platform instances and you choose which one your subscription lives on. Moving between them later is not trivial, so decide before onboarding.

Qualys VMDR: Does it scan web applications?

Web Application Scanning is a separate module licensed per application, not part of core VMDR, and it is a dynamic scanner with the usual limits around authenticated flows in single-page applications.

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