Intermapper vs. Nmap

Nmap

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Intermapper	Score 8.4 out of 10	N/A	Intermapper is a network monitoring and mapping software for hybrid environments. Intermapper provides real-time performance alerts and bandwidth monitoring with cross-platform functionality.	N/A
Nmap	Score 10.0 out of 10	N/A	Nmap is a free, open source network discovery, mapper, and security auditing software. Its core features include port scanning identifying unknown devices, testing for security vulnerabilities, and identifying network issues.	$7,980 Every Three Months per license

Pricing

Intermapper

Nmap

Editions & Modules

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Nmap OEM Small/Startup Company Redistribution License - Quarterly Term Maintenance Fee: $7,980
Every Three Months per license
Nmap OEM Mid-Sized Company Redistribution License - Quarterly Term Maintenance Fee: $11,980
Every Three Months per license
Nmap OEM Enterprise Redistribution License - Quarterly Term Maintenance Fee: $13,980
Every Three Months per license
Nmap OEM Small/Startup Company Redistribution License - Annual Maintenance Fee: $14,980
per year per license
Nmap OEM Mid-Sized Company Redistribution License - Annual Maintenance Fee: $19,980
per year per license
Nmap OEM Enterprise Redistribution License - Annual Maintenance Fee: $23,980
per year per license
Nmap OEM Small/Startup Company Redistribution License - Perpetual License: $49,980
one-time fee per license
Nmap OEM Small/Startup Company Redistribution License - 5 year prepay Maintenance Fee: $59,920
Every Five Years per license
Nmap OEM Mid-Sized Company Redistribution License - 5 year prepay Maintenance Fee: $79,920
Every Five Years per license
Nmap OEM Mid-Sized Company Redistribution License - Perpetual License: $79,980
one-time fee per license
Nmap OEM Enterprise Redistribution License - 5 year prepay Maintenance Fee: $95,920
Every Five Years per license
Nmap OEM Enterprise Redistribution License - Perpetual License: $98,980
one-time fee per license

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Intermapper	Nmap
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

Additional Details

Intermapper pricing is based on number of devices monitored. Intermapper is free for 5 devices or less. Subscription pricing starts at $303 for 25 devices. Device-based pricing starts at $765 for 25 devices.

All perpetual licenses include a six-month trial period during which you can cancel for any reason and receive a full refund of all money paid (including maintenance). The term license is only a 3-month commitment and cal also be terminated with full refund during the first 30 days of the initial quarter.

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Community Pulse
	Intermapper	Nmap
Considered Both Products	Intermapper Verified User Anonymous Chose Intermapper We have been using Intermapper for years and have been satisfied with it to the point that we haven't looked at competitors. The maintenance cost is very low and the product does exactly what we expect and need it to do. The product has gone through a couple owner transitions … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Intermapper Intermapper is a cross between WhatsUp Gold and Nagios. Whatsup gold being for a less technical end-user and Nagios doing more than just SNMP scans and up down monitoring. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Intermapper We felt, with both pricing and level of complexity, that Intermapper was the right solution. We looked at WhatsUpGold, but the price was too high for us at the time. We looked at Nagios, which is free, but we didn't find it intuitive. Incentivized Helpful? Dan Pelton Network Engineer Chose Intermapper I selected Intermapper because it was so easy to customize the display to exactly what we wanted. I wanted something that changed colors based on availability and something that we could display on TV's for our NOC. This fit all the criteria perfectly. Incentivized Helpful? Ryan Stasel IT Operations Manager Chose Intermapper I have 15 years invested in Intermapper, so my inertia to keep from changing is relatively high, and the cost to do so would be higher than just renewing the license each year. Traditionally though, Intermapper requires less work to get going, and less work to implement a given … Incentivized Helpful? Jim Cobb Director of IT Chose Intermapper Some of these other packages have some very sophisticated capabilities that Intermapper lacks. The problem is, not too many IT departments have the bandwidth to set them up properly and us the sophisticated features and maintain them. So why not get something that does what you … Incentivized Helpful? Geoff Benedetti Network Analyst Chose Intermapper We used to use What's up Gold for our network monitoring but Intermapper seems to have better mapping capabilities. We used to use Ciscoworks for monitoring our routers and switches but it was limited to just those network devices and was a pain to set up and manage. We … Incentivized Helpful? Nick Erwin Network Administrator Chose Intermapper InterMapper offers a cheaper and easier network map over SolarWinds Orion Network Atlas. It lacks SolarWinds graphs, reports and statistics. For monitoring, alerting and at a glance information, InterMapper is hard to beat for the price. Incentivized Helpful?	Nmap Verified User Anonymous Chose Nmap Nmap out perform all other network mapping tools. Other tools will detect systems on a segment of network but does not always discover running services and open ports. In most cases Nmap scans out perform other tools with the speed at which it return it scan resuls. The … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nmap A similar but more basic alternative is available on Android, called Fing. It's very useful for diagnosing issues on networks when you only have your mobile device to hand. Incentivized Helpful? Dylan Eikelenboom Security Officer Chose Nmap Alternatives to Nmap (other IP scanners) are often much more limited in what they can do; They often only allow you to scan a specific subset of ports or a limited number of IP addresses in one command. Nmap is unrestricted in that regard. What makes Nmap stand out above the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nmap ZenMap is a 3rd-party UI for Nmap, so those that struggle with syntax, this is nice. Bit heavier to run and use. Incentivized Helpful? Mike Nostrom Senior Systems Software Specialist Chose Nmap I have used all three of these alternatives but they are generally limited in their function and ability to tweak settings. I have always found Nmap to be able to out perform these other products with ease. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nmap Nmap has no competitors nowadays. I don't consider any of the other similar tools as an alternative. Every manual is Nmap oriented. Every student studies Nmap. Every pentester uses Nmap. Incentivized Helpful? Greg Madden, CISSP Cybersecurity Consultant Chose Nmap Nmap is the basis for all of its competitors. They all have Nmap built in and before you ever move beyond it, you have to understand it Incentivized Helpful? Alan Matson, CCNA:S, MCP Sr. Network Security Engineer Chose Nmap While mainly a CLI tool, there is an unofficial GUI. This can help the learning curve but unlike Nessus and Nexpose where there is a well-made user interface, with NMAP you need to really leverage the CLI for the power behind it. When it comes to modules being community-driven … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nmap This is the first product that should come to anyones mind if you want to do network monitoring the quick way. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nmap Nmap is completely free compared to all the other competitors and is highly customizable. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nmap NMap usually lacks the features of the other network scanners, but for a good reason: most of the other network scanners out there are using NMap as part of their system. The nature of NMap (being open-source) is that it is available for use in other applications; as a result, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nmap I haven't really evaluated a ton of others but there are some more basic versions, some have a GUI (like Zenmap for Nmap) but are less feature-rich. Some just don't work. Nmap is the default too, I think because of its great flexibility and straightforward use. Not sure … Incentivized Helpful? ZA Zishan ali VAPT Engineer Chose Nmap It is used for finding the open ports in the network, and another is to scanning the network find the loopholes in the network devices. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Nmap Fing, Angry IP scanner, Advanced IP scanner, all great programs, however they all lacked the depth and customization that nmap scans provide. They provide a modicum of information in a much prettier package, but nmap delivers for depth and powerhouse information gathering. Incentivized Helpful? Kenneth Hess Senior Systems Analyst Chose Nmap I've used several very good network scanners, but NMap is really the choice for most security professionals and IT professionals who do security work. All the other tools are good, but they all lack some of NMap's flexibility, scalability, and numerous options for scan … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Intermapper

Nmap

Network Performance Monitoring

Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
	Intermapper 7.2 Ratings 13% below category average	Nmap 5.3 Ratings 43% below category average
Automated network device discovery	7.00 Ratings	5.00 Ratings
Network monitoring	8.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation	7.00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Alerts	7.00 Ratings	3.00 Ratings
Network capacity planning	7.00 Ratings	6.00 Ratings
Packet capture analysis	7.00 Ratings	2.00 Ratings
Network mapping	8.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Wireless infrastructure monitoring	7.00 Ratings	2.00 Ratings
Hardware health monitoring	7.00 Ratings	5.00 Ratings
Customizable reports	00 Ratings	1.00 Ratings

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	Intermapper	Nmap
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Enterprises	SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) Score 9.0 out of 10	SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Intermapper	Nmap
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (0 ratings)	8.4 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Intermapper	Nmap
Likelihood to Recommend	If you've never mapped your network out before, download a demo of Intermapper and let it run. Your jaw will drop as your network grows before your eyes. If you have your network already mapped, you still would like InterMapper because it will find stuff you did not even know you have. If I were a network consultant, the first thing I would do when I hit a client's site is to start a scan with Intermapper. You will very quickly learn what the topography is. Incentivized Jim Cobb Director of IT Read full review	Nmap is the ideal solution if you are working alot in network environments. If you come to grips with the syntax and the most-used features (the online community helps alot), you will be able to much more quickly and thoroughly troubleshoot networks or check for security vulnerabilities, for instance. It is free to use and is available for Windows and Linux, so I would say it is very much warrented for any network administrator or sysadmin to take it out for a spin. Incentivized Dylan Eikelenboom Security Officer Read full review
Pros	Provides SNMP and WMI probe data. Alerts us in advance of issues. Allows us to customize notifications for different groups of individuals in the district. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Nmap is very good at discovering systems on your network. Nmap is very good at guessing a systems operating system with a high degree of accuracy. Nmap is good at validating externally facing systems to make sure that unauthorized access is not allowed. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	I don't have many complaints with Intermapper. It's a pretty simple tool for what we use it for, and it has worked well for us. Incentivized Dan Pelton Network Engineer Read full review	exporting, There's a serious lack of ability to export the information in a readable format to present to VPs and such. I always find myself doing a lot of data massaging to get it in a pretty format some scans can trigger sensitive IDS/IPS SYN scans can be particularly aggressive and cause problems on remote systems. Incentivized Mike Nostrom Senior Systems Software Specialist Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	Nmap uses are very practical and I don't think there is a better tools for what Nmap does. It is open-sources that therefore there is no cost to use it. It offers a number of benefits, including but not limited to network mapping, port scanning and more. It is very reliable as a network scanning tool. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	The product works well and is very easy to maintain. As such, we haven't had many occasions to use support. When we have called them they were easy to contact and responsive to our questions. We have had the product for years and it may have been a year or better since the last time we contacted them. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	There is a very large support community and a robust selection of add-ons and scripts. Once you get the use down this is one of the most powerful tools and you can find anything you are looking for as far as examples on the web. While not having official support its not lacking by any means. Incentivized Alan Matson, CCNA:S, MCP Sr. Network Security Engineer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	We have been using Intermapper for years and have been satisfied with it to the point that we haven't looked at competitors. The maintenance cost is very low and the product does exactly what we expect and need it to do. The product has gone through a couple owner transitions and still is a effective and when we first procured it. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	A similar but more basic alternative is available on Android, called Fing. It's very useful for diagnosing issues on networks when you only have your mobile device to hand. A graphical user interface alternative to Nmap, is Zenmap. It's the official GUI for Nmap and does use Nmap under the hood. It makes things a bit more 'point and click'. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Allowed us to find issues we had no idea were happening with our network hardware in closets. Able to pull network hardware inventory easily. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	NMap being free of charge has a positive impact on our budget. It is an enterprise-class tool that anyone can download and use. NMap, both command line and GUI, is a very advanced tool that is easy to use, so there's very little learning curve involved, which has a positive impact on productivity and security. A valuable feature that is a huge time saver is that you can compare scans. This saves hours of searching manually for differences in scan results. Faster results means faster mitigation of problems, which can be a real money saver. Incentivized Kenneth Hess Senior Systems Analyst Read full review
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