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Unified endpoint management for enterprise buyers

Asked as “unified endpoint management platform”, and as “device management tool for laptops and phones”, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. 45 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing
Microsoft Intune
Clear leader
78% of first choices, clear leader.
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By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.
Small businessMicrosoft Intune40%Clear leaderStanding →Mid-marketMicrosoft Intune43%Clear leaderStanding →EnterpriseMicrosoft Intune78%Clear leaderThis page

01The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for an enterprise B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01Microsoft Intune78%8%65endorsed leader
02Omnissa Workspace ONE18%24%68accepted challenger
03ManageEngine Endpoint Central2%20%35accepted challenger
04Hexnode UEM2%50%12criticized challenger
Show the seven products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
10Ivanti0%44%16criticized challenger
11NinjaOne0%43%14criticized challenger
09SOTI0%25%12criticized challenger
07IBM MaaS3600%17%18accepted challenger
05Jamf0%10%51accepted challenger
0842Gears SureMDM0%9%11accepted challenger
06Ivanti Neurons for UEM0%8%13accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its vendor page.
Head to head
Microsoft Intune vs ManageEngine Endpoint CentralMicrosoft Intune vs JumpCloudManageEngine Endpoint Central vs JumpCloud

One product takes 78% of first choices here, so the chart would put ten markers in one corner and one at the far edge. The two measurements it plots are columns in the standing above: share, and the negative label rate. Four products carry a negative rate above 25% in this category. Jump to the standing

02What they warned about

Eight of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, Mistral Small, Llama 4 Maverick and Qwen 3.7 Flash changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Omnissa Workspace ONE
24%
16 of 68 labels negative · 11 of 12 models · 1 hard negative
“Spin-off uncertainty... Gartner risk warning: Analysts explicitly advised customers to "conduct risk assessment and create contingency plans"” Kimi K2, negative prompt
Citrix Endpoint Management
88%
7 of 8 labels negative · 7 of 12 models · 3 hard negative
“Citrix announced it would no longer sell traditional endpoint management (as of July 2022)” Qwen 3.7 Flash, negative prompt
Ivanti
44%
7 of 16 labels negative · 7 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“HIGH CAUTION: Significant Security or Structural Risks... Why exercise extreme caution: Severe security track record” Kimi K2, negative prompt
ManageEngine Endpoint Central
20%
7 of 35 labels negative · 6 of 12 models · 2 hard negative
“High Caution/Avoid Unless Specific Fit ... Poor scalability for very large fleets ... Best for mid-market, not massive deployments.” Grok 4.1 Fast, negative prompt

03What they cite

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: twelve of the twelve in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.

Sites the answers cite

69 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 6 of those lists are Google grounding redirects that name no site and are left out of the counts. 856 links across 213 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

gbhackers.com
45 answers · 49 citations · 10 models
cyberpress.org
43 answers · 43 citations · 10 models
expertinsights.com
vendor site · Expert Insights39 answers · 40 citations · 10 models
cybersecuritynews.com
32 answers · 36 citations · 10 models
venn.com
25 answers · 31 citations · 9 models
syncrosecure.com
20 answers · 21 citations · 8 models
peerspot.com
15 answers · 21 citations · 8 models
ciopages.com
15 answers · 15 citations · 8 models
learn.g2.com
15 answers · 15 citations · 7 models
techvendorindex.com
14 answers · 15 citations · 7 models
computerworld.com
14 answers · 14 citations · 7 models
gartner.com
13 answers · 22 citations · 7 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

gbhackers.com/best-uem-solutions-compared
40 answers · 10 models
cyberpress.org/uem-solutions-by-business-size
35 answers · 10 models
expertinsights.com/it-management/the-top-unified-endpoint-management-uem-so…
31 answers · 10 models
cybersecuritynews.com/best-uem-solutions/amp
21 answers · 9 models
syncrosecure.com/blog/unified-endpoint-management-tools
20 answers · 8 models
venn.com/learn/endpoint-security/unified-endpoint-management-software
19 answers · 8 models
ciopages.com/buyer-guides/endpoint-management-uem
15 answers · 8 models
computerworld.com/article/1615555/how-to-choose-uem-platform-unified-endpoi…
14 answers · 7 models
techvendorindex.com/compare/best-endpoint-for-enterprise
13 answers · 6 models
checkthat.ai/answers/what-is-the-best-endpoint-management-software
12 answers · 7 models

04How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
ModelDirect“What is the best unified endpoint management platform for an enterprise B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which device management tool for laptops and phones would you recommend to a large B2B company with thousands of employees?”Comparative“What are the top enterprise-grade unified endpoint management platforms and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best unified endpoint management platform for a large company that needs predictable total cost across thousands of users?”Scale-constrained“We are a 5,000 person company with SSO, SOC 2 and procurement review requirements evaluating a unified endpoint management platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which unified endpoint management platforms should a large enterprise avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choiceMicrosoft IntuneChanged
Four alternativesJamf, Kandji, MobileIron, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft Intune
Five alternativesBlackBerry UEM, IBM MaaS360, Ivanti Endpoint Manager, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft Intune
One alternativeManageEngine Endpoint Central
against: Omnissa Workspace ONEno first choiceagainst: IBM MaaS360, Ivanti, Microsoft Intune, Omnissa Workspace ONE
GPT-5.4 miniMicrosoft Intune
Two alternativesJamf, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft IntuneHeld
Three alternativesIvanti, Jamf, Omnissa Workspace ONE
against: KandjiMicrosoft Intune
Four alternativesIBM MaaS360, Ivanti Endpoint Manager, Jamf, Omnissa Workspace ONE
against: BlackBerry UEMMicrosoft Intune
One alternativeIvanti Neurons for UEM
against: ManageEngine Endpoint Centralno first choiceagainst: 42Gears SureMDM, Atera, HCL BigFix, Ivanti, Kaseya VSA, ManageEngine, Microsoft Intune, N-able N-central, NinjaOne, Omnissa Workspace ONE, Raynet
Gemini 3.5 FlashMicrosoft Intune
Three alternativesJamf, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft IntuneHeld
Three alternativesJamf, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft Intune, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Six alternativesHCL BigFix, Ivanti Neurons for UEM, Jamf, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, NinjaOne, Tanium
Microsoft Intune
Two alternativesManageEngine Endpoint Central, Omnissa Workspace ONE
against: Ivanti NeuronsMicrosoft Intune
Three alternativesIvanti Neurons for UEM, Jamf, Omnissa Workspace ONE
against: Action1, Citrix Endpoint Management, Hexnode UEM, Ivanti, Miradore, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Perplexity SonarMicrosoft Intune
Two alternativesManageEngine Endpoint Central, NinjaOne
Microsoft IntuneHeld
Three alternativesIBM MaaS360, Jamf, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft Intune
Four alternativesIvanti Neurons for UEM, Jamf, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Hexnode UEM
Two alternativesManageEngine Endpoint Central, Microsoft Intune
against: Omnissa Workspace ONEno first choiceagainst: Atera, Citrix Endpoint Management, Citrix Workspace, Datto RMM, Hexnode UEM, IBM MaaS360, Jamf, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, NinjaOne, Rippling IT, Syncro
Grok 4.1 FastMicrosoft Intune
One alternativeOmnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft IntuneHeld
Three alternativesJamf, ManageEngine Mobile Device Manager Plus, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft Intune, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Three alternativesIvanti Neurons for UEM, Jamf, ManageEngine Endpoint Central
Microsoft Intune
One alternativeJamf
against: ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Omnissa Workspace ONEMicrosoft Intune, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Two alternativesIvanti, Jamf
against: BlackBerry UEM, Citrix Endpoint Management, Ivanti Neurons/Avanti, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Mistral SmallMicrosoft Intune, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Two alternativesCisco Meraki, ManageEngine Endpoint Central
Omnissa Workspace ONEChanged
Two alternativesCisco Meraki Systems Manager, Microsoft Intune
Microsoft Intune
Four alternativesIvanti, Jamf, ManageEngine, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft Intuneagainst: Omnissa Workspace ONEno first choiceagainst: Baramundi, Citrix, IBM MaaS360, Ivanti, Matrix42, Sophos Mobile
DeepSeek V4 FlashMicrosoft Intune
Three alternativesJamf, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft IntuneHeld
Three alternativesJamf, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft Intune
Six alternativesIvanti Neurons, Ivanti Neurons for UEM, Jamf, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Omnissa Workspace ONE, SOTI ONE
Microsoft Intuneagainst: Omnissa Workspace ONEno first choiceagainst: BlackBerry UEM, Citrix Endpoint Management, Ivanti Neurons for UEM, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Llama 4 MaverickOmnissa Workspace ONEno first choiceChangedMicrosoft Intune
Four alternativesIvanti, Jamf, ManageEngine, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Omnissa Workspace ONEno first choiceagainst: Citrix Endpoint Management, Hexnode UEM, Jamf, JumpCloud, ManageEngine, Microsoft Intune, NinjaOne, Omnissa Workspace ONE, SOTI
Qwen 3.7 FlashMicrosoft Intune, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Two alternativesCisco Meraki Systems Manager, Jamf
Microsoft IntuneChanged
Two alternativesJamf, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft Intune
Two alternativesJamf, Omnissa Workspace ONE
against: ManageEngine Endpoint CentralMicrosoft Intune
Three alternativesHexnode UEM, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Scalefusion
against: Omnissa Workspace ONEMicrosoft Intune
Three alternativesIvanti Neurons / MDM, Jamf, Omnissa Workspace ONE
against: ManageEngine MEO / Endpoint Centralagainst: Atera, BlackBerry, Citrix Endpoint Management, Hexnode UEM, Ivanti, ManageEngine, NinjaOne, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Kimi K2Microsoft Intune
One alternativeOmnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft IntuneHeld
Three alternativesIBM MaaS360, Jamf, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft Intune
Five alternativesIvanti Neurons for UEM, Jamf Pro / Jamf Now, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Omnissa Workspace ONE, SOTI MobiControl
ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Microsoft Intune
One alternativeIvanti
against: Omnissa Workspace ONEMicrosoft Intune, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Two alternativesJamf, ManageEngine Endpoint Central
against: Ivanti, Microsoft Intune, Omnissa Workspace ONE, SOTI MobiControl
GLM 4.7 FlashXMicrosoft Intune
Seven alternatives42Gears SureMDM, Ivanti Neurons for UEM, Jamf, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Omnissa Workspace ONE, SOTI, Scalefusion
Microsoft IntuneHeld
Four alternativesIBM MaaS360, Jamf, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft Intune
Nine alternatives42Gears SureMDM, BlackBerry UEM, IBM MaaS360, Ivanti Neurons, Jamf, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Matrix42, Omnissa Workspace ONE, SOTI
Microsoft Intune
Three alternativesJamf, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Omnissa Workspace ONE
against: Atera, Hexnode UEM, NinjaOne, ScalefusionMicrosoft Intune, Omnissa Workspace ONEagainst: Ivanti Neurons, Jamfagainst: Ivanti, Jamf, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Matrix42, SOTI
MiniMax M2.5Microsoft Intune
Five alternatives42Gears SureMDM, Cisco Meraki, IBM MaaS360, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft IntuneHeld
Two alternativesJamf, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft Intune
Four alternativesIvanti Neurons for UEM, Jamf, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Omnissa Workspace ONE
Microsoft Intune
Two alternativesHexnode UEM, ManageEngine
no first choiceagainst: Atera, BlackBerry UEM, Citrix Endpoint Management, Hexnode UEM, Jamf, JumpCloud, Kaseya VSA, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Microsoft Intune, NinjaOne, Omnissa Workspace ONE, SOTI, SolarWinds, Syncro, Trend Micro
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

05The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 08:28no04 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 08:58yes54 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 09:03yes1523 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 08:36yes186 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 08:30yes3616 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 09:10yes99 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 08:57yes910 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 08:30yes52 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 08:35yes1028 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 08:56yes1341 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 08:55yes12175 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 08:37yes542 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 09:09no04 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 08:25yes25 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 09:02yes919 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 08:45yes185 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 08:37yes117 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 08:57yes56 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 08:45yes817 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 08:16yes54 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 08:59yes1053 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 08:41yes1078 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 08:44yes1651 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 08:17yes942 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 08:37yes1413 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 08:19yes512 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 08:19yes3040 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 08:19yes208 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 09:09yes2614 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 08:43yes58 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 08:50yes1619 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 08:57yes54 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 08:55yes1050 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 08:49yes19174 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 09:05yes1586 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 08:44yes1028 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 08:42yes169 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 08:37yes35 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 08:47yes723 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 08:55yes206 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 08:19yes3716 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 08:31yes54 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 08:35yes1917 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 08:22yes53 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 08:34yes553 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 08:36yes2042 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 08:47yes1460 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 08:38yes535 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 08:50yes2714 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 08:40yes27 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 08:35yes422 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 08:20yes208 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 08:22yes1512 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 08:38no09 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 09:05yes2335 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 08:31yes55 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 08:31yes1057 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 08:31yes1570 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 08:21yes25107 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 08:25yes541 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 08:53yes178 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 08:54yes67 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 09:05yes2027 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 08:57yes2011 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 08:49yes2312 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 09:03yes56 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 08:19yes2534 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 09:07yes54 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 08:51yes25118 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 08:47yes2947 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 08:41yes39107 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 09:09yes571 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

Category-scoped readings
42Gears read as 42Gears SureMDM
Hexnode read as Hexnode UEM
IBM read as IBM MaaS360
Kaseya read as Kaseya VSA
N-able read as N-able N-central
Omnissa read as Omnissa Workspace ONE
Omnissa (Workspace ONE) read as Omnissa Workspace ONE
Omnissa (formerly Citrix Endpoint Management) read as Omnissa Workspace ONE
Omnissa (formerly VMware Workspace ONE) read as Omnissa Workspace ONE
Rippling read as Rippling IT
VMware (Omnissa) read as Omnissa Workspace ONE
Unresolved, counted raw
IBM MobileFirst
Ivanti Neurons / MDM
Ivanti Neurons/Avanti
ManageEngine MEO / Endpoint Central
Mocean
Raynet
Scalable UEM (Scalable Systems)
Swif
Venn
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.

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