Every category where a model named Automox for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Patch management	IT operations and endpoint	19%	2 of 87	11%	36	accepted challenger
Vulnerability management platforms	Security operations	0%	61 of 80	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by Rapid7 InsightVM at 45%
Endpoint protection	IT operations and endpoint	0%	52 of 99	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for Cloud at 22%
Remote monitoring and management	IT operations and endpoint	0%	21 of 57	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by NinjaOne at 50%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Automox yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Automox across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	2	1	0	4
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	1	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	2	3	0	0	5
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1	1	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	2	1	2	6
Mistral Small	0	1	1	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	3	2	0	1	6
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	1	2
Kimi K2	2	3	0	0	5
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	1	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	0	0	2

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct20 labels3

Paraphrase15 labels7

Comparative31 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained13 labels1

Scale-constrained22 labels5

Negative20 labels3not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative121 labels in all, every segment counted; 16 of the 21 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Automox offers the best balance of cloud-native simplicity, cross-platform coverage, automation, and transparent per-endpoint pricing” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Patching · direct prompt · first choice

“commonly ranked well at mid-market scale to put on your shortlist: Automox and NinjaOne (cloud-native automation)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Patching · scale prompt · first choice

“Windows with Patch Manager Plus or Automox, as they offer good balance of functionality, ease of use, and cost” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Patching · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“A leading cloud-native tool. It is cross-platform (Windows, macOS, Linux) and incredibly easy to use.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Patching · scale prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Avoid if you have offline/air-gapped assets: Do not use Automox” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Patching · negative prompt · hard negative

“Automox and NinjaOne can flag vulnerabilities based on patch catalog availability, and may report "No Known CVEs"” Perplexity Sonar · Vuln management · negative prompt · soft negative

“cloud-native and strong, but priced per endpoint/month ... slightly larger budget” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Patching · budget prompt · soft negative

“Frequent reports of failed patches... Good automation but unreliable for some.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Patching · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Automox, over the 121 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Automox was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

NinjaOne87 of 12116Not in the top three

Action186 of 12130Compare →

ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus56 of 12110Compare →

Tanium47 of 1216Not in the top three

Microsoft Intune36 of 1213Not in the top three

Atera30 of 1210Not in the top three

Patch My PC23 of 1211Not in the top three

Microsoft Configuration Manager22 of 1212Not in the top three

Ivanti20 of 1211Not in the top three

ManageEngine Endpoint Central19 of 1210Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Automox. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 95 of the 121 answers that named Automox and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gbhackers.com64

cyberpress.org56

heimdalsecurity.com53

expertinsights.com49

acronis.com48

motadata.com47

learn.g2.com43

ninjaone.com37

thectoclub.com34

cybersecuritynews.com29

460 of the 460 domain citations in answers naming Automox came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gbhackers.com/best-patch-management-compared-264

cyberpress.org/patch-management-by-business-size-256

expertinsights.com/it-management/the-top-patch-management-software-for-business49

acronis.com/en/blog/posts/best-patch-management-software-and-tools-202648

motadata.com/blog/best-patch-management-software44

learn.g2.com/best-patch-management-software43

heimdalsecurity.com/blog/automated-patch-management-software42

cybersecuritynews.com/best-patch-management-software26

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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