Small business▲+4Since September 2026: 2% → 7%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
7%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 4 of 64, unchanged
3 categories · RankedAutomox
128Judge labels
18First choices
4Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
3Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
15% in Patching for enterprise buyers
Rank 4 of 85 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
2 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 36 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Automox →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business3 of 69
8%33 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market4 of 85
10%36 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise2 of 96
15%53 labels
accepted challenger
In patching · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patch management | IT operations and endpoint | 10% | 4 of 85 | 0% | 36 | accepted challenger | ▼−10Since September 2026: 19% → 9%, −10 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Vulnerability management platforms | Security operations | 0% | 68 of 77 | 50% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Rapid7 InsightVM at 30% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Microsoft 365 management | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 80 of 149 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by CoreView at 20% |
Movement
Since September 2026, Automox held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Patching · by segment
Mid-market▼−10Since September 2026: 19% → 9%, −10 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
9%from 19% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 1 pointRank 3 → 4 of 79
Enterprise▲+4Since September 2026: 10% → 14%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
14%from 10% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 4 → 3 of 94
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patching | 19% | 9% | ▼−10Since September 2026: 19% → 9%, −10 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 3 → 4 of 85 |
| Vuln management | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 53 → 68 of 77 |
| M365 management | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 80 of 149, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Automox across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Automox across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
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
Direct22 labels9
Paraphrase20 labels3
Comparative33 labels8not counted in share
Budget-constrained12 labels2
Scale-constrained22 labels4
Negative19 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative128 labels in all, every segment counted; 18 of the 28 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 takes a unique approach by being fully SaaS-based... The modern leaders (Automox, Tanium, Ivanti) treat patching as code or policy.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Patching · comparative prompt · first choice
“If I had to pick one without more details: Automox for a mid-market company that wants a dedicated, cloud-managed patching tool” GPT-6 Luna · Patching · direct prompt · first choice
“Pure-Play Cloud Patching | Automox or Action1 | Extremely modern, cloud-native, excellent cross-platform support” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Patching · scale prompt · first choice
“For the best balance of cost and features, Automox and ManageEngine Endpoint Central ... are excellent starting points” Mistral Small · Patching · budget 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.
“they also do not offer patchless protection... you may be left exposed” Mistral Small · Vuln management · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Automox, over the 128 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.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Automox, over the 128 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.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 115 of the 128 answers that named Automox and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
motadata.com57
automox.comYour site51
learn.g2.com51
acronis.com50
action1.com45
expertinsights.com43
heimdalsecurity.com42
ninjaone.com41
syncrosecure.com37
manageengine.com33
399 of the 450 domain citations in answers naming Automox came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
automox.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Automox takes 10% of first choices and ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus takes 29%.ShowHide
Search and answers
automox.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Automox takes 10% of first choices and ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus takes 29%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “patch management tool”
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not in the top ten
Position for “patch management tools”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 3,600 a month (“automox”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 52 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 64,075 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 2,979 · 221 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 2,366
- Paid Google search
- 3 searches its ads show for, about 4 clicks and $832 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
10%
rank 4 of 85 in patching
Segment leader
29%
ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus
- First choices
- 18 across its categories
- Named in
- 128 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 115 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on automox.com
4,167
subdomains included
Content
1,361
counted in the table below
Documentation
1,900
Product · Integration
35 · 1
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 713 | 1 | 2026-07-07 | Patching, SOAR | |
| Podcast or video | 424 | 1 | 2026-07-29 | ||
| News or press | 82 | 0 | 2021-11-10 | Patching, Endpoint protection | |
| Case study | 49 | 0 | 2025-10-01 | Patching | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 29 | 0 | 2026-03-18 | ||
| Comparison | 24 | 0 | 2024-11-15 | Patching, RMM | |
| Report or ebook | 14 | 0 | 2025-10-07 | Patching | |
| Glossary or explainer | 11 | 0 | 2022-02-16 | ||
| Conference or event | 9 | 0 | 2020-01-21 | ||
| Template or tool | 6 | 0 | 2020-11-11 | Patching |
Most recent
- 2026-07-29Autonomous it live e08 podcast or video
- 2026-07-07Automox mcp server 2 2 blog
- 2026-06-11Product talk e26 podcast or video
- 2026-06-09Patch fix tuesday june 2026 e33 podcast or video
- 2026-05-12Patch fix tuesday may 2026 e32 podcast or video
- 2026-05-08Patch fix tuesday ep 31 podcast or video
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Every page automox.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
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The company
Automox is its own company.ShowHide
The company
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Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- IT governance at the speed of AI.
- For
- IT and security teams
- Price stated
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- Certifications
- SOC 2SOC 3TX-RAMP Level 2CSA STARGDPREU-US DPFPCI-DSSSOC 2 + 3
- Customers named
- ATN InternationalCampbell Clinic OrthopeadicsCanada GooseCity of AuroraCytheraFirst WatchGongHologic
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, hosting
What Automox's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: automox.com, automox.com/pricing, automox.com/platform/security, automox.com/platform, automox.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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- where Automox is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Automox, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
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