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1 category · Named, not ranked

Avast Business Patch Management

7Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

5 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Avast Business Patch Management was named 2 times in Patching, where Action1 led with 27%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business11 of 60

under the label threshold

Mid-market21 of 87

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

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 Avast Business Patch Management 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	0%	21 of 87	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Action1 at 27%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Avast Business Patch Management 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 Avast Business Patch Management across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

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

Direct3 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained4 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative7 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“Best Low-Cost Paid Option: Avast Business Patch Management” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Patching · budget prompt · alternative

“Offers reliable patching for small teams” MiniMax M2.5 · Patching · budget prompt · alternative

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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Avast Business Patch Management, over the 7 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Avast Business Patch Management was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Action17 of 77Not in the top three

ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus5 of 70Not in the top three

Atera2 of 70Not in the top three

NinjaOne2 of 70Not in the top three

Automox1 of 70Not in the top three

Microsoft Intune1 of 70Not in the top three

PDQ1 of 70Not in the top three

Patchman1 of 70Not in the top three

SolarWinds1 of 70Not in the top three

Windows Server Update Services1 of 70Not 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 Avast Business Patch Management. 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 7 of the 7 answers that named Avast Business Patch Management and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

techrepublic.com7

motadata.com6

acronis.com5

expertinsights.com5

thectoclub.com5

mspcompared.com4

action1.com3

cyberpress.org3

gbhackers.com3

learn.g2.com3

Forty-four of the forty-four domain citations in answers naming Avast Business Patch Management came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

techrepublic.com/article/best-patch-management-software7

motadata.com/blog/best-patch-management-software6

acronis.com/en/blog/posts/best-patch-management-software-and-tools-20265

expertinsights.com/it-management/the-top-patch-management-software-for-business5

thectoclub.com/tools/best-patch-management-software5

mspcompared.com/best/patch-management4

cyberpress.org/patch-management-by-business-size-23

gbhackers.com/best-patch-management-compared-23

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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