| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Remote support and remote access | IT operations and endpoint | 4% | 8 of 77 | 44% | 16 | criticized challenger | |
| Remote monitoring and management | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 45 of 62 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by NinjaOne at 47% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“I'd suggest starting with Chrome Remote Desktop or Windows Quick Assist if you're primarily supporting internal users” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Remote support · budget prompt · first choice
“Start with RustDesk or Chrome Remote Desktop — both are genuinely free for business use.” Kimi K2 · Remote support · budget prompt · first choice
“Chrome Remote Desktop is the easiest free option for helping someone or reaching your own computer.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Remote support · budget prompt · alternative
“Chrome Remote Desktop is best for lightweight browser access and simple setup” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Remote support · comparative prompt · alternative
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.
“ITPro says these free tools should be avoided in a business environment because they are "impossible to manage and audit."” Perplexity Sonar · Remote support · negative prompt · hard negative
“not suitable for business environments as they are difficult to manage and audit” Llama 4 Maverick · Remote support · negative prompt · hard negative
“Sometimes used to trick users into lowering security settings in their browser.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Remote support · negative prompt · hard negative
“Consumer tools like TeamViewer, AnyDesk, or Chrome Remote Desktop present risks” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Remote support · negative prompt · hard negative
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 35 of the 42 answers that named Chrome Remote Desktop and are not a share of its labels.
138 of the 138 domain citations in answers naming Chrome Remote Desktop came from somebody else's page.
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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.
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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Chrome Remote Desktop's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Chrome Remote Desktop, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Chrome Remote Desktop by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows: