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Datto RMM

105Judge labels
1First choices
33Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
4Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
2% in RMM for small business buyers
Rank 30 of 57 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 39% of its 33 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In rmm · 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 Datto RMM 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Remote monitoring and managementIT operations and endpoint0%30 of 5739%33criticized challenger
Patch managementIT operations and endpoint0%19 of 8711%9under 10 labels · led by Action1 at 27%
Unified endpoint managementIT operations and endpoint0%50 of 52100%2under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Intune at 43%
Endpoint detection and responseSecurity operations0%44 of 54100%1under 10 labels · led by Bitdefender GravityZone at 20%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Datto RMM 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 Datto RMM across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500112
GPT-5.4 mini02002
Gemini 3.5 Flash02024
Perplexity Sonar00235
Grok 4.1 Fast02136
Mistral Small00314
DeepSeek V4 Flash01315
Llama 4 Maverick00112
Qwen 3.7 Flash01315
Kimi K202125
GLM 4.7 FlashX01012
MiniMax M2.500213

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
Direct19 labelsNone
Paraphrase13 labels1
Comparative31 labelsNone
Budget-constrained6 labelsNone
Scale-constrained13 labelsNone
Negative23 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative105 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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 if you already use or want tight integration with backup/BCDR, Autotask PSA, and EDR.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · RMM · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“MSPs often prefer integrated RMM suites (Datto, Acronis, N‑able, Kaseya)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Patching · comparative prompt · alternative
“Datto RMM remains a powerhouse for MSPs that need deep technical capabilities” Gemini 3.5 Flash · RMM · direct prompt · alternative
“The Solution: NinjaOne (formerly NinjaRMM) or Datto RMM.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Patching · paraphrase 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.

“Datto / CentraStage / other Kaseya-linked tooling — cited in community warnings and commonly treated with caution because of the broader Kaseya/Datto ecosystem risk profile” Perplexity Sonar · RMM · negative prompt · hard negative
“significant sentiment among IT professionals to avoid Datto RMM” Qwen 3.7 Flash · RMM · negative prompt · hard negative
“its security depth is pretty limited with no dedicated SOC or advanced threat\u2011hunting capability, and behavioral analysis lags behind” Claude Haiku 4.5 · EDR · comparative prompt · soft negative
“If you choose Datto RMM or VSA, never sign a contract without having a lawyer review the auto-renewal and termination clauses.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · RMM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Datto RMM, over the 105 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Datto RMM was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
NinjaOne93 of 10555Not in the top three
Atera73 of 10512Not in the top three
Syncro53 of 1052Not in the top three
ConnectWise RMM35 of 1054Not in the top three
ConnectWise Automate31 of 1050Not in the top three
N-able N-central29 of 1054Not in the top three
Kaseya VSA27 of 1050Not in the top three
SuperOps24 of 1050Not in the top three
Action120 of 1054Not in the top three
ManageEngine Endpoint Central19 of 1050Not 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 Datto RMM. 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 88 of the 105 answers that named Datto RMM and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

syncrosecure.com56
learn.g2.com49
superops.com41
expertinsights.com38
ninjaone.com38
aimultiple.com36
comparitech.com32
gbhackers.com31
connectwise.com30
blog.domotz.com26

377 of the 377 domain citations in answers naming Datto RMM came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Datto RMM

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Datto RMM; a claim can dispute any of them.
Datto 7Datto/CentraStage 2Datto RMM (CentraStage) 1Datto RMM (Kaseya BMS) 1Datto RMM (Kaseya) 1
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