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Index › Vendors › ManageEngine Endpoint Central / Patch Manager Plus · September 2026 Edition

ManageEngine · 1 category · Named, not ranked

ManageEngine Endpoint Central / Patch Manager Plus

3Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

2 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

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. ManageEngine Endpoint Central / Patch Manager Plus was named 1 time 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 business24 of 60

under the label threshold

Mid-market35 of 87

under the label threshold

Enterprise37 of 79

under the label threshold

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 ManageEngine Endpoint Central / Patch Manager Plus 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%	35 of 87	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Action1 at 27%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for ManageEngine Endpoint Central / Patch Manager Plus 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 ManageEngine Endpoint Central / Patch Manager Plus 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	0	0
Kimi K2	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative3 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 for: Enterprises needing unified endpoint management; teams wanting extensive third-party app catalogs” Kimi K2 · Patching · comparative 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 ManageEngine Endpoint Central / Patch Manager Plus, over the 3 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ManageEngine Endpoint Central / Patch Manager Plus was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

NinjaOne3 of 31Not in the top three

Automox3 of 30Not in the top three

Action12 of 31Not in the top three

Atera2 of 30Not in the top three

Microsoft Intune2 of 30Not in the top three

Patch My PC2 of 30Not in the top three

Tanium2 of 30Not in the top three

Microsoft Intune / Configuration Manager1 of 31Not in the top three

PDQ Connect1 of 31Not in the top three

Datto RMM1 of 30Not 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 ManageEngine Endpoint Central / Patch Manager Plus. 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 3 of the 3 answers that named ManageEngine Endpoint Central / Patch Manager Plus and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

acronis.com2

expertinsights.com2

gbhackers.com2

heimdalsecurity.com2

manageengine.comYour site2

mspcompared.com2

camwood.com1

checkthat.ai1

comparitech.com1

cybersecuritynews.com1

Fourteen of the sixteen domain citations in answers naming ManageEngine Endpoint Central / Patch Manager Plus came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

acronis.com/en/blog/posts/best-patch-management-software-and-tools-20262

expertinsights.com/it-management/the-top-patch-management-software-for-business2

gbhackers.com/best-patch-management-compared-22

heimdalsecurity.com/blog/automated-patch-management-software2

mspcompared.com/best/patch-management2

camwood.com/blog/10-best-patch-management-software-you-can-try-in-20261

checkthat.ai/answers/what-is-the-best-endpoint-management-software1

comparitech.com/net-admin/best-patch-management-software-tools1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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