Every category where a model named ManageEngine Endpoint Central 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
Unified endpoint management	IT operations and endpoint	24%	2 of 52	17%	42	accepted challenger
Remote monitoring and management	IT operations and endpoint	2%	9 of 57	0%	10	accepted challenger
Patch management	IT operations and endpoint	0%	13 of 87	8%	12	accepted challenger

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	0	2	3
GPT-5.4 mini	0	2	0	1	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	7	0	1	8
Perplexity Sonar	1	2	0	1	4
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	4	1	1	7
Mistral Small	1	2	0	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	6	1	0	9
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	3	0	4
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	3	0	1	5
Kimi K2	2	3	0	0	5
GLM 4.7 FlashX	2	3	2	1	8
MiniMax M2.5	1	3	1	0	5

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

Direct29 labels10

Paraphrase16 labelsNone

Comparative51 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained33 labels7

Scale-constrained13 labelsNone

Negative20 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative162 labels in all, every segment counted; 17 of the 18 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.

“the top recommendation for a mid‑market B2B organization that wants a single, cost‑transparent console is ManageEngine Endpoint Central” GLM 4.7 FlashX · UEM · direct prompt · first choice

“Best for a true $0 budget ... If you have 25 or fewer devices, this is essentially free, which is unbeatable.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · RMM · budget prompt · first choice

“Best Overall Value & Comprehensive Coverage... widely considered the top choice for mid-market IT teams” Qwen 3.7 Flash · UEM · direct prompt · first choice

“stands out as the best overall choice due to its balance of cost, functionality, and ease of deployment” Mistral Small · UEM · direct 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.

“Good for SMBs with simple needs. Avoid if you need robust reporting, dynamic group settings, or manage a highly diverse, large-scale environment.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · UEM · negative prompt · soft negative

“Attractive breadth and pricing, but you should verify that its depth matches your most important OS and compliance needs.” Perplexity Sonar · UEM · negative prompt · soft negative

“Why to be cautious: To stay secure, admins must navigate a constant stream of manual patch deployments” Gemini 3.5 Flash · UEM · negative prompt · soft negative

“consider ManageEngine Endpoint Central, but it is usually less budget-friendly than the two above” GPT-5.4 mini · Patching · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as ManageEngine Endpoint Central, over the 161 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ManageEngine Endpoint Central was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Microsoft Intune110 of 16166Compare →

NinjaOne94 of 16126Not in the top three

Omnissa Workspace ONE71 of 1617Not in the top three

Jamf66 of 1611Not in the top three

Hexnode UEM36 of 1613Not in the top three

Atera35 of 1613Not in the top three

Action134 of 16110Not in the top three

Syncro30 of 1612Not in the top three

Ivanti29 of 1610Not in the top three

IBM MaaS36025 of 1610Not 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. 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 138 of the 161 answers that named ManageEngine Endpoint Central and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gbhackers.com89

cyberpress.org79

expertinsights.com79

syncrosecure.com76

cybersecuritynews.com66

superops.com57

learn.g2.com45

g2.com41

peerspot.com33

softwareadvice.com33

598 of the 598 domain citations in answers naming ManageEngine Endpoint Central came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cyberpress.org/uem-solutions-by-business-size64

gbhackers.com/best-uem-solutions-compared64

syncrosecure.com/blog/unified-endpoint-management-tools58

expertinsights.com/it-management/the-top-unified-endpoint-management-uem-solutions54

cybersecuritynews.com/best-uem-solutions/amp37

superops.com/uem/best-uem-software36

miradore.com/blog/best-unified-endpoint-management-tools31

softwareadvice.com/unified-endpoint-management27

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as ManageEngine Endpoint Central

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as ManageEngine Endpoint Central; a claim can dispute any of them.

ManageEngine Endpoint Central (formerly Desktop Central) 2Endpoint Central 1ManageEngine Endpoint Central (Desktop Central) 1ManageEngine Endpoint Central (or Patch Manager Plus) 1ManageEngine Endpoint Central MSP 1

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