Every category where a model named ManageEngine M365 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	Since September 2026
Microsoft 365 management	IT operations and endpoint	15%	3 of 149	4%	25	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	1	1	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	0	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1	0	0	2
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1	0	1	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	0	0	0	2
Kimi K2	1	1	0	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	2	0	0	3
MiniMax M2.5	0	2	1	0	3
GPT-6 Luna	0	2	0	0	2
Muse Glimmer 30B	2	1	0	0	3

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

Direct14 labels4

Paraphrase6 labels4

Comparative17 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained17 labels4

Scale-constrained8 labels2

Negative4 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative66 labels in all, every segment counted; 14 of the 17 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.

“start with ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus Free Edition. It is the only named solution with a never-expiring free tier that mirrors professional features.” Muse Glimmer 30B · M365 management · budget prompt · first choice

“For most mid-market B2B companies, ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus offers the best combination of capability, cost-effectiveness, and scalability.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · M365 management · direct prompt · first choice

“This is widely considered the best "value" option. It covers 95% of common administrative tasks at a lower price point” Qwen 3.7 Flash · M365 management · comparative prompt · first choice

“my top recommendation is ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus as your primary daily administration and compliance tool” Qwen 3.7 Flash · M365 management · paraphrase 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.

“High cost — Significant licensing concern for many organizations” DeepSeek V4 Flash · M365 management · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus, over the 66 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

CoreView38 of 6611Compare →

AdminDroid25 of 667Compare →

Microsoft 365 Admin Center18 of 664Compare →

ShareGate17 of 663Not among the top eight

Microsoft 365 Lighthouse15 of 661Not among the top eight

AvePoint Confidence Platform14 of 661Not among the top eight

BetterCloud11 of 663Compare →

Microsoft Intune11 of 661Not among the top eight

Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 36510 of 660Not among the top eight

CIPP9 of 664Compare →

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 M365 Manager Plus. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 64 of the 66 answers that named ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com54

expertinsights.com49

manageengine.comYour site33

microsoft.com33

coreview.com31

itechguides.com28

us.fitgap.com27

sourceforge.net26

admindroid.com25

learn.microsoft.com22

295 of the 328 domain citations in answers naming ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

expertinsights.com/it-management/the-top-microsoft-365-management-tools49

g2.com/categories/microsoft-365-management-tools42

sourceforge.net/software/microsoft-365-management24

manageengine.com/microsoft-365-management-reporting22

syncrosecure.com/blog/best-microsoft-365-management-tools-for-msps22

admindroid.com/microsoft365/compare/microsoft-365-management-tools19

itechguides.com/best/microsoft-365-management-tools19

us.fitgap.com/search/office-365-management-tools/enterprise17

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 50 a month (“manageengine m365 manager plus”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 2 a month
Its own site: It sits on ManageEngine's site (manageengine.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

15%

rank 3 of 149 in M365 management

Segment leader

20%

CoreView

First choices: 14 across its categories
Named in: 66 answers
Its own site cited: in 64 of the answers that named it

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.

Names read as ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus; a claim can dispute any of them.

ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus (Free Edition) 1ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus / O365 Manager Plus 1

Follow ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

ManageEngine is the company behind ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus.

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On record

Company records

Also from ManageEngine: ManageEngine AD Manager Plus, ManageEngine AD360, ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus, ManageEngine Applications Manager, ManageEngine AssetExplorer, ManageEngine AssetExplorer / Endpoint Central, ManageEngine CloudSpend, ManageEngine DCIM and 28 more

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Centralized administration tool for Microsoft 365 management, reporting, auditing, alerting, and automation.
manageengine.com/microsoft-365-management-reporting/microsoft-365-auditing-tool.html
For: organizations
manageengine.com/microsoft-365-management-reporting/microsoft-365-auditing-tool.html
Price stated: 345 USD manageengine.com/microsoft-365-management-reporting/microsoft-365-auditing-tool.html
Starting price: 345 manageengine.com/microsoft-365-management-reporting/microsoft-365-auditing-tool.html
Free plan or trial: 30-day, fully functional free trial; Free Edition manageengine.com/microsoft-365-management-reporting/microsoft-365-auditing-tool.html
Not stated on the pages read: Integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: manageengine.com/microsoft-365-management-reporting/microsoft-365-auditing-tool.html, manageengine.com/microsoft-365-management-reporting/onedrive-administration-tool.html, manageengine.com/log-management/office-365-administration-reporting-auditing-tool.html, manageengine.com/microsoft-365-management-reporting/microsoft-teams-administration-tool.html, manageengine.com/microsoft-365-management-reporting/microsoft-365-permission-report-tool.html. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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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 ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus'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 ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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ManageEngine M365 Manager Plus is among the products AI models recommend first in Microsoft 365 management this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/operations/microsoft-365-management/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/manageengine-m365-manager-plus--microsoft-365-management-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Microsoft 365 management, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Microsoft 365 management standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/operations/microsoft-365-management/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/manageengine-m365-manager-plus--microsoft-365-management-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Microsoft 365 management, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Microsoft 365 management standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/operations/microsoft-365-management/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/manageengine-m365-manager-plus--microsoft-365-management-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Microsoft 365 management, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Microsoft 365 management standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.