Every category where a model named ManageEngine 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	17%	3 of 87	6%	33	accepted challenger
Vulnerability management platforms	Security operations	0%	42 of 80	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Rapid7 InsightVM at 45%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for ManageEngine 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 Patch Manager Plus 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	2	2	0	0	4
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	1	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	0	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	1	1	1	1	4
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	2	1	1	4
Mistral Small	2	2	0	0	4
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	3	0	0	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	3	0	0	5
Kimi K2	1	1	0	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	2	0	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	0	0	2

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

Direct24 labels6

Paraphrase18 labels7

Comparative16 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained27 labels5

Scale-constrained6 labelsNone

Negative12 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative103 labels in all, every segment counted; 18 of the 21 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.

“Third-party patching solution: ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus if you want a dedicated patching product with broad Windows/macOS/Linux support” GPT-5.4 mini · Patching · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Windows with Patch Manager Plus or Automox, as they offer good balance of functionality, ease of use, and cost” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Patching · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“If your primary goal is deep patch coverage at a reasonable price, ManageEngine is often the top choice.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Patching · direct prompt · first choice

“Known for exceptional catalog breadth and value, making it a strong fit for mid-sized teams.” Mistral Small · Patching · 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.

“one user report says to avoid it if you need very current patches, because some patches can lag by 6 months to a year, and support was described as poor” Perplexity Sonar · Patching · negative prompt · hard negative

“Common complaints include unclear patch failure reasons, agent communication issues... Slow in large setups; test thoroughly.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Patching · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus, over the 103 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Action157 of 10333Compare →

Automox56 of 10310Compare →

NinjaOne54 of 10310Not in the top three

Microsoft Intune28 of 1034Not in the top three

Atera24 of 1031Not in the top three

Tanium21 of 1033Not in the top three

Windows Server Update Services20 of 1031Not in the top three

PDQ Deploy & Inventory16 of 1030Not in the top three

Microsoft Configuration Manager14 of 1032Not in the top three

Ivanti12 of 1031Not 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 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 84 of the 103 answers that named ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

motadata.com51

gbhackers.com48

expertinsights.com47

heimdalsecurity.com47

cyberpress.org43

acronis.com42

learn.g2.com38

ninjaone.com36

mspcompared.com33

thectoclub.com31

416 of the 416 domain citations in answers naming ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

motadata.com/blog/best-patch-management-software49

gbhackers.com/best-patch-management-compared-248

expertinsights.com/it-management/the-top-patch-management-software-for-business46

cyberpress.org/patch-management-by-business-size-243

acronis.com/en/blog/posts/best-patch-management-software-and-tools-202642

heimdalsecurity.com/blog/automated-patch-management-software37

learn.g2.com/best-patch-management-software37

ninjaone.com/blog/best-patch-management-software28

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus

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

ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus (Free Edition) 2Patch Manager Plus, ManageEngine 1

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