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Index Vendors › Microsoft Intune · September 2026 Edition
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Microsoft Intune

253Judge labels
84First choices
32Negative 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
78% in UEM for enterprise buyers
Rank 1 of 52 in the mid-market standingendorsed leader
2 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 9% of its 57 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
In uem · 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 Microsoft Intune 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
Unified endpoint managementIT operations and endpoint43%1 of 529%57endorsed leader
Patch managementIT operations and endpoint2%8 of 8712%16accepted challenger
IT asset managementIT operations and endpoint0%26 of 610%2under 10 labels · led by Snipe-IT at 24%
Zero trust network accessNetwork and edge0%38 of 710%1under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare One at 35%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Microsoft Intune 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 Microsoft Intune across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.502215
GPT-5.4 mini52007
Gemini 3.5 Flash51017
Perplexity Sonar22015
Grok 4.1 Fast33017
Mistral Small20204
DeepSeek V4 Flash51017
Llama 4 Maverick11215
Qwen 3.7 Flash23308
Kimi K234018
GLM 4.7 FlashX24006
MiniMax M2.524107

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
Direct39 labels20
Paraphrase47 labels25
Comparative46 labels27not counted in share
Budget-constrained41 labels25
Scale-constrained36 labels14
Negative44 labels12not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative253 labels in all, every segment counted; 84 of the 123 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.

“If you're a Microsoft 365 organization → Microsoft Intune (you already own it, and conditional access + Defender integration are hard to beat).” DeepSeek V4 Flash · UEM · comparative prompt · first choice
“Most popular and widely adopted, included with Microsoft 365 E3/E5, making it the best value for organizations already using Microsoft products” Mistral Small · UEM · comparative prompt · first choice
“Microsoft Intune: Best if you are heavily invested in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. Deep integration with Azure AD is its killer feature.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · UEM · scale prompt · first choice
“Microsoft Intune - If you already have Microsoft 365 business subscriptions (most companies do), this is included” MiniMax M2.5 · UEM · budget 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.

“Leader, but real-world abuse in 2026 Stryker attack... Complaints: Frequent service outages (2024-2025), complex enrollment, lagging docs.” Grok 4.1 Fast · UEM · negative prompt · soft negative
“it may not be the best option for organizations with a diverse device ecosystem or those that require more advanced features” Llama 4 Maverick · UEM · negative prompt · soft negative
“if you're on Microsoft Intune/Business Premium+, Autopatch may be included, though third-party/macOS coverage is limited” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Patching · scale prompt · soft negative
“Strong for Microsoft-centric organizations, but easy to overbuy if it is already included in your licensing” Perplexity Sonar · UEM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Microsoft Intune, over the 253 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Microsoft Intune was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Jamf128 of 2530Not in the top three
Omnissa Workspace ONE124 of 2531Not in the top three
NinjaOne107 of 25319Not in the top three
Hexnode UEM63 of 2534Not in the top three
Ivanti55 of 2530Not in the top three
Miradore42 of 25317Not in the top three
IBM MaaS36042 of 2530Not in the top three
Action138 of 25314Not 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 Microsoft Intune. 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 202 of the 253 answers that named Microsoft Intune and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

gbhackers.com126
cyberpress.org124
expertinsights.com105
cybersecuritynews.com89
syncrosecure.com82
g2.com58
learn.g2.com54
superops.com50
miradore.com47
venn.com47

782 of the 782 domain citations in answers naming Microsoft Intune came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Microsoft Intune

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Microsoft Intune; a claim can dispute any of them.
Intune 8Intune + Windows Autopatch 1Microsoft Endpoint Manager 1Microsoft Intune + Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager 1Microsoft Intune / Windows Update for Business / Windows Autopatch 1
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