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NinjaOne

407Judge labels
80First choices
35Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
7Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
61% in RMM for enterprise buyers
Rank 1 of 57 in the mid-market standingendorsed leader
11 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 9% of its 56 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at enterprise.
In rmm · 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 NinjaOne 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
Remote monitoring and managementIT operations and endpoint50%1 of 579%56endorsed leader
Patch managementIT operations and endpoint13%4 of 878%38accepted challenger
Unified endpoint managementIT operations and endpoint4%5 of 529%32accepted challenger
IT asset managementIT operations and endpoint0%21 of 6122%9under 10 labels · led by Snipe-IT at 24%
Backup and disaster recoveryCloud and infrastructure0%58 of 1210%2under 10 labels · led by Veeam at 18%
IT service managementIT operations and endpoint0%35 of 480%1under 10 labels · led by Freshservice at 58%
Vulnerability management platformsSecurity operations0%70 of 80100%1under 10 labels · led by Rapid7 InsightVM at 45%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for NinjaOne 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 NinjaOne across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.523117
GPT-5.4 mini21115
Gemini 3.5 Flash652013
Perplexity Sonar22239
Grok 4.1 Fast1034219
Mistral Small534012
DeepSeek V4 Flash752317
Llama 4 Maverick154010
Qwen 3.7 Flash541313
Kimi K2562013
GLM 4.7 FlashX632112
MiniMax M2.542309

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
Direct84 labels30
Paraphrase67 labels30
Comparative95 labels40not counted in share
Budget-constrained50 labels6
Scale-constrained49 labels14
Negative62 labels16not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative407 labels in all, every segment counted; 80 of the 136 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.

“For most mid‑market B2B organisations, NinjaOne (formerly NinjaRMM) offers the best balance of price, feature set, and ease of use.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Patching · direct prompt · first choice
“This is one of the top‑ranked tools on G2 ... widely regarded as an excellent fit for lean IT departments and mid‑market organizations” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Patching · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“consider evaluating modern options like NinjaOne (which has a strong security reputation and fewer active exploitation cases)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · RMM · negative prompt · first choice
“Cloud‑native, cross‑platform tools (NinjaOne, Automox, Action1) are now the default for most mid‑market and MSP environments” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Patching · comparative 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.

“While tools like NinjaOne or ConnectWise Automate are excellent for *managing* devices, their native *asset management* ... is often superficial” Qwen 3.7 Flash · ITAM · negative prompt · soft negative
“Mixed sentiment; some users report functional patch management ... while others find that advertised features don't always work as expected” GLM 4.7 FlashX · RMM · negative prompt · soft negative
“cloud-native and strong, but priced per endpoint/month (better if you need mac/Linux too and have a slightly larger budget)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Patching · budget prompt · soft negative
“Often requires a minimum spend (~$200/mo), so it may be too expensive for very small budgets” Qwen 3.7 Flash · RMM · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as NinjaOne, over the 407 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and NinjaOne was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Atera182 of 40723Not in the top three
Action1118 of 40737Compare →
Syncro117 of 40715Compare →
Microsoft Intune107 of 40738Not in the top three
ManageEngine Endpoint Central94 of 40711Not in the top three
Datto RMM93 of 4070Not in the top three
Automox87 of 4079Not in the top three
ConnectWise RMM55 of 4075Not in the top three
ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus54 of 4077Not in the top three
Tanium53 of 4077Not 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 NinjaOne. 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 349 of the 407 answers that named NinjaOne and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

expertinsights.com151
syncrosecure.com147
learn.g2.com145
gbhackers.com144
ninjaone.comYour site137
superops.com104
g2.com101
cyberpress.org99
mspcompared.com89
aimultiple.com85

1,065 of the 1,202 domain citations in answers naming NinjaOne came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as NinjaOne

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as NinjaOne; a claim can dispute any of them.
NinjaRMM 4NinjaOne (NinjaRMM) 3NinjaOne (formerly NinjaRMM) 3Ninja RMM 1NinjaONE 1NinjaOne (Patch Management) 1NinjaOne Patch Management (formerly NinjaRMM) 1
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