Every category where a model named PDQ Connect 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	0%	14 of 87	0%	9	under 10 labels · led by Action1 at 27%
Remote monitoring and management	IT operations and endpoint	0%	48 of 57	100%	2	under 10 labels · led by NinjaOne at 50%

Movement

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

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

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

Direct4 labels1

Paraphrase4 labels1

Comparative13 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained4 labels1

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative5 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative31 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 5 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.

“PDQ Connect is a strong choice for Windows and macOS teams that want predictable patching without RMM complexity.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Patching · comparative prompt · alternative

“Choose PDQ Connect if you want a simple, rapid utility to patch Windows and macOS machines” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Patching · comparative prompt · alternative

“A cloud-native, agent-based tool from the creators of PDQ Deploy. Highly loved by sysadmins” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Patching · scale prompt · alternative

“Best For: Enterprise IT professionals who prefer precise, local execution.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Patching · comparative prompt · alternative

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.

“included in the list of abused RMMs, so it should be evaluated carefully for identity controls and deployment restrictions” Perplexity Sonar · RMM · negative prompt · soft negative

“You should exercise caution with the following:” Mistral Small · RMM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as PDQ Connect, over the 31 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and PDQ Connect was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Action126 of 3113Not in the top three

NinjaOne23 of 318Not in the top three

Atera17 of 311Not in the top three

Automox13 of 314Not in the top three

ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus9 of 310Not in the top three

Patch My PC9 of 310Not in the top three

Datto RMM8 of 310Not in the top three

Microsoft Intune7 of 311Not in the top three

ManageEngine Endpoint Central7 of 310Not in the top three

PDQ Deploy & Inventory6 of 310Not 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 PDQ Connect. 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 22 of the 31 answers that named PDQ Connect and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

learn.g2.com14

acronis.com12

pdq.comYour site12

motadata.com11

expertinsights.com10

mspcompared.com9

cyberpress.org8

heimdalsecurity.com8

gbhackers.com7

ninjaone.com7

Eighty-six of the ninety-eight domain citations in answers naming PDQ Connect came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

learn.g2.com/best-patch-management-software13

pdq.com/blog/best-patch-management-tools12

motadata.com/blog/best-patch-management-software11

acronis.com/en/blog/posts/best-patch-management-software-and-tools-20269

expertinsights.com/it-management/the-top-patch-management-software-for-business8

cyberpress.org/patch-management-by-business-size-27

gbhackers.com/best-patch-management-compared-26

heimdalsecurity.com/blog/automated-patch-management-software5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as PDQ Connect

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

PDQ Deploy & Inventory / PDQ Connect 1

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