Small business▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 5 → 10 of 64
3 categories · RankedPDQ Connect
25Judge labels
0First choices
4Negative labels
9 / 14Models named it
3Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in Patching for small business buyers
Rank 18 of 85 in the mid-market standing
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 14% of its 7 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business11 of 69
0%12 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market18 of 85
0%7 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise37 of 96
0%4 labels
under the label threshold
In patching · 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 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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patch management | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 18 of 85 | 14% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus at 29% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Remote monitoring and management | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 51 of 62 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by NinjaOne at 47% | goneNot named this edition; 0% in September 2026. |
| Remote support and remote access | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 60 of 77 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Splashtop Remote Support at 23% |
Movement
Since September 2026, PDQ Connect held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Patching · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 13 → 15 of 79
Enterprise▼−4Since September 2026: 4% → 0%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 10 → 36 of 94
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patching | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 13 → 18 of 85 |
| RMM | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 44 → 51 of 62 |
| Remote support | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 60 of 77, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated PDQ Connect across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated PDQ Connect across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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
Direct2 labelsNone
Paraphrase2 labelsNone
Comparative2 labelsNone
Budget-constrained10 labelsNone
Scale-constrained3 labelsNone
Negative6 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative25 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.
“Great if your fleet is almost entirely Windows and you want rapid, agent-based software deployment and patching.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Patching · scale prompt · alternative
“If you need even lower costs, PDQ Connect and Patch My PC are strong contenders.” Mistral Small · Patching · budget prompt · alternative
“Cleaner alternative if you need cloud-based management for Windows and macOS.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Patching · budget prompt · alternative
“Best Cheap Cloud Patching for Hybrid/Remote Workforces: PDQ Connect” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Patching · budget 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.
“blue-chip IT software like ScreenConnect, LogMeIn Resolve, and PDQ Connect—blurring the line between legitimate IT administration and malicious intrusion” Muse Glimmer 30B · RMM · negative prompt · soft negative
“tools that are mentioned as having issues or being less desirable include: PDQ Deploy/Inventory and PDQ Connect” Llama 4 Maverick · Patching · negative prompt · soft negative
“Listed by Red Canary as commonly abused.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Remote support · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as PDQ Connect, over the 25 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.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as PDQ Connect, over the 25 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.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 PDQ Connect. 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 25 of the 25 answers that named PDQ Connect and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
action1.com15
motadata.com14
heimdalsecurity.com11
learn.g2.com10
acronis.com9
expertinsights.com8
pdq.comYour site8
splashtop.com7
thectoclub.com7
kaseya.com6
Eighty-seven of the ninety-five domain citations in answers naming PDQ Connect came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
pdq.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, PDQ Connect takes 0% of first choices and ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus takes 29%.ShowHide
Search and answers
pdq.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, PDQ Connect takes 0% of first choices and ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus takes 29%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “patch management tool”
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not in the top ten
Position for “patch management tools”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 1,900 a month (“pdq connect”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 46 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 184,243 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 15,063 · 1,709 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 2,906
- Paid Google search
- 2 searches its ads show for, about 8 clicks and $1,720 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 18 of 85 in patching
Segment leader
29%
ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 25 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 25 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on pdq.com
1,565
subdomains included
Content
1,104
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
23 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 763 | 30 | 2026-09-28 | Patching, Awareness training | |
| Podcast or video | 201 | 1 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 51 | 5 | 2026-09-17 | Patching, UEM | |
| Comparison | 44 | 3 | 2026-09-25 | Patching, RMM | |
| Case study | 23 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 20 | 0 | 2025-12-16 | ||
| Template or tool | 1 | 0 | 2025-12-22 | ||
| News or press | 1 | 0 | 2010-12-22 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Patch management software buying guide blog
- 2026-09-28From burnout to buy in justin grote on building in the age of ai agents podcast or video
- 2026-09-25Best rmm tools and alternatives for internal it teams comparison
- 2026-09-24Best autonomous endpoint management solutions blog
- 2026-09-23Patch compliance reporting blog
- 2026-09-22Wsus vs intune vs sccm comparison
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page pdq.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
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 / PDQ Connect 1PDQ Deploy/Inventory and PDQ Connect 1
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The company
PDQ Connect is its own company.ShowHide
The company
PDQ Connect is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Cloud-based endpoint management
- For
- IT teams and sysadmins
- Price stated
- Connect Basic $12 per device/year; Connect Plus $18 per device/year; Connect Premium $28 per device/year pdq.com/pricing
- Starting price
- 12 pdq.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Free 14-day trial pdq.com
- Customers named
- University of UtahSouth Amboy Public SchoolsNEI Electric Power Engineering, IncNEIAnTek ConsultingAutoleagueLift SchoolsSmall Animal Specialist Hospital
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, certifications, hosting
What PDQ Connect's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: pdq.com, pdq.com/pricing, trust.pdq.com, pdq.com/products, pdq.com/case-studies. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claim this page
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 PDQ Connect'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 PDQ Connect, 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 PDQ Connect by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where PDQ Connect 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 PDQ Connect, 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.