Every category where a model named PDQ Deploy & Inventory 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%	17 of 87	11%	9	under 10 labels · led by Action1 at 27%

Movement

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

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative5 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained11 labelsNone

Scale-constrained3 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative24 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 1 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.

“a paid tool used specifically to create scripts that silently install third-party updates” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Patching · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“very affordable one-time license, excel at third-party patching for Windows-only shops” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Patching · budget prompt · alternative

“Free for basic use | Windows-focused patching | On-prem | Simple, no-frills” Grok 4.1 Fast · Patching · budget prompt · alternative

“Best Value per Endpoint for Windows Fleets: PDQ Deploy & Inventory” 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.

“legacy on-premise patching tools (like WSUS or traditional PDQ Deploy) are no longer sufficient” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Patching · scale prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as PDQ Deploy & Inventory, over the 24 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and PDQ Deploy & Inventory was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Action116 of 2412Not in the top three

ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus16 of 242Not in the top three

Automox12 of 243Not in the top three

NinjaOne12 of 242Not in the top three

Windows Server Update Services10 of 240Not in the top three

Atera7 of 240Not in the top three

PDQ Connect6 of 241Not in the top three

Patch My PC6 of 240Not in the top three

Microsoft Intune4 of 241Not in the top three

Tanium4 of 241Not 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 Deploy & Inventory. 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 13 of the 24 answers that named PDQ Deploy & Inventory and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

pdq.comYour site11

heimdalsecurity.com10

gbhackers.com9

cyberpress.org8

motadata.com7

mspcompared.com7

acronis.com6

comparitech.com6

expertinsights.com6

ninjaone.com6

Sixty-five of the seventy-six domain citations in answers naming PDQ Deploy & Inventory came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gbhackers.com/best-patch-management-compared-29

pdq.com/blog/best-patch-management-tools8

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

motadata.com/blog/best-patch-management-software7

acronis.com/en/blog/posts/best-patch-management-software-and-tools-20266

comparitech.com/net-admin/best-patch-management-software-tools6

expertinsights.com/it-management/the-top-patch-management-software-for-business6

mspcompared.com/best/patch-management6

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as PDQ Deploy & Inventory

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

PDQ Deploy 4PDQ Deploy/Inventory 2PDQ Deploy & Inventory / PDQ Connect 1PDQ Deploy (Free Version) 1

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