Small business=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 38 → 37 of 76
3 categories · Named, not rankedPDQ
15Judge labels
1First choices
1Negative labels
7 / 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.
Standing
7 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. PDQ was named 7 times in Vuln management and 2 other categories, where Rapid7 InsightVM led with 30%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business39 of 82
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Mid-market13 of 77
2%2 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise29 of 68
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
In vuln management · 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vulnerability management platforms | Security operations | 2% | 13 of 77 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Rapid7 InsightVM at 30% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now. |
| Patch management | IT operations and endpoint | 0% | 22 of 85 | 0% | 4 | 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% | 37 of 62 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by NinjaOne at 47% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, PDQ held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Vuln management · by segment
Mid-marketnewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 13 of 74, unchanged
Enterprise=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 57 → 30 of 62
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vuln management | 0% | 2% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 2% now. | New this edition | Rank 13 of 77, unchanged |
| 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 48 → 22 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 40 → 37 of 62 |
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 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 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 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 | 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
Paraphrase1 labelNone
Comparative6 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained2 labelsNone
Scale-constrained5 labels1
Negative1 labelNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative15 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 2 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.
“SecPod SanerNow, Action1, or PDQ. These tools don't just find vulnerabilities; they automate the patching process” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Vuln management · scale prompt · first choice
“compared to dedicated tools like PDQ or NinjaOne” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Patching · negative 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.
No model argued against it.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as PDQ, over the 15 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and PDQ was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as PDQ, over the 15 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and PDQ 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. 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 12 of the 15 answers that named PDQ and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
pdq.comYour site10
expertinsights.com5
syncrosecure.com5
ninjaone.com4
acronis.com3
heimdalsecurity.com3
learn.g2.com3
motadata.com3
orca.security3
superops.com3
Thirty-two of the forty-two domain citations in answers naming PDQ 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 takes 2% of first choices and Rapid7 InsightVM takes 30%.ShowHide
Search and answers
pdq.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, PDQ takes 2% of first choices and Rapid7 InsightVM takes 30%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “vulnerability management platform”
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not in the top ten
Position for “vulnerability management platforms”
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not in the top ten
- 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
2%
rank 13 of 77 in vuln management
Segment leader
30%
Rapid7 InsightVM
- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 15 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 12 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
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as PDQ; a claim can dispute any of them.
PDQ (PDQ Deploy & PDQ Connect) 1
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The company
PDQ is its own company.ShowHide
The company
PDQ is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- simple, secure, and pretty damn quick IT device management solutions for effortless software deployment and patching
- 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; Deploy & Inventory $1,950 per admin/year pdq.com/pricing
- Starting price
- 12 pdq.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Free 14-day trial pdq.com
- Certifications
- SOC 2ISO 27001:2022GDPRUS Data Privacy
- Customers named
- University of UtahSouth Amboy Public SchoolsNEI Electric Power Engineering, IncFREE NOWTexas A&M AgriLifeNEIAnTek ConsultingAutoleague
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, hosting
What PDQ's own pages state, read October 6, 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'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, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for PDQ by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where PDQ 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, 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.