Index › Products › RDP · October 2026 Edition

2 categories · Named, not ranked

RDP

7Judge labels

1First choices

6Negative labels

5 / 14Models named it

2Categories

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

4 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. RDP was named 4 times in Remote support and 1 other category, where Splashtop Remote Support led with 23%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business57 of 62

under the label threshold

Mid-market13 of 77

under the label threshold

Enterprise79 of 89

under the label threshold

In remote support · 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 RDP 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
Remote support and remote access	IT operations and endpoint	2%	13 of 77	67%	3	under 10 labels · led by Splashtop Remote Support at 23%
Virtual desktops	IT operations and endpoint	0%	78 of 81	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Azure Virtual Desktop at 22%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for RDP yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated RDP across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	1	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	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 label1

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative6 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative7 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 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.

“If your company uses Windows infrastructure, this is built-in and cost-effective.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Remote support · paraphrase 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.

“RDP has inherent vulnerabilities such as unauthorized access, weak authentication, unpatched systems... a risky choice for securing remote connections” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Remote support · negative prompt · hard negative

“Do not use or configure any platform that relies on RDP and leaves ports open directly to the public internet.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Virtual desktops · negative prompt · hard negative

“ITPro says it should not be allowed in the workplace for the same manageability and auditing reasons.” Perplexity Sonar · Remote support · negative prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as RDP, over the 7 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and RDP was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

TeamViewer5 of 70Not among the top eight

AnyDesk4 of 70Not among the top eight

Chrome Remote Desktop3 of 70Not among the top eight

ConnectWise ScreenConnect2 of 70Not among the top eight

VNC2 of 70Not among the top eight

Ammyy Admin1 of 70Not among the top eight

Azure Virtual Desktop1 of 70Not among the top eight

BeyondTrust Remote Support1 of 70Not among the top eight

Cisco ASA1 of 70Not among the top eight

Citrix DaaS1 of 70Not among the top eight

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 RDP. 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 6 of the 7 answers that named RDP and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cisa.gov3

logmein.com3

realvnc.com3

screenmeet.com3

teamviewer.com3

reddit.com2

worldmetrics.org2

acronis.com1

ammyy.com1

anydesk.com1

No domain is on file for RDP, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/Guide%20to%20Securing%20Remote%20Access%20Software_cl2

cisa.gov/stopransomware/ransomware-guide2

acronis.com/en/blog/posts/navigating-workspace-compliance1

acronis.com/en/tru/posts/remote-access-hardening-playbook-reducing-rmm-tool-risk-for-smbs1

acronis.com/en/tru/posts/the-remote-access-blind-spot-an-analysis-of-rmm-tool-risk-for-smb1

ammyy.com/en/admin_mu.html1

anydesk.com/en/security1

anydesk.com/zhs/security1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as RDP

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

Microsoft Remote Desktop/RDP 1RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) 1

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An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

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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 RDP'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 RDP, 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 RDP by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where RDP 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 RDP, 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.