Every category where a model named RustDesk 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%	9 of 77	22%	9	under 10 labels · led by Splashtop Remote Support at 23%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for RustDesk 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 RustDesk 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	Alternative	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	1	3
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	2	0	2
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	1	0	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	1	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	1	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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained12 labels2

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative21 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 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.

“For a truly limited budget: Start with RustDesk or Chrome Remote Desktop — both are genuinely free for business use.” Kimi K2 · Remote support · budget prompt · first choice

“If you want 100% data ownership and no fees (and you have a technician to set it up): Self-host [RustDesk](https://rustdesk.com/).” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Remote support · budget prompt · alternative

“If you want total control over your data and prefer open-source solutions, self-host RustDesk.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Remote support · comparative prompt · alternative

“RustDesk (free/open-source) if you want full control/privacy, but it requires more IT overhead.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Remote support · paraphrase 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.

“RustDesk can be cheaper, but self-hosting means your company takes on server setup and maintenance.” GPT-6 Luna · Remote support · budget prompt · soft negative

“Scammers frequently pivot to these lightweight, open-source, or free alternatives” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Remote support · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as RustDesk, over the 21 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and RustDesk was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Zoho Assist18 of 218Not among the top eight

Splashtop Remote Support17 of 218Not among the top eight

AnyDesk17 of 210Not among the top eight

TeamViewer16 of 210Not among the top eight

Chrome Remote Desktop12 of 210Not among the top eight

ConnectWise ScreenConnect6 of 211Not among the top eight

RemotePC5 of 212Not among the top eight

HelpWire2 of 212Not among the top eight

DWService2 of 211Not among the top eight

BeyondTrust Remote Support2 of 210Not 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 RustDesk. 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 20 of the 21 answers that named RustDesk and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

zoho.com12

splashtop.com11

guideflow.com10

teamviewer.com9

spotsaas.com8

rustdesk.comYour site7

realvnc.com6

spiceworks.com6

airdroid.com5

dupple.com5

Seventy-two of the seventy-nine domain citations in answers naming RustDesk came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

guideflow.com/blog/remote-support-software8

zoho.com/assist/articles/top-remote-support-software-for-it-teams.html8

spotsaas.com/blog/best-remote-access-software7

spiceworks.com/tech/tech-general/articles/best-remote-support-tools6

dupple.com/learn/best-remote-desktop-software5

guideflow.com/blog/remote-desktop-software5

airdroid.com/mdm/cheap-remote-desktop-software4

businessnewsdaily.com/9448-best-remote-access-software.html4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

rustdesk.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, RustDesk takes 2% of first choices and Splashtop Remote Support takes 23%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “remote support tool”

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not in the top ten

Position for “remote support tools”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 49,500 a month (“rustdesk”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 641 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 22,684 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 420 · 182 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 5,335
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on Google

None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 9 of 77 in remote support

Segment leader

23%

Splashtop Remote Support

First choices: 2 across its categories
Named in: 21 answers
Its own site cited: in 20 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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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Addresses on rustdesk.com

1,133

subdomains included

Content

counted in the table below

Documentation

565

Product · Integration

0 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	2025-11 to 2026-10	Latest	Categories named
Blog	49	12		2026-08-14	Remote support
Comparison	22	8		2026-07-09

Most recent

2026-08-14Unattended Remote Access on Wayland with RustDesk blog
2026-08-14Unattended remote access wayland ar blog
2026-07-09Rustdesk for linux blog
2026-07-09Rustdesk scale 50000 200000 devices blog
2026-07-09Rustdesk vs screenconnect comparison
2026-07-09Rustdesk vs vnc comparison

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page rustdesk.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. Read October 5, 2026.

Follow RustDesk

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.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

RustDesk is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: The Fast Open-Source Remote Access and Support Software
rustdesk.com
For: remote access and support
rustdesk.com
Price stated: Free self-hosting plan: $ 0 /month USD; Pro plans starting at $ 11.88 /month USD rustdesk.com/pricing
Starting price: 11.88 rustdesk.com/pricing
Free plan or trial: true rustdesk.com
Not stated on the pages read: Integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What RustDesk's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: rustdesk.com, rustdesk.com/pricing, rustdesk.com/category/security. A claimed page can correct any of them.

Is this your product?

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

where RustDesk 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 RustDesk, 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.