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 19 → 59 of 64
SolarWinds · 1 category · Named, not rankedSolarWinds Patch Manager
14Judge labels
1First choices
6Negative labels
8 / 14Models named it
1Category
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. SolarWinds Patch Manager was named 7 times in Patching, where ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus led with 29%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business63 of 69
0%1 label
under the label threshold
Mid-market11 of 85
2%7 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise89 of 96
0%6 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 SolarWinds Patch Manager 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 | 2% | 11 of 85 | 29% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus at 29% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, SolarWinds Patch Manager held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Patching · by segment
Mid-market▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 59 → 9 of 79
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 51 → 92 of 94
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patching | 0% | 2% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 59 → 11 of 85 |
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 SolarWinds Patch Manager 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 SolarWinds Patch Manager 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 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
Direct2 labelsNone
Paraphrase2 labels1
Comparative4 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained1 labelNone
Negative5 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative14 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 infrastructure is strictly Windows-based, SolarWinds Patch Manager is the powerhouse choice.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Patching · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“SolarWinds Patch Manager provides a straightforward way to add third-party patching” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Patching · comparative 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.
“the attack surface and history make it a risky choice for critical infrastructure. Consider alternatives” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Patching · negative prompt · hard negative
“Tied to the company's 2020 Orion supply chain breach ... trust issues persist for security-sensitive environments.” Grok 4.20 · Patching · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as SolarWinds Patch Manager, over the 14 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SolarWinds Patch Manager was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as SolarWinds Patch Manager, over the 14 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and SolarWinds Patch Manager 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 SolarWinds Patch Manager. 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 11 of the 14 answers that named SolarWinds Patch Manager and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
action1.com8
g2.com6
ninjaone.com6
syncrosecure.com6
acronis.com5
devopsschool.com5
expertinsights.com5
gbhackers.com5
heimdalsecurity.com5
learn.g2.com5
Fifty-six of the fifty-six domain citations in answers naming SolarWinds Patch Manager came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where SolarWinds Patch Manager stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where SolarWinds Patch Manager stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 170 a month (“solarwinds patch manager”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 1 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on SolarWinds's site (solarwinds.com), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
2%
rank 11 of 85 in patching
Segment leader
29%
ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus
- First choices
- 1 across its categories
- Named in
- 14 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 11 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.
Names read as SolarWinds Patch Manager
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as SolarWinds Patch Manager; a claim can dispute any of them.
SolarWinds Patch Manager (and Orion Platform) 1
Follow SolarWinds Patch Manager
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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The company
SolarWinds is the company behind SolarWinds Patch Manager.ShowHide
The company
SolarWinds is the company behind SolarWinds Patch Manager.
ShowHideOn record
Company records- Also from SolarWinds
- SolarWinds AppOptics, SolarWinds Backup, SolarWinds DDI, SolarWinds IP Address Manager, SolarWinds IPAM, SolarWinds Log Analyzer, SolarWinds Loggly, SolarWinds NPM and 17 more
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- We offer quick access to technical documentation for the installation and configuration of your products. We also offer a comprehensive documentation library should you need more information related to your product.
- For
- customers
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What SolarWinds Patch Manager's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: support.solarwinds.com/patch-manager, support.solarwinds.com/solarwinds-platform-software. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 SolarWinds Patch Manager'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 SolarWinds Patch Manager, 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 SolarWinds Patch Manager by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where SolarWinds Patch Manager 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 SolarWinds Patch Manager, 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.