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
Patch management	IT operations and endpoint	0%	69 of 87	50%	6	under 10 labels · led by Action1 at 27%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for SolarWinds Patch Manager 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 SolarWinds Patch Manager across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1	2
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	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

Direct5 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative9 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative5 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative19 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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 you already use SolarWinds monitoring and want a tight integration, SolarWinds Patch Manager offers a familiar UI” MiniMax M2.5 · Patching · direct prompt · alternative

“Best For: Large enterprises deeply entrenched in the Microsoft ecosystem.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Patching · comparative prompt · alternative

“best for organizations already using SolarWinds\u2019 monitoring tools” Mistral Small · 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.

“Steer clear of SolarWinds and Kaseya due to their respective histories of supply chain and backend compromises.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Patching · negative prompt · hard negative

“Strong for Windows patching and integration with Microsoft management tools, but less cross-platform than newer cloud tools.” Perplexity Sonar · Patching · comparative prompt · soft negative

“Proceed with Caution: SolarWinds Patch Manager” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Patching · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as SolarWinds Patch Manager, over the 19 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.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Automox14 of 190Not in the top three

NinjaOne13 of 194Not in the top three

ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus11 of 194Not in the top three

Action110 of 192Not in the top three

Tanium8 of 193Not in the top three

Microsoft Intune8 of 191Not in the top three

Microsoft Configuration Manager7 of 191Not in the top three

Windows Server Update Services6 of 190Not in the top three

Ivanti Neurons for Patch Management5 of 192Not in the top three

Kaseya VSA5 of 190Not 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 SolarWinds Patch Manager. 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 14 of the 19 answers that named SolarWinds Patch Manager and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cyberpress.org7

gbhackers.com7

motadata.com7

worldmetrics.org7

acronis.com6

expertinsights.com6

heimdalsecurity.com6

learn.g2.com6

action1.com5

cybersecuritynews.com5

Sixty-two of the sixty-two domain citations in answers naming SolarWinds Patch Manager came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

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

gbhackers.com/best-patch-management-compared-27

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

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

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

learn.g2.com/best-patch-management-software6

worldmetrics.org/best/enterprise-patch-management-software6

heimdalsecurity.com/blog/automated-patch-management-software5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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