6 categories · RankedAction1
Action1 is a cloud-native endpoint management platform for patching, vulnerability management and remote monitoring · action1.com ↗
Leads at small business. Ranked 7 of 97 for enterprise buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Ranked first. Next is NinjaOne Autonomous Patch Management at 19%.
Ranked first, contested: NinjaOne Autonomous Patch Management has 20%. 4 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Microsoft Intune is first at 20%.
Why models recommend it
“The best patch management tool for a company with a limited budget is Action1, as it offers a free tier that covers 200 endpoints with full features and no time limit.”Llama 4 Maverick · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“For most small businesses on a limited budget, Action1 is the best overall choice because it's genuinely free for up to 200 endpoints”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Action1 provides enterprise-grade automated patch management completely free for up to 200 devices with zero functional limitations.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Best Completely Free Option: Action1 ... currently the strongest contender for businesses with zero budget for software licensing.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Some models suggest avoiding free or light tools like Action1 free tier, especially for large enterprises.”Llama 4 Maverick · Negative question · warning
“The free or light versions of Action1 are not recommended for large-scale or enterprise use.”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
“though it is less comprehensive than a full UEM suite”Perplexity Sonar · Direct question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Action1, over the 262 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 104 | 15 | Compare → | |
| 97 | 13 | Compare → | |
| 91 | 11 | Compare → | |
| 83 | 10 | Compare → | |
| 80 | 11 | Compare → | |
| 78 | 7 | Compare → | |
| 48 | 16 | Compare → | |
| 46 | 23 | Compare → | |
| 45 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 35 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Action1 →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Action1's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- IT and security teams
- Price stated
- Free forever for your first 200 endpoints
- Starting price
- 0
- Free plan or trial
- always free for the first 200 endpoints, with no functional limits
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, TX-RAMP
- Hosting
- USA, UK, Europe, Australia, multiple geographic data centers
- Customers named
- Ark, Ecobank, Hach, Asbury, Labcorp, Utah government, Tillys, Transcom
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 255 of the 262 answers that named Action1 and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
668 of the 763 domain citations in answers naming Action1 came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| Grok 4.20 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Kimi K2 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 10 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 393 | undated | Patching, RMM | ||
| News or press | 134 | undated | RMM, Patching | ||
| Case study | 50 | undated | Patching, RMM | ||
| Comparison | 30 | undated | Patching, RMM | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 10 | undated | Patching | ||
| Conference or event | 9 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 7 | undated | Patching | ||
| Report or ebook | 4 | undated | Patching | ||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated |
Events in person
- September 28, 2026Meet Action1 at MSP Summit 2026!Loews Royal Pacific Resort, Orlando · exhibits
- September 29, 2026Meet Action1 at MSP Summit 2026!Loews Royal Pacific Resort, Orlando · exhibits
- September 30, 2026Meet Action1 at MSP Summit 2026!Loews Royal Pacific Resort, Orlando · exhibits
- May 26, 2026 to May 27, 2026Cloud & Cyber Security Expo – Sweden 2026KISTAMÄSSAN, Stockholm, Sweden · exhibited
- May 6, 2026 to May 7, 2026Meet Action1 at Cloud & Cyber Security Expo – Frankfurt 2026Messe Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany · exhibited
- November 17, 2025 to November 19, 2025CITE Annual Conference 2025SAFE Credit Union Convention Center, Sacramento, USA · exhibited
- October 7, 2025 to October 9, 2025it-sa Expo & Congress 2025Exhibition Centre Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany · exhibited
As the event pages on action1.com state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page action1.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.