2 categories · RankedPDQ Deploy & Inventory
PDQ Deploy & Inventory is an on-premises device management product used for patch management, aimed at IT professionals · pdq.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Action1 is first at 54%.
Action1 is first at 35%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Microsoft Intune is first at 20%.
Why models recommend it
“PDQ licenses per administrator... PDQ becomes exponentially cheaper than almost any per-device competitor.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Choose PDQ when the environment is mainly Windows and ease of package deployment matters most.”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · alternative
“Known for being low-cost and effective for Windows environments.”Mistral Small · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Best for: Windows shops needing simple deployment and patching”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Some tools (e.g., PDQ Deploy/Inventory) work only over LAN/VPN, not over WAN or cloud‑only deployments.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · warning
“Excellent for Windows-focused on-prem environments but less ideal for remote/mixed OS.”Grok 4.20 · Direct question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as PDQ Deploy & Inventory, over the 28 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 11 | View → | |
| 16 | 4 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → | |
| 11 | 4 | View → | |
| 10 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 1 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on PDQ Deploy & Inventory's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- IT pros
- Price stated
- $1,950 per admin/year
- Starting price
- $1,950
- Free plan or trial
- Free 14-day trial
- Customers named
- University of Utah, South Amboy Public Schools, NEI Electric Power Engineering, Inc, Okland Construction, NextFab, Sussex County Technical School, Falcon Plastics, First Mid-Illinois Bank and Trust
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 24 of the 28 answers that named PDQ Deploy & Inventory and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Ninety-three of the 100 domain citations in answers naming PDQ Deploy & Inventory 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 763 | 30 | 2026-09-28 | Patching, Awareness training | |
| Podcast or video | 201 | 1 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 51 | 5 | 2026-09-17 | Patching, UEM | |
| Comparison | 44 | 3 | 2026-09-25 | Patching, RMM | |
| Case study | 23 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 20 | 0 | 2025-12-16 | ||
| Template or tool | 1 | 0 | 2025-12-22 | ||
| News or press | 1 | 0 | 2010-12-22 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Patch management software buying guide blog
- 2026-09-28From burnout to buy in justin grote on building in the age of ai agents podcast or video
- 2026-09-25Best rmm tools and alternatives for internal it teams comparison
- 2026-09-24Best autonomous endpoint management solutions blog
- 2026-09-23Patch compliance reporting blog
- 2026-09-22Wsus vs intune vs sccm comparison
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page pdq.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.