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Carahsoft vs ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Carahsoft
Ranking in Software Distribution
3rd
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
ManageEngine Patch Manager ...
Ranking in Software Distribution
7th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
18
Ranking in other categories
Configuration Management (26th), Patch Management (8th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Software Distribution category, the mindshare of Carahsoft is 2.3%, down from 2.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus is 9.3%, down from 20.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Software Distribution Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Carahsoft2.3%
ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus9.3%
Other88.4%
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Featured Reviews

Ruth Starr - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Business Analyst at General Services Administration
Online expert-led training has expanded my skills and supports continuous learning at my desk
What I appreciate most about the on-demand aspect of Carahsoft is that the people in the training are experts in their field, so I trust their knowledge and experience more than going to a class in a college environment where they do not know the government way of doing business. I would say that learning from the experts in the field and knowing that they have long experience, over five years of experience, is the best feature Carahsoft offers, which makes me more able to trust their advice. I appreciate the way I can look at the calendar and see what is coming up in advance to sign up for them and have them automatically notify me as a reminder. Specifically, I appreciate that some of the trainers call me because some of the trainers are very outgoing, and I appreciate talking to them on the phone; I do not necessarily prefer to always be on chat or webinars. I find that it is made available to me for free, so I do not pay a cost for it. Carahsoft helps me learn faster and learn about technologies that I do not understand, enabling me to learn effectively.
ManojNair2 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Centralized patching has unified multi‑OS management and delivers detailed security reporting
Based on my experience, a better function would be to address the problem that the product only scans a machine once a day. It has a central scanning activity that scans every laptop for changes in assets, meaning both hardware and software, as well as installed software for patches. However, this activity works only once per day and does not work on local time. If you are a global organization with the UK office and a colleague in the US, for example, and you set the task at 11:00 AM UK time, that translates to 6:00 AM in the US East Coast. If that colleague's laptop is on, the task completes; otherwise, it fails. This represents a major drawback because the task does not run on the local time of the system. Regarding the ability to create multiple tasks, you cannot create them, which is another significant issue. Only one task exists for these two activities. That one task performs both the hardware and software scanning for any changes and also conducts a patch scan. Both activities occur through the same task, but the problem is that if you have a global user base, this becomes a bottleneck.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Carahsoft has helped us primarily in selling to the US government efficiently and swiftly."
"I think Carahsoft is a great resource, and you should keep growing as much as possible."
"Centralization through a distributor has made it so that both our renewals and sales teams spend less time generating quotes, less time having to follow up with customers, and more time going after making sure opportunities get closed and finding new opportunities."
"The best features in ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus are the connectivity across different platforms, such as connectivity with Rapid7, connectivity with CrowdStrike, and connectivity with the SIEM solution."
"You can create remote sessions for client systems."
"ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus is lightweight and has a remote push feature that helps me manage several main sites and subsites."
"The ability to deploy patches seamlessly is the solution's most valuable aspect, as it allows us to not only deploy patches but to monitor the deployment, eases the process of patch deployment, lets us easily know what patches are available, helps us manage our patch cycles properly to know which systems require a reboot, and even handles patching for third-party applications like Apache Server and SQL Server so it's not just OS packages but application packages as well, making it very robust."
"The tool's most valuable feature is performance."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus covers almost all my end devices, and I can easily look over my device's hardware status."
"The most valuable features are patch management and mobile device management."
 

Cons

"I would appreciate an individual Carahsoft representative so that I could build a relationship with one person instead of getting five different people calling me for the same event every day."
"I wish Carahsoft would offer more direct integrations between CRMs, and I would also appreciate more introductions internally with like-minded vendors or complementary vendors within Carahsoft's ecosystem."
"It would be beneficial if Carahsoft enabled their people to deliver the software and similar services."
"With the integration with the SIEM solution, there are some glitches, and if we need to integrate with multiple vulnerability management systems, it does not provide such support."
"The solution's initial setup is not straightforward, and we have to customize it with our relevant features."
"There is one area that confuses me and can use a lot of improvement in ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus."
"The user interface of ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus needs to be made more user-friendly, simplified, and less complicated."
"ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus needs to improve speed."
"The tool's support needs improvement."
"If a report shows that testing did not work for one version but succeeds for another, a comparison would be beneficial."
"Patching over the Internet should be improved. If I am traveling, I should have an Internet patching option for control, visibility, and vulnerability management for roaming users."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus is a little bit cheaper."
"Patch Manager is cost-effective."
"The pricing for ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus is on the moderate side."
"The solution cost is around $5,000 per year."
"I rate the price of the product a five on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."
"The price of this product is reasonable."
"Its price needs improvement."
"Our licensing fees are on a yearly basis, and the charge for support is extra."
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Top Industries

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University
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Outsourcing Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Small Business10
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise4
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Carahsoft?
Carahsoft's pricing is determined by the software vendors' pricing. If a vendor provides a margin, the prices remain the same as set by the software company. If no margin is provided, Carah...
What needs improvement with Carahsoft?
I wish Carahsoft would offer more direct integrations between CRMs, and I would also appreciate more introductions internally with like-minded vendors or complementary vendors within Carahsoft'...
What is your primary use case for Carahsoft?
My main use case for Carahsoft is distribution. A quick specific example of how I use Carahsoft for distribution is that we centralize all of our quoting and transactions through Carahsoft instead ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus?
Pricing for ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus is pretty reasonable. Currently, I am paying around three dollars per agent per month.
What needs improvement with ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus?
Based on my experience, a better function would be to address the problem that the product only scans a machine once a day. It has a central scanning activity that scans every laptop for changes in...
What is your primary use case for ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus?
ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus was the first solution on the cloud six years ago when I started using this product. Although other competitors existed in the market, they were either behind in ter...
 

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