PDQ Deploy & Inventory 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

PDQ Deploy & Inventory

4.8

(340)

Pricing

Starting at $1,338.75 per year

About PDQ Deploy & Inventory

PDQ Deploy is specifically designed to automate system patches and application updates. Choose from our Package Library of over 200 applications to make updates within minutes. Select the software you want to deploy, specify which machines require updates, and set a preferred schedule for deployment — all without bothering end users.

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PDQ Deploy & Inventory Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $1,338.75 per year

Free Trial

Free Version

Standard plan

$1,575.00

per year

Plan includes:

Access 250+ Ready-to-Deploy Applications
Build Custom Groupings of Computers
Create Custom Multi-Step Deployments
Gather Computer Data With Active Directory
Initiate Manual or Scheduled Inventory Scans
Schedule Remote
Silent Deployments

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$1,338.75

per year

Plan includes:

Access 250+ Ready-to-Deploy Applications
Build Custom Groupings of Computers
Create Custom Multi-Step Deployments
Gather Computer Data With Active Directory
Initiate Manual or Scheduled Inventory Scans
Schedule Remote
Silent Deployments

Enterprise

Pricing available upon request

Plan includes:

Access 250+ Ready-to-Deploy Applications
Build Custom Groupings of Computers
Create Custom Multi-Step Deployments
Gather Computer Data With Active Directory
Initiate Manual or Scheduled Inventory Scans
Schedule Remote
Silent Deployments
Volume Based Discount

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PDQ Deploy & Inventory Features

Popular features found in IT Management
Access Controls/Permissions
Capacity Management
Compliance Management
Incident Management
Issue Auditing
License Management
Maintenance Scheduling
Remote Access/Control
Server Monitoring
Ticket Management
More features of PDQ Deploy & Inventory
Active Directory Integration
Alerts/Notifications
API
Application Management
Approval Process Control
Asset Tracking
Automatic Patch Deployment
Automatic Scans
Backup and Recovery
Customization
Dashboard
Data Import/Export
Data Security
Deployment Management
Device Management
Event Logs
Inventory Management
Issue Management
IT Reporting
Monitoring
Network Wide Management
Patch Management
Patch Prioritization
Patch Testing
Prioritization
Real-Time Monitoring
Remote Monitoring & Management
Reporting/Analytics
Scheduling
Status Tracking
Third-Party Integrations
Threat Intelligence

PDQ Deploy & Inventory User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.8

Ratings Breakdown

81%

18%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.7

Value for money

4.8

Customer support

4.8

Functionality

4.7

Anthony R.

Verified reviewer

Computer Hardware

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2023

A good choice for privacy conscious companies

Previously 5

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Previously 5

Functionality

Previously 5

Pros:

There are no agents to install on systems being inventoried and it is installed locally on your own network (even just a local desktop) which make a it quick to install and keeps all the communications and data within your local network.

Cons:

Because it is agentless there are issues when trying to inventory systems that are removed from the local network, e.g. Home workers.

Stephen W.

Verified reviewer

Government Administration

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2022

The one thing you got to have

Used it at previous job, and when I came discovered they had a competitor. Tried to learn the competitor's patch management and device management. It was a headache and time consuming. Got the boss to purchase PDQ and right of the bat, everyone could use it quickly and efficiently without reading a 100 page pdf on how to use it. So intuitive and easy to use. I use it daily to manage my computers and make sure everything is up to date. Boss has come to me a couple times asking for a list of XYZ, and expecting that it is a project for the rest of the day, I'm able to get that to him within the hour, sometimes in ten minutes.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

the dynamic collections you can make has been life changing. Able to create one on the fly and it continue to update and tell me if new computers have something unwanted on it, or computers that are missing important programs. I use it daily to check things. I also use it to quickly remote into computers. I have computers on the road and I have to jump in there sometimes remotely and need to be able to look at software lists quickly and a couple clicks my remote software is already connected. Or I can use pdq deploy to shoot out a program update or install something new. PDQ Deploy has all the right switches and knows exactly what to do with files to silently deploy practically anything. Testing is simple and easy and usually I have it tested and deployed within an hour. Saves me time everyday to quickly do what I need to do and have time to work on other projects. Support is also a godsend. Quick, easy, and friendly to the max!

Cons:

Not much that I do not like. The new icons are weird and there are some bugs in pdq deploy that get updates stuck and they just sit in the list forever. Usually when I have a con come up in my mind, I find out that the feature request I thought of, is already in the system some where.

Reasons for switching to PDQ Deploy & Inventory

just was too confusing to learn and even after learning it, it was a pain to build lists and find what I needed.

Brian A.

Verified reviewer

Banking

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2023

Just Amazing

Previously 4

I love it.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Previously 5

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of deployment of custom software, not managed by SCCM

Cons:

I only have 3 Cons:1. It is two seperate programs (Inventory & Deploy), and allthough there is some integration, we still need to synchronize variables manually.2. The missing ability to use LDAPS intstead of old deprecated LDAP.3. I would love to be able to put the databases on our Enterprise MSSQL Cluster Server, instead of these local SQLite databases.

Duncan W.

Verified reviewer

Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2022

PDQ - SysAdmin's Dream!

All I can say is that I wish I had found this product sooner. As a 1 man band at a company of 150 users this makes my life so much easier and gives me a great overall view of what's on my network. 10/10 recommend.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Where to start! Love the preconfigured Collections that lets us know about which most common applications are out of date, and then we can literally right-click and Select PDQ Deploy to update them.Very easy program to use and I love the reporting side of it.

Cons:

There could be more commonly used Reports straight out of the box, but not that big of a deal as it's easy to create your own and run against a collection.

Reasons for choosing PDQ Deploy & Inventory

Pricing and ability to do what I need it to do.

Bryan D.

Verified reviewer

Banking

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2022

Inexpensive but crazy powerful

I absolutely love it, but you have to have PDQ Inventory with it! If you want full IT Godhood, you have to both parts. Thankfully the price means it won't break the budget, heck we buy laptops for more than the yearly cost of both of these.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is so intuitive that after watching a 30 minute video from youtube (love the channel btw) a brand new user will be able to deploy software and run reports.

Cons:

I wish that this software would integrate into Smart Deploy, so I can push OS as well as software

Reasons for choosing PDQ Deploy & Inventory

We went with PDQ because the price was perfect, and the functionality was everything we needed.

Dan I.

Verified reviewer

Retail

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2024

Best all around remote management and monitoring tool in the industry, no contest

Mindblowing, if all software was this good there would not be any conflict in the world.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

-> Intuituve -> Extensive and detailed documentation -> Good technical support -> Low maintenance, great performance -> Fantastic UI -> Phenomenal integration with external scripting languages like powershell and batch.

Cons:

-> Hard to think of anything, this thing WORKS. Reminds me of Windows 7 when it came out, kicked ass out of the box (and kicks ass even today). We're on a 4 year old version of PDQ and even with all the missing updates, it still works very well.

Reasons for choosing PDQ Deploy & Inventory

Most intuitive, most easy to understand, most efficient, least least least expensive, best documentation.

Brian H.

Telecommunications

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2022

Has proven it's worth

It has mostly been positive. There are a few pain points that we're still trying to figure out, such as stale DNS records for workstations. But besides this we're quite happy with the product.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We've been using PDQ Deploy/Inventory for the past couple of years to manage our employee machines as well as our Windows servers. The ability to push out a new piece of software, or to patch older software with just a few click has been invaluable with how much time it's saved us.

Cons:

With a lot of our employee's working from home during and now after the pandemic, one short-coming of the software is that there is a complete lack of management for remote devices. If the workstation is not on the "local" network with the PDQ server it is impossible to manage. Having an agent that phones home to the PDQ server and handles all tasks would be the ideal solution to this.

Reasons for choosing PDQ Deploy & Inventory

The catered library of software, and the ease of integration into our AD environments was a significant part of the decision, but also the community recommendations and reviews on Reddit and other sources as well.

Ben B.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

1001-5000 employees

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2022

We love PDQ Deploy because its cheap, easy to use, and it just works

We've had a great experience. We love their YouTube channel tips, and the product is easy to figure out.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

We like the fact that they create so many patches and software deployment packages on their end. It saves us so much time, and it just works. I haven't had a single issue with the software and it's very cost effective.

Cons:

When we first set up the inventory scanning, we kicked it off and it almost locked up the server we installed the software on. We are a large environment so it doesn't surprise me, but it did take a long time, and I wasn't sure if it was going to work for awhile. We ended up leaving over a weekend to scan though, and it ended up figuring itself out.

Reasons for choosing PDQ Deploy & Inventory

We didn't really know there was an alternate out there. We were referred to PDQ by another school district.

Reasons for switching to PDQ Deploy & Inventory

The efficiency of PDQ making patches and software packages saved us a lot of time. SCCM can be difficult to use as well. We still have SCCM, but we use PDQ for a lot of things now, that SCCM used to do for us.

Maksims K.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2023

PDQ deployment and Inventory

Can't tell something bad about it, easy to use, affordable price, nice support.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Most of all, we use PDQ deployment, easy way to deploy software and patches. PDQ deployment is good for script automation, easy to set up any scheduled task to meet your requirements.

Cons:

Devices outside the local network are not manageable.

Reasons for choosing PDQ Deploy & Inventory

Easy to use, cheap, compliant with the requirement

Sonam T.

Verified reviewer

Health, Wellness and Fitness

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2022

A regular PDQ user of 1 person IT department

I ran into projects after projects during pandemic. was looking for a tool to manage everything remotely, PDQ demo took place and went for it right away. Saved tons of time deploying patches, softwares, custom installations and much more. This tool allowed me to run whole IT department single handedly.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of use, simplicity, effectiveness. PDQ has nice video based how to dos and that was helpful.

Cons:

Two part of deploy and inventory, can they be one?

Reasons for choosing PDQ Deploy & Inventory

Demo was promising and trial was exactly what I was looking for.

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