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Iru vs PDQ Deploy & Inventory Comparison (2026)

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PDQ Deploy & Inventory

Overview

AI-powered platform that unifies identity, endpoints, and compliance—giving IT teams time and control back.

PDQ Deploy is the best way to automate your IT management. Update third-party software, deploy custom scripts, and make impactful configuration changes in minutes. With 200+ ready-to-deploy applications right out of the box.

Platforms supported

Web-based
iPhone app
Android app
Windows Phone app

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Customer support

Phone
Online
Knowledge base
Video tutorials

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Platforms supported

Web-based
iPhone app
Android app
Windows Phone app

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Customer support

Phone
Online
Knowledge base
Video tutorials

view more detailsview details

Video & Screenshots

Pricing

Starting from

No pricing info

Free trial available
Credit cardless trial
Free account
Subscription based

Starting from

1657.5

Per year

Free trial available
Credit cardless trial
Free account
Subscription based

User reviews

4.9

500

446

Value for money

Ease of use

Features

Customer support

94%

would recommend this app

4.8

341

276

Value for money

Ease of use

Features

Customer support

94%

would recommend this app

Pros

“Allows for timely updates to OS across all our employees devices, and helped us keep track of and have the ability to lock down a machine if lost or stolen.”

Rich Y.

CTO

“Very flexible blueprints for our Mac network - allows me to customise a range of use cases from a large pre-built library, plus add my own custom items.”

Garth H.

Director

“One of the key strengths for us was the ability to assign permissions based on our RBAC roles, allowing appropriate access across the team while maintaining governance and security.”

Chaz V.

Infrastructure Engineer

Pros

“I would like the ability to connect 2 instances of PDQ Inventory to create a baseline configuration of each machine so that I can track and report changes.”

Randy W.

Corporate Director of IT

“Inventory, with it's customisable reports gives me an insight of my fleet of devices.”

Daniel H.

IT Manager

“It's supposed to detect when a PC is online and then deploy the package. ”

Steve I.

IT Support Supervisor

Cons

“Some warning messages are not describing the actual issue: e.g. if a user tries to install an app themselves on a MacBook, using a .DMG file (which is basically forbidden in our case), there's no error, but a warning regarding the non-encryption of the mounted disk.”

Alain F.

Sr. Software and Security Engineer

“The inability to assign smart groups to library items, the lack of blueprint routing, and the absence of options to clear specific tags or reset a device to a default blueprint when deleted are known limitations.”

Felix T.

System Administrator

“Occasionally we have issues with vulnerability alerts not clearing correctly after patches have been applied.”

Richard O.

Director of Platform and Security

Cons

“Without an efficient way to gather software and hardware info, then act upon it with relevant software deployments, we would need to add another staff member.”

Justin C.

IT Manager

“I think pdq need to use clients in the machines for better results in the deployment, sometimes the pdq have trouble finding the machine and freezes in the status "conecting" or return the error "The network path was not found" Maybe a client help mitigate this problem.”

Renan R.

Analista de Infra

“The only thing i d like to change would be a possibility to have a function so i can decide which downloads i d like to. As we are german users sometimes its annoying to manually add german software downloads for deployment.”

Pascal B.

IT-Administrator