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PDQ Deploy & Inventory vs Action1 Comparison (2026)

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PDQ Deploy & Inventory

Action1

Overview

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.

Action1 reinvents patch management with an infinitely scalable and highly secure platform configurable in 5 minutes that just works.

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

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Pricing

Starting from

1657.5

Per year

Free trial available
Credit cardless trial
Free account
Subscription based

Starting from

No pricing info

Free trial available
Credit cardless trial
Free account
Subscription based

User reviews

4.8

342

276

Value for money

Ease of use

Features

Customer support

94%

would recommend this app

4.9

239

220

Value for money

Ease of use

Features

Customer support

98%

would recommend this app

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

Pros

“It helps save time by making it easier to manage multiple devices from one place, especially for updates, scripts, and troubleshooting.”

Basel E.

IT Manager

“This is great for small and medium-sized companies that need software to control hardware/software inventory, in addition to allowing you to connect to an Active Directory server to search for machine information and even perform deployment on machines.”

Wanderlei H.

IT Analyst

“Products of their SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and GDPR certifications, Action1 offers multi‑factor authentication, AES‑256 encryption, and even HackerOne‑backed penetration testing.”

Shane G.

Director, Information and Marketing Technologies

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

Cons

“FTP-The only thing I missed from the transfer from Itarian was the ability to access folders from each machine to move user files to replacement PCs that I was working on.”

Lonie P.

IT Manager

“The policy management for Windows, and the MacOS support are missing some features which I am used to with more expensive endpoint management suites.”

Noel H.

IT Consultant

“For example one laptop has come out of a cupboard and tripped 500+ vulnerabilities which then hides the ones that work the other way and effect 500+ computers.”