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SmartDeploy vs PDQ Deploy & Inventory Comparison (2026)

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SmartDeploy

PDQ Deploy & Inventory

Overview

Windows imaging & OS deployment tool for IT admins managing 50–10,000 endpoints. Quick setup and easy to use. Supports agentless and agent-based deployments, automated driver injection across mixed hardware, USMT integration, and cloud deployment via OneDrive, Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and S3.

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

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Pricing

Starting from

1100

Per year

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

4.8

118

100

Value for money

Ease of use

Features

Customer support

97%

would recommend this app

4.8

342

276

Value for money

Ease of use

Features

Customer support

94%

would recommend this app

Pros

“During the time we relied on it, the software was a complete lifesaver for device rollouts and hardware refreshes.”

Drew L.

SR SYS Admin

“We used SmartDeploy for several years across our IT department before our organization fully transitioned to cloud based endpoint management.”

Drew L.

SR SYS Admin

“SmartDeploy made image creation and deployment absurdly simple compared to traditional setups.”

Drew L.

SR SYS Admin

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

“Honestly, I cannot be certain that a support tech in another country will not pull an old client off the shelf and reuse.”

Scott L.

IT Systems Administrator

“The cloud deployment was very slow when I set it up last year.”

Scott L.

IT Systems Administrator

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