42Gears SureMDM vs Automox comparison

42Gears and Automox are both solutions in the Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) category. 42Gears is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.4, while Automox is ranked #18. 42Gears holds a 2.5% mindshare in EMM, compared to Automox’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of 42Gears users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Automox users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 1, 2024

42Gears SureMDM and Automox compete in the mobile device management solutions category. Users are happier with Automox's features and perceive its higher price as justified, despite 42Gears SureMDM's competitive pricing and support satisfaction.

Features: 42Gears SureMDM offers comprehensive device management, strong security features, and detailed device tracking. Automox excels in automated patch management, supports third-party applications, and provides advanced automation capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Users suggest 42Gears SureMDM could enhance its reporting tools, add more integrations, and provide better data insights. Automox users recommend improving scalability, enhancing user access control options, and expanding capabilities for larger deployments.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: 42Gears SureMDM is known for straightforward setup and responsive support. Automox is appreciated for easy deployment but has mixed reviews on customer support. Users find both products easy to deploy but prefer 42Gears SureMDM for post-deployment support.

Pricing and ROI: 42Gears SureMDM offers competitive pricing with strong ROI; users value the lower costs. Automox has higher costs, but users believe the advanced features justify the price, reflecting better ROI for larger enterprises.

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Microsoft Intune

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) category, the mindshare of Microsoft Intune is 34.5%, down from 38.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of 42Gears SureMDM is 2.5%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Automox is 0.9%, down from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Joseph Merusi

Collaborations engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Everything has worked better since we started using it

Sometimes the syncing is inconsistent. I'm confident that the devices are checking in every eight hours, but sometimes the devices aren't picking up the settings as quickly as I would expect. Some features haven't been updated in a while, and Microsoft doesn't seem interested in developing them. Unless you talk to an engineer, you don't know whether there will be an update. There are communication issues, so you might start working with a feature without knowing if it will be deprecated six months from now. Some reporting areas still need development. For example, I noticed that the reporting for driver updates is still confusing.

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Giridharan G

Head Of Department at Waycool

Used to control mobile devices

Remote Wipe is one of the vital options everybody looks for in 42Gears SureMDM or any MDM product. We are trying to get the latest product updates as much as possible, and it is mostly automated. Two to three engineers are involved in the solution’s maintenance. I would recommend the solution to other users. Overall, I rate the solution an eight or nine out of ten.

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Jack Leung

EMEA Senior Systems Engineer at Quaker Chemical Corporation

Easy to use and deploy agents but needs more stability

We just need to deploy the agent to the endpoints. We don't need to set up anything. For a single agent, it takes one or two minutes. However, we deployed globally, and you need to take into consideration the time it will take to deploy across each endpoint. It's very simple to deploy. We had three or four engineers take care of the implementation.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"For our clients, the conditional access feature along with different compliance policies that they can set is valuable."

"Intune's feature that I have found most valuable is its auto-pilot feature."

"Application deployment and keeping the devices secure no matter where they are, by having this cloud solution — that has been great."

"The one feature we find most useful is the Mobile Application Manager. There are two types, we have the complete MDM and the Mobile Application Manager(MAM). We don't give our users phones, it is their own personal phone, and we need to allow them to have access to the company detail on their phone. We need to create a balance between their own personal data and the company data. We deploy the Mobile Application Manager for them so that we won't be able to interfere with their own personal data."

"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Intune is having all our devices compliant with our policies."

"Intune's most valuable feature is its centralized management capability."

"At the moment, Autopilot is the most valuable feature."

"A great solution for anyone wanting a modern endpoint device management solution."

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"The solution is stable and reliable."

"We use the solution primarily to control mobile devices."

"The solution's customer support is good."

"The tool's most valuable feature is a remote connection to the devices. You can also push and lock applications. It helps us lock devices for professional use to control which applications can be installed."

"Its dashboards are valuable. It is easy to access dashboards and implement policies."

"Payloads, application publishing, and cataloging features are valuable to our customers."

"The most valuable features of 42Gears SureMDM include tracking location and pushing applications."

"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

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"It's super easy to use and we haven't found anything easier."

"Its flexibility is most valuable."

"The flexibility in creating tools to make changes on remote machines is most valuable to me. The reporting feature is also fantastic because on any given day I can bring up a list of machines that don't have patches, for example. Or I can bring up a list of machines that are in my environment on a certain day. The solution helps me with not only my own role, and what I look for internally myself, but it also helps during audits. I can go in and look at the number of machines in there, and their owners and timelines. It certainly helps tell a story for anything that IT requires."

"Previously, we would run a report, scan it, and compare it. We were spending 15 to 30 minutes a month on each machine on this stuff because you would find stuff that wasn't up to date, then you had to fix it. This solution takes that time down to minutes. Automox saves us easily many hours a month."

"Among the most valuable features are its ease of use and the Worklets. Both of them are time-savers. Worklets enable us to customize things for a given environment. It's something like when Apple lets other people create applications. Other peoples' Worklets can be used in our environment and in our customers' environments. That saves a lot of time, and it's really cool."

"The biggest improvement to our organization involves the reduction in its man hours... We've probably saved hundreds of hours."

"The fact that it's just one product that can patch multiple operating systems is really great."

"It's easy to deploy agents to endpoints."

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Cons

"Intune could be improved by expanding its third-party patching capabilities for a more comprehensive solution."

"The reporting dashboard is really limited."

"I think that there is room for improvement with the reporting. If this is done, it will be a better product."

"It would help if administrators could pinpoint the exact location of a stolen device to help law enforcement retrieve it and apprehend the suspect."

"I would like to see Intune improve its handling of hybrid domain joins."

"They can improve their MAM policies a little bit more and make them more granular. They should include more granular group policies. They are there, but they need to be more granular. Its stability should also be improved. It is not very stable. Sometimes, it shows some inconsistencies across tenants."

"The reporting causes problems because we're trying to gather data to present to the management, but we can't get the data they request. If a user has removed an application from his device, but it won't report it at exactly the right time. It takes time to sync from the device to the portal. Let's say we are preparing a list or deck for the number of compliant devices that meet all of the organization's requirements. In a real-time scenario, that device could be compliant, but it is showing as non-compliant on the portal. It sometimes hampers the overall decisions that we make on our end."

"The technical support could be improved."

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"The user interface and customization features are not the best and could be improved."

"The product is not so convenient to deploy or to configure."

"The solution’s pricing could be made cheaper."

"As a partner, we consider 42Gears to be a unified endpoint management (UEM) solution. So, we should be able to manage users with this particular solution. This is something that is currently not there. It is probably an area for improvement for 42Gears."

"User creation on Mac must be improved."

"Online information regarding used cases specific to 42Gears SureMDM will help us do configuration changes more comfortably."

"42Gears SureMDM needs to improve support because it may take around one to two days to receive a revert."

"The dashboards could be improved."

"When we bring on a new client, we need to go into that client and manually set up my account, my chief engineer's account, three technicians' accounts, and a billing person's account all over again, which is annoying. We have probably up to 15 or 16 of our clients on Automox now. For every single one of those, we have had to go in and set this up. Then, if anything changes, we have to remember to go to Automox and change it 15 or 16 times. So, we just want inheritable permissions, and that is it. We have talked to them about this, and they are like, "Yeah, we hear a lot of complaints about it." I am thinking, "Guys, I have been complaining about this for a year and a half. When are you going to do it?" It must be some tricky thing or not an easy fix, because I can only assume if it were easy, then they would have done it by now."

"There should be better inventory capabilities. Right now, they only allow you to have insight into software out-of-the-box. It would be nice to also extend that into custom inventory that can be modified and managed by the practitioner."

"The biggest area they need to fix, without a doubt, is the ability to copy and sync profiles and worklets between all of the organizations you manage, and the ability to have top-level user access control across all of the companies that you manage."

"The only thing that we've ever truly wanted is an onsite repository. Currently, all updates are provided directly from the internet. So, if you have 1,000 devices, all 1,000 devices go directly out to the internet. We would love the option of being able to put the updates on local storage so that we're not consuming as much bandwidth. That is literally the only thing that we've ever wanted."

"They need to improve the automation features."

"Asset management would be a great feature to add to Automox. We would run easier scripts or more out of the box scripts that would help us in audits. \"

"It should have integrated workstation access. So, there should be a remote desktop feature."

"The stability has come a long way from what it was like when it started and now it's really good."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is inherently reasonable, as Microsoft leverages market insights to maintain the total cost of ownership at around ninety to ninety-five percent of what would be incurred in an on-premise scenario."

"Licensing depends on how you are providing support to your enterprise, whether it's device-based or user-based."

"Intune is moderately expensive. You can get the license bundled with Office 365 E3 or E5 licenses. The E5s are a bit expensive, but you get some cheaper solutions with Intune."

"I liked the tool's pricing until P2 came into effect. I am unsure about the current value versus the cost of the new licensing model."

"Microsoft's licensing is more flexible and adaptive than its competitors."

"Microsoft Intune is available for individual purchase at a low per-device cost."

"Microsoft Intune is reasonably priced for large organizations that already have Microsoft Enterprise licenses, but it is less affordable for smaller businesses."

"The product is relatively pricey, but considering its benefits, I'd say it's fair. The benefits outweigh the expensive licensing fees, especially for large organizations, but medium-sized and smaller businesses may be unable to afford it."

More Microsoft Intune pricing and cost advice

"The tool is expensive and priced at 39 dollars yearly. The pricing is fixed and I would rate it a seven-point five out of ten."

"I am satisfied with the price of this solution."

"Their pricing structure is very good against the competition. Pricing is definitely not a challenge here."

"42Gears SureMDM is not an expensive solution."

"I rate the tool's pricing a four out of ten."

"There is an option to make yearly or monthly payments towards the licensing costs attached to the solution. Price-wise, the product is okay."

"We pay a yearly licensing fee for 42Gears SureMDM, which is comparatively expensive for an enterprise license."

"Automox just charges us a set amount per user, per month, for using the product. That is very important to us. Because it's a cloud-native solution, you're saving on the cost of hosting an on-premises solution on your servers."

"The pricing and licensing costs have been great for us... My advice to others who are evaluating or thinking of implementing Automox is to give it a shot. If a free trial is still available, definitely use it, because it makes life a lot easier."

"We are on the premium licensing, which is the one that has the API capability that we use."

"The cost is very reasonable compared to the competition."

"We're doing it annually directly through Automox. It is per endpoint. It is $2 and some change per endpoint, but I believe the cost is right around $28,000. Everything is covered in this fee."

"There are no additional costs in addition to the extended licensing fees with Automox. You get your support and your per endpoint license with what you purchased."

"For all these software tools, it is usually a subscription model. There is a monthly charge that we need to pass along to our clients because we are doing all this for their benefit. It is only a couple of bucks a month per computer, and that is a low enough price point where our clients, without exception, have accepted it, and said, "This is great. We will pay that. It sounds like a worthwhile thing.""

"Its licensing for a year was nine grand. There was no additional fee."

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Educational Organization

22%

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11%

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Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

23%

Retailer

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

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15%

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What do you like most about 42Gears SureMDM?

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for 42Gears SureMDM?

42Gears SureMDM is not an expensive solution. On a scale from one to ten, where one is expensive and ten is cheap, I ...

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What needs improvement with 42Gears SureMDM?

Online information regarding used cases specific to 42Gears SureMDM will help us do configuration changes more comfor...

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What do you like most about Automox?

It's easy to deploy agents to endpoints.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Automox?

We do pay a monthly licensing fee. I'd rate the pricing as average. It's not cheap yet not too expensive. You can als...

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What needs improvement with Automox?

They need to improve the automation features. It could be more stable.

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Also Known As

Intune, MS Intune, Microsoft Endpoint Manager

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Overview

Microsoft Intune provides centralized management of mobile devices and applications, ensuring security, compliance, and productivity through integration with Microsoft services like Microsoft 365 and Azure Active Directory.

Organizations use Intune for managing mobile devices and applications, enhancing security and compliance across platforms. With features like single sign-on, conditional access, and zero-touch deployment via Autopilot, it facilitates efficient operations. Intune's scalability, easy enrollment, and capabilities such as remote wipe support diverse device management, offering robust data protection and efficient operation. Despite its features, improvement areas include reporting, compatibility with non-Microsoft devices, and better support for macOS and Linux devices.

What are the key features of Microsoft Intune?

Seamless Integration: Works with Microsoft 365, Azure Active Directory, and System Center for streamlined management.
Conditional Access: Enhances security with policies that restrict access based on conditions.
Autopilot: Provides zero-touch deployment for setting up new devices efficiently.
Mobile Device Management: Enables control over both personal and corporate devices.
Application Deployment: Facilitates app delivery across a range of devices.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Centralized Management: Reduces complexity by managing devices and applications in one place.
Security Enhancement: Protects data with features like remote wipe and compliance monitoring.
Improved Productivity: Enhances efficiency with seamless integration and automation features.
Device Scalability: Supports diverse device management for growing business needs.

In industries such as finance, healthcare, and education, Microsoft Intune is implemented to ensure secure and compliant device management. Companies leverage its capabilities to deploy security policies and manage both corporate-owned and BYOD environments, facilitating a unified approach to data protection and compliance.

Microsoft

SureMDM is an intuitive and powerful enterprise mobility management (EMM) solution for Android, iOS, and Windows platforms. You can secure, monitor and manage company owned devices for dedicated use as well as employee owned devices used to access company data (BYOD). SureMDM incorporates all aspects of EMM such as Mobile Application Management, Mobile Device Management and Mobile Content Management.

42Gears

Facing growing threats and a rapidly expanding attack surface, understaffed and alert-fatigued organizations need more efficient ways to eliminate their exposure to vulnerabilities. Automox is a modern cyber hygiene platform that closes the aperture of attack by more than 80% with just half the effort of traditional solutions.

Cloud-based and globally available, Automox enforces OS & third-party patch management, security configurations, and custom scripting across Windows, Mac, and Linux from a single intuitive console. IT and SecOps can quickly gain control and share visibility of on-prem, remote and virtual endpoints without the need to deploy costly infrastructure.

Automox dramatically reduces corporate risk while raising operational efficiency to deliver best-in-class security outcomes, faster and with fewer resources.

Automox

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