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Privileged access management · September 2026 Edition

ManageEngine PAM360 vs Securden Unified PAM

One of twelve models named ManageEngine PAM360 first on the direct prompt; six named Securden Unified PAM. ManageEngine PAM360 was named by twelve of the twelve models and Securden Unified PAM by eleven and ManageEngine PAM360 carries 35 labels and Securden Unified PAM 18, so the shares are not directly comparable.

ManageEngine PAM360

accepted challenger

Named in one category this edition.

Securden Unified PAM

accepted challenger

Named in one category this edition.

First-choice share21%15%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate6%11%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#1#3A position in a field of 12; printed, not drawn.
Labels3518A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, ManageEngine PAM360 reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Delinea was named alongside these two in seven of the twelve direct answers. ManageEngine PAM360 vs Delinea · Delinea vs Securden Unified PAM

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all twelve models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the privileged access management page.

By framing

How many of the twelve models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
ManageEngine PAM360First choices, of twelve modelsSecurden Unified PAM
Direct16
Paraphrase501 against Securden Unified PAM
Comparative00
Budget-constrained40
Scale-constrained01
Negative002 against ManageEngine PAM360 · 1 against Securden Unified PAM
Bars are first choices, 0 to 12 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to twelve.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where ManageEngine PAM360 and Securden Unified PAM stood in it.

Both were the first choice

1 of 12 modelsThe answer named them together, and the judge labeled each a first choice.
Mistral SmallManageEngine PAM360, Securden Unified PAM alternatives: JumpCloud, miniOrange PAM

Securden Unified PAM first, ManageEngine PAM360 an alternative

5 of 12 modelsManageEngine PAM360 was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Gemini 3.5 FlashSecurden Unified PAM alternatives: Delinea, Delinea Secret Server, KeeperPAM, StrongDM
Perplexity SonarSecurden Unified PAM alternatives: ManageEngine PAM360
Llama 4 MaverickSecurden Unified PAM
Qwen 3.7 FlashSecurden Unified PAM alternatives: Delinea, ManageEngine PAM360, Netwrix Privilege Secure
MiniMax M2.5Securden Unified PAM alternatives: ManageEngine PAM360, Netwrix Privilege Secure, Thycotic+Centrify, miniOrange PAM

Neither was the first choice, one was named

6 of 12 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Claude Haiku 4.5Delinea alternatives: BeyondTrust, ManageEngine PAM360, miniOrange PAM
GPT-5.4 miniDelinea alternatives: BeyondTrust, ManageEngine PAM360
Grok 4.1 FastDelinea alternatives: ManageEngine PAM360, Netwrix Privilege Secure, Securden Unified PAM, miniOrange PAM
DeepSeek V4 FlashDelinea alternatives: Britive, ManageEngine PAM360, Securden Unified PAM
Kimi K2Delinea alternatives: ManageEngine PAM360, Netwrix Privilege Secure
GLM 4.7 FlashXDelinea Secret Server alternatives: BeyondTrust, ManageEngine PAM360, miniOrange PAM

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
ManageEngine PAM360 leads by twenty-seven points.
ManageEngine PAM36027%#2 of 9
Securden Unified PAM0%#– of 9
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
ManageEngine PAM360 leads by six points.
ManageEngine PAM36021%#1 of 12
Securden Unified PAM15%#3 of 12
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
The order flips: Securden Unified PAM leads at enterprise.
Securden Unified PAM5%#– of 8
ManageEngine PAM3603%#5 of 8
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about ManageEngine PAM360

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Five of six in this category shown.

“it has a historically poor track record regarding critical security vulnerabilities” Gemini 3.5 Flash · negative prompt · hard negative
“Multiple vulnerabilities disclosed in 2024-2026” MiniMax M2.5 · negative prompt · soft negative
“ManageEngine PAM360 and Keeper Security are frequently cited as top choices for organizations with limited budgets” Mistral Small · budget prompt · first choice
“The Best All-Rounder (Value & Features): ManageEngine PAM360 This is frequently recommended for mid-sized companies” Qwen 3.7 Flash · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“ManageEngine PAM360 is the best affordable commercial option designed specifically for SMBs” Claude Haiku 4.5 · budget prompt · first choice

What the models said about Securden Unified PAM

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Five of six in this category shown.

“Caution level: High. Newer vendor, fewer maturity proves-out, and these are core architectural issues, not edge cases.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · negative prompt · hard negative
“pricing and deployment details are less transparent” GLM 4.7 FlashX · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“Delinea (Secret Server), Securden, Keeper Security (KeeperPAM) | Pros: Great balance of cost, ease of use, and quick deployment.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · scale prompt · first choice
“The best privileged access management platform for a mid-market B2B company is Securden Unified PAM” Llama 4 Maverick · direct prompt · first choice
“Securden appears to be frequently cited as the top choice for mid-market companies in 2024-2025” MiniMax M2.5 · direct prompt · first choice
Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top three products in each category. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.