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Index Vendors › 1Password · September 2026 Edition
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1Password

289Judge labels
62First choices
37Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
4Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
42% in Password managers for mid-market buyers
Rank 2 of 35 in the mid-market standingendorsed leader
8 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 15% of its 62 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
In password managers · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named 1Password for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Business password managersIdentity and access42%2 of 3515%62endorsed leader
Secrets managementIdentity and access4%7 of 4019%26accepted challenger
Multi-factor authenticationIdentity and access0%78 of 78100%2under 10 labels · led by Cisco Duo at 42%
Privileged access managementIdentity and access0%55 of 74100%1under 10 labels · led by ManageEngine PAM360 at 21%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for 1Password yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated 1Password across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.531217
GPT-5.4 mini22228
Gemini 3.5 Flash50139
Perplexity Sonar30104
Grok 4.1 Fast32319
Mistral Small32207
DeepSeek V4 Flash41207
Llama 4 Maverick20305
Qwen 3.7 Flash312410
Kimi K2260210
GLM 4.7 FlashX04149
MiniMax M2.531206

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct52 labels27
Paraphrase44 labels24
Comparative58 labels24not counted in share
Budget-constrained36 labels4
Scale-constrained49 labels7
Negative50 labels16not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative289 labels in all, every segment counted; 62 of the 102 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Known for its strong security features, user-friendly deployment, and mature admin controls. It is suitable for mid-size and enterprise teams.” Llama 4 Maverick · Password managers · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“1Password is consistently ranked as the best overall business password manager due to its balance of security, features, and ease of use” MiniMax M2.5 · Password managers · comparative prompt · first choice
“1Password Business - Excellent for teams with strong security features, intuitive interface, and good admin controls.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Password managers · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“During the ETH Zurich study, 1Password fared the best, with only 3 minor, mostly theoretical, vulnerabilities identified.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Password managers · negative prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“While premium services like 1Password and Dashlane are highly polished, they can quickly become expensive, often costing $8 or more per user per month.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Password managers · budget prompt · soft negative
“$7.99/user/month ... Best for: Companies where user experience and adoption are critical, and budget is less of a constraint.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Password managers · budget prompt · soft negative
“1Password can be a better fit operationally, but it's usually not the best core platform for app/runtime secrets” GPT-5.4 mini · Secrets · direct prompt · soft negative
“personal tiers of LastPass, 1Password, or Bitwarden) were not designed for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Secrets · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as 1Password, over the 289 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and 1Password was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Keeper Security142 of 28911Not in the top three
Dashlane115 of 2891Not in the top three
HashiCorp Vault91 of 28925Not in the top three
LastPass88 of 2890Not in the top three
AWS Secrets Manager78 of 2892Not in the top three
Doppler74 of 28930Not in the top three
Azure Key Vault56 of 2892Not in the top three
Infisical53 of 28913Not in the top three
A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named 1Password. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 218 of the 289 answers that named 1Password and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

pcmag.com79
petronellatech.com79
bitwarden.com74
techrepublic.com65
security.org64
blog.gitguardian.com51
reddit.com47
passwordmanager.com46
pwdfortress.com46
1password.comYour site45

551 of the 596 domain citations in answers naming 1Password came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as 1Password

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as 1Password; a claim can dispute any of them.
1Password Business 371Password Secrets Automation 61Password (Enterprise) 11Password / Keeper 11Password Developer Tools 11Password Developer Tools (Secrets Automation) 11Password for Business 1
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