Every category where a model named Akeyless 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.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Secrets management	Identity and access	4%	6 of 40	5%	22	accepted challenger
Privileged access management	Identity and access	0%	21 of 74	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by ManageEngine PAM360 at 21%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Akeyless 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 Akeyless across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	3	0	0	3
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	3	0	3
Mistral Small	0	0	2	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	0	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	2	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	0	1	2	0	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	1	1	3
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	2	0	3

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

Direct9 labels2

Paraphrase7 labels1

Comparative18 labelsNone

Budget-constrained11 labels2

Scale-constrained19 labels1

Negative10 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative74 labels in all, every segment counted; 6 of the 7 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.

“For very small teams (1-3 people): Akeyless or Doppler (both free tiers are generous)” MiniMax M2.5 · Secrets · budget prompt · first choice

“multi‑cloud or hybrid and want a single control plane → HashiCorp Vault or Akeyless” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Secrets · scale prompt · first choice

“Go SaaS Zero-Trust (Akeyless) if you need enterprise-grade security and dynamic rotation across multiple clouds” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Secrets · comparative prompt · alternative

“SaaS (e.g., Doppler, Akeyless, CyberArk Identity): Easier to deploy, managed updates, lower internal overhead.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Secrets · scale prompt · alternative

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.

“Higher complexity; not as developer-friendly as Doppler” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Secrets · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Akeyless, over the 74 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Akeyless was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

HashiCorp Vault69 of 7429Not in the top three

Doppler57 of 7412Not in the top three

AWS Secrets Manager57 of 740Not in the top three

Azure Key Vault51 of 740Not in the top three

Infisical48 of 747Not in the top three

Google Secret Manager36 of 740Not in the top three

CyberArk Conjur31 of 740Not in the top three

1Password30 of 742Not in the top three

OpenBao17 of 741Not in the top three

CyberArk14 of 741Not 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 Akeyless. 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 59 of the 74 answers that named Akeyless and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

blog.gitguardian.com50

envmanager.com38

startwithidentity.com33

guideflow.com28

safeguard.sh27

akeyless.ioYour site26

cycode.com23

doppler.com23

infisical.com19

cybervendorguide.com17

258 of the 284 domain citations in answers naming Akeyless came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

blog.gitguardian.com/top-secrets-management-tools50

envmanager.com/blog/best-secrets-management-tools37

guideflow.com/blog/secrets-management-software28

startwithidentity.com/rankings/best-secrets-management-tools27

cycode.com/blog/best-secrets-management-tools23

safeguard.sh/resources/blog/best-secrets-management-and-vaulting-solutions21

worldmetrics.org/best/secrets-management-software15

cybervendorguide.com/guides/secrets-management13

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Akeyless

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Akeyless; a claim can dispute any of them.

Akeyless Vault 1

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Akeyless's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Akeyless, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at akeyless.io is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.