3 categories · RankedAkeyless
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-human identity management | Identity and access | 7% | 4 of 128 | 4% | 28 | accepted challenger | |
| Secrets management | Identity and access | 0% | 13 of 59 | 0% | 22 | accepted challenger | ▼−4Since September 2026: 4% → 0%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Certificate lifecycle management | Identity and access | 0% | 99 of 104 | 43% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Sectigo Certificate Manager at 27% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Akeyless across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Positioned as a secrets-management-first platform for NHIs, so it is strongest when you want centralized secret and key management at scale.” Perplexity Sonar · NHI management · comparative prompt · first choice
“Akeyless is a strong starting point if you want a single platform focused on machine identities, secrets, and service accounts” GPT-5.4 mini · NHI management · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“start with Akeyless or Delinea Secret Server Cloud” Kimi K2 · NHI management · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“My Top Recommendation: Akeyless” DeepSeek V4 Flash · NHI management · paraphrase 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.
“Akeyless and CertKit are the clearest names flagged as "avoid or be cautious about,"” Perplexity Sonar · Certificate management · negative prompt · hard negative
“Some users have decided against Akeyless due to limited DNS provider integrations” Mistral Small · Certificate management · negative prompt · hard negative
“Akeyless is noted as "Approaches NHI security from the credential layer, so estate-wide NHI discovery, ownership attribution, and posture governance are" limited.” Muse Glimmer 30B · NHI management · negative prompt · soft negative
“Akeyless has limited DNS provider integrations” Llama 4 Maverick · Certificate management · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Akeyless, over the 166 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.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 155 of the 166 answers that named Akeyless and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
464 of the 543 domain citations in answers naming Akeyless came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
akeyless.io ranks 5 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Akeyless takes 7% of first choices and JumpCloud takes 14%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 1,000 a month (“akeyless”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 16 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 3,357 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 1,137 · 65 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 1,018
- Paid Google search
- 2 searches its ads show for, about 23 clicks and $916 a month (estimate)
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 9 across its categories
- Named in
- 166 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 155 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 257 | 36 | 2026-09-24 | Secrets, PAM | |
| Podcast or video | 60 | 1 | 2026-08-27 | Secrets, PAM | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 43 | 3 | 2026-09-22 | Secrets, PAM | |
| Comparison | 38 | 10 | 2026-09-29 | Secrets, PAM | |
| Report or ebook | 21 | 1 | 2026-09-15 | Secrets | |
| Glossary or explainer | 19 | 2 | 2026-09-10 | ||
| News or press | 8 | 1 | 2026-09-10 | Secrets | |
| Case study | 7 | 2 | 2026-08-11 | Secrets | |
| Template or tool | 2 | 0 | 2026-04-28 | Secrets | |
| Conference or event | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-29Akeyless modern pam vs delinea comparison
- 2026-09-24Eliminate static secrets identity based access blog
- 2026-09-2447 day certificates blog
- 2026-09-22Gartner machine iam identity governance blog
- 2026-09-22The 47 day certificate era are your machine identities ready webinar or virtual event
- 2026-09-19Embracing a secretless approach with akeyless blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page akeyless.io exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as Akeyless
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The company
Akeyless is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Identity Security for Machines, AI Agents & Humans
- For
- AI agents, machines, and humans
- Price stated
- Pricing akeyless.io
- Free plan or trial
- Start Free akeyless.io
- Integrations claimed
- 9 akeyless.io/resources/category/case-studies
- Certifications
- ISOGDPRPCIAICPASTARFIPSDORA
- Customers named
- ProgressConstant ContactCimpressWixMajor U.S. Retailermajor global financial institutionadMarketplace
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, hosting
What Akeyless's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: akeyless.io, akeyless.io/pricing, akeyless.io/resources/topics/security, akeyless.io/landing/platform-demo, akeyless.io/resources/category/case-studies. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Akeyless by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Akeyless is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Akeyless, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.