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2 categories · Named, not ranked

Apono

7Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative labels

6 of 12Models named it

2Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Apono was named 3 times in GRC and 1 other category, where Vanta led with 14%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market33 of 77

under the label threshold

Enterprise29 of 47

under the label threshold

In grc · 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 Apono 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
GRC platforms	Security operations	0%	33 of 77	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Vanta at 14%
Privileged access management	Identity and access	0%	56 of 74	100%	1	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 Apono 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 Apono across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

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

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained4 labelsNone

Negative1 labelNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative7 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“JIT-first tools such as Apono, Britive, or P0 Security if you still have unresolved standing credentials and local admin exposure” Perplexity Sonar · PAM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Apono, over the 7 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Apono was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Saviynt Enterprise Identity Cloud3 of 71Not in the top three

Archer3 of 70Not in the top three

Drata3 of 70Not in the top three

Hyperproof3 of 70Not in the top three

ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management3 of 70Not in the top three

Vanta3 of 70Not in the top three

SailPoint2 of 71Not in the top three

Diligent One2 of 70Not in the top three

Lema2 of 70Not in the top three

Lumos2 of 70Not 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 Apono. 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 7 of the 7 answers that named Apono and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

apono.ioYour site6

expertinsights.com4

gartner.com4

lumos.com3

cakewalk.security2

myhospitalnow.com2

netwrix.com2

optro.ai2

riskonnect.com2

securityboulevard.com2

Twenty-three of the twenty-nine domain citations in answers naming Apono came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

apono.io/blog/top-10-governance-risk-and-compliance-grc-software-solutions3

apono.io/blog/top-10-identity-governance-and-administration-solutions3

cakewalk.security/blog/soc2-access-management-tools2

expertinsights.com/compliance/the-top-governance-risk-compliance-grc-platforms2

gartner.com/reviews/market/identity-governance-administration2

riskonnect.com/best-grc-software-platforms-20262

securityboulevard.com/2025/12/top-12-identity-and-access-management-platforms2

tech-channels.com/hubfs/Ping%20Identity/2025/4054-identity-governance-buyers-guide.pdf2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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Claim this page

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 Apono'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 Apono, 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 apono.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.