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Index › Vendors › Authentik · September 2026 Edition

3 categories · Named, not ranked

Authentik

10Judge labels

0First choices

1Negative labels

5 of 12Models named it

3Categories

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

Standing

7 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Authentik was named 7 times in MFA and 2 other categories, where Cisco Duo led with 42%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business51 of 53

under the label threshold

Mid-market20 of 78

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In mfa · 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 Authentik 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
Multi-factor authentication	Identity and access	0%	20 of 78	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Cisco Duo at 42%
Workforce identity and SSO	Identity and access	0%	13 of 48	0%	3	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Entra ID at 36%
Identity governance	Identity and access	0%	33 of 77	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Lumos at 20%

Movement

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

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

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

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained8 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative10 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 1 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.

“consider open-source platforms like Keycloak or Authentik” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Workforce identity · negative prompt · first choice

“Open-source Keycloak/Authentik/Ory may be the most cost-effective over the long term” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Workforce identity · budget prompt · alternative

“Authentik is a modern, lightweight, and incredibly fast-growing open-source IdP.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Workforce identity · budget prompt · alternative

“Consider open\u2011source tools like Keycloak, Authelia, or Authentik.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · MFA · budget 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Authentik, over the 10 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Authentik was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Keycloak10 of 100Not in the top three

Microsoft Entra ID8 of 106Not in the top three

Cisco Duo6 of 102Not in the top three

Auth04 of 100Not in the top three

Authelia4 of 100Not in the top three

Okta Workforce Identity4 of 100Not in the top three

JumpCloud3 of 101Not in the top three

Google Authenticator3 of 100Not in the top three

Okta3 of 100Not in the top three

Microsoft Authenticator2 of 100Not 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 Authentik. 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 10 answers that named Authentik and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

startwithidentity.com5

g2.com4

techrepublic.com4

aimultiple.com3

plivo.com3

securityboulevard.com3

ashtonsolutions.com2

blog.cybelesoft.com2

clever.cloud2

corma.io2

Thirty of the thirty domain citations in answers naming Authentik came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

aimultiple.com/open-source-mfa3

plivo.com/blog/best-multi-factor-authentication-solutions-for-business3

techrepublic.com/article/best-multi-factor-authentication-solutions3

ashtonsolutions.com/the-ashton-solutions-blog/2026/04/13/mfa-implementation-small-business2

blog.cybelesoft.com/cost-effective-mfa-for-small-business2

clever.cloud/blog/engineering/2025/11/19/best-open-source-iam2

corma.io/blog/top-10-iam-solutions-for-smbs-and-mid-size-companies-20262

encomputers.com/2024/05/best-multi-factor-authentication-small-businesses2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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