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Index Vendors › BeyondTrust · September 2026 Edition
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BeyondTrust

133Judge labels
3First choices
53Negative 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
4% in PAM for mid-market buyers
Rank 8 of 74 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 41% of its 44 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In pam · 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 BeyondTrust 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
Privileged access managementIdentity and access4%8 of 7441%44criticized challenger
Workforce identity and SSOIdentity and access0%17 of 480%2under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Entra ID at 36%
Remote monitoring and managementIT operations and endpoint0%36 of 57100%1under 10 labels · led by NinjaOne at 50%
Vulnerability management platformsSecurity operations0%51 of 800%1under 10 labels · led by Rapid7 InsightVM at 45%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for BeyondTrust 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 BeyondTrust across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501113
GPT-5.4 mini21003
Gemini 3.5 Flash01023
Perplexity Sonar01203
Grok 4.1 Fast02136
Mistral Small10225
DeepSeek V4 Flash02136
Llama 4 Maverick01113
Qwen 3.7 Flash01023
Kimi K201135
GLM 4.7 FlashX02114
MiniMax M2.511114

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
Direct26 labelsNone
Paraphrase21 labels1
Comparative29 labels2not counted in share
Budget-constrained15 labelsNone
Scale-constrained19 labels2
Negative23 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative133 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 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.

“Choose BeyondTrust if you want the broadest integrated platform across PAM, secrets, remote access, and privilege analytics.” GPT-5.4 mini · PAM · comparative prompt · first choice
“If I had to pick one default recommendation for a mid-sized B2B company, I'd lean BeyondTrust” GPT-5.4 mini · PAM · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“I'd suggest prioritizing Delinea Secret Server or BeyondTrust as strong mid-market options” MiniMax M2.5 · PAM · scale prompt · first choice
“For large, complex enterprises: CyberArk or BeyondTrust.” Mistral Small · PAM · comparative 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.

“High-Risk Platforms to Avoid or Be Extremely Cautious About ... BeyondTrust (Critical Concern - February 2026)” Kimi K2 · PAM · negative prompt · hard negative
“What to Avoid ... BeyondTrust | Better suited for enterprises needing endpoint + remote access focus” Kimi K2 · PAM · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“BeyondTrust disclosed a critical security flaw in Privileged Remote Access (PRA) and Remote Support (RS) products (CVE-2024-12356, CVSS score 9.8)” Claude Haiku 4.5 · PAM · negative prompt · soft negative
“Pricing \u2013 among the most expensive in the category; you often need 3\u20134 separate subscription modules” DeepSeek V4 Flash · PAM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as BeyondTrust, over the 133 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and BeyondTrust was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
CyberArk115 of 13335Not in the top three
Delinea100 of 13314Not in the top three
ManageEngine PAM36053 of 13313Not in the top three
KeeperPAM50 of 13315Not in the top three
Teleport36 of 1335Not in the top three
StrongDM33 of 1333Not in the top three
WALLIX24 of 1330Not in the top three
Securden Unified PAM21 of 1333Not in the top three
HashiCorp Vault21 of 1330Not in the top three
ARCON PAM19 of 1330Not 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 BeyondTrust. 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 109 of the 133 answers that named BeyondTrust and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

startwithidentity.com60
expertinsights.com48
netwrix.com43
aimultiple.com39
heimdalsecurity.com35
gartner.com33
oneidentity.com33
cybervendorguide.com32
tech-insider.org29
delinea.com26

378 of the 378 domain citations in answers naming BeyondTrust came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as BeyondTrust

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as BeyondTrust; a claim can dispute any of them.
BeyondTrust Modern PAM 1
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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 beyondtrust.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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