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Bitwarden

204Judge labels
59First choices
13Negative labels
12 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.
Best standing
49% in Password managers for mid-market buyers
Rank 1 of 35 in the mid-market standingendorsed leader
7 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 11% of its 65 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at mid-market.
In password managers · 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 Bitwarden 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
Business password managersIdentity and access49%1 of 3511%65endorsed leader
Multi-factor authenticationIdentity and access0%71 of 7850%2under 10 labels · led by Cisco Duo at 42%
Privileged access managementIdentity and access0%52 of 7450%2under 10 labels · led by ManageEngine PAM360 at 21%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Bitwarden 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 Bitwarden across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.513015
GPT-5.4 mini32005
Gemini 3.5 Flash14117
Perplexity Sonar13105
Grok 4.1 Fast41106
Mistral Small31105
DeepSeek V4 Flash32016
Llama 4 Maverick22105
Qwen 3.7 Flash14139
Kimi K241016
GLM 4.7 FlashX40015
MiniMax M2.521115

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
Direct37 labels15
Paraphrase32 labels9
Comparative36 labels12not counted in share
Budget-constrained38 labels29
Scale-constrained29 labels6
Negative32 labels9not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative204 labels in all, every segment counted; 59 of the 80 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.

“Top pick overall: Bitwarden Business (Teams $4/user/mo, Enterprise $6–$7/user/mo) – best balance of price, open-source transparency, SSO/SCIM” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Password managers · direct prompt · first choice
“Top value pick (PwdFortress #1 for SMB/mid-market... Test 14-day trials of 1Password and Bitwarden—most mid-market picks win here.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Password managers · direct prompt · first choice
“For most small businesses: Bitwarden Teams at $4/user/month offers the best balance of cost, features, and security.” MiniMax M2.5 · Password managers · budget prompt · first choice
“| Bitwarden | Cost-conscious, open-source preference | Best value, self-host option, open-source auditability |” Kimi K2 · Password managers · scale 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.

“Use With Caution: Built-in MFA in Password Managers ... (Bitwarden, 1Password, Dashlane) ... violates the principle of "Separation of Factors."” Qwen 3.7 Flash · MFA · negative prompt · soft negative
“companies often try to swap a PAM tool for a Password Manager (like Bitwarden, LastPass, or 1Password). Be careful here.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · PAM · budget prompt · soft negative
“Researchers identified 12 working attack vectors under a malicious-server scenario, the highest of the tested platforms” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Password managers · negative prompt · soft negative
“the free tier is intended for individuals, not businesses... Always use Bitwarden's paid Business/Enterprise plans” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Password managers · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Bitwarden, over the 203 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Bitwarden was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Keeper Security145 of 20315Not in the top three
Dashlane106 of 2031Not in the top three
LastPass78 of 2030Not in the top three
RoboForm43 of 2033Not in the top three
Proton Pass29 of 2031Not in the top three
Zoho Vault17 of 2030Not in the top three
ManageEngine Password Manager Pro11 of 2030Not in the top three
Google Password Manager10 of 2030Not 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 Bitwarden. 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 159 of the 203 answers that named Bitwarden and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

pcmag.com87
petronellatech.com83
bitwarden.comYour site72
security.org72
techrepublic.com66
pwdfortress.com52
passwordmanager.com51
techbullion.com40
1password.com38
allaboutcookies.org37

526 of the 598 domain citations in answers naming Bitwarden came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Bitwarden

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Bitwarden; a claim can dispute any of them.
Bitwarden Enterprise 14Bitwarden Business 5Bitwarden Teams 3Bitwarden Teams/Enterprise 3Bitwarden (Enterprise) 1Bitwarden Business/Enterprise 1Bitwarden Teams / Enterprise 1Bitwarden Teams or Enterprise 1Bitwarden Teams/Business 1
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