Every category where a model named CertKit 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	Since September 2026
Certificate lifecycle management	Identity and access	2%	19 of 104	67%	6	under 10 labels · led by Sectigo Certificate Manager at 27%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for CertKit yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated CertKit across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	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

Direct1 label1

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative2 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained5 labels2

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative9 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative19 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 4 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.

“Best Low-Cost Commercial SaaS: CertKit ... is an exceptional choice” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Certificate management · budget prompt · first choice

“For balanced approach: Try CertKit with their free trial first” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Certificate management · 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.

“it was ruled out by at least one organization due to its size and perceived limitations” Mistral Small · Certificate management · negative prompt · hard negative

“they ruled out CertKit because of its size” Perplexity Sonar · Certificate management · negative prompt · hard negative

“quote low ($5,000 range) but lack track record — be cautious about maturity, support, and long-term viability” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Certificate management · negative prompt · soft negative

“CertKit has been ruled out by some due to its size” Llama 4 Maverick · Certificate management · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as CertKit, over the 19 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CertKit was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Venafi11 of 190Not among the top eight

Keyfactor9 of 190Not among the top eight

Sectigo SCM Pro8 of 192Not among the top eight

Akeyless7 of 190Not among the top eight

cert-manager7 of 190Not among the top eight

AppViewX CERT+6 of 190Not among the top eight

Keyfactor Command5 of 190Not among the top eight

Smallstep Certificate Manager4 of 191Not among the top eight

AWS Certificate Manager4 of 190Not among the top eight

Certbot + Let's Encrypt3 of 191Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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 CertKit. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 19 of the 19 answers that named CertKit and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

infisical.com14

reddit.com13

worldmetrics.org10

gitnux.org9

sectigo.com9

cyberpress.org8

gartner.com8

qcecuring.com7

certkit.ioYour site6

encryptionconsulting.com6

Eighty-four of the ninety domain citations in answers naming CertKit came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

infisical.com/blog/best-certificate-management-tools14

reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1tqbeq3/certificate_lifecycle_management_vendor_comparison13

worldmetrics.org/best/certificate-lifecycle-management-software9

cyberpress.org/certificate-lifecycle-pki-by-use-case8

gitnux.org/best/certificate-lifecycle-management-software7

gartner.com/reviews/market/certificate-lifecycle-management-clm6

g2.com/categories/certificate-lifecycle-management-clm5

qcecuring.com/blog/best-clm-platforms-20265

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

certkit.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, CertKit takes 2% of first choices and Sectigo Certificate Manager takes 27%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “certificate lifecycle management platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “certificate lifecycle management platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 90 a month (“certkit”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 0 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 2,568 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 455 · 22 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 537
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

1 ads · 1 text · 1 shown in the last 30 days

First shown July 2026, as TrackJS, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 1 in the year.

On Google's pages: 1

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 19 of 104 in certificate management

Segment leader

27%

Sectigo Certificate Manager

First choices: 3 across its categories
Named in: 19 answers
Its own site cited: in 19 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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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Addresses on certkit.io

228

subdomains included

Content

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

0 · 49

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest
Blog	60	12	2026-10-05
Template or tool	8	undated
Case study	3	undated
Webinar or virtual event	3	1	2026-09-18
Comparison	2	undated
News or press	1	undated

Most recent

2026-10-05Whats taking dns persist 01 so long blog
2026-09-30Certkit for msps blog
2026-09-28Does a tls certificate need a common name blog
2026-09-23Ct alerts blog
2026-09-21Dangling dns subdomain takeover blog
2026-09-18Webinar oct 6 100 day certificates webinar or virtual event

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page certkit.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 October 5, 2026.

Follow CertKit

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The company

CertKit is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: SSL/TLS certificate lifecycle management software
certkit.io
For: teams with better things to do
certkit.io
Price stated: Free; $99/mo; $399/mo; Contact certkit.io
Starting price: 99 certkit.io
Free plan or trial: Free; Every paid plan starts with a free 90-day trial, no credit card required. certkit.io
Customers named: BeldenBinnieBuckmanCCS MedicalCenterlogicCity of Federal WayClackamas Community CollegeCounterFort
Not stated on the pages read: Integrations, certifications, hosting

What CertKit's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: certkit.io, certkit.io/pricing, certkit.io/customers, certkit.io/partners. 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 CertKit'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 CertKit, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for CertKit by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where CertKit 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 CertKit, 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.