Small business▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 12 → 68 of 68
CyberArk · 3 categories · RankedCyberArk Privileged Access Manager
182Judge labels
27First choices
94Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
3Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
56% in PAM for enterprise buyers
Rank 73 of 73 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 60% of its 57 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of CyberArk Privileged Access Manager →By buyer segmentAn enterprise product: leader at enterprise, not named at small business or mid-market.
Small business75 of 75
0%49 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market73 of 73
0%57 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise1 of 55
56%71 labels
endorsed leader
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 CyberArk Privileged Access Manager 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Privileged access management | Identity and access | 0% | 73 of 73 | 60% | 57 | criticized challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| OT and IoT security | Security operations | 0% | 62 of 107 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Defender for IoT at 21% | |
| Secrets management | Identity and access | 0% | 32 of 59 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by HashiCorp Vault at 31% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · PAM · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 67 → 68 of 68
Enterprise▼−9Since September 2026: 66% → 57%, −9 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
57%from 66% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 2 pointsRank 1 of 50, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PAM | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 67 → 73 of 73 |
| OT/IoT security | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 62 of 107, unchanged |
| Secrets | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 32 of 59, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated CyberArk Privileged Access Manager across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated CyberArk Privileged Access Manager across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
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
Direct35 labels12
Paraphrase32 labels12
Comparative33 labels25not counted in share
Budget-constrained24 labels1
Scale-constrained24 labels2
Negative34 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative182 labels in all, every segment counted; 27 of the 54 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.
“CyberArk is widely considered the enterprise standard for PAM... Large enterprises with regulatory/compliance demands → CyberArk (deepest controls, most mature)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · PAM · comparative prompt · first choice
“the enterprise PAM benchmark... It is the choice for deep, complex deployments for regulated enterprises.” Muse Glimmer 30B · PAM · comparative prompt · first choice
“Start with CyberArk, BeyondTrust, and Delinea for a broad traditional enterprise PAM evaluation.” GPT-6 Luna · PAM · comparative prompt · first choice
“Clear market leader, holding 11.4% market mindshare, deployed at over 50 of Fortune 500 companies” MiniMax M2.5 · 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.
“What to Avoid: CyberArk ... overkill (and overpriced) for most mid-sized B2B companies” DeepSeek V4 Flash · PAM · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“Avoid "big fish" vendors (like CyberArk or Microsoft Entra ID) for now” Qwen 3.7 Flash · PAM · budget prompt · hard negative
“enterprise PAM solutions like CyberArk and BeyondTrust offer broad feature sets that may not be necessary for smaller teams, and the total cost of ownership can be three to five times the license fee” Llama 4 Maverick · PAM · negative prompt · soft negative
“Unless you have a dedicated, fully-trained team to manage CyberArk, you should avoid their on-premises route and look toward their lighter SaaS offering (CyberArk Privilege Cloud)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · PAM · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, over the 182 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CyberArk Privileged Access Manager was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, over the 182 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and CyberArk Privileged Access Manager was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 CyberArk Privileged Access Manager. 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 163 of the 182 answers that named CyberArk Privileged Access Manager and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
startwithidentity.com81
aimultiple.com69
netwrix.com68
cybersecuritynews.com61
expertinsights.com57
delinea.com48
securden.com46
heimdalsecurity.com41
thectoclub.com39
keepersecurity.com38
548 of the 548 domain citations in answers naming CyberArk Privileged Access Manager came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
paloaltonetworks.com ranks 2 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager takes 0% of first choices and Delinea Secret Server takes 37%.ShowHide
Search and answers
paloaltonetworks.com ranks 2 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, CyberArk Privileged Access Manager takes 0% of first choices and Delinea Secret Server takes 37%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “privileged access management platform”
2
Position for “privileged access management platforms”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 1,000 a month (“cyberark privileged access manager”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 8 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 951,391 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 58,184 · 9,191 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 44,945
- Paid Google search
- 6 searches its ads show for, about 15 clicks and $383 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 73 of 73 in PAM
Segment leader
37%
Delinea Secret Server
- First choices
- 27 across its categories
- Named in
- 182 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 163 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on paloaltonetworks.com
13,055
subdomains included
Content
7,351
counted in the table below
Documentation
16
Product · Integration
15 · 3
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 3,467 | 39 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Report or ebook | 1,861 | 0 | 2011-10-01 | ||
| Podcast or video | 535 | 0 | 2015-08-01 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 430 | 0 | 2022-07-04 | ||
| News or press | 408 | 0 | 2018-12-01 | ||
| Case study | 351 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 104 | 0 | 2019-08-08 | ||
| Webinar or virtual event | 87 | 0 | 2018-07-01 | ||
| Conference or event | 87 | 0 | 2018-04-01 | ||
| Template or tool | 21 | undated |
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How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page paloaltonetworks.com 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 September 29, 2026.
Names read as CyberArk Privileged Access Manager
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as CyberArk Privileged Access Manager; a claim can dispute any of them.
CyberArk 53CyberArk (Privilege Cloud) 1CyberArk / Idira 1CyberArk Enterprise 1CyberArk Privileged Account Security 1Cyberark 1
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