Every category where a model named Delinea Secret Server 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
Privileged access management	Identity and access	11%	5 of 74	30%	10	criticized challenger
Secrets management	Identity and access	0%	23 of 40	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by Doppler at 33%

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	0	1	2
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	0	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	0	1	2
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	1	1	0	1	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	1	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	1	1

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

Direct3 labels1

Paraphrase11 labels7

Comparative4 labelsNone

Budget-constrained5 labels1

Scale-constrained6 labelsNone

Negative15 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative44 labels in all, every segment counted; 9 of the 9 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.

“consistently recommended for mid-market organizations (500-5,000 employees) in 2026. It offers the fastest time-to-value” Llama 4 Maverick · PAM · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“I'd recommend Delinea Secret Server (now part of Delinea Platform) as the top PAM tool.” Grok 4.1 Fast · PAM · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Fastest, most straightforward for most mid‑market B2B teams: Delinea Secret Server.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · PAM · direct prompt · first choice

“Top Recommendation: Delinea Secret Server (or Delinea Platform)” Kimi K2 · PAM · paraphrase 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.

“The platform has experienced highly publicized, critical vulnerabilities—including unauthenticated bypasses and RCE flaws” Gemini 3.5 Flash · PAM · negative prompt · soft negative

“Critical unauthenticated flaws (CVE-2026-15638/15640, CVSS 9.1/9.5) like padding oracle and SAML bypass” Grok 4.1 Fast · Secrets · negative prompt · soft negative

“Limitations: Lacks full PAM features like session control” Kimi K2 · PAM · budget prompt · soft negative

“Two unauthenticated critical vulnerabilities (CVSS 9.1)” MiniMax M2.5 · PAM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Delinea Secret Server, over the 42 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Delinea Secret Server was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

CyberArk25 of 420Not in the top three

ManageEngine PAM36020 of 423Not in the top three

HashiCorp Vault17 of 424Not in the top three

BeyondTrust15 of 420Not in the top three

KeeperPAM14 of 424Not in the top three

1Password14 of 421Not in the top three

AWS Secrets Manager13 of 420Not in the top three

Azure Key Vault10 of 420Not in the top three

Doppler9 of 421Not in the top three

Akeyless8 of 420Not 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 Delinea Secret Server. 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 33 of the 42 answers that named Delinea Secret Server and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

startwithidentity.com20

aimultiple.com12

mitigata.com11

cybervendorguide.com9

g2.com9

heimdalsecurity.com8

netwrix.com8

expertinsights.com7

gartner.com7

keepersecurity.com7

Ninety-eight of the ninety-eight domain citations in answers naming Delinea Secret Server came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

startwithidentity.com/rankings/best-pam-for-smb12

aimultiple.com/pam-solutions11

mitigata.com/blog/best-pam-tools11

heimdalsecurity.com/blog/privileged-access-management-pam-software-solutions8

netwrix.com/en/resources/blog/pam-solutions8

blog.gitguardian.com/top-secrets-management-tools6

expertinsights.com/identity-and-access-management/the-top-privileged-access-management-pam6

spotsaas.com/list/privileged-access-management--pam--software/for-small-business6

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Delinea Secret Server

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Delinea Secret Server; a claim can dispute any of them.

Delinea 1Delinea Platform / Secret Server 1Delinea Secret Server / Free Edition 1Delinea Secret Server Free Edition 1

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