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Delinea

134Judge labels
19First choices
19Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
2Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
19% in PAM for mid-market buyers
Rank 2 of 74 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
5 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 14% of its 44 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at mid-market.
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 Delinea 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 access19%2 of 7414%44accepted challenger
Workforce identity and SSOIdentity and access0%23 of 480%1under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Entra ID at 36%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Delinea 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 across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.510405
GPT-5.4 mini13004
Gemini 3.5 Flash13004
Perplexity Sonar01102
Grok 4.1 Fast12115
Mistral Small02103
DeepSeek V4 Flash22026
Llama 4 Maverick00202
Qwen 3.7 Flash03115
Kimi K211013
GLM 4.7 FlashX01113
MiniMax M2.521003

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
Direct29 labels6
Paraphrase18 labels1
Comparative32 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained17 labels6
Scale-constrained20 labels6
Negative18 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative134 labels in all, every segment counted; 19 of the 21 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.

“Mid-Market SaaS Platforms | Hybrid environments looking for fast setup, low maintenance... Pros: Great balance of cost, ease of use, and quick deployment.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · PAM · scale prompt · first choice
“If you want a single default recommendation for a mid-market B2B company, I'd usually start with Delinea.” GPT-5.4 mini · PAM · direct 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
“Often the strongest fit for mid-market: faster deployment, simpler architecture, lower TCO.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · PAM · 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.

“Avoid pricier ones like Delinea/StrongDM ($70+/user/mo) unless scaling fast.” Grok 4.1 Fast · PAM · budget prompt · hard negative
“Customers of legacy Thycotic products have reported friction regarding service levels, product roadmaps” Qwen 3.7 Flash · PAM · negative prompt · soft negative
“quote-only and get expensive with per-endpoint agents or privileged-user seat licensing” DeepSeek V4 Flash · PAM · budget prompt · soft negative
“Uneven pricing; PEDM costs highest among competitors; complex post-merger integration” Kimi K2 · PAM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Delinea, over the 133 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Delinea was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
CyberArk107 of 13338Not in the top three
BeyondTrust100 of 1335Not in the top three
KeeperPAM61 of 13322Not in the top three
StrongDM47 of 1331Not in the top three
Teleport44 of 1334Not in the top three
WALLIX24 of 1330Not in the top three
HashiCorp Vault20 of 1330Not in the top three
ARCON PAM18 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 Delinea. 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 112 of the 133 answers that named Delinea and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

startwithidentity.com70
expertinsights.com51
netwrix.com47
aimultiple.com42
heimdalsecurity.com38
gartner.com34
delinea.comYour site33
cybervendorguide.com29
oneidentity.com29
tech-insider.org28

368 of the 401 domain citations in answers naming Delinea came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Delinea

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Delinea; a claim can dispute any of them.
Delinea (Secret Server) 4Delinea (formerly Thycotic) 3Delinea (Thycotic + Centrify) 1Delinea (formerly Devolutions) 1Delinea PAM 1Delinea Platform (including Secret Server) 1Delinea Platform / Secret Server 1Thycotic (Dassault Systems) 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 delinea.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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