Every category where a model named GitGuardian NHI Governance 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
Non-human identity management	Identity and access	9%	3 of 128	8%	13	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for GitGuardian NHI Governance 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 GitGuardian NHI Governance 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	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	0	0	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	1	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	1	1	0	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	2	0	2
Mistral Small	0	0	0	1	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	0	0	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	2	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	0	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	0	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	1	0	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

Direct4 labels1

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative15 labelsNone

Budget-constrained10 labels5

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative35 labels in all, every segment counted; 6 of the 6 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.

“GitGuardian offers the easiest entry point with its free tier and transparent pricing model, making it ideal for companies just starting with NHI management.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · NHI management · budget prompt · first choice

“I'd start with JumpCloud's free tier or GitGuardian's free tier” MiniMax M2.5 · NHI management · budget prompt · first choice

“the strongest low-cost option in the results is GitGuardian” Perplexity Sonar · NHI management · budget prompt · first choice

“Best Overall for Limited Budget: GitGuardian” DeepSeek V4 Flash · NHI management · budget 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.

“also mentioned as free or low-cost options, but they are more specialized and may not cover all non-human identity management needs” Mistral Small · NHI management · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as GitGuardian NHI Governance, over the 35 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and GitGuardian NHI Governance was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Akeyless20 of 351Compare →

Entro Security19 of 352Compare →

Astrix Security18 of 351Not among the top eight

HashiCorp Vault18 of 351Compare →

CyberArk Identity Security Platform17 of 354Not among the top eight

JumpCloud16 of 351Compare →

Aembit14 of 359Compare →

Oasis Security12 of 352Not among the top eight

Okta9 of 351Not among the top eight

Saviynt Identity Cloud7 of 352Not 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 GitGuardian NHI Governance. 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 35 of the 35 answers that named GitGuardian NHI Governance and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

expertinsights.com30

startupstash.com24

securityboulevard.com20

oneidentity.com19

sourceforge.net19

blog.gitguardian.comYour site15

g2.com15

peerspot.com15

akeyless.io14

lumos.com14

170 of the 185 domain citations in answers naming GitGuardian NHI Governance came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

expertinsights.com/identity-and-access-management/top-nhi-management-solutions30

startupstash.com/top-non-human-identity-management-platforms23

oneidentity.com/learn/top-non-human-identity-and-agentic-ai-security-tools.aspx19

securityboulevard.com/2026/06/top-non-human-identity-nhi-management-tools-for-202617

sourceforge.net/software/non-human-identity-management17

peerspot.com/categories/non-human-identity-management-nhim15

blog.gitguardian.com/nhi-security-tools14

g2.com/categories/non-human-identity-management-nhim-solutions12

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

gitguardian.com ranks 9 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, GitGuardian NHI Governance takes 9% of first choices and JumpCloud takes 14%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “non-human identity management platforms”

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not in the top ten

Position for “best non-human identity management platform”

Searches for its name, Google: not counted (“gitguardian nhi governance”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 0 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 13,653 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 2,712 · 93 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 5,153
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

99 ads · 95 text, 3 image, 1 video · 31 shown in the last 30 days

First shown October 2021, as GitGuardian SAS, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 8 in the year, 91 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 3 of 128 in NHI management

Segment leader

14%

JumpCloud

First choices: 6 across its categories
Named in: 35 answers
Its own site cited: in 35 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 gitguardian.com

3,285

subdomains included

Content

1,272

counted in the table below

Documentation

1,203

Product · Integration

49 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	758	19	2026-09-25	Secrets, IaC
Podcast or video	192	undated		Secrets, Endpoint protection
Conference or event	168	undated
Case study	54	undated
Glossary or explainer	38	undated		SAST, DLP
Report or ebook	35	0	2025-06-03	Secrets
Webinar or virtual event	17	undated		Secrets
Comparison	5	0	2025-05-13
Template or tool	3	1	2026-09-08
News or press	2	undated

Most recent

2026-09-25Ai coding agents credential security blog
2026-09-24Gitguardian docker sandbox mixin kit blog
2026-09-22Github app private keys leaked blog
2026-09-17Supply chain attack targets credentials blog
2026-09-15Ai autonomy blog
2026-09-08Service account credential rotation checklist template or tool

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page gitguardian.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. Of its titles that name a category, most name secrets (16); 0 name the category the models place it in. 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 GitGuardian NHI Governance

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

GitGuardian 9GitGuardian Platform 4

Follow GitGuardian NHI Governance

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

GitGuardian NHI Governance is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Know every machine identity in your stack?
gitguardian.com
For: IAM
gitguardian.com
Price stated: Enterprise gitguardian.com/pricing
Free plan or trial: Enterprise trial included gitguardian.com/pricing
Certifications: SOC 2 Type IIGDPR
Hosting: US and EU
Customers named: VermeerQlikOrange BusinessSnowflakeOrangeIressMirantisMaven Wave
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, integrations

What GitGuardian NHI Governance's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: gitguardian.com, gitguardian.com/pricing, trust.gitguardian.com, gitguardian.com/platform, gitguardian.com/customer-stories. A claimed page can correct any of them.

Is this your product?

Claim this page

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 GitGuardian NHI Governance'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 GitGuardian NHI Governance, 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 GitGuardian NHI Governance by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where GitGuardian NHI Governance 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 GitGuardian NHI Governance, 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.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where GitGuardian NHI Governance is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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GitGuardian NHI Governance is among the products AI models recommend first in Non-human identity management this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/identity/non-human-identity-management/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/gitguardian-nhi-governance--non-human-identity-management-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Non-human identity management, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Non-human identity management standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/identity/non-human-identity-management/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/gitguardian-nhi-governance--non-human-identity-management-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Non-human identity management, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Non-human identity management standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/identity/non-human-identity-management/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/gitguardian-nhi-governance--non-human-identity-management-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Non-human identity management, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Non-human identity management standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.