| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise browsers | Security operations | 26% | 1 of 80 | 13% | 63 | accepted challenger | |
| Business password managers | Identity and access | 0% | 33 of 35 | 100% | 3 | under 10 labels · led by 1Password at 47% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Chrome Enterprise and Edge for Business are strong choices if you want to keep the familiar Chromium experience and add management and DLP.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Enterprise browsers · comparative prompt · first choice
“Start with Chrome Enterprise Premium if you're on Google tools—it's the most accessible, highly rated, and economical for mid-market B2B” Grok 4.20 · Enterprise browsers · direct prompt · first choice
“Market leader for enterprise use. Chrome Enterprise and Microsoft Edge for Business are cited as leading the competitive landscape” Muse Glimmer 30B · Enterprise browsers · comparative prompt · first choice
“I'd particularly recommend starting with Chrome Enterprise Premium if you're already in the Google ecosystem” MiniMax M2.5 · Enterprise browsers · paraphrase prompt · first choice
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.
“unmanaged Chrome ... Why you should avoid them: Consumer browsers are fundamentally designed for end-user convenience, not enterprise data governance.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Enterprise browsers · negative prompt · hard negative
“Traditional browsers like Google Chrome and Apple Safari are revealing fundamental security weaknesses that put enterprises at unprecedented risk.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Enterprise browsers · negative prompt · hard negative
“Wirecutter says not to trust Chrome's built-in password manager because Google does not use zero-knowledge encryption by default” Perplexity Sonar · Password managers · negative prompt · hard negative
“Storing your passwords in a web browser, such as Chrome or Safari, is very convenient, but it can also be risky” Muse Glimmer 30B · Password managers · negative prompt · hard negative
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 194 of the 203 answers that named Google Password Manager and are not a share of its labels.
759 of the 759 domain citations in answers naming Google Password Manager came from somebody else's page.
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
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.
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.
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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 Google Password Manager'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 Google Password Manager, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Google Password Manager by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
AI models recommend Google Password Manager first in Enterprise browsers 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.
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.