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2 categories · Named, not ranked

Google Password Manager

14Judge labels

0First choices

13Negative labels

8 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.

Standing

5 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Google Password Manager was named 5 times in Password managers and 1 other category, where Bitwarden led with 49%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business23 of 24

under the label threshold

Mid-market33 of 35

under the label threshold

Enterprise38 of 41

under the label threshold

In password managers · 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 Google Password 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
Business password managers	Identity and access	0%	33 of 35	100%	4	under 10 labels · led by Bitwarden at 49%
Multi-factor authentication	Identity and access	0%	38 of 78	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Cisco Duo at 42%

Movement

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

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

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative14 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative14 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.

“(e.g., Apple Keychain, Windows Hello, Google Password Manager)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · MFA · negative prompt · alternative

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.

“Browser-built-in password managers such as Google Chrome / Google Account storage ... are poor fits for companies” Perplexity Sonar · Password managers · negative prompt · hard negative

“Google Chrome Password Manager / Browser-Based Managers — Avoid for Business” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Password managers · negative prompt · hard negative

“consumer-grade password managers such as Chrome, Google Account storage, and Apple Keychain lack corporate-level security and visibility” Llama 4 Maverick · Password managers · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Google Password Manager, over the 12 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Google Password Manager was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

LastPass11 of 120Not in the top three

Bitwarden10 of 125Not in the top three

Apple Passwords10 of 120Not in the top three

1Password9 of 125Not in the top three

Keeper Security8 of 122Not in the top three

Dashlane8 of 120Not in the top three

Microsoft Edge Password Manager7 of 120Not in the top three

Norton Password Manager5 of 120Not in the top three

KeePass4 of 120Not in the top three

NordPass3 of 120Not 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 Google Password Manager. 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 9 of the 12 answers that named Google Password Manager and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

reddit.com8

dashlane.com7

buralog.jp6

cloaked.com6

securityscorecard.com5

bitdefender.com4

cyberpress.org4

decryptiondigest.com4

nhimg.org4

pcmag.com4

Fifty-two of the fifty-two domain citations in answers naming Google Password Manager came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cloaked.com/post/the-top-3-worst-password-manager-breaches-and-security-issues-to-date6

dashlane.com/blog/password-managers-safe-businesses6

reddit.com/r/cybersecurity_help/comments/1jhdy7w/password_managers_which_ones_are_an_absol6

buralog.jp/en/password-manager-business-2-en5

securityscorecard.com/blog/what-did-the-lastpass-breach-reveal-about-password-manager-secu5

bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/password-managers-for-small-businesses-are-they-4

cyberpress.org/enterprise-password-management-infostealers4

decryptiondigest.com/blog/guide-finding-best-enterprise-password-managers4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Google Password Manager

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

Chrome 1Google Account storage 1Google Chrome / Google Account storage 1Google Chrome Password Manager 1

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