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1 category · Named, not ranked

HashiCorp Boundary

13Judge labels

1First choices

2Negative labels

7 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

8 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. HashiCorp Boundary was named 8 times in PAM, where ManageEngine PAM360 led with 21%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business9 of 55

under the label threshold

Mid-market17 of 74

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

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 HashiCorp Boundary 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	0%	17 of 74	12%	8	under 10 labels · led by ManageEngine PAM360 at 21%

Movement

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

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

Comparative6 labelsNone

Budget-constrained5 labels1

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative13 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 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.

“For DevOps/cloud-native teams: Teleport or HashiCorp Boundary.” Mistral Small · PAM · comparative prompt · alternative

“Boundary fits teams already running HashiCorp Vault/Terraform” DeepSeek V4 Flash · PAM · comparative 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.

“better fits for ephemeral access, secrets, and modern infrastructure than for broad legacy PAM coverage” Perplexity Sonar · PAM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as HashiCorp Boundary, over the 13 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and HashiCorp Boundary was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Teleport11 of 132Not in the top three

Delinea9 of 130Not in the top three

CyberArk7 of 134Not in the top three

BeyondTrust7 of 131Not in the top three

KeeperPAM7 of 131Not in the top three

ManageEngine PAM3607 of 131Not in the top three

StrongDM6 of 130Not in the top three

JumpServer4 of 132Not in the top three

JumpCloud4 of 130Not in the top three

One Identity Safeguard4 of 130Not 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 HashiCorp Boundary. 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 13 of the 13 answers that named HashiCorp Boundary and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

startwithidentity.com10

expertinsights.com7

aimultiple.com6

gartner.com6

cybervendorguide.com5

pamcost.com5

cybersectool.com4

heimdalsecurity.com4

jumpserver.com4

learn.g2.com4

Fifty-five of the fifty-five domain citations in answers naming HashiCorp Boundary came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

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

aimultiple.com/pam-solutions5

startwithidentity.com/rankings/best-pam-for-smb5

gartner.com/reviews/market/privileged-access-management4

heimdalsecurity.com/blog/privileged-access-management-pam-software-solutions4

learn.g2.com/best-pam-software4

pamcost.com/4

pamcost.com/privileged-access-management-pricing-guide4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as HashiCorp Boundary

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

Boundary 1HashiCorp Boundary Community 1HashiCorp Vault/Boundary 1

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