Every category where a model named IBM Verify 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
Customer identity and access management	Identity and access	0%	47 of 74	30%	10	criticized challenger
Workforce identity and SSO	Identity and access	0%	14 of 48	10%	10	accepted challenger
Multi-factor authentication	Identity and access	0%	72 of 78	50%	2	under 10 labels · led by Cisco Duo at 42%
Identity governance	Identity and access	0%	52 of 77	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Lumos at 20%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for IBM Verify 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 IBM Verify 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	1	2
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	3	0	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	3	1	4
Mistral Small	0	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	1	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	2	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	1	2
Kimi K2	0	2	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	2	0	2
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

Direct4 labelsNone

Paraphrase3 labelsNone

Comparative37 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained6 labelsNone

Negative14 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative65 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.

“Choose IBM Verify if compliance, hybrid complexity, and unified IAM are top priorities.” GPT-5.4 mini · Workforce identity · 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.

“Legacy On-Premise IAM Platforms (Avoid Where Possible)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Workforce identity · negative prompt · hard negative

“While not a platform to completely avoid, users have reported concerns. IBM Verify CIAM has a steep learning curve and initial complexity during setup” Claude Haiku 4.5 · CIAM · negative prompt · soft negative

“you may not need—or want—the rigid processes of an enterprise-level giant like IBM Security or Oracle” Qwen 3.7 Flash · CIAM · scale prompt · soft negative

“Some enterprise options like Ping/IBM are overkill at 500 people.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · MFA · scale prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as IBM Verify, over the 65 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and IBM Verify was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Ping Identity51 of 651Not in the top three

Microsoft Entra ID32 of 6516Not in the top three

Auth028 of 6513Not in the top three

Microsoft Entra External ID23 of 652Not in the top three

Okta Workforce Identity20 of 6516Not in the top three

CyberArk Identity20 of 650Not in the top three

ForgeRock20 of 650Not in the top three

Okta15 of 656Not in the top three

WorkOS14 of 651Not in the top three

Descope13 of 651Not 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 IBM Verify. 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 58 of the 65 answers that named IBM Verify and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

startwithidentity.com44

securityboulevard.com27

expertinsights.com23

guptadeepak.com21

loginradius.com16

siit.io16

guideflow.com14

peerspot.com14

okta.com13

decryptiondigest.com12

200 of the 200 domain citations in answers naming IBM Verify came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

startwithidentity.com/articles/top-6-workforce-identity-platforms20

securityboulevard.com/2026/08/top-5-enterprise-ciam-platforms-in-2026-in-depth-comparison17

guptadeepak.com/top-5-enterprise-ciam-platforms-in-depth-comparison16

expertinsights.com/identity-and-access-management/top-customer-identity-and-access-managem14

startwithidentity.com/rankings/best-ciam-for-enterprises14

startwithidentity.com/rankings/best-iam-platforms14

peerspot.com/categories/customer-identity-and-access-management-ciam11

siit.io/blog/best-iam-tools9

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as IBM Verify

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

IBM Security Verify 14IBM 1IBM Security 1IBM Security Verify (on-prem) 1IBM Verify CIAM 1

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