Small business▲+4Since September 2026: 25% → 29%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
29%from 25% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 2 of 41, unchanged
3 categories · RankedInfisical
164Judge labels
38First choices
10Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
3Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
28% in Secrets for small business buyers
Rank 3 of 59 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 0% of its 43 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Infisical →By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
Small business2 of 43
28%57 labels
accepted challenger
Mid-market3 of 59
15%43 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise2 of 53
6%34 labels
accepted challenger
In secrets · 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 Infisical 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Secrets management | Identity and access | 15% | 3 of 59 | 0% | 43 | accepted challenger | ▼−2Since September 2026: 18% → 15%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Non-human identity management | Identity and access | 5% | 11 of 128 | 20% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by JumpCloud at 14% | |
| Certificate lifecycle management | Identity and access | 0% | 26 of 104 | 0% | 4 | under 10 labels · led by Sectigo Certificate Manager at 27% |
Movement
Since September 2026, Infisical held within the floor in all three categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Secrets · by segment
Mid-market▼−2Since September 2026: 18% → 15%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
15%from 18% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 3 of 54, unchanged
Enterprise▲+5Since September 2026: 2% → 7%, +5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
7%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 6 pointsRank 6 → 2 of 53
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NHI management | 0% | 5% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 5% now. | New this edition | Rank 11 of 128, unchanged |
| Secrets | 18% | 15% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 18% → 15%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 3 of 59, unchanged |
| Certificate management | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 26 of 104, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Infisical across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Infisical across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
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
Direct23 labels3
Paraphrase23 labels6
Comparative39 labels12not counted in share
Budget-constrained46 labels25
Scale-constrained14 labels4
Negative19 labels6not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative164 labels in all, every segment counted; 38 of the 56 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.
“Infisical Pro at $18/identity/month is often the best value for startups seeking affordable, developer-friendly secrets management with minimal operational overhead.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Secrets · budget prompt · first choice
“Infisical is often cited as the best open‑source choice for 2026 because it balances a generous free tier with strong features and a polished developer experience.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Secrets · budget prompt · first choice
“My recommendation for tight budgets: Infisical or HashiCorp Vault (self-hosted)” MiniMax M2.5 · Secrets · budget prompt · first choice
“For most companies with limited budgets, Infisical is likely your best bet” Kimi K2 · Secrets · 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 Infisical, over the 164 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Infisical was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Infisical, over the 164 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Infisical was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
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 Infisical. 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 159 of the 164 answers that named Infisical and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
infisical.comYour site108
blog.gitguardian.com69
doppler.com66
cybersecuritynews.com64
guideflow.com63
startwithidentity.com56
g2.com49
akeyless.io47
dupple.com46
dev.to44
504 of the 612 domain citations in answers naming Infisical came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
infisical.com ranks 3 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Infisical takes 15% of first choices and HashiCorp Vault takes 31%.ShowHide
Search and answers
infisical.com ranks 3 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Infisical takes 15% of first choices and HashiCorp Vault takes 31%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “secrets management tool”
3
Position for “secrets management tools”
3
- Searches for its name, Google
- 4,400 a month (“infisical”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 40 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 4,742 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 919 · 89 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 1,899
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
15%
rank 3 of 59 in secrets
Segment leader
31%
HashiCorp Vault
- First choices
- 38 across its categories
- Named in
- 164 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 159 of the answers that named it
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.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on infisical.com
280
subdomains included
Content
197
counted in the table below
Documentation
40
Product · Integration
4 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 113 | 20 | 2026-09-28 | Secrets, PAM | |
| Comparison | 32 | 5 | 2026-09-23 | Secrets | |
| Podcast or video | 26 | 7 | 2026-09-14 | Secrets | |
| Case study | 15 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 8 | 1 | 2026-09-03 | PAM, Secrets | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 2 | undated | Secrets | ||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-28Enterprise secrets management blog
- 2026-09-28Certificate management compliance blog
- 2026-09-25How environment variables work blog
- 2026-09-23Aws secrets manager vs certificate manager comparison
- 2026-09-17N8n secrets management blog
- 2026-09-16Microsoft cloud pki blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page infisical.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. 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 Infisical
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Infisical; a claim can dispute any of them.
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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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The company
Infisical is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Infisical is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The modern security platform for developers and agents
- For
- developers and agents
- Price stated
- Free, Pro, Advanced, Enterprise; all paid plans include a free trial, no credit card required infisical.com/pricing
- Starting price
- $0 forever infisical.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Get started for free infisical.com
- Integrations claimed
- 100 infisical.com/pricing
- Certifications
- SOC2HIPAAFIPS 140-3SOC 2 Type II
- Hosting
- USEU
- Customers named
- Hugging FaceLucid SoftwareWriterOpenRouterExcalidrawGreptileAlphonsoCDQ
What Infisical's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: infisical.com, infisical.com/pricing, trust.infisical.com, infisical.com/platform/pam, infisical.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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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 Infisical'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 Infisical, 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 Infisical by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Infisical 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 Infisical, 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 Infisical is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.ShowHide
Badges
Wins only: a badge exists where Infisical is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.
ShowHideInfisical is among the products AI models recommend first in Secrets 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
Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides
Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer
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.