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Infisical

123Judge labels
25First choices
12Negative labels
12 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.
Best standing
25% in Secrets for small business buyers
Rank 3 of 40 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
2 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 5% of its 40 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
Secrets managementIdentity and access18%3 of 405%40accepted challenger
Privileged access managementIdentity and access0%44 of 740%1under 10 labels · led by ManageEngine PAM360 at 21%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Infisical 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 Infisical across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.511002
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash33006
Perplexity Sonar11204
Grok 4.1 Fast12104
Mistral Small11103
DeepSeek V4 Flash12115
Llama 4 Maverick01214
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K215006
GLM 4.7 FlashX11002
MiniMax M2.503104

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
Direct24 labels5
Paraphrase13 labels1
Comparative28 labels4not counted in share
Budget-constrained26 labels15
Scale-constrained12 labels4
Negative20 labels3not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative123 labels in all, every segment counted; 25 of the 32 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 the best balance of cost and features, Infisical (self-hosted) and Bitwarden Secrets Manager (SaaS) are the most budget-friendly options” Mistral Small · Secrets · budget prompt · first choice
“Doppler or Infisical are solid choices due to their balance of features, ease of use, and developer-friendly approach” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Secrets · direct prompt · first choice
“A modern, developer-friendly open-source alternative to Doppler... Set up a trial of Doppler or Infisical” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Secrets · scale prompt · first choice
“Choose Infisical (Self-Hosted) if you want a beautiful, modern, enterprise-ready UI with maximum features” Gemini 3.5 Flash · 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.

“Younger ecosystem; also note that Infisical Cloud dropped default end-to-end encryption” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Secrets · negative prompt · soft negative
“Infisical may be a relatively new and untested ecosystem” Llama 4 Maverick · Secrets · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Infisical, over the 122 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.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Doppler113 of 12232Compare →
AWS Secrets Manager98 of 1223Not in the top three
Azure Key Vault65 of 1222Not in the top three
Google Secret Manager59 of 1221Not in the top three
1Password53 of 1223Not in the top three
Akeyless48 of 1227Not in the top three
Bitwarden Secrets Manager39 of 1223Not in the top three
OpenBao31 of 1220Not in the top three
CyberArk Conjur30 of 1220Not 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 Infisical. 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 98 of the 122 answers that named Infisical and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

blog.gitguardian.com75
envmanager.com67
startwithidentity.com59
infisical.comYour site47
cybervendorguide.com38
doppler.com38
safeguard.sh38
guideflow.com32
worldmetrics.org27
akeyless.io26

400 of the 447 domain citations in answers naming Infisical came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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.
Infisical (Community Edition) 1Infisical (self-hosted) 1
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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.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at infisical.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.

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