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Index Vendors › JumpCloud · September 2026 Edition
7 categories · Ranked

JumpCloud

247Judge labels
47First choices
16Negative labels
12 of 12Models named it
7Categories
September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
48% in Workforce identity for small business buyers
Rank 5 of 48 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 4% of its 46 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentA small-business product: leader at small business, not named at enterprise.
In workforce identity · 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 JumpCloud 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
Workforce identity and SSOIdentity and access11%5 of 484%46accepted challenger
Unified endpoint managementIT operations and endpoint9%3 of 520%14accepted challenger
Identity governanceIdentity and access3%11 of 7729%7under 10 labels · led by Lumos at 20%
Multi-factor authenticationIdentity and access0%12 of 780%9under 10 labels · led by Cisco Duo at 42%
Privileged access managementIdentity and access0%18 of 740%5under 10 labels · led by ManageEngine PAM360 at 21%
Customer identity and access managementIdentity and access0%30 of 740%1under 10 labels · led by Auth0 at 22%
IT asset managementIT operations and endpoint0%55 of 61100%1under 10 labels · led by Snipe-IT at 24%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for JumpCloud 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 JumpCloud across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.512104
GPT-5.4 mini01001
Gemini 3.5 Flash16007
Perplexity Sonar182112
Grok 4.1 Fast162110
Mistral Small261211
DeepSeek V4 Flash15309
Llama 4 Maverick01203
Qwen 3.7 Flash12014
Kimi K223308
GLM 4.7 FlashX07108
MiniMax M2.523106

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
Direct43 labels17
Paraphrase47 labels10
Comparative49 labels11not counted in share
Budget-constrained51 labels17
Scale-constrained27 labels3
Negative30 labels9not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative247 labels in all, every segment counted; 47 of the 67 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.

“If your company has a mix of Mac and Windows laptops, uses a variety of cloud apps, and has a small IT department, JumpCloud is often the most practical choice.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Workforce identity · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“JumpCloud - If you need a dedicated UEM platform and want transparent per-user pricing, starting at $9/user/month” MiniMax M2.5 · UEM · budget prompt · first choice
“If you need vendor-neutral flexibility or don't use Microsoft extensively, JumpCloud's free tier is worth testing.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Workforce identity · budget prompt · first choice
“Best Overall Value & Simplicity: JumpCloud ... frequently cited as the top choice for small businesses” Qwen 3.7 Flash · IGA · 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.

“some reviews note that it offers less depth than enterprise leaders for very large or highly regulated environments” Mistral Small · Workforce identity · negative prompt · soft negative
“Focuses on identity and zero-trust, but does not handle hardware lifecycle or physical asset management.” Mistral Small · ITAM · negative prompt · soft negative
“Free tier and low entry cost, though it is more IAM-focused than full IGA” Perplexity Sonar · IGA · budget prompt · soft negative
“Lacks depth for very large enterprises or highly regulated environments” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Workforce identity · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as JumpCloud, over the 247 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and JumpCloud was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Microsoft Entra ID146 of 24744Not in the top three
Okta90 of 24718Not in the top three
OneLogin78 of 2476Not in the top three
Ping Identity50 of 2471Not in the top three
Okta Workforce Identity49 of 24717Not in the top three
Cisco Duo37 of 24717Not in the top three
SailPoint35 of 2470Not in the top three
miniOrange30 of 2472Not in the top three
Hexnode UEM29 of 2473Not 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 JumpCloud. 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 215 of the 247 answers that named JumpCloud and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

startwithidentity.com121
expertinsights.com68
siit.io63
corma.io60
learn.g2.com58
securityboulevard.com53
g2.com52
jumpcloud.comYour site41
cyberpress.org38
okta.com38

551 of the 592 domain citations in answers naming JumpCloud came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as JumpCloud

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as JumpCloud; a claim can dispute any of them.
JumpCloud/miniOrange 1
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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 JumpCloud'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 JumpCloud, 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 jumpcloud.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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