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Index › Vendors › Keeper · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Keeper

9Judge labels

0First choices

3Negative 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

5 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Keeper was named 5 times in Secrets, where Doppler led with 33%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market25 of 40

under the label threshold

Enterprise17 of 38

under the label threshold

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 Keeper 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
Secrets management	Identity and access	0%	25 of 40	40%	5	under 10 labels · led by Doppler at 33%

Movement

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

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

Direct1 labelNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained3 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative9 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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 developer-focused SaaS tools (like Doppler, Keeper) may be convenient but could introduce vendor lock-in” Mistral Small · Secrets · negative prompt · soft negative

“Less focused on infrastructure/CI/CD secrets; more "password manager" flavor” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Secrets · scale prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Keeper, over the 9 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Keeper was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

HashiCorp Vault8 of 95Not in the top three

Doppler8 of 90Not in the top three

Infisical7 of 92Not in the top three

1Password6 of 91Not in the top three

AWS Secrets Manager6 of 90Not in the top three

Akeyless5 of 91Not in the top three

CyberArk Conjur5 of 90Not in the top three

Azure Key Vault4 of 90Not in the top three

OpenBao3 of 91Not in the top three

Bitwarden Secrets Manager3 of 90Not 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 Keeper. 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 8 of the 9 answers that named Keeper and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

blog.gitguardian.com7

envmanager.com7

startwithidentity.com6

cybervendorguide.com4

qcecuring.com4

safeguard.sh4

tech-insider.org4

doppler.com3

geekflare.com3

workos.com3

Forty-five of the forty-five domain citations in answers naming Keeper came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

blog.gitguardian.com/top-secrets-management-tools7

envmanager.com/blog/best-secrets-management-tools7

startwithidentity.com/rankings/best-secrets-management-tools5

qcecuring.com/blog/vault-vs-aws-secrets-manager-comparison4

safeguard.sh/resources/blog/best-secrets-management-and-vaulting-solutions4

tech-insider.org/hashicorp-vault-vs-aws-secrets-manager-vs-azure-key-vault-20264

geekflare.com/cybersecurity/best-secret-management3

workos.com/blog/secrets-management-tools-compared3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Keeper

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

1Password / Keeper 1

Is this your product?

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 Keeper'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 Keeper, 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 keepersecurity.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.