Every category where a model named Keyfactor Command 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
Certificate lifecycle management	Identity and access	13%	2 of 104	19%	37	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Keyfactor Command yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Keyfactor Command across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	2	0	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	0	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	0	2	4
Perplexity Sonar	1	1	1	0	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1	1	2	5
Mistral Small	0	2	0	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	0	2	4
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	0	0	1
Kimi K2	2	1	0	0	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	2	0	1	4
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	1	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	2	1	0	3
Muse Glimmer 30B	2	2	0	0	4

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

Direct21 labels9

Paraphrase19 labels5

Comparative23 labels3not counted in share

Budget-constrained9 labels4

Scale-constrained11 labels4

Negative14 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative97 labels in all, every segment counted; 22 of the 25 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.

“Pick Keyfactor or CyberArk/Venafi if you need enterprise-wide discovery and orchestration across many systems.” Perplexity Sonar · Certificate management · comparative prompt · first choice

“Keyfactor Command and DigiCert CertCentral are the two most recommended solutions.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Certificate management · direct prompt · first choice

“Keyfactor Command - Best balance of features and pricing for mid-market” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Certificate management · scale prompt · first choice

“Best value for scalable automation: Keyfactor Command” Muse Glimmer 30B · Certificate management · direct 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.

“Keyfactor Command - Too complex, enterprise-focused” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Certificate management · paraphrase prompt · hard negative

“often overkill, carrying heavy implementation footprints and price tags ($100k+ to $250k+/year) that do not align with mid-market budgets” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Certificate management · direct prompt · soft negative

“High-end enterprise tools (Venafi/Keyfactor) often start at six figures annually, with migration challenges” Grok 4.1 Fast · Certificate management · negative prompt · soft negative

“often cost-prohibitive, with entry-level quotes routinely starting between $45,000 and $100,000+ per year” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Certificate management · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Keyfactor Command, over the 97 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Keyfactor Command was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Sectigo Certificate Manager72 of 9716Compare →

AppViewX CERT+52 of 971Compare →

Venafi46 of 979Not among the top eight

DigiCert Trust Lifecycle Manager44 of 975Compare →

AWS Certificate Manager26 of 971Compare →

CyberArk Certificate Manager24 of 975Not among the top eight

DigiCert ONE18 of 970Not among the top eight

ZeroSSL14 of 970Not among the top eight

DigiCert CertCentral13 of 972Compare →

Smallstep Certificate Manager11 of 971Not among the top eight

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 Keyfactor Command. 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 95 of the 97 answers that named Keyfactor Command and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

sectigo.com59

worldmetrics.org45

qcecuring.com44

keyfactor.comYour site41

g2.com40

gartner.com39

guideflow.com38

digicert.com37

cyberpress.org33

gitnux.org33

368 of the 409 domain citations in answers naming Keyfactor Command came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

guideflow.com/blog/ssl-certificate-management-software38

qcecuring.com/blog/best-clm-platforms-202638

gartner.com/reviews/market/certificate-lifecycle-management-clm35

guptadeepak.com/tools/top-5-pki-certificate-lifecycle-management-tools-202633

cyberpress.org/certificate-lifecycle-pki-by-use-case32

infisical.com/blog/best-certificate-management-tools31

devopsschool.com/blog/top-10-certificate-management-tools-features-pros-cons-comparison29

sectigo.com/enterprise-solutions/certificate-manager28

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

keyfactor.com ranks 5 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Keyfactor Command takes 13% of first choices and Sectigo Certificate Manager takes 27%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “certificate lifecycle management platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “certificate lifecycle management platforms”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 110 a month (“keyfactor command”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 6 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 36,295 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 4,851 · 347 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 4,620
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

76 ads · 51 text, 25 video · 36 shown in the last 30 days

First shown February 2022, as Keyfactor, Inc., verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 48 in the year, 28 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

13%

rank 2 of 104 in certificate management

Segment leader

27%

Sectigo Certificate Manager

First choices: 22 across its categories
Named in: 97 answers
Its own site cited: in 95 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 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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Addresses on keyfactor.com

12,085

subdomains included

Content

1,441

counted in the table below

Documentation

9,985

Product · Integration

38 · 71

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	898	12	2026-10-02	Certificate management, Endpoint protection
Conference or event	228	14	2026-09-30
News or press	190	6	2026-09-30
Glossary or explainer	53	10	2026-08-10
Webinar or virtual event	28	0	2026-06-25
Comparison	19	6	2026-08-20	PAM
Report or ebook	11	0	2026-05-20
Case study	10	0	2026-01-29
Template or tool	4	0	2024-08-15

Most recent

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2026-10-02The identity foundation for cloud workloads and ai agents blog
2026-10-01Iso iec 270012022 for manufacturers cryptography pki and audit ready key management blog
2026-10-01Cyber resilience starts with the people who protect us blog
2026-09-30Cmmc 2 0 and nist sp 800 171 a cryptography and pki playbook for the defense industrial base blog
2026-09-30Cyber security business conference conference or event

Events in person

Last twelve months

September 17, 2026Nomios Next 2026Leiden, Netherlands · exhibited

As the event pages on keyfactor.com state them, read October 5, 2026.

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page keyfactor.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 October 5, 2026.

Names read as Keyfactor Command

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

Keyfactor Command (with EJBCA) 1Keyfactor Command + EJBCA 1

Follow Keyfactor Command

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.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Keyfactor Command is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Automate discovery and management of digital certificates at scale
keyfactor.com
For: security teams
keyfactor.com
Free plan or trial: Free Trial keyfactor.com
Customers named: AgileSecServiceNowSchneider ElectricMT BankRSA SecuritygrenkeSiemensOVHcloud
Not stated on the pages read: Price, starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting

What Keyfactor Command's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: keyfactor.com, trust.keyfactor.com, keyfactor.com/platform, keyfactor.com/customers, keyfactor.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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 Keyfactor Command'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 Keyfactor Command, 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 Keyfactor Command by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Keyfactor Command 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 Keyfactor Command, 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 Keyfactor Command is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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Keyfactor Command is among the products AI models recommend first in Certificate lifecycle 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

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/identity/certificate-lifecycle-management/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/keyfactor-command--certificate-lifecycle-management-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Certificate lifecycle management, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Certificate lifecycle management standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/identity/certificate-lifecycle-management/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/keyfactor-command--certificate-lifecycle-management-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Certificate lifecycle management, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Certificate lifecycle management standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/identity/certificate-lifecycle-management/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/keyfactor-command--certificate-lifecycle-management-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Certificate lifecycle management, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Certificate lifecycle management standing, where the claim can be checked.

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.