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Index › Vendors › Kinde · September 2026 Edition

2 categories · Named, not ranked

Kinde

16Judge labels

4First choices

1Negative labels

5 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.

Standing

5 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Kinde was named 5 times in CIAM and 1 other category, where Auth0 led with 22%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business5 of 52

under the label threshold

Mid-market11 of 74

under the label threshold

Enterprise32 of 60

under the label threshold

In ciam · 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 Kinde 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
Customer identity and access management	Identity and access	2%	11 of 74	0%	4	under 10 labels · led by Auth0 at 22%
Multi-factor authentication	Identity and access	0%	41 of 78	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Cisco Duo at 42%

Movement

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

Model	First choice	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	3	3
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	1
Kimi K2	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0
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

Direct4 labels1

Paraphrase5 labels3

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained3 labelsNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative16 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 4 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.

“Kinde — Best Overall for B2B SaaS” Kimi K2 · CIAM · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“The Best for B2B SaaS: Kinde... Kinde is built specifically for this workflow.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · CIAM · budget prompt · alternative

“Excellent for mid-sized companies wanting a simpler alternative to Auth0.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · CIAM · budget prompt · alternative

“Clerk or Kinde (Best for Fast, Out-of-the-Box B2B Multi-Tenancy)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · MFA · direct prompt · alternative

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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Kinde, over the 16 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Kinde was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Auth014 of 161Not in the top three

Clerk12 of 163Not in the top three

WorkOS11 of 162Not in the top three

Frontegg8 of 162Not in the top three

Stytch7 of 160Not in the top three

Descope6 of 162Not in the top three

Firebase Authentication6 of 161Not in the top three

Keycloak6 of 160Not in the top three

Amazon Cognito5 of 160Not in the top three

FusionAuth4 of 160Not 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 Kinde. 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 6 of the 16 answers that named Kinde and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

kinde.comYour site6

descope.com5

expertinsights.com4

loginradius.com4

startwithidentity.com4

workos.com4

guideflow.com3

securityboulevard.com3

corbado.com2

datawiza.com2

Thirty-one of the thirty-seven domain citations in answers naming Kinde came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

descope.com/blog/post/ciam-solutions5

kinde.com/comparisons/2025-customer-identity-access-management-ciam-software-top-10-option5

expertinsights.com/identity-and-access-management/top-customer-identity-and-access-managem4

guideflow.com/blog/ciam-software3

loginradius.com/blog/identity/top-ciam-for-small-and-medium-businesses3

startwithidentity.com/articles/top-7-ciam-platforms-b2b-saas3

workos.com/blog/top-ciam-providers-in-20263

corbado.com/blog/best-ciam-solutions2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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