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ManageEngine Key Manager Plus

20Judge labels

3First choices

0Negative labels

9 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

8 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. ManageEngine Key Manager Plus was named 8 times in Certificate management, where Sectigo Certificate Manager led with 27%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business7 of 120

under the label threshold

Mid-market22 of 104

under the label threshold

Enterprise27 of 82

under the label threshold

In certificate management · 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 ManageEngine Key Manager Plus 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	0%	22 of 104	0%	8	under 10 labels · led by Sectigo Certificate Manager at 27%

Movement

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

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Model	Alternative	Mention	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	2	3
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	0	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	1	2

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

Direct2 labels2

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative3 labelsNone

Budget-constrained6 labels1

Scale-constrained4 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative20 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 3 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.

“Broad certificate discovery and automation with flexible licensing and a five-key free edition.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Certificate management · budget prompt · alternative

“For gradual upgrade: Begin with ManageEngine Key Manager Plus free plan” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Certificate management · budget prompt · alternative

“Top-rated include ManageEngine Key Manager Plus (versatile)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Certificate management · negative prompt · alternative

“is your best value if you also need SSH key management” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Certificate management · budget 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 ManageEngine Key Manager Plus, over the 20 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ManageEngine Key Manager Plus was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Sectigo Certificate Manager10 of 201Not among the top eight

ZeroSSL9 of 200Not among the top eight

Venafi8 of 200Not among the top eight

AWS Certificate Manager7 of 201Not among the top eight

AppViewX CERT+7 of 200Not among the top eight

Smallstep Certificate Manager7 of 200Not among the top eight

DigiCert CertCentral6 of 201Not among the top eight

DigiCert Trust Lifecycle Manager6 of 201Not among the top eight

Keyfactor Command6 of 201Not among the top eight

Keyfactor6 of 200Not 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 ManageEngine Key Manager Plus. 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 19 of the 20 answers that named ManageEngine Key Manager Plus and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

worldmetrics.org12

gitnux.org11

qcecuring.com10

thectoclub.com10

itechguides.com9

slashdot.org8

sourceforge.net8

g2.com7

infisical.com7

verifyed.io7

Eighty-nine of the eighty-nine domain citations in answers naming ManageEngine Key Manager Plus came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

gitnux.org/best/certificate-lifecycle-management-software10

thectoclub.com/tools/best-certificate-lifecycle-management-software9

qcecuring.com/blog/best-clm-platforms-20268

worldmetrics.org/best/certificate-management-software8

itechguides.com/best/certificate-management-software7

worldmetrics.org/best/certificate-lifecycle-management-software7

cyberpress.org/certificate-lifecycle-pki-by-use-case6

infisical.com/blog/best-certificate-management-tools6

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where ManageEngine Key Manager Plus stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 140 a month (“manageengine key manager plus”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 3 a month
Its own site: It sits on ManageEngine's site (manageengine.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 22 of 104 in certificate management

Segment leader

27%

Sectigo Certificate Manager

First choices: 3 across its categories
Named in: 20 answers
Its own site cited: in 19 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.

Follow ManageEngine Key Manager Plus

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

ManageEngine is the company behind ManageEngine Key Manager Plus.

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On record

Company records

Also from ManageEngine: ManageEngine AD Manager Plus, ManageEngine AD360, ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus, ManageEngine Applications Manager, ManageEngine AssetExplorer, ManageEngine AssetExplorer / Endpoint Central, ManageEngine CloudSpend, ManageEngine DCIM and 28 more

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Powerful, end-to-end certificate life cycle management tool for enterprises
manageengine.com/key-manager
For: enterprises
manageengine.com/key-manager
Price stated: De licentie is gebaseerd op het aantal beheerde sleutels* manageengine.com/be/key-manager
Free plan or trial: Start your 30-day, free trial today! manageengine.com/key-manager
Integrations claimed: 7 manageengine.com/key-manager
Customers named: Sapphire systems
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, certifications, hosting

What ManageEngine Key Manager Plus's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: manageengine.com/key-manager, manageengine.com/be/key-manager, manageengine.com/ch/key-manager, manageengine.com/de/key-manager, manageengine.com/dk/key-manager. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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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 ManageEngine Key Manager Plus'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 ManageEngine Key Manager Plus, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for ManageEngine Key Manager Plus by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where ManageEngine Key Manager Plus 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 ManageEngine Key Manager Plus, 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.