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ManageEngine PAM360

98Judge labels
26First choices
10Negative labels
12 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.
Best standing
27% in PAM for small business buyers
Rank 1 of 74 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
1 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 6% of its 35 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
In pam · 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 PAM360 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
Privileged access managementIdentity and access21%1 of 746%35accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for ManageEngine PAM360 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 ManageEngine PAM360 across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.511103
GPT-5.4 mini01001
Gemini 3.5 Flash01012
Perplexity Sonar12003
Grok 4.1 Fast12003
Mistral Small30003
DeepSeek V4 Flash14005
Llama 4 Maverick01102
Qwen 3.7 Flash11002
Kimi K203003
GLM 4.7 FlashX13004
MiniMax M2.512014

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
Direct22 labels6
Paraphrase20 labels12
Comparative13 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained24 labels8
Scale-constrained7 labelsNone
Negative12 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative98 labels in all, every segment counted; 26 of the 28 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.

“ManageEngine PAM360 and Keeper Security are frequently cited as top choices for organizations with limited budgets” Mistral Small · PAM · budget prompt · first choice
“The Best All-Rounder (Value & Features): ManageEngine PAM360 This is frequently recommended for mid-sized companies” Qwen 3.7 Flash · PAM · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“ManageEngine PAM360 is the best affordable commercial option designed specifically for SMBs” Claude Haiku 4.5 · PAM · budget prompt · first choice
“For most mid-sized B2B companies, ManageEngine PAM360 is the strongest overall pick.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · PAM · paraphrase 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.

“it has a historically poor track record regarding critical security vulnerabilities” Gemini 3.5 Flash · PAM · negative prompt · hard negative
“Multiple vulnerabilities disclosed in 2024-2026” MiniMax M2.5 · PAM · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as ManageEngine PAM360, over the 98 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ManageEngine PAM360 was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
CyberArk66 of 988Not in the top three
KeeperPAM59 of 9821Not in the top three
BeyondTrust53 of 982Not in the top three
Teleport46 of 986Not in the top three
StrongDM35 of 981Not in the top three
Delinea Secret Server20 of 986Not in the top three
JumpCloud15 of 980Not in the top three
miniOrange PAM15 of 980Not 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 ManageEngine PAM360. 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 90 of the 98 answers that named ManageEngine PAM360 and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

startwithidentity.com69
aimultiple.com54
netwrix.com40
expertinsights.com36
heimdalsecurity.com36
mitigata.com36
learn.g2.com28
oneidentity.com26
compliancestronghold.com25
cybervendorguide.com25

375 of the 375 domain citations in answers naming ManageEngine PAM360 came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as ManageEngine PAM360

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as ManageEngine PAM360; a claim can dispute any of them.
ManageEngine PAM360 (and Password Manager Pro) 1PAM360 by ManageEngine 1
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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 PAM360'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 PAM360, 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 manageengine.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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