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Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management

12Judge labels

0First choices

5Negative 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

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management was named 3 times in PAM, where ManageEngine PAM360 led with 21%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business39 of 55

under the label threshold

Mid-market60 of 74

under the label threshold

Enterprise22 of 49

under the label threshold

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 Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management 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
Privileged access management	Identity and access	0%	60 of 74	67%	3	under 10 labels · led by ManageEngine PAM360 at 21%

Movement

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

Model	Alternative	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1
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	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	1
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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative5 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative12 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.

“Not usually a full replacement for a dedicated PAM suite when you need broad vaulting, session brokering” GPT-5.4 mini · PAM · comparative 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.

“if your problem is shared admin passwords, local admin sprawl, or non-Microsoft infrastructure, because it is strongest for Entra/Azure role governance” Perplexity Sonar · PAM · negative prompt · soft negative

“Not a full-featured PAM – best as an adjunct rather than a standalone PAM.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · PAM · comparative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management, over the 12 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Delinea11 of 120Not in the top three

CyberArk10 of 126Not in the top three

BeyondTrust10 of 122Not in the top three

Teleport4 of 121Not in the top three

ManageEngine PAM3604 of 120Not in the top three

HashiCorp Vault3 of 120Not in the top three

KeeperPAM3 of 120Not in the top three

WALLIX3 of 120Not in the top three

StrongDM2 of 121Not in the top three

ARCON PAM2 of 120Not 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 Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management. 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 11 of the 12 answers that named Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

expertinsights.com6

netwrix.com6

gartner.com5

startwithidentity.com5

zluri.com5

heimdalsecurity.com4

infisical.com4

askmeidentity.com3

beyondtrust.com3

ciopages.com3

Forty-four of the forty-four domain citations in answers naming Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

netwrix.com/en/resources/blog/pam-solutions6

gartner.com/reviews/market/privileged-access-management5

expertinsights.com/identity-and-access-management/the-top-privileged-access-management-pam4

heimdalsecurity.com/blog/privileged-access-management-pam-software-solutions4

infisical.com/blog/best-privileged-access-management-solutions4

startwithidentity.com/rankings/best-pam-for-enterprises4

askmeidentity.com/resources/best-pam-solutions3

ciopages.com/buyer-guides/privileged-identity-cloud3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management

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

Microsoft Entra PIM 2Microsoft Entra ID PIM 1

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