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Okta Identity Governance

111Judge labels
5First choices
35Negative labels
12 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.
Best standing
5% in IGA for small business buyers
Rank 8 of 77 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 34% of its 35 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In iga · 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 Okta Identity Governance 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
Identity governanceIdentity and access3%8 of 7734%35criticized challenger
Privileged access managementIdentity and access0%47 of 740%1under 10 labels · led by ManageEngine PAM360 at 21%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Okta Identity Governance 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 Okta Identity Governance across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.501203
GPT-5.4 mini01001
Gemini 3.5 Flash04026
Perplexity Sonar12014
Grok 4.1 Fast01124
Mistral Small00112
DeepSeek V4 Flash11013
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash01023
Kimi K203014
GLM 4.7 FlashX02114
MiniMax M2.500011

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 labels2
Paraphrase19 labels3
Comparative25 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained12 labelsNone
Scale-constrained13 labelsNone
Negative21 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative111 labels in all, every segment counted; 5 of the 6 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.

“My Top Recommendation: Okta Identity Governance (OIG) or SailPoint IdentityNow” DeepSeek V4 Flash · IGA · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Okta Identity Governance is the safest general pick for a mid-sized B2B company” Perplexity Sonar · IGA · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“For organizations already standardized on Okta for SSO and authentication, shared data model, one vendor relationship, and faster initial rollout are advantages.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · IGA · comparative prompt · alternative
“Top Tool: Okta Identity Governance (OIG) ... The Catch: OIG and Entra ID Governance can be expensive relative to the depth of features” Gemini 3.5 Flash · IGA · paraphrase 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.

“Okta Identity Governance: $108-$132/user/year — expensive for its feature set” DeepSeek V4 Flash · IGA · budget prompt · hard negative
“Avoid if you are a massive, highly regulated enterprise... However, they are highly recommended if you are a cloud-first, mid-sized business” Gemini 3.5 Flash · IGA · negative prompt · soft negative
“the sources note gaps in deep entitlement visibility, on-prem connectivity, and customization compared with dedicated IGA platforms” Perplexity Sonar · IGA · negative prompt · soft negative
“Limitations: Governance automation only works for SCIM-connected apps; estimated 75-85% of apps remain outside SCIM coverage” MiniMax M2.5 · IGA · comparative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Okta Identity Governance, over the 111 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Okta Identity Governance was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
Saviynt Enterprise Identity Cloud82 of 1118Not in the top three
Microsoft Entra ID Governance72 of 11110Not in the top three
SailPoint67 of 11116Not in the top three
One Identity Manager43 of 1110Not in the top three
Lumos40 of 11110Not in the top three
Omada Identity28 of 1111Not in the top three
AccessOwl22 of 11112Not in the top three
ConductorOne21 of 1117Not in the top three
Iden20 of 1119Not in the top three
Zluri18 of 1110Not 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 Okta Identity Governance. 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 91 of the 111 answers that named Okta Identity Governance and are not a share of its labels.

Names read as Okta Identity Governance

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Okta Identity Governance; a claim can dispute any of them.
Okta Identity Governance (OIG) 10Okta Governance 1
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