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1 category · Named, not ranked

Passbolt

5Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

4 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

2 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Passbolt was named 2 times in Password managers, where Bitwarden led with 49%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small businessnot named

No model named it for this buyer.

Mid-market13 of 35

under the label threshold

Enterprise13 of 41

under the label threshold

In password managers · 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 Passbolt 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
Business password managers	Identity and access	0%	13 of 35	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by Bitwarden at 49%

Movement

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

Model	Alternative	Mention	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	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0
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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative2 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative5 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.

“Need self-hosting/open-source: Bitwarden or Passbolt” GPT-5.4 mini · Password managers · 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Passbolt, over the 5 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Passbolt was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

1Password5 of 51Not in the top three

Bitwarden4 of 52Not in the top three

Keeper Security4 of 51Not in the top three

Dashlane4 of 50Not in the top three

NordPass2 of 50Not in the top three

Doppler1 of 51Not in the top three

HashiCorp Vault1 of 51Not in the top three

AWS Secrets Manager1 of 50Not in the top three

Azure Key Vault1 of 50Not in the top three

Bitwarden Secrets Manager1 of 50Not 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 Passbolt. 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 4 of the 5 answers that named Passbolt and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

bitwarden.com4

allaboutcookies.org3

petronellatech.com3

1password.com2

gartner.com2

ifeeltech.com2

passwordmanager.com2

pwdfortress.com2

teampassword.com2

techrepublic.com2

Twenty-four of the twenty-four domain citations in answers naming Passbolt came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

allaboutcookies.org/best-password-managers-for-businesses3

bitwarden.com/resources/top-10-enterprise-password-managers-compared3

petronellatech.com/blog/best-password-managers-for-business-2026-comparison-guide3

1password.com/compare/password-manager2

bitwarden.com/resources/business-password-manager-comparison-report2

gartner.com/reviews/market/password-management-tools2

passwordmanager.com/best-enterprise-password-managers2

pwdfortress.com/en/blog/best-password-manager-for-business2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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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 passbolt.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

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