1 category · Named, not rankedSmallstep OSS
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Certificate lifecycle management | Identity and access | 0% | 66 of 104 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Sectigo Certificate Manager at 27% |
Movement
By model
How each model treated Smallstep OSS across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“If you need private certificates or more control, explore Smallstep OSS or EJBCA Community Edition.” Kimi K2 · 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.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Smallstep OSS, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Smallstep OSS was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
What carried it into the answer
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 2 of the 2 answers that named Smallstep OSS and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Fifteen of the fifteen domain citations in answers naming Smallstep OSS came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
smallstep.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Smallstep OSS takes 0% of first choices and Sectigo Certificate Manager takes 27%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Organic visits to its site
- about 8,139 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 5,177 · 144 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 2,951
- Paid Google search
- 1 searches its ads show for, about 12 clicks and $0 a month (estimate)
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 2 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 2 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.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHide| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 97 | 0 | 2026-05-19 | ||
| Comparison | 7 | 0 | 2025-12-04 | ||
| Case study | 4 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 4 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-05-19After mythos hardware bound identity blog
- 2026-04-30Home network eap tls wifi blog
- 2026-04-07Shadow it is an admission failure blog
- 2026-04-07Stryker was not ransomwared it was remotely wiped blog
- 2026-04-07Nsa zero trust device identity gap blog
- 2026-04-07Ncsc zero trust device identity blog
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Every page smallstep.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.
Names read as Smallstep OSS
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The company
Smallstep OSS is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Device Identity for companies with sensitive resources. Secure corporate Wi-Fi, SaaS Apps, VPNs, and more.
- For
- companies with sensitive resources
- Price stated
- Contact for quote. smallstep.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Get Started for free smallstep.com/signup/integrations
- Integrations claimed
- 100 smallstep.com
- Customers named
- 78 of the Fortune 100 companies
- Not stated on the pages read
- Starting price, certifications, hosting
What Smallstep OSS's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: smallstep.com, smallstep.com/pricing, smallstep.com/platform, smallstep.com/case-studies, smallstep.com/signup/integrations. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Smallstep OSS by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Smallstep OSS 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 Smallstep OSS, 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.