Every category where a model named StrongDM 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%	13 of 74	6%	17	accepted challenger

Movement

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

Model	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	2	3	0	5
Perplexity Sonar	1	0	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1	1	3
Mistral Small	1	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	3	0	0	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	0	1

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

Direct11 labelsNone

Paraphrase4 labels1

Comparative18 labelsNone

Budget-constrained9 labelsNone

Scale-constrained10 labels2

Negative5 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative57 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 4 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.

“Emerging leader in modern, cloud-native PAM, highlighted in 2024-2026 comparisons for Zero Trust and DevOps focus.” Grok 4.1 Fast · PAM · comparative prompt · alternative

“focuses on credential-less or short-lived access for infrastructure, not classic password vault-first PAM” Perplexity Sonar · PAM · comparative prompt · alternative

“StrongDM offers per-user subscription pricing ($840\u2013$1,200/user/yr) and fast dynamic access” DeepSeek V4 Flash · PAM · comparative prompt · alternative

“Look at cloud-first options like Akeyless, StrongDM, or HashiCorp Vault-based solutions.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · PAM · negative 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.

“Avoid pricier ones like Delinea/StrongDM ($70+/user/mo) unless scaling fast.” Grok 4.1 Fast · PAM · budget prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as StrongDM, over the 57 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and StrongDM was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Delinea47 of 577Not in the top three

KeeperPAM44 of 5724Not in the top three

CyberArk40 of 577Not in the top three

Teleport38 of 570Not in the top three

ManageEngine PAM36035 of 576Not in the top three

BeyondTrust33 of 570Not in the top three

Securden Unified PAM14 of 573Not in the top three

JumpCloud8 of 570Not in the top three

Delinea Secret Server6 of 570Not in the top three

HashiCorp Boundary6 of 570Not 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 StrongDM. 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 43 of the 57 answers that named StrongDM and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

startwithidentity.com32

aimultiple.com24

expertinsights.com20

thectoclub.com17

compliancestronghold.com16

heimdalsecurity.com16

gartner.com15

softwareadvice.com13

adminbyrequest.com12

keepersecurity.com12

177 of the 177 domain citations in answers naming StrongDM came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

aimultiple.com/pam-solutions24

startwithidentity.com/rankings/best-pam-for-smb24

expertinsights.com/identity-and-access-management/the-top-privileged-access-management-pam19

thectoclub.com/tools/best-privileged-access-management-solutions17

compliancestronghold.com/best-pam-solution16

heimdalsecurity.com/blog/privileged-access-management-pam-software-solutions16

softwareadvice.com/privileged-access-management13

learn.g2.com/best-pam-software12

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

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