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Index Vendors › Teleport · September 2026 Edition
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Teleport

66Judge labels
8First choices
5Negative labels
11 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
11% in PAM for small business buyers
Rank 7 of 74 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 9% of its 22 labels there were negative.
By buyer segmentStrongest at small business.
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 Teleport 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
Privileged access managementIdentity and access4%7 of 749%22accepted challenger
Zero trust network accessNetwork and edge0%29 of 710%2under 10 labels · led by Cloudflare One at 35%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Teleport 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 Teleport across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.
ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500101
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash03104
Perplexity Sonar01012
Grok 4.1 Fast01001
Mistral Small02002
DeepSeek V4 Flash13004
Llama 4 Maverick00101
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K211002
GLM 4.7 FlashX01113
MiniMax M2.501203

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
Direct9 labels1
Paraphrase4 labelsNone
Comparative17 labelsNone
Budget-constrained18 labels5
Scale-constrained10 labels2
Negative8 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative66 labels in all, every segment counted; 8 of the 8 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 pick: If you have technical expertise, JumpServer or Teleport Community offer full-featured PAM for free.” Kimi K2 · PAM · budget prompt · first choice
“Tightest budget + technical team available → Teleport Community (free under their size limits)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · PAM · budget prompt · first choice
“Highly technical or software-driven companies where the main risk is developers/engineers accessing AWS, Kubernetes, and Databases.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · PAM · scale prompt · alternative
“Choose Teleport or StrongDM if your main problem is developer access to cloud infrastructure” Perplexity Sonar · 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.

“cloud-native tools if your organization mainly needs traditional enterprise PAM for shared admin accounts” Perplexity Sonar · PAM · negative prompt · soft negative
“Not a full PAM – limited credential vaulting and analytics.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · PAM · comparative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Teleport, over the 66 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Teleport was named but was not.
ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
KeeperPAM49 of 6623Not in the top three
ManageEngine PAM36046 of 668Not in the top three
Delinea44 of 665Not in the top three
CyberArk40 of 666Not in the top three
StrongDM38 of 661Not in the top three
BeyondTrust36 of 663Not in the top three
HashiCorp Vault14 of 660Not in the top three
Securden Unified PAM11 of 662Not in the top three
HashiCorp Boundary11 of 660Not in the top three
JumpCloud11 of 660Not 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 Teleport. 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 54 of the 66 answers that named Teleport and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

startwithidentity.com43
aimultiple.com32
expertinsights.com24
heimdalsecurity.com22
compliancestronghold.com17
gartner.com15
keepersecurity.com15
learn.g2.com15
pamcost.com15
thectoclub.com15

213 of the 213 domain citations in answers naming Teleport came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Teleport

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Teleport; a claim can dispute any of them.
Teleport Community Edition 3Teleport (Community Edition) 1Teleport OSS 1
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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Teleport's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Teleport, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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 teleport.io is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.

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