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Index › Vendors › TruffleHog · September 2026 Edition

2 categories · Named, not ranked

TruffleHog

4Judge labels

0First choices

2Negative labels

3 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.

Standing

3 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. TruffleHog was named 3 times in Secrets and 1 other category, where Doppler led with 33%. 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-market38 of 40

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In secrets · 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 TruffleHog 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
Secrets management	Identity and access	0%	38 of 40	100%	2	under 10 labels · led by Doppler at 33%
Data loss prevention	Security operations	0%	63 of 84	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Microsoft Purview DLP at 39%

Movement

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

Model	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
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	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	2
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

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative4 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.

No positive label carried a quote.

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.

“These are detection tools, not management tools... Relying solely on scanners leaves you vulnerable to "Secret Sprawl."” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Secrets · negative prompt · soft negative

“Do not use these as your primary management tool.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Secrets · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as TruffleHog, over the 4 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and TruffleHog was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Gitleaks3 of 40Not in the top three

HashiCorp Vault2 of 40Not in the top three

Microsoft Purview DLP1 of 41Not in the top three

Semgrep1 of 41Not in the top three

1Password1 of 40Not in the top three

AWS Secrets Manager1 of 40Not in the top three

AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store1 of 40Not in the top three

Bandit1 of 40Not in the top three

Bearer1 of 40Not in the top three

Bitwarden Secrets Manager1 of 40Not 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 TruffleHog. 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 4 answers that named TruffleHog and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

safeguard.sh3

blog.gitguardian.com2

capy.sc2

cheatsheetseries.owasp.org2

hashicorp.com2

medium.com2

nhimg.org2

paloaltonetworks.com2

reddit.com2

aembit.io1

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

Pages cited

blog.gitguardian.com/top-secrets-management-tools2

capy.sc/blog/best-secrets-management-tools-for-developers-20262

cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Secrets_Management_Cheat_Sheet.html2

medium.com/@jsocitblog/secrets-management-in-devops-dos-and-don-ts-2025-implementation-gui2

paloaltonetworks.com/blog/cloud-security/5-secrets-management-mistakes2

safeguard.sh/resources/blog/best-secrets-management-tools-20262

aembit.io/blog/beyond-secrets-managers-5-alternatives-for-securing-non-human-identities1

aicodereview.cc/blog/best-sast-tools1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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