1 category · RankedZeroSSL
Standing by category
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Certificate lifecycle management | Identity and access | 0% | 32 of 104 | 25% | 12 | criticized challenger |
Movement
By model
How each model treated ZeroSSL 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 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
By framing
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Certify The Web or ZeroSSL are also cited as lower-cost options for smaller teams” Perplexity Sonar · Certificate management · budget prompt · alternative
“Best for: Free/low-cost option with more features than Let's Encrypt” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Certificate management · paraphrase prompt · alternative
“ZeroSSL or TrackSSL for affordable monitoring” MiniMax M2.5 · 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.
“Avoid budget options like ZeroSSL for anything beyond simple web certs.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Certificate management · negative prompt · hard negative
“be cautious—while the basic management tool is often free, you still need to pay for the actual certificates themselves” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Certificate management · budget prompt · soft negative
“ZeroSSL is described as a low-friction entry if you just need ACME issuance and simple renewal tracking” Muse Glimmer 30B · Certificate management · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as ZeroSSL, over the 48 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and ZeroSSL 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 47 of the 48 answers that named ZeroSSL and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
237 of the 237 domain citations in answers naming ZeroSSL came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
zerossl.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, ZeroSSL takes 0% of first choices and Sectigo Certificate Manager takes 27%.ShowHide
Search and answers
In search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 1,600 a month (“zerossl”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 26 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 9,820 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 1,086 · 58 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 3,731
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This edition- First choices
- 4 across its categories
- Named in
- 48 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 47 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 | 4 | 3 | 2026-09-14 | ||
| Comparison | 2 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 2 | 1 | 2026-07-07 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-1447 day certificates why automation cant wait blog
- 2026-09-02How to automate ssl certificate renewal blog
- 2026-07-07What is wildcard ssl certificate glossary or explainer
- 2026-07-07Is your free ssl certificate still enough blog
- 2026-07-06The 6 most common ssl certificate providers compared blog
- 2026-07-06What is nginx proxy glossary or explainer
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page zerossl.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. Read October 5, 2026.
Names read as ZeroSSL
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The company
ZeroSSL is its own company.ShowHide
The company
In its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Free SSL Certificates and SSL Tools
- For
- For Anyone
- Price stated
- free zerossl.com
- Starting price
- 0 zerossl.com/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Free SSL certificates issued instantly online zerossl.com
- Customers named
- MetabaseUgreenRakuten
- Not stated on the pages read
- Integrations, certifications, hosting
What ZeroSSL's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: zerossl.com, zerossl.com/pricing, zerossl.com/features/acme. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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 ZeroSSL'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 ZeroSSL, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for ZeroSSL by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where ZeroSSL 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 ZeroSSL, 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.