# Privileged access management for enterprise buyers: what AI models recommend, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Asked as "privileged access management platform" and as "PAM tool", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/identity/privileged-access-management/2026-11/enterprise

**Standing:** CyberArk Privileged Access Manager leads with 51% of first choices; verdict clear leader. 51 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [CyberArk Privileged Access Manager](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/cyberark-privileged-access-manager/index.md) | 51% | 29% | 73 |
| 2 | [ManageEngine PAM360](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/manageengine-pam360/index.md) | 18% | 13% | 31 |
| 3 | [BeyondTrust](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/beyondtrust/index.md) | 12% | 14% | 69 |
| 4 | [Delinea Secret Server](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/delinea-secret-server/index.md) | 10% | 16% | 69 |
| 5 | [KeeperPAM](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/keeperpam/index.md) | 4% | 11% | 18 |
| 6 | [One Identity Safeguard](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/one-identity-safeguard/index.md) | 2% | 13% | 30 |
| 9 | [Teleport](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/teleport/index.md) | 0% | 6% | 18 |
| 10 | [HashiCorp Vault](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/hashicorp-vault/index.md) | 0% | 14% | 22 |
| 17 | [Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/microsoft-entra-privileged-identity-management/index.md) | 0% | 33% | 15 |
| 20 | [WALLIX Bastion](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/wallix-bastion/index.md) | 0% | 25% | 16 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 70 products named; products with the same share are tied, and the order among them carries no meaning. The table lists those with at least 10 labels.

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: no first choice
- GPT-5.4 mini: CyberArk Privileged Access Manager; alternatives BeyondTrust, Delinea Secret Server
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: CyberArk Privileged Access Manager; alternatives BeyondTrust, Delinea Secret Server, HashiCorp Vault, Teleport
- Perplexity Sonar: CyberArk Privileged Access Manager; alternatives BeyondTrust, Delinea Secret Server
- Grok 4.20: CyberArk Privileged Access Manager; alternatives BeyondTrust, Delinea Secret Server
- Mistral Small: CyberArk Privileged Access Manager; alternatives BeyondTrust, ManageEngine PAM360
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: CyberArk Privileged Access Manager; alternatives BeyondTrust, Delinea Secret Server
- Llama 4 Maverick: CyberArk Privileged Access Manager; alternatives BeyondTrust, Gatekeeper, Heimdal Privileged Access Management, ManageEngine PAM360
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: CyberArk Privileged Access Manager; alternatives BeyondTrust, Delinea Secret Server
- Kimi K2: CyberArk Privileged Access Manager; alternatives BeyondTrust, Delinea Secret Server
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: CyberArk Privileged Access Manager; alternatives BeyondTrust, Delinea Secret Server
- MiniMax M2.5: BeyondTrust; alternatives CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Delinea Secret Server
- GPT-6 Luna: BeyondTrust; alternatives CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, Delinea Secret Server, Palo Alto Networks
- Muse Glimmer 30B: CyberArk Privileged Access Manager; alternatives BeyondTrust, Delinea Secret Server

## Sources the answers cite

74 of 84 answers came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- securityboulevard.com: 30 answers, 37 citations
- ciopages.com: 25 answers, 27 citations
- beyondtrust.com: 23 answers, 28 citations
- aimultiple.com: 22 answers, 22 citations
- delinea.com: 21 answers, 38 citations
- manageengine.com: 20 answers, 25 citations
- research.oz.spotlightar.com: 20 answers, 21 citations
- startwithidentity.com: 18 answers, 20 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://aimultiple.com/pam-solutions (22 answers)
- https://securityboulevard.com/2026/10/the-top-7-pam-vendors-and-alternatives-in-2026 (22 answers)
- https://ciopages.com/buyer-guides/privileged-access-management (18 answers)
- https://research.oz.spotlightar.com/reports/magic-quadrant-privileged-access-management-2024/leaders (18 answers)
- https://akeyless.io/blog/top-pam-solutions-for-enterprise-environments (14 answers)
- https://expertinsights.com/identity-and-access-management/the-top-privileged-access-management-pam-solutions (14 answers)
- https://decryptiondigest.com/blog/pam-solutions-enterprise-buyers-guide-2026 (10 answers)
- https://netwrix.com/en/resources/blog/pam-solutions (10 answers)
- https://ciopages.com/buyer-guides/privileged-identity-cloud (9 answers)
- https://turnkeyconsulting.com/resources/blog/idira-vs-delinea-vs-beyondtrust-which-pam-platform-is-right-for-your-organization (9 answers)

## Warned against

- CyberArk Privileged Access Manager: 21 of 73 labels negative. "Avoid: CyberArk if cost predictability is your top priority — its component-based licensing and high implementation costs make TTO ... difficult to forecast." (Kimi K2, budget prompt)
- Delinea Secret Server: 11 of 69 labels negative. "Caution Level: HIGH ... four critical Secret Server vulnerabilities, including an authentication-bypass flaw rated CVSS 9.8" (Kimi K2, negative prompt)
- BeyondTrust: 10 of 69 labels negative. "Avoid the large enterprise PAM leaders (CyberArk, BeyondTrust, Delinea)" (MiniMax M2.5, budget prompt)
- Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management: 5 of 15 labels negative. "good if your needs are mostly Microsoft-centric, but it is usually not enough by itself for a full enterprise PAM program" (GPT-5.4 mini, direct prompt)

## Movement since October 2026

Floor: 11 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
Same leader: CyberArk Privileged Access Manager at 51%.

- ManageEngine PAM360: 12% to 18%, +6. Inside the floor by 5 points · rank 2 of 70, unchanged.
- CyberArk Privileged Access Manager: 56% to 51%, −5. Inside the floor by 6 points · rank 1 of 70, unchanged.
- BeyondTrust: 10% to 12%, +2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 3 of 70, unchanged.
- Delinea Secret Server: 8% to 10%, +2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 4 of 70, unchanged.
- One Identity Safeguard: 0% to 2%, +2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 15 → 6 of 70.
- StrongDM: 2% to 0%, −2. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 7 → 12 of 70.
- KeeperPAM: 4% to 4%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 5 of 70, unchanged.
- Teleport: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 9 of 70, unchanged.
- HashiCorp Vault: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 19 → 10 of 70.
- Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 12 → 17 of 70.
- WALLIX Bastion: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 30 → 20 of 70.

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.