# Age: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 1 judge label across 1 category by 1 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/age

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Secrets management](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/identity/secrets-management/index.md) | 0% | 21 | 0% | 1 |

## What the models said for it

- "combined with AWS KMS/GCP KMS/Age (encrypts only values, keeping keys readable for Git diffs)" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, Secrets)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Age, from 1 of the 1 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- akeyless.io: 1
- envmanager.com: 1
- havenmessenger.com: 1
- infisical.com: 1
- news.ycombinator.com: 1
- passwork.pro: 1
- reddit.com: 1
- rewind.com: 1
- startwithidentity.com: 1

### Pages cited

- https://akeyless.io/blog/best-secret-management-tools: 1
- https://envmanager.com/blog/best-secrets-management-tools: 1
- https://havenmessenger.com/blog/posts/encrypted-git-repositories-compared: 1
- https://infisical.com/blog/open-source-secrets-management-devops: 1
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item: 1
- https://passwork.pro/blog/how-to-manage-devops-secrets-and-credentials: 1
- https://reddit.com/r/devops/comments/15zw4dp/so_what_are_you_all_using_for_secret_management: 1
- https://rewind.com/blog/git-security-issues-watch-out-for: 1

## 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.