4 categories · RankedDelinea Secret Server
Delinea Secret Server is a privileged access management product that protects privileged accounts with a credential vault, automatic discovery and password changing, custom approval workflows, and full auditing · delinea.com ↗
Strongest at mid-market, contested with ManageEngine PAM360. Ranked 6 of 85 for small business buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
KeeperPAM is first at 39%.
Ranked first, contested: ManageEngine PAM360 has 22%. 8 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
CyberArk Privileged Access Manager is first at 51%.
Why models recommend it
“Delinea Secret Server is the top recommendation due to its strong mid-market focus, ease of use, and robust feature set”Mistral Small · Paraphrase question · first choice
“I recommend Delinea Secret Server (now part of the Delinea PAM platform) as the top choice in most scenarios.”Grok 4.20 · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Strong for mid-market; good JIT, session monitoring, hybrid support. Often praised for usability and pricing.”Grok 4.20 · Scale-constrained question · first choice
“Delinea Secret Server is the most popular and practical choice for mid-market B2B companies”Mistral Small · Direct question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Be cautious with: BeyondTrust and Delinea specifically due to recent active exploitation patterns”Kimi K2 · Negative question · warning
“Delinea had 9 vulnerabilities in 2026 alone with an average severity score of 9.3/10”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
“Has a 60% negative rating, raising red flags about its reliability or effectiveness.”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
“Caution point: The risk is concentrated on on-premises Secret Server. Delinea's advisories state the issues affect on-premises deployments only.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Delinea Secret Server, over the 226 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 150 | 49 | View → | |
| 143 | 13 | Compare → | |
| 100 | 18 | Compare → | |
| 83 | 28 | Compare → | |
| 78 | 9 | View → | |
| 61 | 1 | View → | |
| 56 | 0 | View → | |
| 44 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 34 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 31 | 7 | View → |
What the models named instead of Delinea Secret Server →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Delinea Secret Server's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Secret Server on-premise customers
- Price stated
- Contact us for pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Your 30-day free Secret Server trial includes: Credential vault, customized user roles, full auditing; Automatic discovery and password changing, including service accounts; Custom approval workflows, powerful API, and enterprise-level security; Access for 10 users
- Customers named
- Stewart Title Company
- Also from Delinea
- Delinea ITP, Delinea Identity Threat Protection
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 197 of the 226 answers that named Delinea Secret Server and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
407 of the 514 domain citations in answers naming Delinea Secret Server came from a third party's page. Forty were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 9 |
| Mistral Small | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 8 |