Customer identity and access management · RankedKinde
Kinde provides auth, billing and access management for modern SaaS products · kinde.com ↗
Strongest at small business. Thin evidence at enterprise: one label.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Clerk is first at 23%.
Auth0 is first at 34%. 1 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Auth0 is first at 38%.
Why models recommend it
“For a company with limited budget, Kinde or miniOrange CIAM are excellent starting points due to their free tiers.”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“The best customer identity platform for a company with a limited budget is Kinde”Llama 4 Maverick · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“start with Kinde or miniOrange CIAM for their free or low-cost plans”Mistral Small · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“WorkOS and Kinde are the two most cited balanced choices.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Direct question · first choice
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Kinde, over the 42 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | 4 | Compare → | |
| 21 | 10 | Compare → | |
| 19 | 4 | View → | |
| 19 | 4 | Compare → | |
| 15 | 1 | View → | |
| 15 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 14 | 4 | Compare → | |
| 12 | 1 | View → | |
| 10 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 10 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Kinde →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Kinde's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- SaaS founders, product teams, and engineers
- Price stated
- Free plan; Starter $25 USD per month; Yearly $20 USD per month - pay $240 ($20 x 12 months)
- Starting price
- 0
- Free plan or trial
- Yes. Kinde’s Free plan includes up to 10,500 monthly active users with no credit card required.
- Certifications
- ISO 27001, HIPAA, SOC 2 Type II
- Customers named
- RiskTalk, Uncommon Purpose, Bitakora, DataTrue, HealthNow, Blackbird
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 40 of the 42 answers that named Kinde and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
143 of the 168 domain citations in answers naming Kinde came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glossary or explainer | 258 | 0 | 2025-08-11 | MFA, IaC | |
| Blog | 68 | 0 | 2025-09-08 | MFA | |
| News or press | 49 | 2 | 2026-08-31 | ||
| Comparison | 34 | 0 | 2026-03-19 | CIAM | |
| Case study | 19 | 1 | 2026-08-20 | CIAM | |
| Template or tool | 4 | 0 | 2025-08-11 | ||
| Conference or event | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-08-31Ann A7aBHjV6KmrxH news or press
- 2026-08-20Remittance go case study
- 2026-07-31Ann fiGrQ27vOVmj1 news or press
- 2026-06-30Ann FWLYbQinFhpwP news or press
- 2026-05-29Ann Sim3BQSnqEZuB news or press
- 2026-05-01Ann Ogc3ovHX2dVVc news or press
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page kinde.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. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.