3 categories · RankedOpenBao
OpenBao is an open source, community-driven secrets manager, a fork of Vault managed by the Linux Foundation's OpenSSF · openbao.org ↗
Why models recommend it
“Best on a tight budget: OpenBao—if your team can operate it. It's a free, self-hosted platform”GPT-6 Luna · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“A Linux Foundation-governed fork of Vault under the traditional MPL 2.0 license... widely seen as the "safe" open-source path forward.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Negative question · alternative
“OpenBao and SOPS, which are fully open-source and free but may require more development resources and complexity”Llama 4 Maverick · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Teams looking for open-source alternatives often evaluate OpenBao (the Linux Foundation fork of Vault)”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as OpenBao, over the 48 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 8 | View → | |
| 39 | 0 | View → | |
| 34 | 11 | View → | |
| 31 | 0 | View → | |
| 30 | 0 | View → | |
| 27 | 11 | View → | |
| 17 | 1 | View → | |
| 16 | 1 | View → | |
| 14 | 1 | View → | |
| 11 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of OpenBao →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on OpenBao's own site, not checked by Gane.
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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 46 of the 48 answers that named OpenBao and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
158 of the 158 domain citations in answers naming OpenBao 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 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 36 | 9 | 2026-08-18 | ||
| Report or ebook | 29 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 8 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 4 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-08-18Release v2 6 0 blog
- 2026-08-12Flux openbao secrets signatures blog
- 2026-08-06Features recursive list blog
- 2026-07-30Features declarative plugins blog
- 2026-07-27Karras os siemens 2026 talk blog
- 2026-07-21Features declarative configuration blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page openbao.org 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 September 29, 2026.