# pass: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 3 judge labels across 1 category by 3 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/pass

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Secrets management](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/identity/secrets-management/index.md) | 0% | 60 | 100% | 3 |

## And against it

- "Standard GPG-based CLI Shared Repos (e.g., unmanaged `pass`)
* Status: Avoid for Team Environments" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, Secrets)
- "Secrets are only as secure as the password protecting the vault | Acceptable for small teams; lacks centralized audit and rotation" (GLM 4.7 FlashX, Secrets)
- "older ones like Pass/Gopass ... Newer tools may have smaller communities, fewer battle-tested features" (Grok 4.20, 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 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 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 | 1 | 1 |
| 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 pass, from 5 of the 5 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- infisical.com: 4
- cheatsheetseries.owasp.org: 3
- digital.va.gov: 3
- owaspsamm.org: 3
- security.muni.cz: 3
- akeyless.io: 2
- ceur-ws.org: 2
- g2.com: 2
- github.com: 2
- ibm.com: 2

### Pages cited

- https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Secrets_Management_Cheat_Sheet.html: 3
- https://owaspsamm.org/model/implementation/secure-deployment/stream-b: 3
- https://security.muni.cz/en/articles/guide-secrets-management: 3
- https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4042/paper19.pdf: 2
- https://digital.va.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Secrets-Management-EDP.pdf: 2
- https://digital.va.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Secrets-Management-ETG_12_2024.docx: 2
- https://ibm.com/think/topics/secrets-management-developers: 2
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OWASP/CheatSheetSeries/master/cheatsheets/Secrets_Management_Cheat_Sheet.md: 2

## 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.