Certificate lifecycle management · RankedZeroSSL
ZeroSSL is a certificate lifecycle management product used to automate and monitor SSL certificates · zerossl.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Sectigo Certificate Manager is first at 35%.
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Why models recommend it
“Provides a free tier and is suitable for small teams or those just starting with certificate management”Mistral Small · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Very low cost | Simple TLS certificate management with automation”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Public Web Certs Only | ZeroSSL | Free tier available”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“ZeroSSL or SSL.com (G2 high-rated, affordable managed)”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as ZeroSSL, over the 44 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 20 | View → | |
| 22 | 1 | View → | |
| 20 | 2 | View → | |
| 20 | 1 | View → | |
| 19 | 0 | View → | |
| 17 | 2 | View → | |
| 15 | 2 | View → | |
| 14 | 1 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → | |
| 12 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on ZeroSSL's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- For Anyone
- Price stated
- free
- Starting price
- 0
- Free plan or trial
- Free SSL certificates issued instantly online
- Customers named
- Metabase, Ugreen, Rakuten
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 44 of the 44 answers that named ZeroSSL and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
175 of the 197 domain citations in answers naming ZeroSSL came from a third party's page. Twenty-two 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 | 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 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 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 4 | 3 | 2026-09-14 | ||
| Comparison | 2 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 2 | 1 | 2026-07-07 |
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How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page zerossl.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. Read October 5, 2026.