Secrets Management ads in ChatGPT
Ads shown in ChatGPT conversations about Secrets Management. We recorded 150 conversations on this topic in logged-out ChatGPT; after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed 148 ads from 47 advertisers. Most often shown: Infisical, Bitwarden and getastra.com.
Our captureLogged-out ChatGPT, USOct 3–4, 2026
Advertisers shown in Secrets Management conversations
top 25 of 47Ranked by how many of the conversations on this topic ended with their ad on screen; share of the 148 shown ads.
| # | Advertiser | Ads shown | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Infisical | 37 | 25.0% |
| 2 | Bitwarden | 9 | 6.1% |
| 3 | getastra.com | 7 | 4.7% |
| 4 | Ironclad | 7 | 4.7% |
| 5 | CircleCI | 5 | 3.4% |
| 6 | Edge Delta | 5 | 3.4% |
| 7 | Elastic | 5 | 3.4% |
| 8 | password-depot.de | 5 | 3.4% |
| 9 | Akeyless Security | 4 | 2.7% |
| 10 | Blacksmith Software | 4 | 2.7% |
| 11 | Zaden Technologies | 4 | 2.7% |
| 12 | IOmergent | 3 | 2.0% |
| 13 | ManageEngine | 3 | 2.0% |
| 14 | Netwrix | 3 | 2.0% |
| 15 | nOps | 3 | 2.0% |
| 16 | North.cloud | 3 | 2.0% |
| 17 | ScaleOps | 3 | 2.0% |
| 18 | Amplify Security | 2 | 1.4% |
| 19 | Aura Consolidated Group | 2 | 1.4% |
| 20 | Codacy | 2 | 1.4% |
| 21 | Coder | 2 | 1.4% |
| 22 | Datadog | 2 | 1.4% |
| 23 | Finout LTE | 2 | 1.4% |
| 24 | gttb.com | 2 | 1.4% |
| 25 | Sentinel One | 2 | 1.4% |
22 more advertisers shared the other 22 shown ads.
Ad formats
| Format | Ads shown | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Text ad (advertiser name and headline) | 148 | 100.0% |
| Shopping ad (product name and price) | 0 | 0.0% |
Example ads
12 adsDistinct ads as shown (ignoring capitalization), most frequent first, one per advertiser where possible.
- InfisicalText ad
Want to self-host secrets?
Shown 31 times
- BitwardenText ad
Bitwarden
Shown 7 times
- password-depot.deText ad
AceBIT GmbH
Für Teams gedacht
Shown 5 times
- Blacksmith SoftwareText ad
Faster GitHub Actions Runners
Shown 4 times
- Zaden TechnologiesText ad
AI Cloud Security
Shown 4 times
- getastra.comText ad
Astra Security
Autonomous Pentesting
Shown 4 times
- Akeyless SecurityText ad
Enterprise Secrets Management, Simplified
Shown 4 times
- ElasticText ad
AI that asks before it acts
Shown 4 times
- CircleCIText ad
Try CircleCI Free Today
Shown 3 times
- IOmergentText ad
Managed Cloud Security Without the Complexity
Shown 3 times
- Edge DeltaText ad
AI SRE. ZDR-grade privacy.
Shown 3 times
- IroncladText ad
Contract Data Encryption for IT
Shown 3 times
Example conversations
12 examplesChosen to cover different advertisers and question types. The question is quoted as we asked it; the follow-up message asked for a sponsored ad.
In a conversation that began “azure key vault pricing per operation”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from nOps.
Text ad: “High Cloud Costs? Surprise”
Price question · Oct 3, 23:06 ET
In a conversation that began “best secrets management for msps”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from Ironclad.
Text ad: “Contract ISO 27001 Compliance for IT”
Best for question · Oct 3, 23:18 ET
In a conversation that began “our kubernetes clusters store secrets as base64 in git, what's the best way to fix that for a team of 12 devops engineers?”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from ScaleOps.
Text ad: “Infrastructure That Optimizes Itself.”
Long scenario question · Oct 3, 23:18 ET
In a conversation that began “which secrets management tool is best for a company running hundreds of microservices on kubernetes across aws and gcp”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from Datadog.
Text ad: “Your Kubernetes Guide”
Best for question · Oct 4, 05:19 ET
In a conversation that began “how should we handle secrets for local development so developers aren't copying production keys”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from Akeyless Security.
Text ad: “Enterprise Secrets Management, Simplified”
Fix or choose question · Oct 4, 02:05 ET
In a conversation that began “external secrets operator not syncing fix”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from Amplify Security.
Text ad: “Get findings fixed”
Fix or choose question · Oct 3, 23:28 ET
In a conversation that began “doppler vs infisical for startups”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from Blacksmith Software.
Text ad: “Faster GitHub Actions Runners”
Comparison question · Oct 3, 23:12 ET
In a conversation that began “is gitguardian worth it if github secret scanning is already turned on”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from GitGuardian.
Text ad: “What GitGuardian Does”
Worth it question · Oct 4, 05:43 ET
In a conversation that began “gitguardian vs trufflehog comparison”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from getastra.com.
Text ad: “Autonomous Pentesting”
Comparison question · Oct 4, 02:01 ET
In a conversation that began “is there a secrets manager under $10 per user per month that supports rotation and audit logs”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from Infisical.
Text ad: “Want to self-host secrets?”
Price question · Oct 4, 03:39 ET
In a conversation that began “a developer pushed a stripe key to a public github repo last week, what scanning and secrets tools should a 40 person team put in place?”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from password-depot.de.
Text ad: “Für Teams gedacht”
Long scenario question · Oct 4, 05:30 ET
In a conversation that began “is hashicorp vault worth it”, after the follow-up message, ChatGPT showed an ad from Codacy.
Text ad: “Nearing ISO 27001 Audit?”
Worth it question · Oct 3, 23:26 ET
Question types
How the conversations on this topic were asked, and how many of the shown ads came from each kind.
| Question type | Ads shown | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | 30 | 20.3% |
| Comparison | 23 | 15.5% |
| Price | 23 | 15.5% |
| Fix or choose | 20 | 13.5% |
| Long scenario | 22 | 14.9% |
| Short search | 15 | 10.1% |
| Worth it | 15 | 10.1% |
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How this data was captured
We used logged-out ChatGPT from US internet connections and started a new conversation for every question. Message 1 was the question. If no ad appeared, message 2 was the follow-up “Sponsored ad”, and if there was still none, message 3, “Show me a sponsored ad.”, was a last try. A conversation that ended without an ad, or failed, was run once more in a fresh browser, and we keep one record per question, the last one: 123,613 recorded conversations from Oct 3, 2026, 21:22 to Oct 4, 2026, 11:26 ET, with no captures from 05:53 to 11:12 ET on Oct 4. Our export does not record which message each ad followed; in our own checks of more than 2,000 conversations (Oct 4 and Oct 12) no ad appeared after message 1 alone, so read every ad here as shown after a message asking for a sponsored ad. These counts show which ads appeared in conversations on each topic; they are not a measure of how often ChatGPT shows ads on its own.
Only ads drawn on screen count as shown. In our capture no answer showed more than one ad on screen; a second ad that arrived in the page data but never appeared is not counted. Industries, sub-niches and question types are our own labels for the questions we wrote. Independent; not affiliated with OpenAI. Full methodWhy this is not an ad rateWhat the ads looked like
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