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BeyondTrust DevOps Secrets Safe vs HashiCorp Vault comparison

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Categories and Ranking

BeyondTrust DevOps Secrets ...
Ranking in Enterprise Password Managers
21st
Ranking in Secrets Management Tools
9th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Privileged Access Management (PAM) (35th)
HashiCorp Vault
Ranking in Enterprise Password Managers
4th
Ranking in Secrets Management Tools
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
28
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Enterprise Password Managers category, the mindshare of BeyondTrust DevOps Secrets Safe is 1.7%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of HashiCorp Vault is 4.7%, down from 9.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Enterprise Password Managers Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
HashiCorp Vault4.7%
BeyondTrust DevOps Secrets Safe1.7%
Other93.6%
Enterprise Password Managers
 

Featured Reviews

Stephen Hui - PeerSpot reviewer
Cybersecurity Architect at DataAssure
Has all necessary functionalities, is sophisticated and mature; still contains some bugs
There are still some bugs in the solution but a lot less than there used to be. Unfortunately, CyberArk and BeyondTrust are in fierce competition. Many customers have already adopted CyberArk, but they need a proven remote access solution and are likely to go with BeyondTrust. Both solutions can be used, it's just more work for IT to manage them. CyberArk is still leading the market share globally, and BeyondTrust is always classified second, followed by Delinea or Thycotic.
Manish Indupuri - PeerSpot reviewer
senior DevOps engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Centralized secret management has strengthened security and simplified compliance across cloud-native environments
Configuring HashiCorp Vault since we are mainly using it in Kubernetes or OpenShift clusters took some time and effort to align with our deployment. The initial setup can be a little confusing and complex for someone who is newer. However, it is not impossible to achieve, but it will take some time to understand the product. The ACLs within HashiCorp Vault, such as policies and AppRole authentication, were not intuitive at first. However, we slowly became habituated to the product once we began using it. Once we moved past the learning curve of these challenges, HashiCorp Vault becomes a critical security layer of our workloads. The only minor challenge is the initial setup complexity, especially for teams new to HashiCorp Vault's authentication methods and storage backends. Other than that, it works flawlessly.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The most valuable features of BeyondTrust DevOps Secrets Safe are the ease of use and the API is very nice. Additionally, the interface is very good between AD and Unix."
"Secrets Safe is highly scalable without interruptions to the current infrastructure."
"The local administrator can manage all the user's logins in one, simple, straight-away account access. Additionally, the solution is user-friendly."
"They've done a great job implementing all possible features; it's the best tool there is and no competitors come close to the level of sophistication and maturity of the product."
"A sophisticated and mature solution."
"DevOps Secrets Safe allows you to customize a lot of rules."
"BeyondTrust DevOps Secrets Safe has made companies a lot safer."
"For me, the most valuable features include that it's easy to manage and maintain the password API for retrieving passwords and other things."
"The product is free and easy to use. It is well documented with an easy implementation process."
"HashiCorp Vault has positively impacted my organization by streamlining access and secret management."
"HashiCorp Vault has given strong value in terms of compliance, automation, and security hygiene—it eliminated hard-coded secrets in our code and pipelines, and it simplified secret rotation via automation, so we did not need manual credential updates."
"In my opinion, the best features with HashiCorp Vault are that it works as one solution providing security across all the clouds."
"It's stable. I would rate the stability a nine out of ten."
"HashiCorp Vault has positively impacted my organization because several teams use it in the same way for an automated process with GitHub Actions or other pipeline tools."
"We were using it because we have compliance requirements around secret management. Having a secure vault and encrypting data was an additional requirement. When we looked at it first, we were just looking for a vault, like a lockbox. The greatest benefit of HashiCorp is its ability to manage encryption on the fly. It provides encryption of data at rest, in use, in transit, on the fly, and linked with applications, which was really attractive."
 

Cons

"BeyondTrust DevOps Secrets Safe stability in the AD Bridge has been not good, we have had many issues."
"We had some issues with the solution and once we contacted support they eventually solved the problem. They could improve their response time."
"The solution is relatively stable, but not all bugs have been fixed."
"The support for the solution is not very good, they could improve by being quicker."
"You need to improvise many of the customized rules, which can lead to some errors. BeyondTrust should reduce the error rate."
"The product contains some bugs."
"The documentation is very general; it should have more examples and more use cases."
"A drawback for some clients who have to be PCI compliant is that they still need to use and subscribe to an HSM (Hardware Security Module) solution."
"I would rate the stability a six out of ten. There are some bugs and glitches. We are in touch with the vendor to resolve them."
"In my opinion, HashiCorp Vault could improve its user interface. Right now, they don't offer much in terms of a graphical interface, which means you usually have to manage things manually through API calls. I think CyberArk has a better approach because it provides a UI that integrates features across all its components, making it easier, especially for new users or those from organizations with strict licensing policies."
"An improvement needed is the ability for auto-initialization. There should be an inbuilt option for automatic initialization rather than running it manually."
"We could use more documentation, primarily to do with integrations."
"There could be a plugin for the database to change the secret automatically. It would be an efficient feature for password security."
"Setting up HashiCorp Vault can present operational challenges because deploying it involves complex initial setup, especially for a highly available cluster with integrated storage, auto-unseal, disaster recovery, and multi-authentication methods."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is an annual license required to use BeyondTrust DevOps Secrets Safe."
"In my case, the open-source version works well. It's advisable for small to medium-scale organizations, but for large-scale organizations, you should go with the enterprise version."
"The AWS version is much cheaper than HashiCorp Vault."
"It could do everything we wanted it to do and it is brilliant, but it is super pricey. To be fair to HashiCorp, we drove the price up with our requirements around resiliency. Because of the nature of our company, we don't really operate in the cloud."
"The solution's cost is reasonable."
"The product is expensive."
"I am using the open-source version of Vault and I would have to buy a license if I want to get support."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
28%
Comms Service Provider
11%
Construction Company
9%
University
7%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Outsourcing Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise17
 

Questions from the Community

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Which is better - HashiCorp Vault or AWS Secrets Manager?
HashiCorp Vault was designed with your needs in mind. One of the features that makes this evident is its ability to work as both a cloud-agnostic and a multi-cloud solution. As a cloud-agnostic sol...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for HashiCorp Vault?
The pricing setup cost for HashiCorp Vault is quite expensive, especially if you consider it against native, cloud-native equivalent tooling. So within GCP, I'm thinking about Secret Manager, AWS S...
What needs improvement with HashiCorp Vault?
Setting up HashiCorp Vault can present operational challenges because deploying it involves complex initial setup, especially for a highly available cluster with integrated storage, auto-unseal, di...
 

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