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HashiCorp Vault vs Pulumi Enterprise comparison

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Categories and Ranking

HashiCorp Vault
Ranking in Secrets Management Tools
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
28
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Password Managers (4th)
Pulumi Enterprise
Ranking in Secrets Management Tools
5th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
AI Infrastructure (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Secrets Management Tools category, the mindshare of HashiCorp Vault is 6.2%, down from 10.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Pulumi Enterprise is 0.5%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Secrets Management Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
HashiCorp Vault6.2%
Pulumi Enterprise0.5%
Other93.3%
Secrets Management Tools
 

Featured Reviews

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.
Shrenik Jobanputra - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps engineer at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees
Infrastructure as code has streamlined AWS deployments and now automates secure resource management
We had an issue once with Pulumi Enterprise versioning where one of the versions didn't work for us. I had to downgrade the Pulumi Enterprise version to make things work. I suggest ensuring that the higher versions of Pulumi Enterprise always work without issues. When the Pulumi Enterprise seminars and webinars happen, they're always dedicated to other time zones. Having a time zone for Australia Perth time would be nice because all the seminars are always at 2:00 a.m. in the morning for me at Perth or maybe after 5:00 p.m. or before 8:00 a.m. would be ideal. I enjoy attending the Pulumi Enterprise seminars, but they're just at odd times.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution is stable. It has been working perfectly without any problem."
"It is user-friendly and easy to implement from any application point."
"It is a good product to consider for companies who are looking to build on-premise or hybrid infrastructure."
"The benefits from HashiCorp Vault include significant advantages in security lifecycle management itself."
"The most valuable feature of HashiCorp Vault is the management of tickets in the pipeline."
"In my opinion, the best features with HashiCorp Vault are that it works as one solution providing security across all the clouds."
"HashiCorp Vault has reduced the workload regarding rotating secrets and securely managing them."
"The feature I find most beneficial in HashiCorp Vault is the secret engine. It integrates smoothly with many applications, making it easy to set up and implement quickly. This allows you to test it easily and see good results rapidly. When you integrate an internal API or application, it quickly manages that application's secrets."
"Pulumi Enterprise has impacted my organization positively because before Pulumi, we did not have any real infrastructure as code, and having multiple environments and AWS accounts that we needed to manage was difficult."
"Pulumi Enterprise is a very complete tool and it helps us a lot in our day-to-day work."
"Pulumi Enterprise has had a positive impact on my organization in terms of agility, standardization, and governance in the infrastructure-as-code area."
"If you have a complex infrastructure or a big team, start using Pulumi Enterprise without any second thought."
"Before using Pulumi Enterprise, our deployment time was between thirty minutes to an hour, and now we can change anything in our cloud environment in just a few minutes, like two or three minutes, generally reducing time by about sixty to seventy percent."
"Pulumi Enterprise has allowed us to be much more confident in the code changes that we are actually deploying and releasing, and, as an example, we're now unit testing all of our Pulumi Enterprise infrastructure as part of the CI pipeline, so we know quite confidently that the change is actually going to be successful before it's been deployed, which has been hugely beneficial for us."
"Pulumi Enterprise has impacted my organization positively as it is a modern infrastructure as code tool that helps us manage resources efficiently and reduce delivery time."
"Pulumi Enterprise positively impacts my organization as it enables us to manage stacks across different environments."
 

Cons

"HashiCorp Vault is quite complex to use for new users and has a steep learning curve; I would consider the tool very good for highly advanced teams who manage huge numbers of credentials, but it's probably not very appropriate for smaller teams with maybe less experience using vaults such as this."
"I think HashiCorp Vault could improve by being a little bit more accommodating to startup companies for providing access and helping them understand the value of the tools."
"There could be a plugin for the database to change the secret automatically. It would be an efficient feature for password security."
"The ACLs within HashiCorp Vault, such as policies and AppRole authentication, were not intuitive at first."
"The documentation is very general; it should have more examples and more use cases."
"We could use more documentation, primarily to do with integrations."
"One of the challenges we had was that we used a really old version, so part of what we plan for this year is to migrate it to at least a supported version."
"In terms of features, the only thing that I found a little bit hinky was that there was no revocation or deletion on the model we were using. Once in a financial year, a client interacts, and you pay for that client for the year. So, there are just little things like that in the pricing. There should be more clarity around the end of the key. I know there is no system like this. They all are the same. I tested Microsoft, Google, and some others, and none of them really want you to delete a key, which makes sense. You delete a key, and you lose everything that it has wrapped or encrypted, but it's actually just a language. Deletion isn't really deletion. It's really revocation, but overall, HashiCorp Vault ticked all the boxes for us, and I couldn't fault it."
"Pulumi Enterprise's scalability is limited as it is not particularly scalable. You should keep the project relatively small to avoid simultaneous Pulumi runs."
"We had an issue once with Pulumi Enterprise versioning where one of the versions didn't work for us. I had to downgrade the Pulumi Enterprise version to make things work."
"I have not seen any specific outcome or benefit that I have measured so far, such as saving time, reducing errors, or helping my team in a measurable way."
"Additionally, I sometimes struggle to see what we are paying for; we use Enterprise, but does the money justify what you are being offered when you have Terraform for free which offers a majority of the features already?"
"Additionally, I think the modules part is a bit weak."
"Pulumi Enterprise can be improved by providing much better support rather than relying solely on AI."
"Pulumi Enterprise has some issues worth mentioning. The stacks can grow and the execution time appears to grow exponentially when the number of resources increases."
"There should be more investment in building a stronger community around Pulumi Enterprise, as the Pulumi Enterprise community is not that strong compared to its capabilities."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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 product is expensive."
"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."
"I am using the open-source version of Vault and I would have to buy a license if I want to get support."
"The solution's cost is reasonable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
Construction Company
14%
Retailer
14%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Consumer Goods Company
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise17
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise5
 

Questions from the Community

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...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pulumi Enterprise?
My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing was very good for the team we had. For the team size, it suited us perfectly.
What needs improvement with Pulumi Enterprise?
Regarding improvements for Pulumi Enterprise, it would be beneficial to move a Pulumi-generated plan from an experimental feature to general availability. It works, but I don't feel confident when ...
What is your primary use case for Pulumi Enterprise?
My main use case for Pulumi Enterprise is that it is an infrastructure as code tool. We're slowly importing legacy infrastructure and creating all new infrastructure with Pulumi. A quick specific e...
 

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Sample Customers

Adobe, SAP Ariba, Citadel, Spaceflight, Cruise
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