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# Vault

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> Secure, store and control access to tokens, passwords, certificates, encryption keys for protecting secrets and other sensitive data.
> 
> Verdict: Rated **4.8/5** by 9 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Overview

### Who Uses Vault?

Secure, store and tightly control access to tokens, passwords, certificates, encryption keys for protecting secrets and other sensitive data using a UI, CLI, or HTTP API.

## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **4.8/5** | 9 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: HashiCorp
- **Founded**: 2012

## Commercial Context

- **Starting Price**: US$1,00
- **Pricing model**:  (Free version available)
- **Pricing Details**: Vault includes a free trial and an open-source version. Contact HashiCorp for details about paid subscriptions.
- **Target Audience**: 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1 000, 1 001–5 000, 5 001–10 000, 10 000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Linux (Desktop), Windows (On-Premise), Linux (On-Premise)
- **Supported Languages**: English
- **Available Countries**: United States

## Features

- Access Controls/Permissions
- Application Access Control
- Compliance Management
- Credential Management
- Key Management
- Password Management
- Policy Management
- Remote Access Management

## Integrations (7 total)

- Chef Enterprise Automation Stack
- Circonus
- Datadog
- GitHub
- Google Cloud
- Microsoft Azure
- Okta

## Support Options

- Email/Help Desk
- Knowledge Base
- Phone Support
- 24/7 (Live rep)

## Category

- [Network Security Software](https://www.capterra.co.za/directory/30003/network-security/software)

## Related Categories

- [Network Security Software](https://www.capterra.co.za/directory/30003/network-security/software)
- [Privileged Access Management Software](https://www.capterra.co.za/directory/31238/privileged-access-management/software)
- [Encryption Software](https://www.capterra.co.za/directory/30209/encryption/software)

## Alternatives

1. [Okta](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/119653/okta) — 4.7/5 (930 reviews)
2. [Bitwarden](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/210695/bitwarden) — 4.7/5 (213 reviews)
3. [Admin By Request](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/1049624/admin-by-request) — 4.9/5 (68 reviews)
4. [Microsoft Entra ID](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/219692/azure-active-directory) — 4.7/5 (55 reviews)
5. [BeyondTrust Remote Support](https://www.capterra.co.za/software/86962/bomgar) — 4.6/5 (2009 reviews)

## Reviews

### "Great product, best API out there and simple to deploy" — 5.0/5

> **Sam** | *13 January 2025* | Airlines/Aviation | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10
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> **Pros**: The most usable password management system I've used, best API too very intuitive.
> 
> **Cons**: Sometimes doesn't feel as robust as other solutions, you can really tell the quality between a robust product and something any less. Sometimes errors are returned needing a refresh.
> 
> Overall great, easiest to deploy and a great API making integration working well.

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### "Industry standard vault for secrets storage and management" — 5.0/5

> **Ionut Alexandru** | *07 December 2023* | Broadcast Media | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Has both API, terminal and UI acces, is easy to setup in every cloud as product and on-premise, license is still admisible and is easy to build and integrate with products and DevOps tools.
> 
> **Cons**: Its backup can ba a bit simpler, it think is overcomplicated.
> 
> My experience are both setup a Vault solution and storage and consume between system and user, intragrate with clouds for OIDC SSO.

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### "Very useful for data management" — 4.0/5

> **Carla** | *08 July 2021* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Vault allows users to monitor and control their work.
> 
> **Cons**: Nothing special to mention. Overall it is a great software

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### "Great addon for secrets management in pipelines." — 5.0/5

> **Mo** | *15 February 2022* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: I use vault for secrets management Jenkins pipelines which was really easy to setup and test retrieval with the vault plugin.  We can separate secrets in different directories and add RBAC so admins can only read
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> **Cons**: Will like to have a Hashicorp plugin in the Azure DevOps marketplace for easier integration.

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### "Vault - A Secret Management Tool" — 4.0/5

> **Sakshi** | *08 October 2022* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: First of all it's easy to use, and it integrates with several applications like Bitbucket(source code management),GitHub,Jenkins etc. One can use vault to store credentials, auths, tokens, certificates..Vault provide a secure environment to the credentials and there is no chances of hacking.Best secret management tool.
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> **Cons**: There is no such disadvantage/dislike for Vault. I personally feel setup is little bit difficult for vault.Also the UI could be better.Else everything is good\!\!
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> Vault is definitely a great tool for secret storage.It helps me alot to store the credentials of many repositories from Bitbucket. It solves my problem of keeping the useful secrets safe also vault provide a good feature to retrieve the secrets which are already stored in vault.

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