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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Bitwarden

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/ABitwarden headquartered in Santa Barbara offers open source password management solutions for individuals, teams, and business organizations.

    $48

    per year per user

    IBM Vault

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/AIBM Vault (formerly Hashicorp Vault) is an encryption tool for managing secrets including credentials, passwords and other secrets, providing access control, audit trail, and support for multiple authentication methods. It is available open source, or under an enterprise license.

    $0.03

    Sectigo Certificate Manager

    N/AN/ASectigo Certificate Manager deploys and automates lifecycle management of PKI certificates across a range of enterprise use cases, including securing web and network resources, email security and encryption, identity, DevOps containers and code, and public cloud resources.N/A
    Pricing
    BitwardenIBM VaultSectigo Certificate Manager
    Editions & Modules
    Teams
    $4
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Enterprise
    $6
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Cloud - HCP Vault
    $0.03/hr
    Open Source
    Free
    Enterprise
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BitwardenIBM VaultSectigo Certificate Manager
    Free Trial
    YesNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    BitwardenIBM VaultSectigo Certificate Manager
    Considered Multiple Products
    Bitwarden
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    IBM
    Chose IBM Vault
    HashiCorp Vault integrates with a lot of tools and systems, and the documentation was pretty robust with a lot of community help. Because HashiCorp Vault is also older than other solutions, it is already well developed with a lot of features you need for storing secrets and …
    Incentivized
    Sectigo
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    BitwardenIBM VaultSectigo Certificate Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.7
    (8 ratings)
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.5
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    6.3
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BitwardenIBM VaultSectigo Certificate Manager
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Bitwarden
    Bitwarden supports various forms of two-factor authentication, including time-based one-time passwords (TOTP), Duo, YubiKey, and other hardware-based tokens. This integration enhances the security of the Bitwarden account and allows to store and manage their 2FA credentials for other applications within Bitwarden itself.
    Incentivized
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    IBM
    HashiCorp Vault, in my opinion, is a defacto standard for any cloud or automation implementation. They're the best of the best as far as products for secrets management and the ability to use it against relatively any service you have is unheard of for other products. HashiCorp has really taken out all the stops when it comes to creating a nice, extensible tool that people can use to suit their needs.
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    Sectigo
    No answers on this topic
    Pros
    Bitwarden
    • Their Browser extension seamlessly integrates into your workflow
    • Collections keep information very organized within your Vault
    • Vault Health Reports help identify weak or reused passwords
    • Their built-in password generator is quick and easy to use
    • UI is very user-friendly
    • Video tutorial's are very helpful on their website
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    IBM
    • The HTTP API you use to write and read secrets is open and can be used by any application.
    • It keeps our sensitive data/credentials out of our GitLab repositories.
    • Sealing and unsealing the Vault on demand adds an additional layer of security.
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    Sectigo
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    Cons
    Bitwarden
    • Bitwarden has great functionality all around, however, I would in the future like to see this product as an SSO/IDM distributor.
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    IBM
    • Session Management is terrible to manage
    • Monitoring is hard and not enough information
    • User management
    • Configuration is too complex
    • More user friendly UI
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    Sectigo
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Bitwarden
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    IBM
    HashiCorp Vault is the best there is out there, and it has become critical to our secret management use cases. It would be difficult to find anything that would suit our needs better and that would be beneficial for us to switch over to.
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    Sectigo
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    Usability
    Bitwarden
    Easy to use, just missing a few quality of life features. Nothing to suggest it's not awesome as it is, just bells and whistles to make it more convenient.
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    IBM
    We spent a little more time than we imagined to conceptually understand how HashiCorp Vault operates, as well as how it is configured. This is not trivial, and keep in mind that you will need to take some time to get a thorough understanding of the tool. The documentation could be more helpful in this regard.
    Incentivized
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    Sectigo
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Bitwarden
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Hashicorp has been very responsive to our questions and inquiries up to this point. We are currently working on them to develop a more granular permissions model within Vault. We are very close to achieving our objectives with the help of their support team. We do not seem to be in the same time zone which makes it hard for escalated issues.
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    Sectigo
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    Alternatives Considered
    Bitwarden
    Other solutions felt more clunky or were significantly higher priced. Bitwarden seems to straddle the consumer/prosumer/SMB fence more than adequately by designing their user experience to feel welcoming but also trustworthy and reliable. The other tools seem to assume that users are ok with struggling in their onboarding process.
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    IBM
    HashiCorp Vault is way better than Azure Key Vault; it has more features and it goes beyond a key-value secret store.
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    Sectigo
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    Return on Investment
    Bitwarden
    • Gives employer the piece of mind knowing that passwords are safely stored in one place
    • If an employee leaves, you don't have to go searching for passwords, they should all be in one place in Bitwarden.
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    IBM
    • Helped us reach our security compliance goals.
    • Helped us strengthen our security position in our infrastructure by improving on poor secret management practices.
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    Sectigo
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    ScreenShots

    Bitwarden Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Bitwarden Vault, where users can generate, autofill, and share unlimited credentials and other sensitive data from any browser, mobile device, or desktop application.Screenshot of the Bitwarden browser extension that protects passwords and digital secrets in a vault, auto-fills them, and generates new passwords that are fully encrypted end-to-end (even the Bitwarden team can’t access them).Screenshot of Bitwarden's password generator, used to generate strong and unique passwords, including usernames. It also integrates with email alias services for additional security. Using the strong generator tool keeps personal info like anniversaries and pet names out of your passwords, out of the dark web, and out of hackers’ hands.Screenshot of Bitwarden Send, a feature that lets users quickly share encrypted files and text with another individual via a private link. It can also be used to automatically share vault items using collections in a Bitwarden organization.Screenshot of Bitwarden's sync feature, that syncs passwords and other sensitive data (like identities, addresses, and credit cards) across devices, including mobile devices.Screenshot of where Bitwarden can auto-fill login information into websites. Autofill can be used across browsers, mobile apps (Android and iOS), and other places using associated URIs.

    IBM Vault Screenshots

    Screenshot of an example of writing a secret to Vault. Secrets are always encrypted and written to backend storage.Screenshot of the secrets menu to manage integrated secrets engines. Secrets Engines are components which store, generate, or encrypt data and are enabled at a path in Vault.Screenshot of where vault identity has support for groups. A group can contain multiple entities as its members. A group can also have subgroups.Screenshot of HCP Vault, which provides all of the power and security of Vault, without the complexity and overhead of managing it yourself.Screenshot of where to view entity client and non-entity client counts.Screenshot of MFA is built on top of the Identity system of Vault.