Vault 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Vault

4.8

(9)

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Pricing available upon request

About Vault

Vault by HashiCorp is a cloud-based encryption and secrets management solution, which helps small to large organizations securely store and control access to passwords, tokens, certificates, encryption keys and various other confidential data. Features include disaster recovery, replication, audit logs, key rolling and multi-factor authentication. Vault’s Primary use cases include: - Static & Dynamic Secrets Management - Secrets Rotation - Identity Brokering - Data Encryption - Certificate Management - Secret Scanning.

Vault has several versions including: - Self Managed Vault Enterprise - HCP Vault Dedicated - HCP Secrets (Multi-Tenant)

The application enables users to create, remove and rotate secrets, manage authorization and generate time-based tokens for automatic or manual revocation. Administrators can create and manage policies to authorize access across infrastructure and detect user identities through their logins. It also allows enterprises to protect sensitive data with one-way masking and two-way transformations.

Vault offers integration with multiple third-party applications such as Microsoft Azure, Okta, MySQL, MongoDB and more. It is an open-source platform and...

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Vault Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $1.00

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$1.00

No plan information available

Vault Features

Popular features found in Encryption
Access Controls/Permissions
Compliance Management
Password Management
Policy Management
More features of Vault
API
Application Access Control
Application Encryption
Approval Process Control
Audit Trail
Authentication
Configurable Workflow
Credential Management
Disk Encryption
Endpoint Management
Key Management
Least Privilege
Remote Access Management
Role-Based Permissions
Secure Data Storage
Third-Party Integrations
Tokenization
Workflow Management

Vault Integrations

GitHub

Circonus

Microsoft Azure

Google Cloud

Chef Enterprise Automation Stack

Datadog

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Vault User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.8

Ratings Breakdown

78%

22%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.7

Value for money

4.6

Customer support

4.5

Functionality

4.4

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Ionut Alexandru C.

Verified reviewer

Broadcast Media

201-500 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2023

Industry standard vault for secrets storage and management

My experience are both setup a Vault solution and storage and consume between system and user, intragrate with clouds for OIDC SSO.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

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.

Reasons for choosing Vault

Industry standard and you have a lot of professionals who know or have worked with.

Sam W.

Verified reviewer

Airlines/ Aviation

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2025

Great product, best API out there and simple to deploy

Overall great, easiest to deploy and a great API making integration working well.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

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.

Reasons for choosing Vault

Decision was down to API - easily usable and works seamlessly. The documentation is accurate and very consumable.

Carla j.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2021

Very useful for data management

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Vault allows users to monitor and control their work.

Cons:

Nothing special to mention. Overall it is a great software

Mo F.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

201-500 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2022

Great addon for secrets management in pipelines.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

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

Cons:

Will like to have a Hashicorp plugin in the Azure DevOps marketplace for easier integration.

Reasons for switching to Vault

Easier integration with Terraform

Sakshi R.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

10000+ employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2022

Vault - A Secret Management Tool

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.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

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.

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!!

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2019

Vault for Secrets Management

Vault is a key part of a company's secret management. Without it we would have to pay for a managed service by a cloud provider.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Vault is a quick and easy way to securely store secrets for access by multiple users/teams. It provides a service which is highly configurable and open source.

Cons:

As Vault is a key-value store masked as a file-traverser, it can sometimes be unclear in which directory a secret is stored.

Mansi M.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2022

A Good tool to secure the sensitive data

Since applications have credentials, certificates etc that are spread across the organizations and since these are in plain text which makes an application vulnerable to attacks. For this purpose, HashiCorp Vault is used in order to secure the credentials and other sensitive data. It can be used to authenticate a user either via passwords or some dynamic configuration that would generate the tokens which are temporary and these tokens can be used to access the resource.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to use and configureProvides encryption for storing Sensitive data like passwords, certificates etc

Cons:

No dislikes as such since it is powerful tool to keep the sensitive data

Verified

Reviewer

Food Production

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2020

Vault Review

Overall, I would recommend Vault as a secret management solution due to its security and simplicity.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Vault puts security first, which is very important to me. Also, I like that you can operate Vault using GUI or CLI.

Cons:

I enjoy using Vault however at first it can be difficult to configure to you preferences.

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

1001-5000 employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2022

hashicorp vault - protect your secrets

my overall experience is very good till now.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

i like the secrets replication feature it has with cloud providers ensuring security best practices.

Cons:

i don’t like the learning curve it takes to become habituated to using vault for devops engineers.

Reasons for switching to Vault

because of improved security features.

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