Detailed comparison across 10 dimensions
Vault and Bitwarden Secrets Manager score closely across Staquest's six weighted dimensions, with no decisive overall winner. Both offer a free tier. Bitwarden Secrets Manager's paid plans start at $6/mo.
| Overview | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | saas tool | hybrid |
| Company | HashiCorp | Bitwarden |
| Free Tier | ||
| Has API | ||
| Open Source | ||
| Learning Curve | - | - |
| Integration | - | - |
| Trending | Stable | Stable |
| GitHub Stars | - | - |
| Industries | DevelopmentCybersecurity & InfoSec | DevelopmentCybersecurity & InfoSecSales & CRMSaaS & Cloud |
| Categories | secret-managementdevops | secret-managementsecurity-tools |
| Website | Visit | Visit |
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freemium
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| Feature | vault | bitwarden-secrets-manager |
|---|---|---|
| Disaster Recovery Replication | ||
| $1 Per Additional Machine Account | ||
| Dynamic Secrets | ||
| Includes Administrative Capabilities (Such As Scim Provisioning And Enterprise Policies) | ||
| Everything In Community Edition | ||
| Unlimited Secrets | ||
| Hsm Support | ||
| Unlimited Secrets And Projects | ||
| Http Api And Cli | ||
| Up To 2 Users | ||
| Kv Secrets Storage | ||
| Up To 20 Machine Accounts | ||
| Namespaces For Multi-Tenant Isolation | ||
| Up To 3 Machine Accounts | ||
| Performance Replication | ||
| Up To 3 Projects | ||
| Sentinel Policies | ||
| Up To 50 Machine Accounts | ||
| Sla And Official Support | ||
| Transit Encryption | ||
| Wide Range Of Auth Methods (Aws, Azure, Ldap, Oidc, Kubernetes, Approle) |
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Dashes mean the feature isn't listed in our data. The tool may still support it.
Both Vault and Bitwarden Secrets Manager offer a free tier.
Vault scores higher on pricing value in Staquest's analysis. It is the highest-weighted dimension in this comparison.
Bitwarden Secrets Manager is open source. The feature comparison and dimension scores above cover the full breakdown.
