We performed a comparison between Bitwarden and HashiCorp Vault based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Password Managers solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The customer service and support are good. The technician is on time and the follow-up is amazing."
"The product has a very friendly community."
"In our organization, we use Bitwarden for managing product credentials. Bitwarden's collection feature enables us to securely create and store credentials, and we can easily provide team members with access to the relevant collections."
"Its integration capabilities and versatility, like the ability to securely save passwords and other critical information, make it incredibly useful."
"It is open source and the premium package is reasonable."
"I've found something else that is extremely valuable. Bitwarden refers to it as "emergency access". It's essentially a digital legacy where you can assign approved users who can request access. If you don't decline within a certain timeframe, they can access it in case you're incapacitated or deceased. When I last checked, only a few services offered this feature. Bitwarden had the simplest and best implementation."
"Having all the passwords in one place is helpful."
"The most valuable feature of HashiCorp Vault is that it's an open source solution. Second, it's cloud agnostic, so it's very easy to maintain and control, which is why we prefer HashiCorp."
"We were using it because we have compliance requirements around secret management. Having a secure vault and encrypting data was an additional requirement. When we looked at it first, we were just looking for a vault, like a lockbox. The greatest benefit of HashiCorp is its ability to manage encryption on the fly. It provides encryption of data at rest, in use, in transit, on the fly, and linked with applications, which was really attractive."
"The most valuable feature of HashiCorp Vault is the management of tickets in the pipeline."
"This solution is easy to use and to integrate."
"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."
"The tool's dynamic rotation of the password credentials is good."
"It's stable. I would rate the stability a nine out of ten."
"The product is free and easy to use. It is well documented with an easy implementation process."
"The product must be a bit more unified and refined."
"The product could be cheaper."
"Enhancing the tool by including additional security variables would be a valuable improvement."
"It would be ideal if the application could be seamlessly integrated into our open-source software, especially for the purpose of enabling straightforward logging."
"I would like to log in with a master account using a passkey, that would be easy."
"I often use another password manager as well to keep my passwords separate, ensuring redundancy. But one simple thing Bitwarden could improve is providing an option to duplicate credentials. Often, you're creating many sets of credentials for the same thing. If they all have the same information, notes, login, collection, and naming - all you're changing is the password. The ability to duplicate credential records quickly would be a big win. It doesn't do that right now."
"The solution should be made more secure as it has the banking sector and assets saved."
"It would be helpful to have more advanced features."
"The onboarding is a challenge. It should be more self-service, but it involves reviews and approvals."
"The documentation is very general; it should have more examples and more use cases."
"The product needs to improve its customization. It should be also more like easy to plug and play."
"I don't think there are any major improvements required—so far, so good. However, I think that having more training materials, such as videos, and documentation available would be helpful. I would prefer to have more videos available either on the official site or on YouTube."
"The solution's initial setup process is complicated."
"We could use more documentation, primarily to do with integrations."
"The product is complicated to install."
Bitwarden is ranked 8th in Enterprise Password Managers with 7 reviews while HashiCorp Vault is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Password Managers with 16 reviews. Bitwarden is rated 9.2, while HashiCorp Vault is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Bitwarden writes "Good Documentation, reliable, zero failure and fast ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HashiCorp Vault writes "Useful for machine-to-machine communication and has secret engine feature ". Bitwarden is most compared with Azure Key Vault, CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault, IronVest, AWS Secrets Manager and Zoho Vault, whereas HashiCorp Vault is most compared with Azure Key Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault, Keeper and ManageEngine Password Manager Pro. See our Bitwarden vs. HashiCorp Vault report.
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