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."Having all the passwords in one place is helpful."
"It is open source and the premium package is reasonable."
"The product has a very friendly community."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"For me, the most valuable features include that it's easy to manage and maintain the password API for retrieving passwords and other things."
"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 tool's dynamic rotation of the password credentials is good."
"The interface is very simple to navigate."
"It's stable. I would rate the stability a nine out of ten."
"This solution is easy to use and to integrate."
"The product is free and easy to use. It is well documented with an easy implementation process."
"It would be ideal if the application could be seamlessly integrated into our open-source software, especially for the purpose of enabling straightforward logging."
"The solution should be made more secure as it has the banking sector and assets saved."
"The product could be cheaper."
"The product must be a bit more unified and refined."
"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."
"Enhancing the tool by including additional security variables would be a valuable improvement."
"The solution could be much easier to implement."
"The technical support was hard to get a hold of and lacking in service."
"I would rate the stability a six out of ten. There are some bugs and glitches. We are in touch with the vendor to resolve them."
"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."
"In my opinion, HashiCorp Vault could improve its user interface. Right now, they don't offer much in terms of a graphical interface, which means you usually have to manage things manually through API calls. I think CyberArk has a better approach because it provides a UI that integrates features across all its components, making it easier, especially for new users or those from organizations with strict licensing policies."
"There could be a plugin for the database to change the secret automatically. It would be an efficient feature for password security."
"A drawback for some clients who have to be PCI compliant is that they still need to use and subscribe to an HSM (Hardware Security Module) solution."
"The product is complicated to install."
Bitwarden is ranked 8th in Enterprise Password Managers with 6 reviews while HashiCorp Vault is ranked 2nd 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, Delinea Secret Server and BeyondTrust DevOps Secrets Safe. See our Bitwarden vs. HashiCorp Vault report.
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