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Akeyless Secrets Management vs BeyondTrust Password Safe comparison

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
4.8
Organizations report up to 70% efficiency improvement with Akeyless Secrets Management, focusing on automation and centralized management benefits.
Sentiment score
6.6
BeyondTrust Password Safe is valued for quick setup, compliance features, strong security, and is favorably reviewed by executives.
Operational effort has been reduced as it automated credential management.
SDE-1 at arya.ag
Next year, we may add another BeyondTrust element because the overall experience has been good.
Information Security Engineer at BOK
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
5.0
Akeyless Secrets Management's customer service is responsive and knowledgeable, though some users desire faster response times.
Sentiment score
6.5
BeyondTrust Password Safe support is efficient and responsive, with global availability, but documentation and UVM issues need improvement.
The customer support is good, but it is somewhat slower compared to other support systems.
Sr.Devops engineer at Scaler
The tickets for minor issues have been resolved efficiently.
IT operations manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
One person gets aligned for troubleshooting and maintenance activities during their downtime, and within an hour, they complete these tasks.
Lead Engg. Information Assurance at ACPL Systems Pvt Ltd
The support and maintenance from BeyondTrust are commendable.
Associate Security Consultant at CyberSec Consulting
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
6.1
Akeyless Secrets Management efficiently scales across environments, supporting diverse applications and cloud setups with positive scalability feedback.
Sentiment score
7.7
BeyondTrust Password Safe is scalable and adaptable, supporting diverse enterprises with high user satisfaction and flexible deployment.
Akeyless Secrets Management is scalable because it can manage secrets across multiple applications, environments, and team members from a single platform.
Full Stack Developer at Sri Krishna Arts and Science
Akeyless Secrets Management supports thousands of applications, users, and secrets, which demonstrates that it is highly scalable.
SDE-1 at arya.ag
If using the built-in database, it requires good knowledge in Microsoft SQL, which could complicate scalability.
IT operations manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
BeyondTrust Password Safe is scalable and stable from my perspective, as if you increase your CPU and RAM, you can use as many user licenses as you want on a single platform.
Lead Engg. Information Assurance at ACPL Systems Pvt Ltd
In my experience, the scalability of BeyondTrust Password Safe is also a nine.
Contractor at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.2
Akeyless Secrets Management is highly stable and reliable, with no significant downtime, ensuring smooth workflows and user satisfaction.
Sentiment score
7.4
BeyondTrust Password Safe is praised for its stability, with improvements since version 21 and minor issues during upgrades.
In my experience, Akeyless Secrets Management is stable so far, and I have not found any hard points that I could say are negative.
Data Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
In BeyondTrust Password Safe, the upgrade activity can take longer, and I have occasionally experienced being stuck during appliance version upgrades.
Associate Security Consultant at CyberSec Consulting
The solution is very stable.
IT operations manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
 

Room For Improvement

Akeyless Secrets Management needs improved documentation, UI/UX, pricing transparency, advanced cryptography, and faster support for better usability.
BeyondTrust Password Safe faces integration, stability, and performance issues, requiring interface enhancements and improved analytics for better functionality.
This would ensure that the cloud providers maintain mathematically inaccessible telemetry to third parties, presenting a significant improvement in zero-knowledge cryptography.
Data Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Akeyless Secrets Management works excellently for what it aims to do.
Cloud Ops Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Some organizations feel that there is a trust concern because the secrets are stored in Akeyless Secrets Management and it is not open-sourced.
Sr.Devops engineer at Scaler
This feature would allow PAM to check the credentials of privileged accounts, indicating if they are correct or not, showing if the heartbeat has failed if they are wrong.
Associate Security Consultant at CyberSec Consulting
This would help in identifying suspicious activities immediately when users log in.
Senior Cyber Security Engineer at TechnoNext Ltd.
There are limitations when accessing or creating connectors for each application.
IT operations manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
 

Setup Cost

BeyondTrust Password Safe offers competitive pricing with asset-based licensing, valued for its affordability and comprehensive features.
Regarding pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Akeyless Secrets Management, if the product is excellent, cost usually is not a problem.
Data Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The pricing model is more affordable with the option of going for either unlimited devices or users.
Senior Cyber Security Engineer at TechnoNext Ltd.
Pricing is managed by a different team, however, I know it's less expensive than CyberArk Privilege Access.
IT operations manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
My experience with the pricing, setup cost, and licensing of BeyondTrust Password Safe is good because we have an asset-based license, not a user-based one, allowing us to add many clients with privilege access.
Information Security Engineer at BOK
 

Valuable Features

Akeyless Secrets Management centralizes secure access with zero-knowledge architecture, dynamic secrets, and automated rotation for multi-cloud environments.
BeyondTrust Password Safe enhances security with automated management, intuitive interface, comprehensive asset visibility, and advanced auditing features.
The rotation of secrets aspect of Akeyless Secrets Management is excellent. It allows for much higher security and there is a great reduction in potential exploits or attacks to our infrastructure because it is very difficult to get compromised credentials when they rotate so regularly.
Cloud Ops Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Akeyless Secrets Management has positively impacted my organization as it helped store our secrets in a right way, in a proper controlled way where you can view, update, and at the same time, it helps in updating the passwords very effectively in the cloud running environment.
Sr. Software engineer at Fedex
Akeyless Secrets Management offers centralized secret management that stores API keys, passwords, certificates, and SSH keys.
SDE-1 at arya.ag
BeyondTrust JIT (Just-in-Time) Access helps minimize risks in the organization by allowing privileged accounts to be provisioned temporarily, granting users elevated access only for the required duration.
Associate Security Consultant at CyberSec Consulting
The flexibility of the licensing model is significantly better as it offers both unlimited users and unlimited devices, unlike Delinea, which is based on the number of users.
Senior Cyber Security Engineer at TechnoNext Ltd.
The features I find valuable in Password Safe include password retention and management, session privilege monitoring, live monitoring and recording, and the use of PS automation scripts for creating connections.
IT operations manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
 

Categories and Ranking

Akeyless Secrets Management
Ranking in Enterprise Password Managers
12th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Secrets Management Tools (6th), AI Security (15th)
BeyondTrust Password Safe
Ranking in Enterprise Password Managers
13th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
27
Ranking in other categories
Privileged Access Management (PAM) (14th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Enterprise Password Managers category, the mindshare of Akeyless Secrets Management is 1.7%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of BeyondTrust Password Safe is 2.6%, down from 3.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Enterprise Password Managers Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Akeyless Secrets Management1.7%
BeyondTrust Password Safe2.6%
Other95.7%
Enterprise Password Managers
 

Featured Reviews

Aditya Sasmal - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Centralized secrets have improved risk control but governance and documentation still need work
Akeyless Secrets Management can be improved by focusing on strategic areas of product enhancements to elevate it from a robust operational tool to a frictionless enterprise standard product. Development must prioritize maturity in release governance, user interface intuitiveness, and developer documentation. Addressing these areas will directly reduce friction and accelerate enterprise-wide adoption. More documentation should be included in the governance and quality assurance aspects because properly organized documents create a significant impact on the product. Akeyless Secrets Management could improve its zero-knowledge cryptography capabilities, as the documentation is still lacking. The use of distributed fragments cryptography can be enhanced by splitting encryption key fragments between Valmet's local gateways and Akeyless Secrets Management cloud. This would ensure that the cloud providers maintain mathematically inaccessible telemetry to third parties, presenting a significant improvement in zero-knowledge cryptography.
PawanShirose - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Security Consultant at CyberSec Consulting
Has enabled bulk onboarding and password rotation while ensuring secure privilege management
I have faced stability issues when upgrading BeyondTrust Password Safe solution. The upgrade process can be lengthy compared to other modules. For example, upgrading the appliance and reconfiguring HA is easier in PRA. However, in BeyondTrust Password Safe, the upgrade activity can take longer, and I have occasionally experienced being stuck during appliance version upgrades, sometimes duplicating the upgrade. Regarding additional features, we have good features in BeyondTrust Password Safe compared to other modules, such as Secret Safe to secure secrets and the check-in, check-out functionality. We already have the main features, but I think it would be helpful if BeyondTrust implemented a heartbeat check feature on the privileged account level. This feature would allow PAM to check the credentials of privileged accounts, indicating if they are correct or not, showing if the heartbeat has failed if they are wrong.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
University
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Retailer
8%
Financial Services Firm
28%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Healthcare Company
6%
Construction Company
5%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business13
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise10
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Akeyless Secrets Management?
Akeyless Secrets Management could be improved in several areas. The initial setup was quite difficult for me. The documentation and tutorials must include end-to-end examples for Kubernetes and CI/...
What is your primary use case for Akeyless Secrets Management?
Akeyless Secrets Management is used to store secrets such as database credentials and TransUnion certificates for the production environment. For example, a team stores PostgreSQL usernames and pas...
What advice do you have for others considering Akeyless Secrets Management?
The advice that I would personally give regarding Akeyless Secrets Management is that before adopting any secrets management platform, you should define what your security and compliance requiremen...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BeyondTrust Password Safe?
My experience with BeyondTrust Password Safe's pricing, setup cost, and licensing has been positive, primarily due to its asset-based licensing model. This is a significant advantage for us because...
What needs improvement with BeyondTrust Password Safe?
I have faced stability issues when upgrading BeyondTrust Password Safe solution. The upgrade process can be lengthy compared to other modules. For example, upgrading the appliance and reconfiguring...
What is your primary use case for BeyondTrust Password Safe?
I am working on both BeyondTrust Password Safe and the PRA (Privileged Remote Access). I have three years plus experience working with BeyondTrust Password Safe solution, and I have hands-on, good ...
 

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BeyondTrust PowerBroker Password Safe
 

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Sample Customers

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Aera Energy LLC, Care New England, James Madison University
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