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Vault

FTV 63

About

Vault is HashiCorp's identity-based secrets management platform for securing credentials, certificates, keys, and other sensitive data across users, machines, services, and AI agents.

It helps organizations centrally store and distribute secrets, generate and rotate certificates, manage encryption as a service, and enforce policy-based access controls throughout the secret lifecycle. Vault is designed to support modern security workflows at scale, with features for automation, governance, and protection across hybrid and multi-environment infrastructure.

  • Identity-based authentication and authorization for humans, machines, services, and AI agents
  • Centralized secrets storage, distribution, and lifecycle management
  • Certificate generation, rotation, and revocation
  • Encryption as a service for protecting data in transit and at rest
  • Policy-driven access controls and automated secret rotation

Free Tier Value

63
FTV score
Est. value $500 one-time credit
Signup credit $500
Credit card Required
Feature parity 100%

This free credit is worth about $167/month using the page’s rule of thumb ($500 divided by 3). The offer is credit-based rather than perpetual, and the page does not say that a credit card is unnecessary, so the score is strong on value but held back by the time-limited, account-based signup friction.

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What's included in the free tier

  • Free trial access to IBM HCP Vault Development for up to 25 clients.
  • Versioned key value storage for storing and versioning secrets.
  • User and group management for organizing access.
  • Vault agent support for secret delivery and authentication.
  • UI with cluster management for managing Vault clusters.
  • Encryption as a Service for encrypting data through Vault.
  • Dynamic secrets for generating short-lived credentials.
  • Auto-rotating secrets for reducing manual secret maintenance.

See Vault pricing for current limits.

Paid plans

Development

Per unit
Starting at $0.62 per cluster per hour
clients
25
  • Limited environment for up to 25 clients
  • Versioned key value storage
  • User and group management
  • Vault agent support
  • UI with cluster management
  • Encryption as a Service
  • Dynamic secrets
  • Auto-rotating secrets

Essentials

Tiered pricing
Starting at $1.58 per cluster per hour + $73 monthly cost per Vault client
cluster_hour
1.58 USD per cluster hour
vault_client_month
73 USD per Vault client per month
  • Highly available clusters
  • Designed to scale with production workloads
  • Versioned key value storage
  • User and group management
  • Vault agent support
  • UI with cluster management
  • Encryption as a Service
  • Dynamic secrets

Standard

Tiered pricing
Starting at $1.85 per cluster per hour + $73 monthly cost per Vault client
cluster_hour
1.85 USD per cluster hour
vault_client_month
73 USD per Vault client per month
  • High-availability replication
  • Multiple datacenters
  • Versioned key value storage
  • User and group management
  • Vault agent support
  • UI with cluster management
  • Encryption as a Service
  • Dynamic secrets

Enterprise

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Custom Pricing
  • Self-managed deployment
  • Enhanced security and compliance
  • Hybrid workload support
  • Premium support included
  • Versioned key value storage
  • User and group management
  • Vault agent support
  • UI with cluster management

Pricing extracted from Vault's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.