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Secrets Management Software · Rank #9 of 10

Delinea Secret Server (DevOps Secrets Vault) review and pricing

Legacy Secret Server plus DevOps Secrets Vault on the Delinea Platform.

By Delinea Inc. · Founded 1996 · Redwood City, CA · pe backed

Delinea (formed when TPG merged Thycotic and Centrify in April 2021) ships two secrets products: the long-running Secret Server (legacy IT secrets vault, primarily for human admins and service accounts) and DevOps Secrets Vault (cloud-native, API-first, for ephemeral workloads). The DevOps Secrets Vault product is the credible developer-secrets story for legacy PAM portfolio buyers; standalone, it competes more directly with Vault and Doppler. Best fit when Delinea PAM is already in place or when an existing Thycotic Secret Server estate wants a cloud-native extension. Trade-offs: TPG ownership signals a sale or recap on the 3-5 year horizon, and standalone Delinea-secrets buying motions are rare.

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Best for

Mid-market and lower-enterprise buyers (200-5,000 employees) already on Delinea PAM or legacy Thycotic Secret Server wanting a cloud-native DevOps secrets extension.

Worst for

Standalone-secrets buyers without a Delinea PAM commitment (Vault, Doppler, Akeyless win), or organizations needing FedRAMP High coverage.

Vendor Trust Score

Is Delinea Secret Server (DevOps Secrets Vault) a trustworthy vendor?

7.3/10
Mixed
Pricing transparency
Published rates; no hidden fees
5.0
Contract fairness
Reasonable terms; no auto-renew traps
7.5
Incident response
How they handle outages and breaches
8.0
Post-acquisition behavior
Customer treatment after M&A or PE
7.5
Executive stability
Leadership churn over 24 months
7.5
Roadmap honesty
Public commitments held
8.0
Trust signal log
  • 2021-04-13
    TPG closed Thycotic+Centrify merger to form Delinea
  • 2023-09-12
    Delinea Platform launched; cloud-first unification visible
  • 2024-11-08
    DevOps Secrets Vault feature parity push reported
    Roadmap velocity on the cloud-native secrets product accelerated through 2024-2025.
Vendor Trust is scored independently of product quality. A great product from an unfair vendor still earns a low trust score.
Review Intelligence

What 760 reviews actually say

Synthesized from G2, Capterra, Reddit, Trustpilot. Patterns >15% prevalence shown.

Last synthesized
2026-04-29

Praise patterns

  • Secret Server is mature and reliable
    78% →
  • Mid-market pricing routinely under CyberArk
    71% →
  • Account Lifecycle Manager is differentiated
    47% →

Complaint patterns

  • DevOps Secrets Vault community smaller than Vault or Doppler
    41% →
  • TPG ownership creates medium-term sale uncertainty
    38% →
  • Two product lines confuse buyers (Secret Server vs DSV)
    31% →
Sentiment trend (6 months)
80/100 +2 pts
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Patterns are extracted from review corpus and human-verified. We surface trends, not anecdotes.
Verified Pricing

What buyers actually pay

51 anonymized deal disclosures · last updated 2026-05-01

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Company size Median annual
200-1,000 employees $42,000
1,000-5,000 employees $132,000
5,000+ employees $360,000
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Compliance & Security

Auto-verified certifications

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SOC 2 Type II
ISO 27001
HIPAA
GDPR
CCPA
PCI DSS
FedRAMP Authorized

Editorial: Strengths

  • Secret Server is a long-running, mature legacy vault used in thousands of mid-market estates
  • DevOps Secrets Vault adds a cloud-native, API-first story to the legacy portfolio
  • Account Lifecycle Manager (service-account discovery and rotation) is differentiated
  • Mid-market pricing routinely under CyberArk equivalents
  • Strong customer support consistency vs PE peers
  • Tight integration with Delinea PAM (Connection Manager, Privilege Manager)

Editorial: Weaknesses

  • TPG ownership implies a sale or recap on the 3-5 year horizon
  • Standalone Delinea-secrets buying motions are rare; usually downstream of Delinea PAM
  • DevOps Secrets Vault community is smaller than Vault or Doppler
  • Pricing opaque despite mid-market positioning
  • Two product lines can confuse buyers (Secret Server vs DevOps Secrets Vault)

Key features & integrations

  • +Secret Server (vault, session brokering, session recording)
  • +DevOps Secrets Vault (cloud-native, API-first, for ephemeral workloads)
  • +Account Lifecycle Manager (service account discovery and rotation)
  • +Connection Manager for SSH/RDP session brokering
  • +Cloud Suite (Centrify-heritage Linux identity bridging)
  • +Delinea Platform unified policy engine and reporting
  • +Kubernetes integration via DSV agent
  • +Mature compliance posture (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, FedRAMP)
  • +Tight integration with Delinea Privilege Manager (endpoint)
200+ integrations
ServiceNowSplunkMicrosoft SentinelAWSAzureGCPOktaMicrosoft Entra IDHashiCorp TerraformKubernetes
Geography supported
Global; strongest in US, EU, APAC
Best fit
200-10,000 employees · Mid-market and lower-enterprise Delinea/Thycotic-anchored estates
Editorial deep-dive

Read our full ranking of Secrets Management Software

Delinea Secret Server (DevOps Secrets Vault) ranks #9 in our editorial review of 10 secrets management software platforms. The deep-dive covers methodology, comparison tables, decision matrix, migration scoring, and FAQs.

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