HashiCorp Vault vs LastPass comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 16, 2024

LastPass and HashiCorp Vault compete in secure password and data management. LastPass seems to have the upper hand in simplicity and cost-effectiveness for small to medium businesses, whereas HashiCorp Vault is favored for its feature depth and enterprise focus.

Features: LastPass offers secure password storage, autofill, and easy integration suitable for small to medium-sized enterprises. HashiCorp Vault provides advanced secrets management, encryption services, and access controls, which are highly configurable, making it fit for complex and large enterprise environments.

Room for Improvement: LastPass could enhance features by expanding enterprise capabilities like advanced reporting, multi-factor authentication robustness, and better integration with enterprise systems. HashiCorp Vault can improve by streamlining its setup process, enhancing user interface simplicity, and reducing the learning curve for new users.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: LastPass provides a swift deployment experience with comprehensive support, making it accessible for various team sizes. HashiCorp Vault demands a more detailed infrastructure setup, better suited to sophisticated IT environments, supported by detailed documentation and responsive customer assistance.

Pricing and ROI: LastPass, with its subscription model, offers a lower initial cost, ensuring ROI for smaller businesses by balancing affordability with essential security features. HashiCorp Vault, while representing a larger initial investment, justifies this with its extensive feature set, catering to larger enterprises seeking comprehensive data security solutions.

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HashiCorp Vault vs. LastPass

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

HashiCorp Vault

Ranking in Enterprise Password Managers

4th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

LastPass

Ranking in Enterprise Password Managers

17th

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Single Sign-On (SSO) (21st), AIOps (28th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Enterprise Password Managers category, the mindshare of HashiCorp Vault is 15.0%, down from 17.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of LastPass is 3.0%, down from 3.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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KishoreKumar1

Architect at Accenture

Useful for machine-to-machine communication and has secret engine feature

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 access management feature in HashiCorp is great, especially if you are considering situations where users are getting onboarded. They can manage their passwords themselves, and it integrates well with Active Directory or any other directory services. This is particularly useful for user management and applications that communicate with each other without human intervention.

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Mike Klaus

Senior Systems Analyst/Administrator at a agriculture with 1-10 employees

Straightforward to set up, good support, intuitive to use, and offers good value for the cost

The most valuable feature is being able to use a single master password to access all of your other passwords. One feature that is really important to us is the ability to create secure notes. In our scenario, these are notes such as how to get some of our devices on the network. They are processes and procedures that we don't want anybody else to see, especially within the IT department. It's a small department and we have very many processes that we use, but not on a daily basis, so we aren't going to remember them. By using LastPass and secure notes, we can go back to those notes in a secure fashion and remind ourselves how to do certain things. For instance, how to create a test database for accounting, which is something that we do once a year. We don't want that to be out in a non-secure fashion, where somebody in the public can see it.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It is a good product to consider for companies who are looking to build on-premise or hybrid infrastructure."

"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 solution is stable. It has been working perfectly without any problem."

"The most valuable feature of HashiCorp Vault is the management of tickets in the pipeline."

"It can still be configured by a separate team other than developers. That's why I think it's more secure."

"It is user-friendly and easy to implement from any application point."

"The interface is very simple to navigate."

"It is an added value for our customers to have a Secrets Management workflow available that is PaaS/CaaS/KaaS Platform agnostic."

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"This product helps keep us secure."

"One feature that is really important to us is the ability to create secure notes."

"The most valuable feature for me is being able to pair applications and user permissions."

"Scalability is fine, no issues with that, especially now that they have added different user-level permissions. That has made it a lot easier to delegate out certain features to have other people do."

"Until now, I haven't found anything like the dashboard. It gives you a security score. I find that to be really great. The Sharing Center is really great as well. And the Security Challenge is really great too."

"The most valuable feature is the liberty of keeping encrypted passwords and elevated information in a sealed vault."

"Reduction in number of sensitive passwords stored insecurely on local systems."

"It's improved security; we don't have to worry about people storing password loosely and secure them."

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Cons

"The documentation is very general; it should have more examples and more use cases."

"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."

"There could be a plugin for the database to change the secret automatically. It would be an efficient feature for password security."

"In terms of features, the only thing that I found a little bit hinky was that there was no revocation or deletion on the model we were using. Once in a financial year, a client interacts, and you pay for that client for the year. So, there are just little things like that in the pricing. There should be more clarity around the end of the key. I know there is no system like this. They all are the same. I tested Microsoft, Google, and some others, and none of them really want you to delete a key, which makes sense. You delete a key, and you lose everything that it has wrapped or encrypted, but it's actually just a language. Deletion isn't really deletion. It's really revocation, but overall, HashiCorp Vault ticked all the boxes for us, and I couldn't fault it."

"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 solution's initial setup process is complicated."

"The technical support was hard to get a hold of and lacking in service."

"We could use more documentation, primarily to do with integrations."

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"The management through the plugin is poor. It consumes tons of client resources especially as an administrator."

"LastPass has a problem syncing the passwords to all of the users."

"The biggest thing is there is no good way to have LastPass rotate passwords without human intervention. Right now, we have to go into each folder, then rotate and manually update each password. It can be done it by loading a bunch of passwords into a spreadsheet, but this makes the whole process insecure because then the passwords have been noted into a spreadsheet which have to be upload. We have to go into 40 to 50 applications and manually update passwords, because we don't view their solution of writing a bunch of passwords on a spreadsheet, then uploading them as a secure solution. This should be done internally within LastPass."

"Its user interface should be better, and there should probably be more information about scalability."

"I struggle a little bit with the mobile app. As a browser extension, it works really well, and we are able to get to what we need to. However, on the phone, it's not quite as easy to navigate."

"One thing I wish LastPass had is an integration with Active Directory, not for synchronizing users but to actually manage, in some way, privileged accounts by replacing the password of LastPass itself."

"Right now we have two products; there is the password manager and there is the authenticator app. Ideally, these should be fully integrated and support better handling of two-factor authentication or any other authenticator data."

"I also don't like the add-in for Internet Explorer and Google Chrome, because when you do the add-in, you can actually save that to your credentials in your IE, and the problem is, if I left my screen open, or any of the IT people leave their screen open someone could come up and access all their credentials in LastPass without having to put a password in within your own network. I don't like that functionality. We've banned that from any of our staff adding that as an add-in because we see that as a security risk."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It could do everything we wanted it to do and it is brilliant, but it is super pricey. To be fair to HashiCorp, we drove the price up with our requirements around resiliency. Because of the nature of our company, we don't really operate in the cloud."

"In my case, the open-source version works well. It's advisable for small to medium-scale organizations, but for large-scale organizations, you should go with the enterprise version."

"I am using the open-source version of Vault and I would have to buy a license if I want to get support."

"The AWS version is much cheaper than HashiCorp Vault."

"The solution's cost is reasonable."

"The product is expensive."

"The subscription model is rated at a fair price."

"I have been involved with many password managers. Passportal, Secret Server, CyberArk, and BeyondTrust. I chose LastPass for our organization because of the pricing. The organization didn't want to implement something really expensive. LastPass, for what it's offering, for the price that it's offering the service, is unbeatable."

"The previous pricing was of good value. I don't really know, as of now, whether the new pricing is. The Enterprise license is $48 per license per year now. That is a steep increase of $24, which is what it was when we first signed up."

"The pricing and licensing are okay. Basically, at the last contract negotiation, they attempted to jack the rate up and we just said, "No." We still did negotiations with them, but they bumped everything up quite a bit."

"It would be nice to do a quarterly true-up process with them versus having to buy 50 licenses at a time when we realize we're out, then we have to buy more. So far, they have been nice about letting us exceed our allotment and just letting us true-up on our own, but a more robust quarterly true-up process would be good."

"I was not terribly alarmed with the pricing, and am pleased with the fact that a home license is included with each business license."

"In terms of pricing, my feeling is that they are all roughly the same. LastPass is in line with its competitors, plus or minute a dollar or two per month."

"If you import from sources like XML, keepass, CSV files be sure to clean the import files, this reduces the adjustments in the slow tool itself."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Insurance Company

10%

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Midsize Enterprise

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Questions from the Community

Which is better - HashiCorp Vault or AWS Secrets Manager?

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Overview

HashiCorp Vault is a cloud-agnostic solution used for security and secret management. Its valuable features include integration with other HashiCorp tools, token sharing, open source nature, cloud agnosticism, and on-the-fly encryption management.

The solution provides encryption of data at rest, in use, in transit, on the fly, and linked with applications. It is free to use, and the interface is simple to navigate. HashiCorp Vault has helped organizations with its multiple authentication methods and RESTful API.

HashiCorp Vault Features

Data encryption: The solution is capable of encrypting and decrypting data, and will not store it. Organizations’ security personnel define their own encryption protocols; developers can store the encrypted data where they choose and are not obligated to design specific encryption processes.
Robust secrets: For systems such as AWS or SQL databases, Vault is able to generate secrets automatically. HashiCorp Vault is able to generate AWS keypairs with all the appropriate permissions when necessary, and when the approved time expires, will nullify them.
Secure secret storage: Any type of value or key secrets can be stored in the Vault. The Vault automatically encrypts the desired secrets before recording them into persistent storage, keeping them safe and secure. Users can record data using HCP Vault’s Consul service or disk, or choose from other options.
Nullification: Vault is able to nullify single secrets or all secrets from a particular group or specific user. This process is integral in securing systems in the event of an attack or inappropriate access.

Reviews from Real Users

“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 lifecycle of a key is so easy to manage in terms of rotating, revoking, and issuing. They have different auth methods, and I tried all different auth methods. It is seamless.”- Project Manager at a comms service provider.

“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. “ - Mohamed A., Lead DevOps Engineer at Etisalat.

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