Cybersecurity · head to head
Delinea vs Namespace
Delinea
Cybersecurity
Privileged access management from the merged Thycotic and Centrify
- From
- On request
- Free plan
- No
Namespace
Developer Tools
The dev platform for the next 100 billion commits
- From
- Free
- Free plan
- Yes
The short version
- Only Namespace has a free tier, so it costs nothing to try first.
- Each has a real cost: Delinea the Thycotic and Centrify lineages are integrated unevenly, so buying the full portfolio means running consoles and agents that do not share one administrative model as cleanly as the marketing suggests.; Namespace developer plan is pay-as-you-go only; minimum usage unclear
- They diverge on capability: Delinea covers Secret Server, Namespace covers Devboxes.
- Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Delinea and Namespace actually diverge.
Identical on both: user rating (Not yet rated).
What each one covers
Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.
Only in Delinea
- Secret Server
- Privileged session recording
- Privilege Manager
- Server PAM
- Discovery
- DevOps secrets
- Behaviour analytics
Only in Namespace
- Devboxes
- GitHub Actions runners
- Docker builds
- Cross-invocation caching
- NVMe storage
- High-speed networking
- Multiple OS support
- Bazel and Turborepo support
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
Delinea
- An organisation whose cyber insurer now requires privileged credentials to be vaulted and rotatednot Namespace
- A mid-market IT team that abandoned a heavier PAM rollout and needs a vault that can be in production in weeksnot Namespace
- A company removing local administrator rights from every workstation after a ransomware incidentnot Namespace
- An audit finding that shared service account passwords are stored in a spreadsheet and used by contractorsnot Namespace
Namespace
- Providing AI coding agents with cloud-based development environmentsnot Delinea
- Accelerating CI builds with faster GitHub Actions runnersnot Delinea
- Distributing builds across teams with managed infrastructurenot Delinea
- Scaling development velocity for monorepo organizationsnot Delinea
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
Delinea
- The Thycotic and Centrify lineages are integrated unevenly, so buying the full portfolio means running consoles and agents that do not share one administrative model as cleanly as the marketing suggests.
- Modules are licensed separately by different units, per privileged user for the vault and per endpoint for privilege management, which makes total cost hard to model and easy to underestimate at scale.
- Delinea does not publish rates, so buyers benchmark against third party and public sector listings; expect list prices to be negotiable by a wide margin, which means the first quote is not the price.
- Thoma Bravo ownership since 2021 has coincided with firmer renewal pricing, and buyers with a single-vendor PAM estate have little leverage once credentials are inside the vault.
- Migrating out of a privileged access vault is a genuinely hard project because every automated process that fetches a secret has to be repointed, so the switching cost is real and the vendor knows it.
Namespace
- Developer plan is pay-as-you-go only; minimum usage unclear
- Team plan $100/mo is competitive but usage limits may be tight
- Devbox pricing separate at $0.004/minute could add up quickly
- Enterprise plan requires custom sales conversation
Pricing, plan by plan
Delinea
On request- Secret Server$undefined/year
- Priced per privileged user, tiered by edition
- Cloud or on premises deployment
- Session recording in higher editions
- Privilege Manager$undefined/year
- Priced per endpoint
- Local admin rights removal and application elevation
- Licensed separately from Secret Server
- Server PAM$undefined/year
- Priced per managed server or per privileged user
- Just-in-time server access
- Licensed separately
Namespace
Free- DeveloperFree
- Pay-as-you-go
- On-demand compute
- Docker builds
- Team$100/month
- 100,000 unit minutes
- 1,000 Docker builds
- Everything in Developer
- Business$250/month
- 250,000 unit minutes
- 2,500 Docker builds
- Everything in Team
- Enterprise$undefined/custom
- Custom compute/Docker build limits
- Audit log export
- Enterprise SSO
Which should you pick?
Choose Delinea if
- You need secret server.
- You work on Web, Windows, Linux, macOS.
- You also want privileged session recording.
Choose Namespace if
- You need devboxes.
- You want to start without paying.
- You work on Cloud, Mac, Windows, Linux.
- You also want github actions runners.
Questions people ask
- Is Delinea or Namespace better?
- Neither clearly leads. Delinea starts at On request and Namespace at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Delinea or Namespace?
- Namespace has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at On request for Delinea and Free for Namespace.
- Does Delinea or Namespace run on more platforms?
- Delinea runs on Web, Windows, Linux, macOS. Namespace runs on Cloud, Mac, Windows, Linux.
- Can I use Namespace for free?
- Yes. Namespace has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Delinea starts at On request.
- What is Delinea best used for?
- Delinea is most often used for an organisation whose cyber insurer now requires privileged credentials to be vaulted and rotated, a mid-market it team that abandoned a heavier pam rollout and needs a vault that can be in production in weeks, a company removing local administrator rights from every workstation after a ransomware incident, an audit finding that shared service account passwords are stored in a spreadsheet and used by contractors. Of those, an organisation whose cyber insurer now requires privileged credentials to be vaulted and rotated and a mid-market it team that abandoned a heavier pam rollout and needs a vault that can be in production in weeks are not what Namespace is typically brought in for.
- What can Delinea do that Namespace cannot?
- Delinea covers Secret Server, Privileged session recording, Privilege Manager, Server PAM. Namespace covers Devboxes, GitHub Actions runners, Docker builds, Cross-invocation caching.
Answered from the vendors’ own pages
Delinea: Is Delinea the same as Thycotic?
Delinea is the merged company formed from Thycotic and Centrify in 2021. Secret Server is the former Thycotic product; the server access products come from Centrify.
Namespace: How is compute usage metered on the Developer plan?
Developer plan uses pay-as-you-go billing. Devboxes bill at $0.004 per minute. Storage and caching services have separate usage-based fees. A 30-day free trial is available to test usage patterns.
SourceDelinea: Is pricing published?
Not by Delinea. Public sector frameworks have listed Secret Server Cloud around 348 GBP per user per year, which is a reference point, not a quote.
Namespace: What is the difference between Team and Business plans?
Team ($100/mo) includes 100,000 unit minutes and 1,000 Docker builds with email support. Business ($250/mo) includes 250,000 unit minutes, 2,500 Docker builds, and high concurrency with a dedicated Slack channel.
SourceDelinea: Does one licence cover endpoints and servers?
No. Secret Server, Privilege Manager and Server PAM are separately licensed on different units. Scope all three if your requirement spans them.
Namespace: Can Namespace support AI coding agents?
Yes, Namespace Devboxes are specifically designed as feature-rich development environments for AI coding agents, with full tooling and performance optimization.
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