Is Delinea or OneTrust better?

Neither clearly leads. Delinea starts at On request and OneTrust at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.

Which is cheaper, Delinea or OneTrust?

Delinea starts at On request and OneTrust at On request.

Does Delinea or OneTrust run on more platforms?

Delinea runs on Web, Windows, Linux, macOS. OneTrust runs on Web, API, Cloud.

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 OneTrust is typically brought in for.

What can Delinea do that OneTrust cannot?

Delinea covers Secret Server, Privileged session recording, Privilege Manager, Server PAM.

Cybersecurity · head to head

Delinea vs OneTrust

Delinea

Cybersecurity

Privileged access management from the merged Thycotic and Centrify

From: On request
Rated: -

Full review Website

OneTrust

Cybersecurity

Enterprise AI governance and data compliance platform.

From: On request
Rated: -

Full review Website

The short version

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.; OneTrust complex usage-based pricing model with multiple meters (admin users, inventory size, daily visitors, data subjects) making total cost unpredictable
Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Delinea and OneTrust actually diverge.

Attributes where Delinea and OneTrust differ
Attribute	Delinea	OneTrust
Pricing model	quote	usage-based
Platforms	Web, Windows, Linux, macOS	Web, API, Cloud

Identical on both: starting price (On request), free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Cybersecurity).

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 OneTrust

Nothing recorded that Delinea does not also cover.

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 OneTrust
A mid-market IT team that abandoned a heavier PAM rollout and needs a vault that can be in production in weeksnot OneTrust
A company removing local administrator rights from every workstation after a ransomware incidentnot OneTrust
An audit finding that shared service account passwords are stored in a spreadsheet and used by contractorsnot OneTrust

OneTrust

Fortune 500 enterprises managing multi-framework compliance (GDPR, SOC 2, EU AI Act, DORA, NIS2)not Delinea
Organisations implementing responsible AI governance and monitoring AI systemsnot Delinea
Companies with global data operations requiring consent and privacy automation at scalenot Delinea
Enterprises managing complex vendor ecosystems with third-party risk assessmentnot Delinea
Regulated industries (finance, healthcare, insurance) requiring continuous compliancenot 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.

OneTrust

Complex usage-based pricing model with multiple meters (admin users, inventory size, daily visitors, data subjects) making total cost unpredictable
No published pricing examples or per-unit costs; all pricing requires custom quotes
Each solution area uses different pricing metrics, requiring complex calculations for multi-solution purchases
Enterprise-only positioning (Fortune 500 focus) suggests premium pricing, discouraging mid-market or startup adoption
Platform complexity and multiple solution areas may result in significant implementation and ongoing costs not disclosed upfront

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

OneTrust

On request

AI Governance$undefined/variable
- Pricing by admin users and AI inventory size
- AI compliance lifecycle management
- Control enforcement and monitoring
Consent & Preferences$undefined/variable
- CMP Base: priced by average daily visitors
- CMP Suite: expanded privacy experiences
- Universal Consent: metered by data subject profiles
Privacy Automation$undefined/variable
- Priced by users and privacy asset inventory
- Internal operations automation
- Data subject request handling
Tech Risk & Compliance$undefined/variable
- Governance and risk management across 50+ standards
- Priced by admin users and asset inventory

Which should you pick?

Choose Delinea if

You need secret server.
You work on Web, Windows, Linux, macOS.
You also want privileged session recording.

Delinea review

Choose OneTrust if

You work on Web, API, Cloud.

OneTrust review

Questions people ask

Is Delinea or OneTrust better?: Neither clearly leads. Delinea starts at On request and OneTrust at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Delinea or OneTrust?: Delinea starts at On request and OneTrust at On request.
Does Delinea or OneTrust run on more platforms?: Delinea runs on Web, Windows, Linux, macOS. OneTrust runs on Web, API, Cloud.
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 OneTrust is typically brought in for.
What can Delinea do that OneTrust cannot?: Delinea covers Secret Server, Privileged session recording, Privilege Manager, Server PAM.

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.

OneTrust: How many case studies does OneTrust have?

OneTrust showcases 74+ customer case studies across multiple industries and regions, with examples from banking, insurance, hospitality and technology.

Source

Delinea: 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.

OneTrust: What compliance standards does OneTrust support?

OneTrust covers tech risk and compliance across 50+ standards including GDPR, SOC 2, EU AI Act, DORA and NIS2.

Source

Delinea: 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.

OneTrust: Does OneTrust automate data detection?

Yes. OneTrust automatically detects and classifies sensitive data across 200+ connectors, identifying where data lives and what regulatory requirements apply.

Source

Delinea vs OneTrust

Delinea

OneTrust

The short version

Where they differ

What each one covers

Only in Delinea

Only in OneTrust

What people use each for

Delinea

OneTrust

Where each one falls short

Delinea

OneTrust

Pricing, plan by plan

Delinea

OneTrust

Which should you pick?

Choose Delinea if

Choose OneTrust if

Questions people ask

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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