Cybersecurity · head to head
Delinea vs RoboForm

Delinea
Cybersecurity
Privileged access management from the merged Thycotic and Centrify
- From
- On request
- Rated
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The short version
- Only RoboForm 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.; RoboForm free plan is restricted to a single device; syncing across multiple devices requires the Premium plan
- Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Delinea and RoboForm actually diverge.
Identical on both: 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 RoboForm
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 RoboForm
- A mid-market IT team that abandoned a heavier PAM rollout and needs a vault that can be in production in weeksnot RoboForm
- A company removing local administrator rights from every workstation after a ransomware incidentnot RoboForm
- An audit finding that shared service account passwords are stored in a spreadsheet and used by contractorsnot RoboForm
RoboForm
- Auto-filling passwords across multiple devices and websitesnot Delinea
- Sharing family passwords securely with household membersnot Delinea
- Receiving alerts when credentials appear in data breachesnot Delinea
- Granting emergency access to trusted contacts for account recoverynot Delinea
- Enforcing multi-factor authentication across online accountsnot 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.
RoboForm
- Free plan is restricted to a single device; syncing across multiple devices requires the Premium plan
- Premium's advertised $2.49 per month rate is a first-year discount that renews at $29.88 per year
- Family plan covers only up to 5 accounts and likewise renews at a higher $47.75 per year after the first-year discount
Pricing, plan by plan
Delinea
On request- Secret Server$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
RoboForm
Free- FreeFree
- Unlimited passwords on single device
- Advanced 2FA
- Password breach monitoring 5 emails
- Premium$2.49/month
- Billed annually
- All Free features
- Unlimited devices
- Family$3.98/month
- Billed annually
- Up to 5 Premium accounts
- 30-day money-back guarantee
Which should you pick?
Choose Delinea if
- You need secret server.
- You work on Web, Windows, Linux, macOS.
- You also want privileged session recording.
Questions people ask
- Is Delinea or RoboForm better?
- Neither clearly leads. Delinea starts at On request and RoboForm at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Delinea or RoboForm?
- RoboForm has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at On request for Delinea and Free for RoboForm.
- Does Delinea or RoboForm run on more platforms?
- Delinea runs on Web, Windows, Linux, macOS. RoboForm runs on Web.
- Can I use RoboForm for free?
- Yes. RoboForm 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 RoboForm is typically brought in for.
- What can Delinea do that RoboForm 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.
RoboForm: How much does RoboForm cost?
Premium plan is $2.49 per month when billed annually ($29.88/year renewal rate). Family plan supports up to 5 Premium accounts at $3.98 per month annual. Free plan is available with basic password management.
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.
RoboForm: Is there a money-back guarantee?
Yes, RoboForm offers a 30-day money-back guarantee on all paid plans.
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.
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