Cybersecurity · head to head
Delinea vs Saviynt
Delinea
Cybersecurity
Privileged access management from the merged Thycotic and Centrify
- From
- On request
- Rated
- -
Saviynt
Cybersecurity
Cloud identity governance with privileged access in the same platform
- From
- On request
- Rated
- -
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.; Saviynt implementation typically runs a year or more with a partner, and the cost of that work regularly exceeds the first year subscription, which is rarely in the initial business case.
- They diverge on capability: Delinea covers Secret Server, Saviynt covers Identity governance.
- Prices and features above were last checked on 1 September 2026.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Delinea and Saviynt actually diverge.
Identical on both: starting price (On request), pricing model (quote), 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 Saviynt
- Identity governance
- Access certification
- Segregation of duties
- Privileged access
- Cloud entitlements
- Third party access
- Access request
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 Saviynt
- A mid-market IT team that abandoned a heavier PAM rollout and needs a vault that can be in production in weeksnot Saviynt
- A company removing local administrator rights from every workstation after a ransomware incidentnot Saviynt
- An audit finding that shared service account passwords are stored in a spreadsheet and used by contractorsnot Saviynt
Saviynt
- An enterprise with an audit finding that privileged administrative accounts are excluded from access reviewsnot Delinea
- A healthcare system governing clinician access to Epic alongside corporate applications in one certification campaignnot Delinea
- A company that has to prove segregation of duties in SAP to an external auditor every yearnot Delinea
- A federal contractor needing an identity governance service with FedRAMP authorisationnot 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.
Saviynt
- Implementation typically runs a year or more with a partner, and the cost of that work regularly exceeds the first year subscription, which is rarely in the initial business case.
- Governance quality is limited by HR and application data quality, so organisations with inconsistent joiner records spend the early phases correcting source data rather than certifying access.
- Pricing is per governed identity, so counting contractors, service accounts and non-employee identities materially changes the bill and the definition is worth negotiating explicitly.
- The privileged access module is younger than the governance core and is not a full substitute for a dedicated PAM product in estates with heavy session recording or credential rotation requirements.
- Connectors to less common applications require custom development, and each one adds a maintenance burden that reappears every time the target application changes its API.
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$undefined/year
- Priced per managed server or per privileged user
- Just-in-time server access
- Licensed separately
Saviynt
On request- Saviynt Identity Cloud$undefined/year
- Priced per governed identity per year
- Modules for governance, privileged access and cloud entitlements
- SaaS delivery with FedRAMP authorised offering available
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 Saviynt better?
- Neither clearly leads. Delinea starts at On request and Saviynt at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Delinea or Saviynt?
- Delinea starts at On request and Saviynt at On request.
- Does Delinea or Saviynt run on more platforms?
- Delinea runs on Web, Windows, Linux, macOS. Saviynt runs on Web.
- 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 Saviynt is typically brought in for.
- What can Delinea do that Saviynt cannot?
- Delinea covers Secret Server, Privileged session recording, Privilege Manager, Server PAM. Saviynt covers Identity governance, Access certification, Segregation of duties, Privileged access.
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.
Saviynt: Does Saviynt replace a PAM vendor?
It can for time-bound privileged access, but organisations with heavy session recording, credential rotation or legacy server access requirements often keep a dedicated PAM product alongside it.
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.
Saviynt: Is there a FedRAMP authorised version?
Yes, Saviynt offers a FedRAMP authorised government cloud offering, which matters where that is an eligibility requirement rather than a preference.
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.
Saviynt: How is it priced?
Per governed identity per year, quoted. Define carefully whether service accounts and contractors count toward the identity total.
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