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Passbolt vs Trend Micro Vision One

Passbolt logo

Passbolt

Cybersecurity

Open-source password manager for teams with self-hosted or cloud deployment

From
Free
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
Trend Micro Vision One logo

Trend Micro Vision One

Cybersecurity

XDR platform correlating Trend Micro's endpoint, email, server, cloud and network sensors, licensed through a shared credit pool.

From
$75/year
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Only Passbolt has a free tier, so it costs nothing to try first.
  • Each has a real cost: Passbolt pro Edition requires a minimum of 10 users, making it costlier for very small teams.; Trend Micro Vision One licensing is a credit pool consumed at different rates by different modules, so forecasting a renewal means modelling which capabilities you will activate rather than counting users, and switching on a new module silently draws down the budget for an existing one.
  • They diverge on capability: Passbolt covers Password sharing and folders, Trend Micro Vision One covers Cross-layer correlation.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 30 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Passbolt and Trend Micro Vision One actually diverge.

Attributes where Passbolt and Trend Micro Vision One differ
AttributePassboltTrend Micro Vision One
Starting priceFree$75/year
Pricing modelopen-sourcesubscription
Free tierYesNo
Platformsweb, windows, mac, linux, apiWeb, Desktop, Cloud
FoundedUnknown1988

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 Passbolt

  • Password sharing and folders
  • Groups and role-based access
  • Browser extensions and CLI
  • Open API
  • LDAP provisioning and SSO
  • Activity audit log

Only in Trend Micro Vision One

  • Cross-layer correlation
  • Virtual patching
  • Workbench and search
  • Email sensor
  • Attack surface risk management
  • Container and cloud posture
  • Response actions
  • Credit-based licensing

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Passbolt

  • Self-hosting a team password manager for data sovereigntynot Trend Micro Vision One
  • Provisioning vault access from an existing LDAP/AD directorynot Trend Micro Vision One
  • Sharing credentials across engineering or IT teams via folders and groupsnot Trend Micro Vision One
  • Automating credential retrieval through the CLI or open APInot Trend Micro Vision One

Trend Micro Vision One

  • A datacentre estate carrying unpatchable or end-of-life servers where virtual patching provides cover that patching cannotnot Passbolt
  • An organisation already running Trend endpoint and email that wants correlation across them without buying a separate XDR vendornot Passbolt
  • Mid-market security teams that want one console and one contract rather than integrating four vendors themselvesnot Passbolt
  • Regulated organisations needing a specific hosting region for detection telemetry rather than a single global instancenot Passbolt

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Passbolt

  • Pro Edition requires a minimum of 10 users, making it costlier for very small teams.
  • Community Edition lacks SSO and LDAP provisioning, which many organizations need for onboarding at scale.
  • Self-hosting the Community Edition requires infrastructure and maintenance effort compared to fully managed competitors.
  • Enterprise-tier support and HA consulting require custom, quote-based pricing rather than transparent rates.

Trend Micro Vision One

  • Licensing is a credit pool consumed at different rates by different modules, so forecasting a renewal means modelling which capabilities you will activate rather than counting users, and switching on a new module silently draws down the budget for an existing one.
  • Retention in the XDR data lake beyond the included window is bought with additional credits, so the retrospective hunting the platform is sold on is precisely the part with an ongoing meter attached, and teams shorten retention to control spend.
  • The correlation that justifies the platform only exists over deployed Trend sensors, so an organisation running only the endpoint agent gets an EDR with a large console, and reaching the advertised value means a de facto single-vendor commitment across email, network and workload.
  • Legacy management planes persist: Apex Central, Deep Security Manager and the older Cloud One consoles overlap with Vision One and migrations have run for years, so administrators frequently maintain two consoles for the same agents and learn both.
  • The agents hook file and network operations, so on build servers, database hosts and developer machines the overhead is noticeable, and the standard remedy is broad path exclusions that remove protection from exactly the directories where attackers stage tooling.

Pricing, plan by plan

Passbolt

Free
  • Community EditionFree
    • Unlimited users
    • Password sharing and folders
    • Role-based access control
  • Pro Edition$4.9/month
    • Minimum 10 users, billed annually
    • LDAP/AD provisioning
    • Single sign-on
  • Enterprise Edition$undefined/month
    • High availability and disaster recovery consulting
    • White-glove migration
    • Custom feature development

Trend Micro Vision One

$75/year
  • Vision One Essentials$75/year
    • XDR analytics
    • Threat intelligence
    • Risk insights
  • Vision One Standard$125/year
    • All Essentials features
    • Attack surface management
    • Automated response
  • Vision One Advanced$200/year
    • All Standard features
    • Managed XDR
    • 24/7 monitoring

Which should you pick?

Choose Passbolt if

  • You need password sharing and folders.
  • You want to start without paying.
  • You work on web, windows, mac, linux, api.
  • You also want groups and role-based access.
Passbolt review

Choose Trend Micro Vision One if

  • You need cross-layer correlation.
  • You work on Web, Desktop, Cloud.
  • You also want virtual patching.
Trend Micro Vision One review

Questions people ask

Is Passbolt or Trend Micro Vision One better?
Neither clearly leads. Passbolt starts at Free and Trend Micro Vision One at $75/year, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Passbolt or Trend Micro Vision One?
Passbolt has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at Free for Passbolt and $75/year for Trend Micro Vision One.
Does Passbolt or Trend Micro Vision One run on more platforms?
Passbolt runs on web, windows, mac, linux, api. Trend Micro Vision One runs on Web, Desktop, Cloud.
Can I use Passbolt for free?
Yes. Passbolt has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Trend Micro Vision One starts at $75/year.
What is Passbolt best used for?
Passbolt is most often used for self-hosting a team password manager for data sovereignty, provisioning vault access from an existing ldap/ad directory, sharing credentials across engineering or it teams via folders and groups, automating credential retrieval through the cli or open api. Of those, self-hosting a team password manager for data sovereignty and provisioning vault access from an existing ldap/ad directory are not what Trend Micro Vision One is typically brought in for.
What can Passbolt do that Trend Micro Vision One cannot?
Passbolt covers Password sharing and folders, Groups and role-based access, Browser extensions and CLI, Open API. Trend Micro Vision One covers Cross-layer correlation, Virtual patching, Workbench and search, Email sensor.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Passbolt: Is Passbolt free to use?

Yes. The Community Edition is free forever with unlimited users, including password sharing, folders, groups, role-based access, browser extensions, a CLI, and an open API.

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Trend Micro Vision One: What are Trend Micro Credits?

A single purchased pool of licensing units drawn down by whichever Vision One modules you activate, at different rates per module and per protected object. It replaces separate per-product subscriptions and shifts the forecasting problem onto you.

Passbolt: What does the Pro Edition cost and add?

Pro Edition costs $4.90 per user per month billed annually, with a 10-user minimum, and adds LDAP/AD provisioning, single sign-on, account recovery escrow, activity audit logs, and next-business-day support.

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Trend Micro Vision One: Is this the same thing as Deep Security?

Not the same, but related. Server and workload protection in Vision One descends from Deep Security, and Trend has been migrating Deep Security and Cloud One Workload Security customers onto the Vision One platform. Existing Deep Security deployments still exist in the field.

Passbolt: What license is Passbolt distributed under?

All Passbolt editions, including Pro and Enterprise, are distributed under the AGPL v3 open-source license.

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Trend Micro Vision One: Does it replace my SIEM?

No. It correlates and retains telemetry from Trend sensors and selected third parties, but it is not a general-purpose log store for every system in the estate, and compliance log retention requirements are usually still met elsewhere.

Trend Micro Vision One: Do I have to use Trend endpoint protection?

To get real value, effectively yes. Third-party ingestion exists but the correlation quality depends on Trend's own sensor telemetry, and a Vision One deployment over someone else's endpoint agent is not what the platform is designed around.

Trend Micro Vision One: Where is the data held?

In the regional instance you choose at onboarding. Confirm the specific region against your residency obligations before deployment, because moving afterwards is a migration.

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