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HashiCorp Vault pricing
HashiCorp Vault publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open-source
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
HashiCorp Vault plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Source | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
| Vault Enterprise | $6000/year | 4 | +$6000/year, 4 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Open Source
FreeThe entry tier. It covers secrets management, encryption, community support, self-hosted.
Vault Enterprise
$6000/yearOver Open Source, this tier adds:
- Replication
- HSM support
- Advanced audit
- 24/7 support
Where HashiCorp Vault stops being free
Open Source, Free
- Secrets management
- Encryption
- Community support
- Self-hosted
Vault Enterprise, $6000/year
The first thing you pay for:
- Replication
- HSM support
- Advanced audit
- 24/7 support
What the product covers
The full HashiCorp Vault feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- Secret storage
- Dynamic secrets
- Encryption as a service
- Identity-based access
- Audit logging
- Leasing and renewal
- Secret engines
- Auth methods
Integrations
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Jenkins
Security
- Encryption at rest
- TLS in transit
- MFA
- HSM support
Deployment
- On-premise deployment
- Cloud deployment
- Kubernetes deployment
Platform
- Linux support
- Windows support
- Mac support
- Api support
People bring HashiCorp Vault in for secrets management, database credentials, api keys, ssh access, pki and certificates. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to HashiCorp Vault are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
Before you pay for HashiCorp Vault
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between Free and $6000/year, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
HashiCorp Vault runs on linux, windows, mac, api, and is published by HashiCorp of San Francisco, CA. The full record is on the HashiCorp Vault review.
HashiCorp Vault pricing questions
- How much does HashiCorp Vault cost?
- HashiCorp Vault publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Open Source up to $6000/year for Vault Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does HashiCorp Vault have a free plan?
- Yes. The Open Source tier costs nothing and covers secrets management, encryption, community support. Paying starts at $6000/year for Vault Enterprise.
- What is the difference between Open Source and Vault Enterprise on HashiCorp Vault?
- Vault Enterprise costs $6000/year against Free, and adds replication, hsm support, advanced audit, 24/7 support.
- What am I actually paying for with HashiCorp Vault?
- The record lists 25 features across 5 areas: core, integrations, security, deployment, platform. In practice it is brought in for secrets management, database credentials, api keys.
- Does HashiCorp Vault charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these HashiCorp Vault prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare HashiCorp Vault against before paying?
- Nothing else in this directory is filed close enough to HashiCorp Vault to make a useful price comparison.