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Delinea
Privileged access management from the merged Thycotic and Centrify
As of 1 September 2026, Delinea's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. A privileged access platform formed by merging Thycotic and Centrify in 2021 under Thoma Bravo, covering secret vaulting, privileged session management and endpoint privilege control. Softwr lists it under Cybersecurity. Delinea is available on Web, Windows, Linux, macOS.
Overview
What Delinea does
Delinea sells privileged access management: Secret Server for credential vaulting and rotation, Privilege Manager for removing local administrator rights on endpoints, Server PAM for privileged access to Linux and Windows servers, and Privileged Behaviour Analytics. The company was created in 2021 when Thoma Bravo merged Thycotic, whose strength was the Secret Server vault, with Centrify, whose strength was identity-based server access. The distinguishing point is that Secret Server remains one of the easier privileged access vaults to actually deploy. Enterprise PAM projects fail regularly because the deployment is more disruptive than the risk it removes, and Delinea's vault is repeatedly chosen by mid-market organisations that failed to complete a CyberArk rollout. Time to a working vault is the practical differentiator, not feature count. Buyers are mid-market and enterprise security teams, frequently driven by a cyber insurance requirement or an audit finding rather than by choice. The trade-off is the merged portfolio. Capabilities from the two lineages are integrated to varying degrees, licensing is per privileged user or per secret depending on the module, and Delinea does not publish rates on its own site; UK public sector G-Cloud listings have shown Secret Server Cloud Professional around 348 pounds per user per year, which is a useful reference point rather than a quotable price.
What people use it 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
The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about 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.
Cross-shopped
What people choose instead of Delinea
Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.
- DelineavsKeeper
Keeper: Keeper for smaller organisations wanting credential vaulting without a full PAM programme
- Delineavs1Password
1Password: 1Password Business where the real need is team credential hygiene rather than audited privileged sessions
Pricing
What Delinea costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Secret Server
On request
- Priced per privileged user, tiered by edition
- Cloud or on premises deployment
- Session recording in higher editions
- Annual subscription
Privilege Manager
On request
- Priced per endpoint
- Local admin rights removal and application elevation
- Licensed separately from Secret Server
Server PAM
On request
- Priced per managed server or per privileged user
- Just-in-time server access
- Licensed separately
Capabilities
Features
Secret Server
Vaulting, rotation and check-out of privileged credentials
Privileged session recording
Records and audits sessions launched through the vault
Privilege Manager
Removes local administrator rights and elevates specific applications
Server PAM
Just-in-time privileged access to Linux and Windows servers
Discovery
Finds unmanaged privileged accounts across the estate
DevOps secrets
Machine credential and API key management for pipelines
Behaviour analytics
Flags anomalous use of privileged credentials
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
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.
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.
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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- One Identity
- Saviynt
- HashiCorp Vault
- 1Password
- BeyondTrust
- Infisical
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- Akeyless
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- Teleport
- Doppler
- ProtonVPN
- Resolver
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