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# 1Password vs CyberArk

Side-by-side comparison of identity tools. Sponsored placement is disclosed where applicable.

Last updated 3 months ago

Quick answer

## 1Password vs CyberArk: which should you choose?

Short answer

1Password vs CyberArk have overlapping use cases in identity and access management. The right pick depends on your company size, deployment model, integrations, and pricing tolerance — compare those attributes side-by-side below.

Best for

1Password: Organizations that need secure team credential management with excellent user experience, developer secrets management for CI/CD workflows, and a solution that end users will actually adopt without significant training overhead. · CyberArk: Large enterprises and regulated organizations with mature security programs that need comprehensive privileged access security — including human privileged access, application secrets management, and endpoint privilege management. CyberArk is most commonly found in financial services, healthcare, energy, and government sectors.

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Pick the option whose company-size fit, deployment model, and integrations most closely match your stack.

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Related tools & categories

[1Password](/directory/1password)[CyberArk](/directory/cyberark)[IAM Stack Finder](/stack-finder)[Buyer resources](/resources)

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[1Password](/directory/1password)[](https://1password.com)

[CyberArk](/directory/cyberark)[](https://www.cyberark.com)

Best for

Organizations that need secure team credential management with excellent user experience, developer secrets management for CI/CD workflows, and a solution that end users will actually adopt without significant training overhead. 

Large enterprises and regulated organizations with mature security programs that need comprehensive privileged access security — including human privileged access, application secrets management, and endpoint privilege management. CyberArk is most commonly found in financial services, healthcare, energy, and government sectors. 

Short description

1Password Business provides enterprise password and credential management for teams, with 1Password Secrets Automation extending to CI/CD secrets, developer vaults, and service account credentials. 

CyberArk is the market-leading privileged access management (PAM) platform, providing credential vaulting, privileged session management, endpoint privilege management, and secrets management for enterprise security programs. 

Company size

SMB, Mid-market, Enterprise (for team password management) 

Enterprise, Large Enterprise 

Deployment

SaaS / Cloud-hosted 

On-premises, SaaS / Cloud-hosted, Hybrid 

Source

Proprietary 

Proprietary 

Pricing model

Per-user per month; Teams and Business tiers 

Enterprise-negotiated; no published list pricing 

Integrations

Okta, Azure AD, Google Workspace, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Splunk, Slack 

Active Directory, Splunk, ServiceNow, AWS, Azure, GCP, Jira, QRadar 

Categories

Secrets / API Key Management, Privileged Access Management / PAM 

Privileged Access Management / PAM, Secrets / API Key Management, Directory / User Provisioning, Workforce IAM 

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