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# Teleport vs HashiCorp Vault

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

Last updated 3 weeks ago

Quick answer

## Teleport vs HashiCorp Vault: which should you choose?

Short answer

Teleport vs HashiCorp Vault 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

Teleport: Engineering and platform teams that need secure, audited infrastructure access without the overhead of traditional PAM tools. Particularly strong for cloud-native environments, Kubernetes-heavy infrastructure, and organizations that want to eliminate static SSH keys and database credentials. · HashiCorp Vault: Platform and security teams that need secrets management, dynamic credentials and machine identity at scale.

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[Teleport](/directory/teleport)[HashiCorp Vault](/directory/hashicorp-vault)[IAM Stack Finder](/stack-finder)[Buyer resources](/resources)

Attribute

[Teleport](/directory/teleport)[](https://goteleport.com)

[HashiCorp Vault](/directory/hashicorp-vault)[](https://www.vaultproject.io)

Best for

Engineering and platform teams that need secure, audited infrastructure access without the overhead of traditional PAM tools. Particularly strong for cloud-native environments, Kubernetes-heavy infrastructure, and organizations that want to eliminate static SSH keys and database credentials. 

Platform and security teams that need secrets management, dynamic credentials and machine identity at scale. 

Short description

Teleport provides secure, audited access to SSH, Kubernetes, databases, and internal applications using short-lived certificates and RBAC — designed for engineering teams who need infrastructure access without static credentials. 

Widely used secrets management and machine identity platform, available as open source, enterprise and HCP Vault Dedicated. 

Company size

Startup, Mid-market, Enterprise 

startup, smb, mid\_market, enterprise 

Deployment

Self-hosted, SaaS / Cloud-hosted (Teleport Cloud) 

saas, self\_hosted, hybrid 

Source

Open source (Apache 2.0) — Community Edition; Enterprise is commercial 

open core 

Pricing model

Free Community Edition; Enterprise priced by infrastructure resources; Cloud managed option 

tiered 

Integrations

Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, GitHub, Okta, Azure AD, Slack 

Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, Consul, PostgreSQL, MySQL 

Categories

Privileged Access Management / PAM, Secrets / API Key Management, Developer Authentication 

Machine Identity, Non-Human Identity, Secrets / API Key Management 

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