Delinea Secret Server vs SolarWinds Passportal comparison

Delinea and SolarWinds are both solutions in the Enterprise Password Managers category. Delinea is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.3, while SolarWinds is ranked #28. Delinea holds a 5.1% mindshare in EPM, compared to SolarWinds’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Delinea users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of SolarWinds users who would recommend it.

Delinea Secret Server

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 16, 2024

Delinea Secret Server and SolarWinds Passportal are solutions for password and secret management. Delinea Secret Server is strong in security and access control, while SolarWinds Passportal offers better integration capabilities.

Features: Delinea Secret Server provides advanced security protocols including role-based access control, auditing, and reporting capabilities. SolarWinds Passportal focuses on integration with IT service platforms, featuring automated password rotation and secure password management.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Delinea Secret Server offers a straightforward deployment process with comprehensive guides and responsive support. SolarWinds Passportal provides cloud-based deployment for flexibility and ease in remote networks. Customer service for both includes personalized support for Delinea and scalable solutions for SolarWinds.

Pricing and ROI: Delinea Secret Server typically involves higher setup costs, balanced by strong security and compliance benefits with favorable ROI over time. SolarWinds Passportal offers competitive pricing with lower initial costs, focusing on integration and operational efficiency for quicker ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Delinea Secret Server

Ranking in Enterprise Password Managers

7th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Privileged Access Management (PAM) (5th), Secrets Management Tools (4th)

SolarWinds Passportal

Ranking in Enterprise Password Managers

28th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Enterprise Password Managers category, the mindshare of Delinea Secret Server is 5.1%, down from 6.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SolarWinds Passportal is 0.7%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise Password Managers Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Delinea Secret Server	5.1%
SolarWinds Passportal	0.7%
Other	94.2%

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Reena Bhardwaj

Senior Quality Analyst at YASH Technologies

Has improved credential security with remote password change and role-based access

I have not faced any significant issues with Delinea Secret Server during this period of time, but we had a problem with a web password filler, which is a template used for accessing a web URL using Secret Server, where we faced some session management issues since session management is not applicable for the web password filler. This should be the improvement that we require from Delinea Secret Server. The session management is not applicable in this case; we can manage the session and have session management inside the remote systems within the organization. However, when it comes to web-related access, we can access directly through Delinea Secret Server. We can access any URL through Secret Server, but the problem is that the session cannot be managed on the web URL due to it having multiple systems. I do not have any other recommendations regarding the improvement of Delinea Secret Server at this time.

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it_user1719516

Remote Network Support Analyst Level 2 at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

With its extension, I can quickly access login information without opening a new browser window

Passportal's stability is okay. However, it goes down a little too often for me to recommend it to somebody else. I can only remember one or two outages with IT Glue. With Passportal, it gets frustrating when you need to reset a password for a client, and you have to put their global admin address in there because what you're doing requires admin privileges. But you can't get in there because Passportal isn't working, and the password might be a 48-character password. If it's down for five minutes, 10 minutes, 20 minutes — that's too long. It's a real inconvenience. It doesn't happen all the time, but I've been at this job two months, and it's probably happened three or four times. I don't like this. I'm used to having it right at my fingertips. I need access now. With the influx of tickets coming in and time management, it needs to be like that.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"I prefer Thycotic because of the security, the fact that it is easy to administer, and the features."

"Its most valuable feature is its main purpose - the password changing and the Heartbeat so the user has access to only their SVN and does not have access to any other. Thycotic's access privileged management tool allows you to grant access to users for a specific period of time and with specific attributes and privileges."

"The ability to give some groups access to different kind of databases with the storage of a password is the most valuable feature."

"The solution is good."

"The discovery engine is really robust and flexible, it had some session management features that are better compared to some other vendors, and overall the GUI is very good and straightforward to operate compared to other solutions."

"Delinea can do it all, so I strongly recommend it."

"I like that you can change the password remotely."

"Technical support is pretty good."

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"I like Passportal's extensions. You can click the particular company you want and go through all the passwords and usernames associated with that company or the specific webpage you're on or their server or whatever. It's a whole lot faster."

"I like Passportal's extensions; you can click the particular company you want and go through all the passwords and usernames associated with that company or the specific webpage you're on or their server or whatever, which is a whole lot faster because I don't have to open up a new browser or use my bookmark or anything like that."

"Passportal is very stable."

"Passportal has the advantage of also being a document management system."

Cons

"I would like to see the shadowing of ongoing terminal sessions (Remote Desktop Mirroring)."

"In many PAM tools, when users request a password checkout, they need to provide justification. However, in my experience across four organizations, nobody actually reads the justifications. Users can simply type anything and get the password. This becomes a risk and compliance issue. There needs to be continuous improvement in this area, focusing on problem identification and mitigation strategies."

"We could definitely use some help with API tokenization. If we had a way to store tokens that would be fabulous."

"When working with larger enterprises Thycotic Secret Server becomes a little cumbersome to work with because they do not allow as much flexibility as some of the other competitors, such as CyberArk. Thycotic Secret Server could improve by being more flexible when it comes to customization, and increase the number of API integrations."

"The tool should integrate additional features like OCR."

"I don't know what kind of a cryptographic it uses to encrypt the password but it should be one of the stronger ones. Some of the cryptos have been accessed by hackers."

"My only negative thing to say about Thycotic would involve the servicing not having been written for 2019."

"The solution could be more user-friendly."

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"Passportal's stability is okay. However, it goes down a little too often for me to recommend it to somebody else."

"It goes down a little too often for me to recommend it to somebody else."

"In the future, I would like the ability to have diagrams, such as those created by Visio, available directly in Passportal."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We have an enterprise license as well as a user license and a support license."

"Pricing is comparable to competing products."

"I would give the price a four on a scale from one to ten, with one being the cheapest and ten being the most expensive. We pay for the license on a yearly basis, and we paid for three years. It costs around 5000 a year."

"Secret Server is expensive when compared to the cost to some alternatives."

"Most customers opt for a yearly license."

"I would rate the pricing a six out of ten, with ten being a high price."

"When comparing the price of Thycotic Secret Server with other solutions it is reasonable."

"It would be beneficial if it were reduced."

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"We pay the license fee monthly and the price is reasonable."

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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

Government

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Company Size

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Large Enterprise

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Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	20
Midsize Enterprise	10
Large Enterprise	25

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Questions from the Community

Looking for recommendations and a pros/cons template for software to detect insider threats

This is an inside-out --- outside-in --- inside-in question, as an insider can be an outsider as well. There is no short answer other than a blend of a PAM tool with Behavioral Analytics and Endpo...

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Which PAM tool do you prefer: CyberArk Privileged Access Manager, One Identity Safeguard, Delinea Secret Server, or BeyondTrust Privileged Remote A

For a banking or financial services use case you should check out SplitSecure. Very easy to deploy and use and splits secrets across devices rather than on cloud servers so you get full cryptograph...

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I think the price for Secret Server is reasonable.

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Comparisons

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Also Known As

Thycotic Secret Server, Delinea Password Reset Server

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Overview

Secret Server is a fully-featured Privileged Access Management (PAM) solution available both on premise and in the cloud. It empowers security and IT ops teams to secure and manage all types of privileged accounts and offers the fastest time to value of any PAM solution.

Delinea

We offer credential injection, reporting, auditing, password change automation, and privileged client documentation capabilities—designed to streamline the technicians' day by placing essential documentation at their fingertips to standardize service delivery.

SolarWinds

Sample Customers

Secure-24, University of San Diego, International Rescue Committee, San Francisco Ballet, Perkins Coie, University of San Diego, D.S.S. Limited, Turbo's Hoet, Eclipse Computing, Cathay Bank, Stellarise, J&R Consulting

InfraNet Solutions, Securus Systems, Nehring Technologies, Doberman Technologies, Show Tech IT Solutions, CRC Data Technologies, Logically

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