Delinea is the result of the 2021 Thycotic + Centrify merger — Secret Server (the original Thycotic vault) plus Centrify's endpoint and identity heritage. It's a strong mid-to-enterprise PAM platform. Like CyberArk and BeyondTrust, pricing is private and contracts trend toward multi-year. Innovexus targets teams who want PAM without the enterprise contract overhead — the platform is free and open source — and who need NOC and SOC alongside the credential vault.
Delinea pricing is quote-based and depends heavily on which products you license: Secret Server (vault), Privileged Access Service (cloud PAM), Account Lifecycle Manager, Privilege Manager (endpoint), and Server Suite. Industry estimates put a typical mid-market deployment at $10,000–$40,000 per year with enterprise deployments well above that. Innovexus is free — no licence, no seats, no quote; your only cost is the infrastructure you run the appliance on.
Delinea pricing is not publicly listed. Estimates here are derived from analyst reports, customer disclosures on Gartner Peer Insights and G2, and partner-channel pricing references. Your actual quote will depend on product mix, user counts, and contract terms.
Delinea is really three product families inside one brand: Secret Server (the Thycotic vault), Privileged Access Service (cloud PAM, originally Centrify), and Privilege Manager (endpoint privilege management). Innovexus overlaps mainly with Secret Server / Privileged Access Service — the credential vault and session management. The honest comparison depends on which Delinea products you actually use.
Delinea customers usually keep Secret Server because it's a solid product. They switch when contract economics, the rest-of-stack gap, or operational simplicity become bigger drivers than feature parity.
Multi-year Delinea contracts often include price escalators and per-product line items that compound at renewal. With Innovexus there is nothing to model — the licence line is zero this year, next year, and at every renewal that never comes. The savings show up in budget meetings, not just in line-item comparison.
A common pattern: a team licensed Delinea for Secret Server and got Privilege Manager bundled in or on the roadmap. They never deployed endpoint privilege at scale, but they're paying for it (or for the larger licence band that includes the option). Innovexus does the vault and session management without the bundled product you don't use.
Delinea is PAM-focused. Once your team also needs network operations, configuration drift detection, threat detection, and SOC analytics, you're running multiple tools. Innovexus puts those workspaces inside the same console, on the same identity and audit model — for free.
Self-hosted Secret Server requires patching, hardening, backup management, and HA configuration across multiple components that small teams underinvest in. Innovexus is also self-hosted, but it ships as a single virtual appliance — one image to deploy, one image to update, with the whole platform inside it. You still run it yourself; there's just far less of it to run.
Delinea has real strengths. Here's when we'd recommend Delinea over Innovexus on a discovery call.
We'd rather lose your evaluation honestly than win it on a sales pitch you'll regret. If any of the above describes you, we genuinely think Delinea is the better pick — and we'll say so on a call.
Direct, sourced answers to the questions teams ask when evaluating Innovexus as a Delinea alternative.
Delinea pricing is private and varies widely by product mix, region, and partner. Industry estimates put mid-market deployments at $10,000–$40,000 per year, with enterprise deployments above that. Innovexus is free — no licence, no seat count, no subscription — so for a mid-market team using Secret Server and basic session management, switching removes the annual licensing line entirely. Your remaining costs are the infrastructure the appliance runs on and the time to operate it. The trade narrows if you use Delinea's deeper enterprise products (Account Lifecycle Manager, Privilege Manager, Server Suite).
Yes, for the common cases — service accounts vaulted in Innovexus rotate on schedule, sessions are brokered through the self-hosted appliance, and audit captures every credential retrieval. We do not match Delinea Account Lifecycle Manager's depth on automated service-account discovery across very large estates (10,000+ accounts) or on complex application-credential injection workflows. For mid-market teams with a few hundred service accounts, Innovexus is sufficient. For enterprise estates with thousands, evaluate Delinea's ALM as well.
For mid-market deployments using Secret Server's core features — vaulted credentials, password rotation, session recording, audit, basic compliance reporting — yes. Innovexus replaces those workflows at zero licence cost. Migration involves exporting Secret Server data via the standard export tools and importing into Innovexus, then redefining policies in Innovexus's model. Typical timeline: 2–4 weeks for a 25–50 admin team. For very large or heavily customised Secret Server deployments, the migration labour may exceed the savings even with a free destination.
Innovexus does not provide endpoint privilege management. We focus on network device PAM and infrastructure access. If local-admin elevation, application control, or managed privilege workflows on Windows/macOS endpoints are core requirements, Delinea Privilege Manager, BeyondTrust EPM, or CyberArk EPM are the right tools. We won't pretend otherwise.
Secret Server export → CSV/JSON → Innovexus import is supported and documented. Privileged session policies, role-based access controls, and password rotation policies need to be redefined because the policy engines differ. Typical migration is 2–4 weeks for a 25–50 admin team, including parallel-run period and cutover. We'll do this together on a discovery call. If you have heavily customised Secret Server policies or extensive third-party integrations, migration may not be worth the savings — we'll tell you that honestly.
Yes, for the common case: a team running Secret Server (or Privileged Access Service) with 25–250 admin users, basic session recording, standard policy controls, SAML/OIDC SSO, and compliance reporting against SOC 2, ISO 27001, or PCI-DSS. Innovexus handles those workflows for free. Switching eliminates the licence line and the renewal event entirely, and adds the bundled NOC and SOC workspaces. The fit weakens if you use Delinea's enterprise-only modules (full ALM, Privilege Manager, Server Suite) or have heavy Unix identity bridging requirements.
If you're paying for Delinea modules you don't use, or if you need NOC and SOC alongside the credential vault, download the Innovexus appliance from innovexus.io/downloads — a free account is all it takes, and it boots in minutes. If we're not the right fit, we'll say so.