How StrongDM compares
Supports 100+ protocols (both cloud-native & on-prem) including DBs, Amazon EC2, MongoDB, Redis, Kubernetes, Docker & more
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Completeness of Offering
Supports 100+ Protocols, including Databases, EC2, MongoDB, Redis, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud resources

Built to support a variety of cloud networks, including public, private, multi-cloud, and hybrid



Complete identity lifecycle management, including all joiner, mover, leaver flows (Integrates with an existing IdP: Google, Okta, OneLogin, SAML, and more)
Logs all database queries, SSH, RDP sessions and kubectl activity



Ease of Use
No install on servers
Multiple and concurrent vault support


Proxy design allowing for native resource connectivity and infinite scale



Security
Credentials / keys are never exposed to end users
High availability
Disaster recovery
Actionable reporting (unused privileged access, sensitive resource access grants, and access review)
Pricing
Cost / User
Cost / Resource






Completeness of Offering
Completeness of Offering
Completeness of Offering
Completeness of Offering
Supports 100+ Protocols, including Databases, EC2, MongoDB, Redis, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud resources
Supports 100+ Protocols, including Databases, EC2, MongoDB, Redis, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud resources

Supports 100+ Protocols, including Databases, EC2, MongoDB, Redis, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud resources
Supports 100+ Protocols, including Databases, EC2, MongoDB, Redis, Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud resources
Built to support a variety of cloud networks, including public, private, multi-cloud, and hybrid
Built to support a variety of cloud networks, including public, private, multi-cloud, and hybrid

Built to support a variety of cloud networks, including public, private, multi-cloud, and hybrid

Built to support a variety of cloud networks, including public, private, multi-cloud, and hybrid

Complete identity lifecycle management, including all joiner, mover, leaver flows (Integrates with an existing IdP: Google, Okta, OneLogin, SAML, and more)
Complete identity lifecycle management, including all joiner, mover, leaver flows (Integrates with an existing IdP: Google, Okta, OneLogin, SAML, and more)
Complete identity lifecycle management, including all joiner, mover, leaver flows (Integrates with an existing IdP: Google, Okta, OneLogin, SAML, and more)
Complete identity lifecycle management, including all joiner, mover, leaver flows (Integrates with an existing IdP: Google, Okta, OneLogin, SAML, and more)
Logs all database queries, SSH, RDP sessions and kubectl activity
Logs all database queries, SSH, RDP sessions and kubectl activity

Logs all database queries, SSH, RDP sessions and kubectl activity

Logs all database queries, SSH, RDP sessions and kubectl activity

Ease of Use
Ease of Use
Ease of Use
Ease of Use
No install on servers
No install on servers
No install on servers
No install on servers
Multiple and concurrent vault support
Multiple and concurrent vault support

Multiple and concurrent vault support

Multiple and concurrent vault support
Proxy design allowing for native resource connectivity and infinite scale
Proxy design allowing for native resource connectivity and infinite scale

Proxy design allowing for native resource connectivity and infinite scale

Proxy design allowing for native resource connectivity and infinite scale

Security
Security
Security
Security
Credentials / keys are never exposed to end users
Credentials / keys are never exposed to end users
Credentials / keys are never exposed to end users
Credentials / keys are never exposed to end users
High availability
High availability
High availability
High availability
Disaster recovery
Disaster recovery
Disaster recovery
Disaster recovery
Actionable reporting (unused privileged access, sensitive resource access grants, and access review)
Actionable reporting (unused privileged access, sensitive resource access grants, and access review)
Actionable reporting (unused privileged access, sensitive resource access grants, and access review)
Actionable reporting (unused privileged access, sensitive resource access grants, and access review)
Pricing
Pricing
Pricing
Pricing
Cost / User
Cost / User
Cost / User
Cost / User
Cost / Resource

Cost / Resource

Cost / Resource

Cost / Resource

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Before StrongDM it would take up to a week to get someone provisioned. With StrongDM we can now do that in minutes.

Ali Khan
CISO, Better
We used StrongDM to instantly deliver results to our auditors, which really simplified the SOC 2 process.

Jon Hyman
Co-Founder & CTO, Braze
After StrongDM, we were able to cut their VPN access, so they didn’t have that insecure access to the entire private network.

Dave Anderson
Director of InfoSec, Greenhouse Software
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