Which scores higher, Delinea or BeyondTrust?

BeyondTrust, at 4.5 overall against 4.3. BeyondTrust scores higher on three dimensions: authorization at 4.5 against 4.0, governance and audit at 4.5 against 4.0, and deployment flexibility at 4.5 against 4.0. The other seven dimensions tie, including authentication, MFA and passwordless, developer experience, pricing transparency, and support and ecosystem. Delinea does not lead any scored dimension, so its case has to be made on things the rubric does not measure, such as operational footprint and the shape of its recent acquisitions.

What did BeyondTrust get from Entitle?

BeyondTrust announced the Entitle acquisition on 16 April 2024. Entitle discovers, manages, and automates just-in-time access and cloud identity governance, with automated provisioning workflows, self-serve access requests, and more than 150 integrations across infrastructure and SaaS. It brought time-bounded, as-needed provisioning of cloud resources into a portfolio whose strengths were password and session management, endpoint privilege, and remote access.

Does either of these replace your identity provider?

No. Both are privileged access platforms that sit alongside a workforce identity provider such as Okta or Microsoft Entra ID, consuming identity and single sign-on from it rather than replacing it. Both score 4.0 on authentication and 3.5 on SSO and federation in our rubric, which is respectable for a PAM tool and well below what a dedicated identity platform scores. Plan for both, not one.

Delinea vs BeyondTrust

Q: What has Delinea acquired recently?

Delinea was itself formed from the 2021 merger of Thycotic and Centrify under TPG. It then added Authomize for identity threat capability, announced the acquisition of Fastpath in February 2024 for identity governance and access review, and completed the acquisition of StrongDM on 5 March 2026 for just-in-time runtime authorization. Delinea's own site now describes the result as an identity security control plane for every human, machine, and AI identity, with Fastpath access control, provisioning, review, and change tracking modules listed alongside Secret Server.

The honest comparison

Delinea and BeyondTrust are the two vendors most shortlists reach for when CyberArk is judged too heavy. They turn up on the same shortlist often, with similar mid-market to enterprise reach and similar quote-based commercial models. Our rubric ties them on seven of ten dimensions.

BeyondTrust takes the other three. It scores 4.5 against 4.0 on authorization, on governance and audit, and on deployment flexibility, and 4.5 against 4.3 overall. That is worth stating plainly rather than balancing away: Delinea does not lead a single scored dimension here. Its case rests on things the rubric does not capture, chiefly a lighter operational footprint and the direction of its acquisitions.

Those acquisitions are the real story of the last two years. Delinea, backed by TPG since 2021, announced its acquisition of Fastpath in February 2024 for governance modules and then completed its acquisition of StrongDM on 5 March 2026 for just-in-time runtime authorization over cloud-native infrastructure. Delinea's own site now presents the result as an identity security control plane for human, machine, and AI identity, with Secret Server and Fastpath modules under one platform. BeyondTrust moved earlier and narrower, acquiring Entitle on 16 April 2024 for cloud just-in-time access and self-serve requests across more than 150 integrations, and has otherwise defended a position it already held.

That position is endpoint privilege management, which is the part of this comparison a matrix does not show. Standing local administrator rights are a routine enabler of ransomware, and BeyondTrust's ability to strip them while still allowing approved elevation is the capability buyers most often name when they pick it. Its Remote Support heritage gives it the better story for recording and controlling third-party vendor access too, which is a distinct problem from privileged access for employees.

When Delinea wins

You want vaulting, governance, and runtime authorization under one roadmap rather than assembled from separate vendors
Secret Server's approachability matters because the team running this is small and not full-time on PAM
Cloud-native and ephemeral infrastructure is a growing share of the estate, which is what the StrongDM acquisition was bought to cover
Access review and change tracking through Fastpath modules would otherwise be a separate governance purchase

When BeyondTrust wins

Removing standing local admin rights across endpoints is the security outcome the program is funded for
Third-party and vendor remote access needs recording and control, which is BeyondTrust's Remote Support heritage
The scorecard carries weight in your decision, and BeyondTrust takes authorization, governance and audit, and deployment flexibility
Buying a settled platform beats buying one still absorbing an acquisition that closed in March 2026

Pricing

Both are quote-based and both score 3.0 on pricing transparency, a tie. Delinea prices across vaulting, session management, and cloud privilege modules with SaaS and self-hosted options, and StrongDM's per-user model now sits alongside that; ask explicitly how the two are licensed together, because that packaging is new. BeyondTrust prices modularly across password and session management, endpoint privilege, and remote access, and the endpoint privilege module is often the largest line for a large workforce. Neither publishes a number, so count endpoints, privileged accounts, and third-party users before the first call and model it in the TCO calculator.

Verdict

Choose BeyondTrust when endpoint privilege management or controlled third-party remote access is the reason the project exists, and when you want the option our rubric scores higher. Choose Delinea when you want a single roadmap across vaulting, governance, and cloud runtime access, and can accept an integration that is still recent. Our assessment is that this decision usually follows the estate rather than the scorecard: a large managed-endpoint fleet points to BeyondTrust, a fast-growing cloud estate points to Delinea. For the enterprise tier see CyberArk vs BeyondTrust, for the cloud-access angle see StrongDM vs CyberArk, and browse the PAM category.