Over 5,000 enterprises have put privileged access management on autopilot with ManageEngine!

Ratings from customers of both platforms on Gartner Peer Insights

  • Overall capability score
  • Privileged credential management4.54.5
  • Manage privileged operations4.64.6
  • Eliminate hard-coded passwords4.54.4
  • Automation and adjacent systems integration4.44.4
  • Ease of deployment, administration, and maintenance4.44.4
  • Privileged access logging, reporting and audit, analytics and response4.44.4
  • Workload identity and secrets management4.54.4
  • Pricing flexibility4.54.2
  • Ease of deployment4.54.4
  • Timeliness of vendor response4.44.4

Top reasons why PAM360 is the ideal fit for your modern access management needs

  • BeyondTrust alternative

    PAM360 delivers 219% ROI across enterprise deployments

    PAM360 delivers a documented 219% return on investment (ROI), with payback achieved in under four months and $323,742 accumulated in savings in over three years. Customers have consistently rated PAM360 a 10/10 for economic fit, reflecting how quickly the platform begins delivering value after deployment.

    Simply put, for every dollar spent, organizations see more than three dollars in return, making PAM360 not just a security upgrade, but a sound business decision. You know what you are paying for, what you are getting, and what the returns look like, unlike cases where the real cost only becomes clear once professional services, add-on modules, and multi-year lock-ins start stacking up.

  • Built from the ground up, not acquired

    For over 20 years, ManageEngine has been part of Zoho Corporation, a 28-year-old, privately-held and profitable organization that has stayed true to the notion of building trust through persistent R&D. Our products evolve together, designed with a unified vision to seamlessly integrate and deliver long-term value without any dependency on third-party acquisitions. This commitment has earned the trust of 5,000+ enterprises worldwide who rely on us not just for the offerings, but for the assurance of stability, transparency, and continuity.

    Today's privileged access management (PAM) landscape clearly paints a picture that trust is not built on valuation or market share; it is built on predictability. BeyondTrust, as we know it now—or Bomgar, as earlier customers knew it, or Symark, as the customers before them knew it—has evidently been acquired by different companies in the recent past. The downside of such frequent changes involves frequent displacements in pricing and misplaced product priorities. The general customer base would ideally not opt for a product that undergoes frequent ownership changes, especially if the product deals with critical information such as passwords.

    BeyondTrust teams alternative
  • BeyondTrust business alternative

    When support is one-size-fits-all, someone always gets the short end

    BeyondTrust offers a single level of support across its entire customer base. That means a global enterprise running a complex, multi-region deployment and a small team deploying PAM for the first time are in the same queue, with the same SLAs, and the same resources. What both need is a dedicated resource that knows their deployment. In environments where privileged access is critical, a one-size-fits-all support model is a structural limitation, not just a preference gap.

    ManageEngine offers three distinct support levels so customers can match their coverage to their actual needs. Both free and paid training options are available, and every customer is automatically enrolled in our dedicated customer success program from day one. This includes periodic health checks, proactive issue identification, and direct access to product experts, with no additional cost attached. We offer 24/5 technical support via email, chat, and telephone, with direct toll-free numbers published by region. Periodic product training covers best practices, configurations, and troubleshooting, while regular masterclass sessions and technical webinars keep customers ahead of the curve. Moreover, on-site and remote professional services are also available for implementation, migration, and integrations.

  • Customer experience is the core, not a bonus feature

    BeyondTrust's deployment experience has been a recurring theme in customer feedback. Initial setup and configuration are frequently described as complex and time-consuming, requiring specialist involvement and extended timelines before meaningful controls are fully operational. Beyond setup, the user interface and navigation have also been identified as areas that need improvement. Administrators who cannot find what they need quickly and effectively are more likely to misconfigure policies, overlook alerts, or route around the platform altogether.

    PAM360 is built to get enterprises operational fast. Our implementation timeline runs three to four weeks on average. Upgrades are efficient, with high availability running in master-master or multi-master configurations that have fully automated failover. Scaling to a larger user base requires no architectural overhaul; just direct new app servers to a central SQL cluster. Our platform is built for teams that need to move quickly, not for teams that need to hire specialists to keep things running.

    And the result? PAM360 helps enterprises establish 219% ROI with a rapid four month payback period. That is not a retention number propped up by lock-in mechanics. It is value that shows up early and compounds over time.

    Password Manager alternative to BeyondTrust
  • BeyondTrust business alternative

    Prioritizing transparent pricing with no eleventh-hour surprises

    BeyondTrust's pricing has been noted as uneven across different deployment sizes. Organizations running smaller environments may find the initial numbers competitive. However, as environments grow, the cost profile shifts at an enterprise scale, causing price points to climb well above market average—particularly for privilege elevation and endpoint privilege management capabilities. The combination of longer lock-in periods and tiered pricing cycles means that retention, for many customers, is a structural outcome rather than an effect of product satisfaction.

    PAM360's pricing philosophy inverts this entirely. Our model is based on the number of PAM administrators and not the total number of privileged users performing tasks across target systems. This distinction means that licensing costs do not inflate every time you onboard a new team, expand to a new geography, or scale a new environment.

    Pricing is transparent from day one, with no hidden thresholds that reveal themselves later. On average, ManageEngine PAM customers use two or more solutions from our broader IT management platform and, even with multisolution licenses and professional services combined, they still spend a fraction of what a comparable deployment would cost with BeyondTrust.

  • A cohesive, future-ready IAM ecosystem vs. A portfolio held together by acquisition

    BeyondTrust's current portfolio is the product of multiple acquisitions layered over time, each bringing its own architecture, support model, and integration dependencies. Consolidating these into a coherent platform consumes roadmap bandwidth that could otherwise go toward new capabilities. For customers, this means a product is often still in the process of becoming rather than fully realized.

    ManageEngine takes a different route entirely. Our IAM suite—spanning privileged access, identity governance, single sign-on, and access analytics—was built as a unified platform, not assembled through acquisitions. Every component shares a common architecture, which means integrations do not require custom middleware, upgrades do not break adjacent modules, and new capabilities roll out consistently across the platform.

    This same philosophy also extends beyond IAM. ManageEngine's broader ecosystem covers ITSM, endpoint security, SIEM, IT operations, delivery automation, and IT analytics, all of which are built in-house and designed to work together. For enterprises evaluating PAM, this means privileged access security does not exist in isolation. It connects naturally to the tools your IT and security teams are already using, without the vendor sprawl that comes from stitching together point solutions.

    The result is an environment where customers eliminate vendor fatigue, reduce integration overhead, and get measurable ROI across the full identity life cycle, not just within the PAM boundary. Every component is built to last, evolved with a long-term vision, and supported by an organization that has never needed to acquire its way to capability.

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