# HashiCorp Vault (HCP) pricing (2026): plans, cost, and compliance

**Entry price:** $0 (free)/mo (Community Edition (Self-Hosted)). Among the 5 secrets management we track it is the cheapest; median entry $0/mo.
**Domain:** hashicorp.com
**Free tier:** Yes
**Compliance:** HIPAA Not published · SOC 2 Yes · GDPR Not published
**Integrations:** AWS (IAM, KMS, RDS), Azure Active Directory, GCP, Kubernetes (CSI Driver, Agent Injector), Terraform, LDAP / Active Directory, PKI / Certificate Authority, GitHub Actions
**Best for:** Large enterprises requiring self-hosted secrets infrastructure with full control; Teams building zero-trust architectures with dynamic credentials; Organizations with strict data residency or HSM requirements; Kubernetes-heavy deployments using Vault Agent Injector or CSI Driver
**Price tracked since:** June 2026

## Plans

| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Billing | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Community Edition (Self-Hosted) | $0 | — | flat | Open source, self-hosted. No HA, no disaster recovery, no namespaces. Infrastructure costs borne by operator. | developer.hashicorp.com |
| HCP Vault Dedicated — Development (XS) | Quote-only | — | flat | VERIFIER NOTE (2026-06-15): monthlyUsd set to null — figure unconfirmed. The Infisical blog source listed ~$0.62/hr (~$450/mo), but official HashiCorp docs (developer.hashicorp.com/hcp/docs/vault tiers-and-features) and independent sources (EnvManager) consistently price the single-node Development tier at ~$0.03/hr (~$22/mo) with no per-client fee (max 25 clients included). The $450 figure conflicts with the official-leaning sources and could not be independently confirmed, so it was nullified rather than asserted. Per-client fee of $72.92/month per client applies only on Essentials/Standard tiers, not Development. | infisical.com |
| HCP Vault Dedicated — Essentials Small | $1152 | — | flat | ~$1.58/hr (~$1,152/mo). Additional per-client fee of $72.92/month per client. Medium ~$3.16/hr (~$2,307/mo), Large ~$7.49/hr (~$5,468/mo). Source is Infisical's 2026 pricing guide citing official HCP portal rates. | infisical.com |
| HCP Vault Dedicated — Standard Small | $1345 | — | flat | ~$1.84/hr (~$1,345/mo). Medium ~$3.69/hr (~$2,694/mo), Large ~$9.41/hr (~$6,870/mo). Additional per-client fee of $72.92/month per client. Source is Infisical's 2026 pricing guide citing official HCP portal rates. | infisical.com |
| Vault Enterprise (Self-Hosted) | Quote-only | — | custom | Quote-only. Annual subscription pricing. Includes DR replication, namespaces, HSM support, Sentinel policies. Street pricing reportedly ~$14,238/year for small deployments per third-party sources. | hashicorp.com |

**Key features:** Dynamic secrets — generates short-lived credentials per request for databases, cloud IAM, PKI; Lease and renewal system for automatic secret expiry; Namespace isolation for multi-tenant deployments (Enterprise); HSM integration and FIPS 140-2/3 support (Enterprise); Comprehensive plugin ecosystem for auth methods and secret engines.

**Plan limits:** Community Edition: self-hosted only, no HA, no DR, no namespaces, no Enterprise features; HCP Vault Development cluster: max 25 clients; HCP Vault Secrets SaaS: discontinued August 2025; Enterprise: per-node or per-client pricing, quote-only.

Sources: 3 · Last verified 2026-06-14
Provenance: Official HashiCorp pricing page (hashicorp.com/en/pricing?tab=vault) returned only Terraform pricing with no Vault USD figures. HCP Vault Dedicated cluster pricing sourced from Infisical's 2026 HashiCorp Vault Pricing guide (infisical.com/blog/hashicorp-vault-pricing) which cites official HCP portal rates. NOTE: HCP Vault Starter tier and HCP Vault Secrets SaaS were discontinued as of August 2025. Vault Community Edition remains free and self-hosted. Enterprise pricing is quote-only.
Canonical: https://frontdeskreview.com/software/secrets-management/hashicorp-vault/
Cite: Per The Front Desk Review, HashiCorp Vault (HCP)'s entry plan was $0 (free)/mo as of 2026-06-14 — https://frontdeskreview.com/software/secrets-management/hashicorp-vault/
License: CC BY 4.0. Price history: https://frontdeskreview.com/data/price-history.jsonl