Teleport
By Teleport
Infrastructure access for engineers: replaces standing SSH keys and passwords with short-lived certificates for servers, Kubernetes, databases, and internal apps, with every session recorded. Open-core — the source is AGPL-licensed, but official prebuilt Community Edition binaries carry usage restrictions for larger companies, which are steered to the Enterprise edition.
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- Product type
- Software
- Deployment
- SaaSOn-premAgent
- Organization size
- SMBMid-marketEnterprise
- Pricing tier
- Freemium
Capability checklist
PAMHow Teleport measures up against the full Privileged Access Management taxonomy.
- Privileged credential vaulting — not supported
- Stores and rotates admin passwords and keys in an encrypted vault.
- Session recording & monitoring — supported
- Records and can live-monitor privileged sessions for audit and investigation.
- Just-in-time access — supported
- Grants elevated access for a limited time window instead of standing privilege.
- Least-privilege elevation — not supported
- Allows temporary privilege elevation for a specific task rather than full admin rights.
- Secrets management — not supported
- Manages API keys, certificates, and application secrets alongside human credentials.
- Service account management — not supported
- Discovers and rotates credentials for non-human, machine-to-machine accounts.
Alternatives
Other Privileged Access Management tools with overlapping capabilities, sized for similar teams.
Appears in stacks
Real-world stacks that include Teleport.
50-person SaaS startup
A 50-person SaaS startup with a small, generalist IT/security team (no dedicated SOC), a remote-friendly engineering culture, dozens of third-party SaaS tools in daily use, and a budget that favors managed and freemium options over heavyweight enterprise suites.
Solo founder
A one- or two-person, pre-seed to seed-stage startup founder who is also the company's entire IT and security function, running everything from a laptop and a handful of cloud accounts, with no budget for dedicated security headcount or enterprise contracts.
Cloud-native DevSecOps
An engineering-led technology company running its product entirely on containers, Kubernetes, and public cloud infrastructure, where a small platform or security engineering team embeds controls directly into CI/CD pipelines rather than running a traditional SOC, and developers are expected to fix what their own pipeline flags.