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StrongDM (a Delinea company) logoStrongDM

StrongDM (a Delinea company)

4.3/5
activpayroll logoactivpayroll

activpayroll

4.0/5
ROI categoryrisk compliancerisk compliance
Time-to-ValueSame day (hours to deploy) (~1d)About 6 months for a multi-country rollout (~180d)
Typical annual TCO$0/yr$0/yr
Starting price$0/yr$0/yr
Implementation feeNoneNone
Seat tiersNo published seat tiers or minimums; per-user pricing is quoted by sales.Not published; engagement scoped per country and employee count
Implementation friction1/54/5
Friction meter
Best forSecurity, platform and SRE teams that need just-in-time, least-privilege access to production databases, servers, Kubernetes and cloud consoles.; Engineering orgs that want one agentless gateway across 141 resource types, including AI agent and MCP clients, without rip-and-replace.; Companies that must produce granular audit trails, session recordings and approval evidence for audits and incident forensics.; Teams already running Delinea Secret Server, CyberArk or HashiCorp Vault that want to extend, not replace, that investment.; Enterprises with hybrid cloud and on-prem infrastructure that want to eliminate standing privilege and exposed credentials.Multinational employers running payroll in many countries who want one provider and one governance model; Companies consolidating multiple in-country payroll providers into a single global model; HR and finance teams that need payroll wired into HRIS/HCM systems such as Workday, UKG, HiBob, Sage People or Cornerstone; Organisations with internationally mobile staff needing assignment payroll, expat tax and mobility coordination
Not forSmall teams wanting a self-serve, credit-card purchase; StrongDM is per-user priced and sold through demos and sales.; Buyers looking only for SaaS application SSO or a low-cost developer VPN rather than infrastructure access control.; Organizations that require a published list price or a free tier before they will run a pilot.; Teams unwilling to route infrastructure traffic through a brokering gateway, or that will only accept on-box agents.Single-country employers with simple domestic payroll needs; Buyers who want self-serve payroll software with no managed-service layer; Teams that require published, self-checkout pricing before evaluation; Very small headcounts where a global managed payroll model is disproportionate

Stack fit matrix

SalesforceNot supportedNot supported
AWSNativeNot supported
SnowflakeNativeNot supported
HubSpotNot supportedNot supported
Google WorkspaceNativeNot supported
Microsoft 365IntegrationNot supported
SAPNativeNot supported
SlackIntegrationNot supported
MCP (Model Context Protocol)IntegrationNot supported

Compliance

SOC 2 Not listed Not listed
ISO 27001 Not listed Not listed
GDPR Not listed Not listed
HIPAA Not listed Not listed
FedRAMP Not listed Not listed
ISO 42001 Not listed Not listed
IAPP AIGPnamed staff Not listed Not listed
AI app-builder checkwhat this checksNo cautionNot checked yet

Company & support

Who is behind each solution, and how you reach support. “Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention a channel, not that it is unavailable.

FoundedNot recorded2001 (25 yrs)
HeadquartersNot recordedNot recorded
PhoneNot listedNot listed
EmailNot listedNot listed
Live chatNot listedNot listed
Support portal / ticketsNot listedNot listed
Community forumNot listedNot listed
Help centre / docsAll plansNot listed
Dedicated account managerNot listedPlan not stated
In person / on-siteNot listedNot listed
Support hoursNot recordedNot recorded
Response timeNot statedNot stated

AI & MCP readiness

Whether each solution can join your AI stack, and what it asks of you to do so.

MCP connectionreaches AI clientsCommunity serverNot supported
AI featuresAI governance toolingNot yet recorded
Built around AI?AI added to an existing productNot recorded
Trains on your dataNot recorded — ask the vendorNot recorded — ask the vendor
Runs onNot recordedNot recorded
AI pricingNot recordedNot recorded
Model keyNot recordedNot recorded
AI usage auditFull audit trailNot recorded

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Typical annual cost × Time-to-value

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