# Password Manager Pro — Password Management

Password Manager Pro by ManageEngine (a division of Zoho Corporation) holds a panel rating of 1.5/5 from 6 AI judges (category median 2/5), as of 2026-10-21. Provenance: provenance unknown; sovereignty: not determined.

- Vendor: ManageEngine (a division of Zoho Corporation) (https://www.manageengine.com)
- Category: [Password Management](https://whats-best.ai/software/password-management.md)
- Provenance (editorial classification): provenance unknown
- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/password-management/password-manager-pro
- Alternatives: https://whats-best.ai/software/password-management/password-manager-pro/alternatives ([markdown](https://whats-best.ai/software/password-management/password-manager-pro/alternatives.md))
- Data as of: 2026-10-21 · evaluated 2026-10-21 · oldest source captured 2026-10-20

**AI-generated.** Every score, rationale and verdict here is written by a panel of AI judges from public evidence — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Every fact quotes the vendor page it was read from. No score can be bought. How scores are made: https://whats-best.ai/methodology

## At a glance

- Vendor: ManageEngine (a division of Zoho Corporation)
- Headquarters: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026
- Data hosting: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026
- Free plan: Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026

## The panel's verdict

Password Manager Pro's public record is thinnest exactly where a vault buyer needs it thickest. Identity integration is the most consistent strength, 3-5: SAML single sign-on with Okta and Azure AD, LDAP, RADIUS, two-factor authentication and phishing-resistant methods including FIDO passkeys, biometrics and YubiKey are documented. Sovereignty is the record's floor, 1: the pages name Zoho Corporation Pvt. Ltd. as copyright holder, ManageEngine a division of Zoho Corp., while data residency and subprocessor exposure are recorded as unknown. Security architecture scored 1-2 — compliance badges (NIST, HIPAA, PCI DSS, NIS2), but we found no public information on the vault's encryption or key management. Pricing transparency scored 2-3: the never-expiring free edition for 50 users and the 30-day trial are public, but we found no public per-user price. The judges genuinely split on audit and policy, 2-7, and deployment and portability, 2-6 — higher scores credited over 200 schedulable reports and the on-premises option with its US$395 failover add-on, while lower scores held that the captured evidence describes the vendor's AD-auditing and desktop products, not the vault.

**Speaks for it:**
- SAML single sign-on with Okta and Azure AD, LDAP, RADIUS, two-factor authentication and phishing-resistant methods including FIDO passkeys, biometrics and YubiKey are publicly documented.
- On-premises and cloud deployment are both documented, alongside a failover and secure gateway add-on at US$395 and a disaster-recovery module.
- A free edition carrying all Standard Edition features for 50 users never expires, and the 30-day trial is fully functional with no credit card required.
- More than 200 preconfigured, schedulable reports exportable to PDF, XLS, CSV and HTML cover SOX, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, FISMA and GLBA compliance sets and an ISO/IEC 27001:2022 control mapping.
- Custom roles, a request-access workflow and periodic access certification campaigns are documented in the vendor's portfolio pages.

**Held against it:**
- We found no public information on the vault's encryption algorithm, key derivation, a security whitepaper or what the vendor itself can read; security architecture scored 1-2.
- Data residency, subprocessor exposure, ownership and the contracting entity's jurisdiction are recorded as unknown; sovereignty scored 1.
- We found no public per-user price for any paid edition, seat minimums or contract term, so an annual invoice cannot be computed from the captured pages.
- Much of the captured sharing, audit and deployment documentation describes the vendor's device-control, analytics, key-manager and AD-auditing products rather than the vault.
- We found no public information on how a vault is decrypted after single sign-on, on SCIM provisioning, on automated suspension when a user is deprovisioned, or on admin account recovery and emergency access.

**Best for:**
- Your sign-in stack runs on Okta or Azure AD and you value phishing-resistant MFA — identity integration is the most consistent strength at 3-5.
- You want to choose your hosting — on-premises and cloud deployment are both documented, with the US$395 failover and secure gateway add-on for high availability.
- You have up to 50 users — the free edition never expires and carries all Standard Edition features.
- You want to evaluate before committing — the 30-day trial is fully functional, with no credit card required and free 24*5 technical support.

**Avoid if:**
- You must verify the encryption design before buying — we found no public information on algorithms, key derivation or a whitepaper, and security architecture scored 1-2.
- Your procurement requires data-residency and subprocessor facts up front — those attributes are recorded as unknown and sovereignty scored 1.
- You need to budget an annual invoice before signing — we found no public per-user price for any paid edition, and pricing transparency scored 2-3.
- You need evidence that speaks to the vault itself — the captured sharing, audit and deployment pages document sibling products, and the bench split 2-7 on audit and policy over exactly this.

## Scores by judge and criterion

Scores out of 5, each judge scoring independently against the published rubric (v1). "n/r" = not rated: the vendor publishes no price.

| Criterion | The CISO | The Identity Engineer | The Compliance Auditor | The SME Owner | The DevOps Engineer | The Skeptic |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Encryption model & independent audits | 1/5 | 0.5/5 | 1/5 | 0.5/5 | 1/5 | 0.5/5 |
| Sharing, roles & recovery | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 2/5 | 1/5 | 2/5 | 1/5 |
| SSO, directory sync & provisioning | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 1.5/5 |
| Audit logs, policies & reporting | 2/5 | 2.5/5 | 2.5/5 | 2/5 | 3.5/5 | 1/5 |
| Hosting choice, offline access & export | 2/5 | 2/5 | 2/5 | 1.5/5 | 3/5 | 1/5 |
| European sovereignty | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 | 0.5/5 |
| Pricing transparency | 1/5 | 1.5/5 | 1.5/5 | 1/5 | 1.5/5 | 1/5 |
| **Weighted verdict** | **1.5/5** | **1.5/5** | **1.5/5** | **1/5** | **2/5** | **1/5** |

### The judges

- **The CISO** (v1.0): Answers to the board for the day the vault vendor is breached. Wants a whitepaper that says which fields are encrypted and which are not, audits by named firms with dates, a bug bounty, and an incident history written down rather than discovered in the press.
- **The Identity Engineer** (v1.0): Runs Entra ID for two thousand staff and owns the joiner-mover-leaver process. Wants SCIM that suspends a leaver's vault the moment the account is disabled, an SSO unlock whose key model is documented, and FIDO2 keys and passkeys supported for the vault itself.
- **The Compliance Auditor** (v1.0): Prepares the ISO 27001 and NIS2 evidence and has to show who could see the firewall admin password last March. Wants event logs that cover views and copies, export to the SIEM, enforceable policies, and the contracting entity, hosting and subprocessors named.
- **The SME Owner** (v1.0): Runs a forty-person company where the shared passwords currently live in an Excel file. Wants shared vaults the team actually uses, a way back in when someone forgets the master password, credentials handed over when someone leaves, and a per-user price with SSO not hidden two tiers up.
- **The DevOps Engineer** (v1.0): Would rather run the vault in the company's own data centre than trust another SaaS with root credentials. Wants a documented self-hosted deployment with backup and high availability, open-source code to read, a CLI and API for pipelines, and an export that loses nothing.
- **The Skeptic** (v1.0): Has read the breach post-mortems. Reads "zero knowledge" next to unencrypted URLs and item names, "independently audited" with no report, "SSO unlock" where the vendor holds half the key, and "admin recovery" that means the vendor can decrypt — and treats a missing incident history as an answer.

## European sovereignty — proven facts

Built only from facts on the vendor's own pages; a dimension we could not prove is left open, never scored as zero. Headline: not determined.

| Dimension | Finding | Points | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal entity | Not determined | — | — |
| Ownership | Not determined | — | — |
| Data residency | Not determined | — | — |
| Subprocessors | Not determined | — | — |

## Key facts

Each fact is the vendor's own statement, cited to the source page it was read from ([S*n*] → Sources).

**Compliance**
- Certificates page: Compliance commitment with downloadable certificates [S1]
- Dpdpa support: DPDPA readiness support offered [S1]
- Frameworks: NIST · HIPAA · PCI DSS · NIS2 [S2]
- Listed: NIST · PCI DSS · NIS2 Directive · HIPAA · GDPR · CJIS · SOX · Essential Eight [S2]

**Hosting**
- On premise and cloud: yes · on-premises · cloud [S8]

**Legal**
- Copyright entity: 2026 · Zoho Corporation Pvt. Ltd. [S1]
- Copyright holder: 2026 · Zoho Corporation Pvt. Ltd. [S2]
- Copyright holder: Zoho Corporation Pvt. Ltd. [S5]
- Entity: 2026 · Zoho Corporation Pvt. Ltd. [S6]
- Parent entity: ManageEngine is a division of Zoho Corp. [S1]

**Pricing**
- Failover addon: failover (HA, load balancing) and secure gateway (reverse proxy) [S2]
- Free edition: 50 [S2]
- Free edition: yes [S7]
- Free edition never expires: yes [S2]
- Free trial: 30 · 24*5 · yes · no [S6]
- Pam360 roi claim: KuppingerCole Product Value Navigator study · PAM360 · 219 · 4 [S1]
- Professional extras: Professional edition adds: logon-screen password reset, conditional access, cached credentials update, password policy in Windows Change Password and ADUC [S2]

**Product**
- Access certification campaigns: yes · yes [S7]
- Account required private sharing: no · yes [S4]
- Ad import username format: AD-imported users use Domain\Username format [S5]
- Ad password audit: yes [S2]
- Add role path: Admin -> General Settings -> User Administration -> Add Role [S3]
- Add user path: Admin -> General Settings -> User Administration -> Add User [S3]
- Administrator full control: Administrator · full · full · full · full [S3]
- Auth options documented: LDAP, RADIUS, SAML SSO (Okta, Azure AD), Two-Factor Authentication [S5]
- Automated report generation: yes · yes [S7]
- Automated workflows: account cleanup / deprovisioning automation · yes [S7]
- Cached credentials: yes [S2]
- Capabilities page links: Active directory auditing · Active Directory monitoring · Active Directory change auditor · Account lockout analyzer · Entra ID auditing · Entra ID reporting · Remote desktop monitoring · Login monitoring software · AD logon logoff tracker… [S6]
- Compliance frameworks: SOX · HIPAA · PCI-DSS · FISMA · GLBA [S6]
- Covered systems: change auditing, logon monitoring, file tracking, compliance reporting, attack surface analysis, response automation, backup and recovery [S6]
- Custom roles: Multiple custom roles can be created beyond predefined roles [S3]
- Customizable dashboards: yes [S7]
- Deployment status tab: Deployment status viewable under Deployment status tab [S9]
- Deployment wizard authentication: OS Deployment wizard login via authentication code [S9]
- Edit shared views: yes · yes [S4]
- Endpoint MFA scope: MFA for endpoints: machines, applications, VPNs, OWA, RDPs [S2]
- Fisma reports: FISMA compliance audit reports list [S6]
- Free trial: free trial · yes · 30 · yes [S1]
- Glba reports: GLBA compliance audit reports list [S6]
- Group subscription: yes [S2]
- HIPAA compliance: HIPAA Title-I and Title-II compliance support [S6]
- HIPAA reports: HIPAA compliance audit reports list [S6]
- Identity risk assessment report: AD · Microsoft 365 · severity levels · risk exposure percentage · remediation suggestions · yes [S7]
- Industries: Government · Education · Healthcare · Manufacturing · Finance · Retail · Logistics · Energy [S1]
- ISO 27001 support: ISO/IEC 27001:2022 · yes [S7]
- ISO planning controls: 6 Planning · 8 Operation · 9 Performance evaluation [S7]
- Logon screen reset: Windows · macOS · Linux [S2]
- Mobile apps: Android · iOS [S2]
- Module certificate management: Certificate Management, SSL Integrations, Key Vault modules documented [S5]
- Module failover dr: yes [S5]
- Monitoring: 24x7 · yes · yes [S6]
- Offline deployment: Offline deployment via templates [S9]
- Okta SAML SSO support: yes [S5]
- On premises and cloud: yes · yes [S9]
- Organizational controls: 5.15 · 5.18 · 5.25 · 5.26 · 5.29 · 5.30 · 5.36 [S7]
- Overview: Unified MFA, SSO, and SSPR solution [S2]
- Password expiry notifier: email · SMS [S2]
- Password policy targets: Active Directory · Entra ID · cloud applications [S2]
- Password sync: yes [S2]
- Pcidss reports: PCI-DSS compliance audit reports list [S6]
- People controls: 6.8 [S7]
- Phishing resistant auth: FIDO passkeys · biometrics · YubiKey [S2]
- Platforms: Active Directory · Microsoft Entra ID · Windows file servers · NAS file servers · Windows servers · Workstations [S6]
- Preconfigured reports: 200 · yes · yes [S7]
- Predefined endpoint security roles: Predefined roles exist within the Endpoint Security product [S3]
- Rbac: yes [S7]
- Real time risk scoring: yes [S7]
- Remote office bootable media: Remote office bootable media supported [S9]
- Report count: 200 [S6]
- Report export formats: PDF · XLS · CSV · HTML [S7]
- Reporting auditing: yes [S2]
- Reports over shared data: yes [S4]
- Request access: yes [S4]
- Rest API documentation: yes [S5]
- SAML sp role: KMP acts as the SAML service provider with Okta as identity provider [S5]
- Shared views access: Shared views appear under Shared tabs in Workspaces and Dashboards sections [S4]
- Solution finder: Solution finder tool recommends products in three steps [S1]
- Sox compliance: Automated SOX 302 / 404 compliance system with continuous monitoring and alerts/reports [S6]
- Sox reports: SOX compliance audit reports list [S6]
- SSO configuration idp metadata autofill: IdP details can be entered manually or auto-filled from IdP metadata XML file [S5]
- SSO toggle: yes [S5]
- Ssoweb portal reset: yes [S2]
- Sspr targets: Active Directory · Entra ID · cloud accounts [S2]
- Support resources: contact support · training and certification · product documentation · community · forums [S1]
- Technological controls: 8.13 [S7]
- Trial: 30 · no [S2]
- Trial: yes [S7]
- Trial download: 30 · yes [S5]
- Unsubscribe workspace: yes [S4]
- User roles administration: User roles and permissions can be mapped to users for control over access [S3]
- Winpe boot media: Machines booted in WinPE from PXE, USB or ISO [S9]

**Support**
- Trial support: yes · 24*5 [S2]
- Trial support: 24*5 free technical support [S6]

## Questions

### Is Password Manager Pro European?

Not determined: the vendor’s pages as captured do not say where Password Manager Pro is based.

### Where does Password Manager Pro store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026.

### Does Password Manager Pro have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026.

### What are the best alternatives to Password Manager Pro?

As of 21 Oct 2026, the panel rates [Password Depot (3.5/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/password-management/password-depot), [Keeper (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/password-management/keeper) and [Passbolt (3/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/password-management/passbolt) highest among the other 18 Password Management products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [Password Depot](https://whats-best.ai/software/password-management/password-depot) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering). The full list, with European products first: [Password Manager Pro alternatives](https://whats-best.ai/software/password-management/password-manager-pro/alternatives).

## What this page leaves out

- 22 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 5 pricing facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 2 legal facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 compliance fact could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and was left out of this page and of the panel’s material.
- 1 sovereignty dimension could not be confirmed on the vendor’s own pages and is shown as unknown.

## Sources

- [S1] Vendor page: https://www.manageengine.com (checked 2026-10-20)
- [S2] Security / trust page — found from the homepage: https://www.manageengine.com/products/self-service-password/ (checked 2026-10-20)
- [S3] Sharing, roles & recovery — found from sitemap: https://www.manageengine.com/device-control/help/access-management/user_role_and_permission.html (checked 2026-10-20)
- [S4] Sharing, roles & recovery — found from sitemap: https://www.manageengine.com/analytics-plus/cloud-help/sharing/accessing-shared-views.html (checked 2026-10-20)
- [S5] SSO, directory sync & provisioning — found from sitemap: https://www.manageengine.com/key-manager/help/okta-saml-sso.html (checked 2026-10-20)
- [S6] Audit logs, policies & reporting — found from sitemap: https://www.manageengine.com/products/active-directory-audit/active-directory-compliance-reports.html (checked 2026-10-20)
- [S7] Audit logs, policies & reporting — found from sitemap: https://www.manageengine.com/products/ad-manager/iso-compliance-report.html (checked 2026-10-20)
- [S8] Hosting choice, offline access & export — found from sitemap: https://www.manageengine.com/products/desktop-central/help/deployment/offline-deployment.html (checked 2026-10-20)
- [S9] Hosting choice, offline access & export — found from sitemap: https://www.manageengine.com/products/desktop-central/help/configuring_desktop_central/offline-deployment.html (checked 2026-10-20)

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Cite as: whats-best.ai, "Password Manager Pro — Password Management", AI panel analysis, as of 2026-10-21. https://whats-best.ai/software/password-management/password-manager-pro

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