## Comparison

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### Adaptive vs Teleport

Why security and platform teams choose Adaptive over Teleport to govern privileged agents and protect sensitive data in production.

### How we differ

#### Adaptive offers a modern approach to infrastructure access and data protection through its unique control plane, requiring no changes to existing infrastructure or workflows.

Solutions that demand significant infrastructure reconfiguration and workflow changes often hinder adoption.

**Agentless architecture**

No change needed in network or infrastructure configurations

**Access control across all vectors**

Access resources seamlessly via Adaptive CLI, database clients, and workloads

**Native data protection**

Enforce data masking and tokenization across all access vectors using Adaptive

### Side by side

**Feature parity with Teleport**

A direct comparison across access management, data protection, and architecture — see exactly where Adaptive differs.

| Feature                       |  Adaptive |  Teleport |
|-------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------|
| Access Management              | Yes                                                          | Yes                                                 |
| Just-in-Time Access            | Yes                                                          | Yes                                                 |
| Granular Authorization         | Yes                                                          | Yes                                                 |
| CLI Access                    | Yes                                                          | Yes                                                 |
| Database Client Access        | Yes                                                          | Yes                                                 |
| Service Access                | Yes                                                          | Yes                                                 |
| Machine Access                | Yes                                                          | Yes                                                 |
| Windows Identities            | Yes                                                          | Yes                                                 |
| SaaS Access Management        | Yes                                                          | Yes                                                 |
| Session Recording             | Yes                                                          | Yes                                                 |
| Multi-party Session           | Yes                                                          | Yes                                                 |
| MFA                           | Yes                                                          | Yes                                                 |
| Data Protection               | Yes                                                          | Yes                                                 |
| Dynamic Data Masking          | Yes                                                          | Yes                                                 |
| Data Tokenization             | Yes                                                          | Yes                                                 |
| Architecture                  | Agentless                                                   | Requires Agents                                     |
| Plug-and-Play Implementation   | Yes                                                          | No                                                  |

### Why customers switch

## 4 reasons organizations choose Adaptive over Teleport

### Reason 01
**Easy Setup with No Infrastructure Changes Required**  
Adaptive’s setup requires no changes to existing infrastructure or network configurations, ensuring easy deployment. In contrast, Teleport requires server agents and database reconfigurations due to its certificate-based access management system, making it extremely complex to adopt at scale.

### Reason 02
**Unified Control Plane for Data Protection and Access Management**  
Adaptive seamlessly combines data protection and infrastructure access control through a single control plane. This allows organizations to natively manage privileges and protect data natively across a variety of vectors, including developer CLI access, BI tools, and ETL pipelines.

### Reason 03
**Granular Authorization for Effective Least Privilege Implementation**  
Implementing the Principle of Least Privilege (PoLP) is essential to mitigate insider threats. Adaptive simplifies PoLP by centralizing authorization, eliminating the need to create roles within downstream resources, and minimizing the risk of over-privileged access. This approach enhances security by ensuring that access is consistently controlled and limited to what is necessary.

### Reason 04
**Easy patch management and updates**  
Adaptive’s agentless architecture simplifies patch management and updates, ensuring that the platform is always up-to-date. Patching is as simple as updating the helm chart, making it easy to deploy and manage.

At CertifyOS, managing access to sensitive healthcare provider data for our geographically dispersed team of over 150 was a security and regulatory challenge. Adaptive solved this problem seamlessly by handling our access requests while providing continuous monitoring of user activity. Our team, both technical and non-technical, adopted Adaptive out-of-the-box without disrupting their existing workflows, making adoption of security and compliance requirements for SOC2, NCQA, and NIST easier.

**Anshul Rathi**  
CEO, CertifyOS

At Exotel, we manage a large number of virtual machines (VMs), and Adaptive has made credential-less SSH access to them easy. It has eliminated the complexities of jumphost management and enabled us to implement granular, command-level privileges for various use cases. Adaptive has also helped us enforce the principles of least privilege and Just-in-Time access effortlessly. Together with database access controls, this has strengthened our infrastructure security and ensured compliance with the standards required by our banking partners.  
**Moosa Meeran**  
Senior Information Security Manager, Exotel

As one of India’s largest fintechs, M2P handles a large volume of highly sensitive banking data. Adaptive helps control access across our multi-tenant infrastructure and supports all our complex use cases. With strong data protection at the source, Adaptive helps us safeguard data while ensuring productivity across the organization. The detailed audit logs and session recordings they provide help us meet the strict compliance standards banks require.  
**Sujay Vasudevan**  
Head of Risk & Compliance, M2P Fintech