Britive vs Entitle for just-in-time cloud privilege
Both grant just-in-time access and revoke it. Match human access, workload access, revocation, and integrations before you staff a runtime control plane or a request workflow.
The PagerDuty rotation ended Friday and the incident ticket is closed. Monday morning the same IdP group still carries production AdministratorAccess on the AWS account. That standing cloud admin entitlement outlived the break-glass window, which is the failure both products sell just-in-time access to stop.
This shortlist is not classic vault PAM with privileged session brokering. That job sits on CyberArk vs Delinea. On 3 Oct 2026, Britive JIT permissioning creates a permission on the resource for a human or a non-human identity and revokes it when the task ends. BeyondTrust Entitle grants self-serve access that auto-revokes after a duration, a ticket, or an on-call rotation, and its AWS Identity Center guide creates a temporary permission set and deletes that set when access expires. Adjacent secrets vault packaging is HashiCorp Vault vs Akeyless. Broader PAM context lives under PAM tools.
Overview
| Primary use case | Just-in-time permissions created on the cloud or SaaS resource, for human and non-human identities, removed when the task ends | Just-in-time access to cloud infrastructure and SaaS through a request and approval workflow, removed when the grant expires |
|---|---|---|
| Humans | Policy-based requests. The JIT page says authorized human and non-human identities can request access, with a configurable access window | Self-serve requests. Approvers work in Teams, Slack, or Jira. Bundles pack more than one permission into one request |
| Workloads | Programmatic grant, monitor, and revoke through the API for every identity, including non-human identities | Temporary accounts for users who need a non-federated system, and temporary AWS permission sets deleted on expiry. A pipeline checkout for non-human identities was not found in this research |
| Revocation | The permission is revoked automatically when the task is complete. The page contrasts that with leaving a standing account in place | Auto-revoke after a set duration, ticket resolution, or on-call rotation. The AWS guide deletes the temporary permission set when access expires |
| Integrations | APIs and SDKs, plus cloud-native integrations, on the JIT page. The product is positioned across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-prem resources | Teams, Slack, Jira, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, a Terraform provider, REST APIs, and SIEM, on the product page |
| Deploy | API-first cloud service. Permissions are created in the target resource rather than by unlocking a pre-staged account | SaaS. The product FAQ says install an agent in your VPC with Terraform and Helm, then connect applications |
| License/pricing | Sales quote on britive.com. Sales-quoted. Public Marketplace anchors, U.S. dollars, 12-month term: Starter $70,000; Core $100,000; Enterprise custom. The listing does not define the unit | Sales quote on BeyondTrust packaging. AWS Marketplace anchor: 50 Named Users $29,000 / 12 months. Billing unit: named users |
Pages opened 3 Oct 2026 were Britive’s JIT permissioning page, BeyondTrust’s Entitle product page, and Entitle’s AWS Identity Center temporary permission set guide, plus a December 2024 Reddit comment that names Britive. This is not a hands-on benchmark.
Britive
Entitle
Britive’s recent first-party signal centers runtime authorization for humans, NHIs, and AI agents, including Britive ARC (Agentic Runtime Control) and a February 2026 AWS Security Hub Extended Plan packaging note for unified PAM procurement through AWS. Entitle remains a BeyondTrust product after the April 2024 acquisition: buyers still purchase Entitle for JIT cloud and SaaS access inside the BeyondTrust Pathfinder platform story, not a retired brand renamed into another SKU.
Editions and pricing
Neither vendor publishes a mid-stage credit-card total for a full production program on the marketing site. Use Marketplace rows as procurement signals with contract-scope caveats, then confirm units on the quote.
| How you buy it now | Contact Britive for runtime authorization packaging, or buy contract tiers on AWS Marketplace | Contact BeyondTrust for Entitle (standalone or Pathfinder context). Marketplace lists Entitle under BeyondTrust Corporation |
|---|---|---|
| Public units (2 Oct 2026) | AWS Marketplace Starter Package $70,000.00 / 12 months; Core Package $100,000.00 / 12 months; Enterprise contact. Packages are billed by units; the listing does not define whether a unit is an identity, resource, or licensed identity | AWS Marketplace: 50 Named Users $29,000.00 / 12 months for Entitle Just in Time Access and Permissions Management, with multi-year term options on the listing. Currency on the listing is U.S. dollars |
| What the invoice covers | Runtime PAM / JIT privilege platform scope across multi-cloud and hybrid as sized in the package; confirm ARC agent controls and NHI coverage on the quote | Named-user capacity for JIT requests, connectors, and reviews; confirm whether Pathfinder suite modules share the invoice |
| Main buying consideration | Can you map Marketplace units to the identities and environments you will actually put on zero standing privilege? The listing does not define the unit | Is a named-user JIT subscription across cloud and SaaS the meter you want, and is BeyondTrust already in the stack? |
The comment names Britive and describes short-lived elevation through a CLI and Terraform for AWS, Azure, and GCP. Entitle’s product page describes revocation through Teams, Slack, or Jira, and through temporary accounts. Britive’s JIT page also covers policy-based requests for human and non-human identities, so the comment is one adoption path, not the whole product.
Shared just-in-time access
| Grant model | Permissions are created directly in the resource when they are requested. The page distinguishes that from temporary access to a static, overprivileged account | Self-serve just-in-time access with approval chains. The AWS Identity Center guide creates a temporary permission set in an entitle- name format and attaches it to the user who requested access |
|---|---|---|
| Standing access | Marketed as zero standing privileges: the permission exists for the task window | Marketed as removing elevated and standing access. The product page cites large percentage reductions; treat those as vendor figures, not an independent audit |
| Approvals | Policy can include human approval. The JIT page also describes frictionless automated access when a manual approval would slow a build | Approvers act in Teams, Slack, or Jira. On-call break-glass paths name PagerDuty and Opsgenie |
| Main buying consideration | Do you need the permission created on the target for both people and automation? | Do you need employees to request a bundle in the tools they already use, with the cloud grant deleted on expiry? |
Both products are hired to shrink always-on admin. The shared capability is a time-bound grant that is removed without a person remembering to check it back in. The staffing difference is where the request starts: Britive’s API and policy plane, or Entitle’s chat and ITSM workflow.
Revocation and integrations
| When access ends | Automatically when the task is complete. Windows are configurable | After a duration, when a ticket resolves, or when an on-call rotation ends. On the AWS guide, expiry deletes the temporary permission set |
|---|---|---|
| What is removed | The ephemeral permission on the resource. The page says nothing standing remains from that grant | The temporary permission set, or the temporary account created for a non-federated system. A full list of object types removed on every integration was not found in this research |
| How it connects | API-first. The JIT page names APIs, SDKs, and cloud-native integrations across AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, SaaS, and on-prem resources | Product page: Teams, Slack, Jira, Terraform, REST, and SIEM. FAQ: applications without an integration can use an SDK, an IdP-group virtual application, or a ticket fulfilled by IT |
| Evidence | Exportable logs for who received access, when, and why. The page names SOC 2, PCI DSS, and NYDFS as audit uses | Request history and session auditing. Reports support bulk review of entitlements across IaaS and SaaS |
| Main buying consideration | Will builders call an API or CLI when the window ends on its own? | Will approvers live in Slack, Teams, or Jira, with cloud grants that delete themselves? |
Humans and workloads
| Human builders and employees | Engineers and admins request a scoped permission for cloud, Kubernetes, or SaaS instead of keeping a standing admin role | Employees and contractors request production and SaaS permissions. One request can bundle roles across applications |
|---|---|---|
| Non-human identities | The JIT page includes non-human identities in the same policy request and in programmatic grant and revoke | Temporary SSH keys and temporary accounts are described for users who need non-federated systems. A non-human pipeline identity, equivalent to a service account checking out its own role, was not found in this research |
| Agentic AI | Britive ARC is the named control for agent identities. Which agent actions it blocks was not found in this research beyond that product name | The product page says agentic AI should not reach sensitive resources without human review. What that review blocks, step by step, was not found beyond that sentence |
| Main buying consideration | Do pipelines and agents need the same just-in-time plane as humans? | Is the painful queue human requests in chat, with cloud permission sets that expire, plus a human check before an agent is allowed through? |
Match the identity type before you treat the products as different desks. Both cover people. Both remove the grant. Britive’s JIT page puts non-human identities on that same request path. Entitle’s pages opened the same day put temporary cloud permission sets and temporary accounts on user requests, and put a human review in front of agentic AI. Where Entitle would check out access for a pipeline identity on its own was not found in this research.
Where they overlap
Both compete for cloud privilege modernization: replace always-on admin with time-bound access, revoke it automatically, keep an audit trail, and integrate with the tools that approve work. An RFP that only says “JIT for AWS and SaaS” will draw demos from both. The remaining split is where you will staff the request. Britive centers permission creation on the resource for human and non-human identities. Entitle centers the employee request in Teams, Slack, or Jira, and shows a temporary AWS permission set that is deleted on expiry.
Classic vault and privileged-session PAM remains a different hire on CyberArk vs Delinea. Secrets platforms remain on HashiCorp Vault vs Akeyless.
When to use both
Running Britive and Entitle as duplicate systems of record for the same AWS admin elevation usually doubles approval ownership. A split that can be real is Entitle for employee SaaS requests in chat, and Britive for pipeline and agent permissions on infrastructure, only when each queue has an owner. That split is a staffing choice. It is not a finding that one product lacks just-in-time access, revocation, or integrations. If one identity team owns both queues, pick the request path you will actually run.
Choose Britive when human and non-human identities should request a permission that is created on the resource and revoked when the task ends, through an API-first control plane. Choose Entitle when employees should request just-in-time cloud and SaaS access in Teams, Slack, or Jira, with auto-revoke on duration, ticket, or on-call, and with temporary AWS permission sets deleted on expiry. Both already share just-in-time grants, revocation, and integrations. Confirm non-human pipeline checkout on the Entitle order if that queue matters, because it was not found in this research.
FAQs
Is Entitle still a separate product after BeyondTrust acquired it?
Yes. BeyondTrust announced the Entitle acquisition in April 2024. First-party pages still sell Entitle as the JIT access product (beyondtrust.com/products/entitle and entitle.io), including Pathfinder platform packaging. The primary purchasable name remains Entitle, not a retired brand folded only into another BeyondTrust SKU name.
Do both products do just-in-time access?
Yes. Britive creates a permission on the resource and revokes it when the task ends, for human and non-human identities. Entitle auto-revokes after a duration, a ticket, or an on-call rotation, and its AWS Identity Center guide creates a temporary permission set and deletes it when access expires. The shared capability is the time-bound grant. The difference is the request path and which identity types the pages name.
Is this the same job as CyberArk or Delinea PAM?
No. CyberArk vs Delinea covers vault, privileged session, and discovery-style enterprise PAM. Britive vs Entitle covers cloud and SaaS just-in-time privilege and standing-access removal. Some programs run both layers; they are not interchangeable RFPs.
What public prices can buyers trust?
Britive Marketplace lists Starter at $70,000 / 12 months and Core at $100,000 / 12 months. The listing does not define whether a unit is an identity, a resource, or a licensed identity. Entitle Marketplace lists 50 Named Users at $29,000 / 12 months in U.S. dollars. Full enterprise programs remain quote-required on both sides.
Does Britive replace a secrets vault?
Britive’s core story is ephemeral privilege, not long-lived secret storage. For a dedicated secrets platform shortlist, see HashiCorp Vault vs Akeyless. A secrets fallback inside Britive was not found in this research on the JIT page opened 3 Oct 2026.
Is this a hands-on bake-off?
No. The comparison uses first-party product and documentation pages plus one community comment. We did not install either product in a paid lab tenant.
