Modern certificate management without the enterprise tax.
Venafi TLS Protect is the incumbent — deeply capable, deeply expensive, and built for a slower era. TigerTrust delivers the same lifecycle coverage on a cloud-native platform, deployed in hours instead of quarters, with no mandatory professional services.
Same coverage, a fraction of the friction.
Venafi TLS Protect earned its reputation as the enterprise standard. Teams switch to TigerTrust when the operational tax stops being worth the pedigree.
What changes on day one after Venafi.
- Multi-quarter deployment with mandatory professional services
- On-premise footprint to patch, tune, and back up
- UI and workflows that feel a decade older than the rest of your stack
- Annual contracts with opaque uplift at renewal
- DevOps integrations that lag behind the ecosystem
- Production-ready in days, self-service or architect-assisted
- Fully-managed SaaS, plus air-gapped on-prem if you need it
- Modern dashboard, keyboard-first workflows, dark mode included
- Predictable platform pricing, monthly or annual, published tiers
- First-class Kubernetes, Vault, ACME, and Terraform integrations
Capability comparison, honestly.
Venafi is a mature product with deep coverage. Where we are on par, we say so. Where the deployment model or tooling differs, we call it.
| Capability | TigerTrust | Venafi TLS Protect |
|---|---|---|
Certificate discovery (network, cloud, K8s) Venafi has one of the deepest discovery stacks in the market | ||
Multi-CA orchestration (public + private) | ||
Cloud-native SaaS delivery Venafi offers Venafi Cloud, but on-prem TLS Protect is still the enterprise default | ||
Kubernetes cert-manager integration Both integrate; Venafi via Jetstack acquisition | ||
ACME protocol issuance | ||
GraphQL API | ||
Self-service onboarding without services engagement | ||
Transparent published pricing | ||
On-premise / air-gapped deployment |
Moving off Venafi, without breaking issuance.
A four-phase migration that keeps Venafi authoritative until you are ready to cut over.
Import inventory
Export your Venafi TLS Protect certificate inventory (or connect via API) and mirror it into TigerTrust. Owners, policies, and CA bindings preserved.
Parallel run
Run TigerTrust alongside Venafi. New workloads onboard to TigerTrust; existing renewals stay with Venafi until you route them over.
Cut over workflows
Move CA connectors, ACME endpoints, and cert-manager issuers to TigerTrust group by group. Rollback plan documented per group.
Decommission
Once discovery, renewals, and reporting have run cleanly for one full cycle, retire the Venafi footprint and reclaim the infrastructure spend.
Frequently asked questions
Are you feature-equivalent to Venafi TLS Protect?
For the lifecycle scope most teams actually use — discovery, multi-CA orchestration, renewal automation, policy enforcement, reporting, and endpoint deployment — yes. Venafi has a broader surface area from decades in the market; if you rely on a specific niche adapter, tell us and we will confirm coverage before you commit.
Do we have to move all workloads at once?
No. Most customers run TigerTrust in parallel with Venafi for weeks or months. Discovery, alerting, and issuance can be phased per business unit or per CA connector so there is no big-bang cutover.
Can TigerTrust be deployed on-premise like Venafi?
Yes. TigerTrust supports fully-managed SaaS, single-tenant hosted, and self-managed / air-gapped on-premise deployments. The same feature set is available across all three.
What does the migration cost?
Standard migration assistance is included in an enterprise contract. If you need a hands-on services engagement (custom adapters, complex approval workflows, HSM integration), we scope it explicitly rather than bundling it opaquely.
How does pricing compare?
We publish tiered platform pricing you can size against your certificate volume and CA connectors. We deliberately do not quote a competitor number here — Venafi contracts vary widely by discount, tier, and services attach. Ask us for a side-by-side against your current line items.
Consolidated 3 Venafi TLS Protect instances into one TigerTrust workspace in a quarter.
“The professional-services quote for a Venafi upgrade paid for two years of TigerTrust — with self-service onboarding and 24/7 support included.”
Works with the tools your team actually uses.
First-class integrations with the modern DevOps stack Venafi has been catching up to.
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