12 Best CIEM Tools Compared (2026): Features & Pricing
Buyer's guide compares twelve CIEM tools; Microsoft discontinued Entra Permissions Management, while Tenable (Ermetic), CyberArk, and Wiz lead the 2026 scorecard.
The scorecard evaluates twelve cloud infrastructure entitlement management vendors on permission analytics depth, JIT enforcement, non-human identity coverage, pricing predictability, and bundle leverage. Tenable (Ermetic) leads at 4.70, followed by CyberArk and Wiz, while Microsoft's retirement of Entra Permissions Management (CloudKnox) forces existing customers into migration cycles. Pricing structures span per-identity, per-resource, per-workload, credit-based, and quote-based models.
- Microsoft discontinued Entra Permissions Management, forcing existing customers to migrate.
- Tenable (Ermetic) and Wiz lead platform CIEM in the weighted scorecard.
- Non-human identity counts drive CIEM pricing and should be audited before purchase.
- Britive prices standalone just-in-time access; CyberArk monetizes zero-standing-privilege enforcement.
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Quick Answer: CIEM bills per identity or per cloud resource, and the count that matters is non-human identities machines outnumber people many-fold and inflate quotes fast. Tenable (Ermetic) and Wiz lead platform CIEM; Britive prices standalone JIT; CyberArk monetizes enforcement. Retirement alert: Microsoft Entra Permissions Management has been discontinued plan migrations, not renewals.
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