# Hyena Software Pricing, Alternatives & More 2026 | Capterra

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 Hyena Software Review 2026: Features, Integrations, Pros & Cons

Last updated on March 13, 2026

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Hyena

## What is Hyena?

Used by tens of thousands of system administrators worldwide for over twenty-five (25) years, Hyena is designed to both simplify and centralize nearly all of the day-to-day Active Directory management tasks, while providing new capabilities for system administration. This functionality is provided in a single, centralized, easy to use product. Whether your organization is using Windows 2003, Windows 2022 or anything and everything in between, you can manage everything with one tool.

## What is Hyena used for?

[Identity Management](https://www.capterra.com/identity-management-software/)

Top alternative

Featured

Overall rating

Based on 35 user reviews

Reviews sentiment

Positive

100%

Neutral

0%

Negative

0%

Starting price

$329

Per User, Per Month

Free trial  
available

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## Compare with a popular alternative

Capterra selects software alternatives based on relevant features, verified user reviews and user interactions. Placement may be influenced by client status.

### Hyena

4.7 (35)

VS.

[4.7 (930)](https://www.capterra.com/p/119653/Okta/reviews/)

Starting Price

$329

Other

Starting Price

$6

Per User, Per Month

Free Trial

Free Version

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

Ease Of Use

4.6 (35)

Ease Of Use

4.6 (914)

Value For Money

4.8 (30)

Value For Money

4.5 (476)

Customer Service

4.7 (25)

Customer Service

4.5 (495)

## Hyena alternatives

[4.5 (66)](https://www.capterra.com/p/238195/tenfold/reviews/)

Starting price

$0.90

Per User, Per Month

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

95%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[4.6 (265)](https://www.capterra.com/p/175092/JumpCloud-DaaS/reviews/)

Starting price

$3.00

Per User, Per Month

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

95%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[4.7 (214)](https://www.capterra.com/p/210695/Bitwarden/reviews/)

Starting price

$4.00

Per User, Per Month

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

98%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

[4.7 (138)](https://www.capterra.com/p/154900/Auth0/reviews/)

Starting price

Contact vendor for pricing

Pricing Options

Free Trial

Free Version

User Rating

96%

of reviewers

rated it above 4 stars

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## Features

Features with the highest number of reviews are displayed first. Those that have no reviews appear next, sorted alphabetically.

Password Management

5.0 (1)

100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Generate and store passwords in an encrypted database and assist in retrieving lost or forgotten passwords

Privileged Account Management

5.0 (1)

100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Control, monitor, and secure privileged accounts and their access to critical data and IT applications

User Provisioning

4.0 (1)

100.00% of 1 reviewers that rated this feature as important or highly important

Create, modify, disable, or delete user accounts and their profiles across IT infrastructures

Access Certification

Verify user access rights within systems to confirm each user has appropriate and authorized access to resources

Active Directory Integration

Integrates with Active Directory

Compliance Management

Track and manage adherence to policies for any service, product, process, or supplier

Hyena 9 features

Verify user access rights within systems to confirm each user has appropriate and authorized access to resources

Integrates with Active Directory

Track and manage adherence to policies for any service, product, process, or supplier

A chronological record of actions or occurrences within a network, software, or process

Generate and store passwords in an encrypted database and assist in retrieving lost or forgotten passwords

Control, monitor, and secure privileged accounts and their access to critical data and IT applications

Collection, analysis, and representation of numerical data and generation of reports to understand various patterns

Systematic evaluation of the security of a company's overall security system and situation

Create, modify, disable, or delete user accounts and their profiles across IT infrastructures

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Features

4.7 (35)

4.7

Based on 35 reviews

## Pricing

Value for money

4.8 (30)

Free Trial

[View pricing plan details](https://www.capterra.com/p/177173/Hyena/pricing/)

Hyena

$329.00

Other,

It includes:

-   Bulk Editing
-   Directory Importing
-   Directory Management
-   Event Management
-   Exchange Administration
-   Job & Task Scheduling
-   Server Management
-   User Management

Value for money

4.8 (30)

4.8

Based on 30 reviews

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## Support, customer service and training options

Customer Service

4.7 (25)

Support

-   Email/Help Desk
-   FAQs/Forum
-   Knowledge Base
-   Phone Support
-   24/7 (Live rep)
-   Chat

Training

-   In Person
-   Live Online
-   Webinars
-   Documentation
-   Videos

Deployment

-   Web
-   Android
-   iPhone/iPad

Typical users

-   Freelancers
-   Small businesses
-   Mid size businesses
-   Enterprises

Customer Service

4.7 (25)

4.7

Based on 25 reviews

## User reviews

Overall rating

4.7

Based on 35 reviews

Filter by rating

5(26)

4(9)

3(0)

2(0)

1(0)

Mentioned topic

Sorted by most recent

MM

mike m.

System Administrator

Information Services

### "Hyena - Essential tool for AD Admins"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

3.0

3.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

June 7, 2022

As an Admin, it would take much longer to perform some duties without Hyena. Come Audit time, Hyena is instrumental in quickly compiling requested lists of users / groups / computers

Pros

The ability to view all computers / groups or Users in a single list is a key feature. Recurse function throughout the hierarchy shows accounts in a single window making it easy to copy/paste, or even modify descriptions in a bulk edit. Easy to copy group memberships from one object to another. View Direct and Indirect group memberships. modify AD queries to suit the user's needs

Cons

Computers should be a default option when adding resources. Defaults to Users / Groups.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

Response from Vendor

June 10, 2022

Thank you for your support. Please open a support ticket with us to discuss the default of computers vs. user/groups. We would like to know more about this limitation: https://systemtoolssoftware.helpspot.com/

WL

Will L.

IT Director

Government Administration

### "Very useful Product"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

October 29, 2020

Have been a client for years 5 years+; I enjoy the product and find many uses for it.

Pros

I use the information for discovery, inventory, troubleshooting and budgeting.

Cons

I don't dislike any features. The program works as described

Review source

Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

DR

Dan R.

Information Systems Manager

Non-Profit Organization Management

### "Great Software for Domain Management"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

3.0

3.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

5/10

July 23, 2020

I have used Hyena since 1997. It is a fantastic product. Once we started going to cloud based products, Hyena became less useful.

Pros

It brought everything into one location for a domain.

Cons

Once we moved to Office 365 we could no longer use Hyena to created user accounts. Fix this please!

Review source

Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

DD

Dennis D.

Portflio Manager

Utilities

### "Renewals"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

4.0

4.0

Customer Service

3.0

3.0

Likelihood to Recommend

8/10

August 21, 2019

n/a

Pros

Not an end user of it.

Cons

Online renewals such as this are problematic for corporations. We are not geared for that. We have Procurement depts. and purchasing policies that we must adhere to. This will cause us to drop your product.

Reasons for choosing Hyena

n/a

Review source

Non-incentivized review: any software user can leave a review for any product listed on our site. All submitted reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

Response from Vendor

August 22, 2019

Thank you for your review, but I'm confused by your comments about online renewals. We accept orders, including renewals, through phone, email, purchase orders , postal mail, (even fax!), so please contact sales@systemtools.com with more information on why you believed you could only renew online.

AR

Adrian R.

Admin

Construction

### "Easy way to manage AD"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

4.0

4.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

March 15, 2019

I perform AD Account audits with Hyena. Makes my life a lot easier.

Pros

Hyena has the functionality that you think should be built in to Microsoft Tools, but are missing. It's easy to see and export info about accounts.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

JD

John D.

LAN Manager

Health, Wellness and Fitness

### "Great windows admin tool"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

8/10

March 15, 2019

Pros

Automates my daily tasks saves hours. Great product, inexpensive!

Cons

None to speak of. Never had to use support so can't speak to that but so far so good.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

AS

Alex S.

IT Operations Manager

Real Estate

### "Very happy with Hyena"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

March 12, 2019

Pros

What I like most about Hyena is the ability to create both an AD account and an Exchange mailbox account at the same time. It saves me a lot of time and effort by having it done in one place instead of 2 different admin tools.

Cons

What I like least is the remote control functionality. I wish that is was integrated into the product similar to Dameware Utilities

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

SI

Servizi I.

MR

Education Management

### "Best for It Pros"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

March 8, 2019

Pros

We not use anymore other tools to update and modify active directory everyting is done with Hyena

Cons

Missing the option to make a good italian espresso

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

MP

Michael P.

Senior Windows Engineer

Insurance

### "System Tools Hyena"

5.0

Overall Rating

5.0

5.0

Ease of Use

5.0

5.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

5.0

5.0

Likelihood to Recommend

10/10

March 4, 2019

I purchased Hyena to help me with day to day administration in AD / Windows domains. And I have never looked back. It is packed with features that often cost significantly more. And they continue to improve and enhance the capabilities. And the pricing remains so competitive.

Pros

The overall functionality and features. And the cost is absolutely amazing. This is my favorite system administrator tool, especially for Active Directory domains. It includes features that come with tools that cost 10 times what Hyena sells for. And the customer support is outstanding.

Cons

There is really nothing to dislike. One feature I did like was the ability to renew my maintenance agreement for 1, 2 or 3 years. They now only allow 1 year renewals. I still keep mine up to date as there is nothing else like it for this price range.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

SC

Scott C.

Help Desk Technician

Machinery

### "Hyena"

4.0

Overall Rating

4.0

4.0

Ease of Use

3.0

3.0

Features

5.0

5.0

Customer Service

0.0

0.0

Likelihood to Recommend

9/10

February 26, 2019

I like the product and will continue to use it. I just wish they'd update the GUI and reactivate the forum.

Pros

Makes it very easy to export lists of users/groups as well as remotely adding printers

Cons

The interface is a little dated and the customer forum does not seem to work anymore.

Review source

Incentivized review: software users are invited to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive for their time and effort. All incentivized reviews are subject to our verification process prior to publication.

Response from Vendor

February 28, 2019

Regarding the forum, we set it to be a read-only resource years ago due to the amount of spamming and constant hacking attempts on customer data. Since we use a 3rd party product for the forum, the risks of having customer information being breached was not worth the value for a small number of postings. Customers also usually can't provide enough details for resolutions in most cases, so the board/forum just does not fit our support model.

[View all Reviews](https://www.capterra.com/p/177173/Hyena/reviews/)

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