Akeyless
Identity Security for Machines, AI Agents & Humans
- Also known as
- akeyless
What is Akeyless?
Platform for securing machine, AI agent, and human identities through secrets management, certificate lifecycle management, modern privileged access management, and quantum-resistant key management.
Akeyless pricing
We don't have Akeyless's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
Free tier available. Pricing requires quote/demo.
What Akeyless does
The capabilities that matter for secrets management tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Tool type
- Secret store / engine
- Dynamic (short-lived) secrets
- ✓
- Hosting
- Cloud only
- Automatic secret rotation
- ✓
- Encryption as a service (transit)
- ✓
- FIPS 140-2/3 validated crypto
- ✓
- HSM support
- -
- Fine-grained / identity-based policy
- ✓
- Audit logging
- ✓
- Kubernetes native (CRD / CSI / K8s auth)
- -
- PKI / certificate authority
- ✓
- Open-source core
- -
- CNCF maturity
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Akeyless alternatives
Other secrets management tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Akeyless, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security Posture | 80 | 40.00 | 3200.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 87 | 12.00 | 1040.6 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 18.00 | 900.0 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 8.00 | 640.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 25 | 10.00 | 250.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 12.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"pki_ca":true,"hosting":"cloud","tool_type":"store","audit_logging":true,"fips_validated":true,"dynamic_secrets":true,"secret_rotation":true,"fine_grained_policy":true,"encryption_as_a_service":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |