Akeyless
Secure identity and secret management for machines, AI agents, and human users
- Also known as
- akeyless
What is Akeyless?
A cloud-native SaaS platform that manages secrets and machine identities across environments, enabling organizations to use short-lived ephemeral credentials instead of static secrets for secure access.
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.
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 + self-hosted
- 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
- Hybrid
- Self-hosted
Integrations (6)
Independently observed- AWS Secret Manager
- Azure Key Vault
- GCP Secret Manager
- Kubernetes Secrets
- HashiCorp Vault
- Kubernetes Secrets Store CSI Driver
Akeyless FAQ
Common questions about Akeyless, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Akeyless?
A cloud-native SaaS platform that manages secrets and machine identities across environments, enabling organizations to use short-lived ephemeral credentials instead of static secrets for secure access. It is indexed under Secrets Management Tools.
Source: https://www.akeyless.io/pricing/
Is Akeyless free?
Akeyless offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
Source: https://www.akeyless.io/pricing/
What platforms does Akeyless support?
We have confirmed browser-based access to Akeyless. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.
Source: https://www.akeyless.io/pricing/
Can Akeyless be self-hosted?
Yes. Akeyless can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.
Source: https://www.akeyless.io/pricing/
What does Akeyless integrate with?
We have confirmed 5 integrations for Akeyless, including AWS Secret Manager, Azure Key Vault, GCP Secret Manager, Kubernetes Secrets and HashiCorp Vault. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
Source: https://www.akeyless.io/pricing/
What security certifications does Akeyless have?
We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR for Akeyless. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Akeyless not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Source: https://www.akeyless.io/blog/access-control-enhancing-compliance-and-security/
Akeyless alternatives
Other secrets management tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- AWS Secrets ManagerCentrally store, encrypt, and manage application secrets with automatic rotationmedium · 73%
- DopplerCentral platform for managing and distributing secrets and credentials across cloud-based infrastructuremedium · 72%
- HashiCorp VaultA centralized platform for managing secrets, encryption operations, and access control across systemshigh · 75%
- InfisicalCentralized platform for managing secrets, certificates, and access credentials across infrastructuremedium · 68%
- OpenBaoAn open-source platform for storing and managing sensitive data and secretslow · 41%
- External Secrets OperatorA Kubernetes operator that automatically synchronizes secrets from external API services into your clusterlow · 42%
Compare Akeyless
Side by side against other secrets management tools, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI 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 | 85 | 0.21 | 17.8 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 96 | 0.05 | 4.9 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.09 | 4.7 | ✓ |
| Price level | 80 | 0.04 | 3.4 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 25 | 0.05 | 1.3 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 24 | 0.05 | 1.2 | ✓ |
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Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 6 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 62% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Pki ca: Yes · Hosting: both · Tool type: store · Hsm support: Yes · Audit logging: Yes · Fips validated: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-13 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 6 | mediumsource · 2026-08-13 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Security
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