HashiCorp Vault
Manage Secrets & Protect Sensitive Data
- Also known as
- hashicorp-vault
What is HashiCorp Vault?
Secure, store, and tightly control access to tokens, passwords, certificates, encryption keys, and other sensitive data using a UI, CLI, or HTTP API.
What HashiCorp Vault 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- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Self-hosted
HashiCorp Vault 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 HashiCorp Vault, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security Posture | 70 | 40.00 | 2800.0 | ✓ |
| Github Activity | 63 | 18.00 | 1135.8 | ✓ |
| Release Cadence | 91 | 10.00 | 911.1 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 67 | 12.00 | 805.4 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 86 | 5.00 | 429.8 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 12.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Package Downloads | 0 | 26.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Stackoverflow Activity | 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.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 100 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 65% |
Adoption
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Github stars | 36,041 | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"hosting":"both","tool_type":"store","audit_logging":true,"dynamic_secrets":true,"fine_grained_policy":true,"encryption_as_a_service":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Go | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
Release
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Cadence days | 16 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 70% |
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |