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Infisical vs Akeyless
Akeyless built a SaaS vault for enterprises. Infisical gives you the same power with full transparency, self-hosting flexibility, and a developer experience that drives adoption.
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Infisical provided all the functionality and security settings we needed to boost our security posture and save engineering time. Whether you're working locally, running kubernetes clusters in production, or operating secrets within CI/CD pipelines, Infisical has a seamless prebuilt workflow.— Adrien Carreira, Head of Infrastructure, Hugging Face
Executive Summary
Akeyless is a modern secrets management platform built on its patented Distributed Fragments Cryptography (DFC) technology. It provides secrets management, certificate lifecycle management, encryption/KMS, and secure remote access (PAM). Akeyless positions itself as a zero-maintenance alternative to HashiCorp Vault, following an enterprise-only, cloud-only, closed-source philosophy with globally distributed SaaS endpoints across AWS, Azure, and GCP. However, this approach comes with trade-offs:
- Vendor lock-in: Akeyless is a proprietary, closed-source SaaS platform with no self-hosting option. Your secrets infrastructure depends entirely on a single vendor’s availability, pricing decisions, and roadmap. There is no community-auditable codebase, fewer tutorials and peer-driven resources, and support is fully dependent on Akeyless’s internal roadmap.
- Limited developer workflows: While Akeyless offers basic access request and approval capabilities through its Event Center, it lacks multi-step approval chains, git-style change request workflows for secrets, environment comparison tools, and the deep Slack/Teams-native approval UX that modern platform teams need to enforce governance without friction. Coordinating multi-environment sync and structured review processes demands custom engineering against a closed-source service.
- Consumption-based pricing: Akeyless uses consumption-based pricing tied to clients, API calls, and secrets volume. While a free tier and pricing page exist, detailed cost projections for enterprise tiers require sales engagement. Costs can escalate unpredictably as usage grows, and advanced features like Secure Remote Access require additional licensing.
Infisical takes a different approach: open-source transparency with enterprise-grade power.
- Open source and self-hostable: MIT-licensed core with 25,000+ GitHub stars, over 2 million global downloads, and a 100,000+ member developer community. Deploy on your own infrastructure, audit the codebase, and eliminate vendor lock-in. Cloud-hosted and self-hosted options available.
- Built-in governance workflows: Native approval chains, access requests, temporary access with auto-expiration, change request workflows, and Slack/Teams integration — all out of the box. No custom development required.
- Complete developer lifecycle: From local development to staging, CI/CD, IaC, and production — secrets are managed consistently with 35+ secret syncs, 10+ first-party SDKs with built-in caching and auth management, and native integrations for every major platform, framework, and serverless provider.
- Enterprise-proven at scale: Trusted by Fortune 500 organizations across finance, healthcare, defense, and technology. Infisical meets the security, compliance, and operational requirements of the most demanding enterprise environments — delivering production-grade secrets management that scales with your organization.
The result: Faster adoption, better security hygiene, full infrastructure control, and fewer manual processes — all delivered out of the box.
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Why It Matters
Open Source
Fully open source under MIT license with 25,000+ GitHub stars and 2M+ downloads. Transparent codebase publicly audited by the security community. Large ecosystem of tutorials, examples, and peer-driven resources.
Proprietary, closed-source SaaS platform. No publicly auditable codebase. Requires trust in vendor’s security claims. Fewer community resources for troubleshooting.
Open source security products allow community review of the codebase. MIT licensing provides protection against vendor lock-in and license changes, while giving security teams full audit capability.
Self-Hosting
Full self-hosted deployment support via Helm, Docker Compose, or Linux packages. Run on your own infrastructure with complete data sovereignty. Supports air-gapped and on-prem deployments.
SaaS-only. No self-hosted option. Stateless gateways run in your network but the control plane and encrypted data reside in Akeyless’s cloud.
Self-hosting is essential for organizations with data sovereignty requirements, air-gapped environments, or strict compliance mandates that prohibit third-party cloud storage of secrets.
Dashboard UI
Modern, responsive UI designed for DevOps, engineering, and security teams. Configure secrets, view audit logs, manage access, and monitor usage — enabling a self-serve model that reduces friction and drives adoption.
Web console with functional UI for secret management and configuration. Gateway management requires separate admin interface.
Security tools must be easy for end users — otherwise they fail to address the very problem they’re meant to solve: secrets sprawl. Accessible dashboards drive consistent usage and reduce shadow practices.
Native Authentication
Tokenless authentication using OIDC for both human and machine identities. Human access via SSO (Okta, Azure AD, Google, any OIDC IdP). Machine access via short-lived identity tokens (K8s SA tokens, AWS IAM roles, GCP Workload Identity).
Multiple auth methods including SAML, OIDC, cloud IAM roles, certificates, and API keys. Supports universal identity for cross-platform auth.
Tokenless, OIDC-native authentication reduces the operational overhead of managing long-lived API tokens and streamlines access across both human and machine identities.
SDKs
First-party SDKs for 10+ languages (Node.js, Python, Go, Java, .NET, Ruby, PHP, C++) with built-in auth, caching, token lifecycle management, and helper methods. Write less boilerplate code.
Official SDKs for 6 languages (Go, Python, Java, JavaScript, C#, Ruby). Auto-generated from OpenAPI spec. Provides raw API bindings — auth management, caching, and lifecycle logic must be assembled separately.
First-party SDKs with built-in caching, auth management, and helper methods mean developers write far less boilerplate. Auto-generated bindings require teams to build this additional logic themselves.
CLI
Full-featured CLI for secret injection and local development. infisical run injects secrets into any process with a single command. SSH workflows simplified with infisical ssh add-host and infisical ssh connect.
CLI for all platform operations including auth, secret management, and gateway configuration.
Infisical’s CLI is optimized for developer workflows with single-command secret injection and simplified SSH orchestration. Both CLIs offer broad operational coverage.
RBAC
Native role-based access control with intuitive UI. Assign roles (Developer, Admin, custom) and scope permissions by project, environment, folder, or individual secret.
Role-based access control with access roles and sub-claims. Policy configuration via UI or API.
Visual role management reduces the risk of misconfiguration and makes it easier to audit permissions across teams, especially as organizations scale.
ABAC
Attribute-based access control with dynamic policies based on environment, identity attributes, IP ranges, and more for fine-grained control beyond static roles.
Sub-claims on access roles provide some attribute-based filtering. No dedicated ABAC policy engine.
ABAC enables dynamic, context-aware access decisions that adapt to changing conditions — critical for zero trust architectures where static roles alone are insufficient.
Approval Workflows
Built-in approval workflows with configurable chains, native Slack/Teams notifications, and self-serve UI. No custom development required.
Basic access request and approval via Event Center with admin approve/decline. No multi-step approval chains, configurable approval policies, or git-style change review workflows. Slack notifications via Event Forwarder; deeper approval UX integration requires ServiceNow or custom tooling.
Multi-step approval chains with native Slack/Teams integration and configurable per-project policies reduce setup time and ensure consistent governance without requiring external tooling like ServiceNow.
Access Requests
Self-serve access request portal. Developers request temporary or scoped access with built-in approval gates, auto-expiration, and full auditability.
Access request capability via console, CLI, or API. Admin approval through Event Center with optional ServiceNow integration. Temporary access roles created upon approval with auto-expiration. Limited to static secrets and targets; no built-in approval gates for dynamic secrets or environment-scoped access.
Self-serve access requests with built-in approval gates, auto-expiration, and full auditability reduce bottlenecks on security teams while enabling least privilege by default across all secret types and environments.
Temporary Access / JIT
Native just-in-time access with configurable TTLs, approval requirements, and automatic revocation. Visual tracking of dynamic secret leases in the dashboard.
JIT access through dynamic secrets with TTL-based expiration. Supports ephemeral credentials for databases, cloud IAM, and SSH.
Just-in-time access is a core principle of zero trust. Both platforms support JIT; Infisical adds visual tracking and integrated approval gates.
Change Request Workflows
Git-style change request proposals for secrets. Review before changes go live — improving auditability, version control, and team collaboration. Full version history.
No native equivalent. Secret changes take effect immediately without review gates.
Change review workflows for secrets apply the same rigor as code review, helping catch errors and enforcing separation of duties before changes reach production.
Access Tree Visualization
Visual, hierarchical interface to explore and audit who has access to what — across users, roles, groups, and environments. Spot misconfigurations and over-permissioning instantly.
No equivalent visualization. Auditing requires API queries and manual analysis.
Visualizing access hierarchies makes it faster to answer audit questions, identify overly broad permissions, and ensure least-privilege access across the organization.
Workflow Integrations
Native Slack and Microsoft Teams integration for real-time notifications on access requests, secret changes, and approval workflows. Configurable per project with channel selection (including private channels).
Slack Event Forwarder for notifications on secret changes, certificate events, and access requests. Slack plugin for OTP sharing. Email and webhook forwarders available. Approval actions handled in Event Center or via ServiceNow integration rather than directly within Slack.
Deep, bi-directional integrations with collaboration tools — including interactive approval actions, configurable per-project channel selection, and private channel support — meet teams where they already work and streamline the full approval lifecycle.
Audit Logging & SIEM
Every secret access, change, or permission grant recorded with timestamped metadata. Audit logs exportable to SIEMs or reviewed in-app for compliance.
Audit logging with event tracking. Syslog and SIEM forwarding available.
Both platforms support audit logging. Infisical’s in-app review and SIEM export support compliance and internal policy requirements.
SPIFFE Workload Authentication
Native SPIFFE Auth method for JWT-SVID verification. Supports static JWKS bundles (air-gapped) and HTTPS Web Bundle profile for dynamic fetching from SPIRE endpoints. Glob-pattern matching on SPIFFE IDs, trust domain and audience validation.
No dedicated SPIFFE auth method. Akeyless integrates with SPIRE as an infrastructure backend (Key Manager, Secret Manager, and Upstream Authority plugins that store SVIDs and signing keys inside Akeyless), but workloads do not authenticate to Akeyless by presenting an SVID.
Infisical provides a direct authentication path for SPIFFE-identified workloads. Akeyless focuses on being part of the SPIRE supply chain rather than consuming SVIDs as an auth credential.
Project & Environment Management
Logical separation by project and environment with independent access controls, versioning, and audit trails. Clear boundaries prevent cross-environment credential leakage. Side-by-side dashboard view for comparing secrets across environments — spot missing or mismatched values instantly.
Virtual folder-based organization with path-based access control. No native project/environment abstraction or comparison UI. Requires manual diffing via API or custom tooling.
Clear project and environment boundaries help prevent using production credentials in development and make it easier to scope access policies. Built-in environment comparison accelerates debugging of environment-specific issues and helps ensure configuration consistency across stages.
Secret Versioning
Automatic versioning with timestamps, author tracking, and ability to view and restore any previous version through the dashboard.
Versioning support for static secrets. Version history accessible via API and console.
Both platforms support versioning. Infisical surfaces version history with author attribution through its dashboard, making it accessible beyond CLI users.
Point-in-Time Recovery
Snapshot and restore secrets to any previous state. Roll back entire folders or environments to recover from bulk misconfigurations.
No environment-wide snapshot or point-in-time recovery. Individual secret versions can be retrieved one at a time.
Environment-wide snapshots enable faster recovery from bulk misconfigurations, compared to rolling back secrets individually.
Secret Referencing
Reference secrets across projects, environments, and folders. Single source of truth that propagates updates everywhere automatically.
No native cross-project secret referencing. Secrets must be duplicated or synced manually.
Cross-project secret referencing establishes a single source of truth, so rotating a shared credential propagates automatically rather than requiring updates in multiple locations.
Secret Sharing
Secure, zero-knowledge sharing via expiring links or scoped access tokens with full auditability. Safe alternative to sharing through messaging or email.
Enterprise Password Manager included for team password sharing and browser autofill. Different approach to sharing.
Secure sharing with expiration and audit trails provides a sanctioned alternative to ad-hoc sharing methods that leave credentials exposed in chat history.
Project Templates
Define default environments, project-level roles, and naming conventions. New projects automatically inherit organizational standards, reducing onboarding time.
No equivalent. Each project/folder requires manual configuration for every new team onboarding.
Templates enforce consistent project structure and security baselines across the organization without manual setup for each new project.
Dynamic Secrets
24+ templates: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Oracle, MSSQL, Cassandra, Redis, RabbitMQ, Snowflake, AWS IAM, AWS ElastiCache, Azure Entra ID, Azure SQL, GCP IAM, LDAP, Elasticsearch, Couchbase, Mongo Atlas, SAP ASE, SAP HANA, Vertica, GitHub, TOTP, K8s service accounts. Tied to JIT access workflows for least-privilege, ephemeral access.
Database dynamic secrets for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Oracle, MSSQL, Cassandra, Redis, SAP HANA, Vertica, Amazon Redshift. Cloud IAM dynamic secrets for AWS, Azure, GCP. SSH certificates, LDAP, GitHub, TOTP.
Both platforms offer broad dynamic secrets coverage. Infisical integrates dynamic secrets with its JIT access and approval workflows for unified governance. All issued secrets are fully audited with per-request tracking.
Secret Rotation
Automated rotation with policies definable per secret, per environment, or per integration. Native support for databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, Oracle), LDAP, and cloud providers. Schedule or manual trigger with auditing, rollback, and notification.
Comprehensive rotation with automated scheduling. Supports root credential rotation and custom rotation statements.
Both platforms handle rotation well. Infisical’s rotation integrates with Access Tree and Audit Logging for full visibility into rotated credentials.
Secret Syncs (Push)
35+ destinations: AWS Parameter Store, Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, GCP, GitHub, Vercel, Terraform Cloud, 1Password, Heroku, Fly.io, Netlify, Railway, Render, Supabase, and more. Available in open source.
Universal Secrets Connector (USC) provides bi-directional sync only with AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, GCP Secret Manager, K8s Secrets, HashiCorp Vault. Requires additional licensing.
Infisical’s broad sync support — including rich serverless and PaaS coverage — is available in the open source version. Akeyless USC focuses on governance across existing vaults but requires separate licensing.
CI/CD Integrations
Native first-party integrations with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI, Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins, TeamCity, Azure DevOps.
Integrations with GitHub, GitLab, CircleCI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, TeamCity via plugins.
Both platforms integrate with major CI/CD providers. Infisical offers more turnkey, first-party integrations for broader coverage.
Framework & IaC
Framework hooks for Remix, SvelteKit, Vite, Vue, Spring Boot/Maven, Gradle. First-class Ansible modules, Terraform Cloud data-source support, Backstage plugin for in-portal secrets.
Terraform provider. Generic cloud connectors. No equivalent framework-specific hooks or Backstage integration.
Turnkey framework hooks and IaC integrations eliminate glue code and accelerate adoption across diverse tech stacks.
Agent
Lightweight agent for VMs and non-Kubernetes workloads. Fetches and injects secrets, handles token refresh, and renders secrets to files or environment variables.
Stateless Gateway deployed in customer networks. Handles secret retrieval, caching, dynamic secrets, and private network access. Also serves as the ACME server endpoint.
Infisical Agent is a lightweight sidecar for secret injection. Akeyless Gateway is more comprehensive but also a heavier deployment.
Kubernetes
Operator syncs to K8s Secrets via CRDs (InfisicalSecret, InfisicalPushSecret) with auto-reload for Deployments, DaemonSets, and StatefulSets. ConfigMap support. Agent Injector (mutating webhook sidecar). CSI Provider.
First-party K8s Secrets Injector (init container/sidecar) with auto-restart for Deployments, DaemonSets, and StatefulSets. External Secrets Operator (ESO) support. CSI Driver integration. Env var and file injection modes. No CRD-based Operator for declarative secret sync to native K8s Secrets.
Infisical’s CRD-based Operator (InfisicalSecret, InfisicalPushSecret) provides declarative, GitOps-friendly secret sync with native auto-reload across workload types, plus a first-party Agent Injector and CSI Provider. Akeyless offers a comparable Secrets Injector with auto-restart, plus ESO and CSI options. ESO stores secrets as base64-encoded K8s Secrets in etcd, which may be a concern for strict security requirements.
Internal CA
Create and manage private CA hierarchies with root and intermediate CAs. Visual certificate management dashboard. Use cases include mTLS, device authentication, and internal services.
PKI Certificate Issuer with CA hierarchy support. Generate or bring your own CA certificate. Supports RSA and EC algorithms.
Both support internal PKI. Infisical provides a visual management dashboard; Akeyless offers deep CLI/API-driven configurability.
External CA Integration
Integrate with Let’s Encrypt, DigiCert, Microsoft AD CS, Google Trust Services, SSL.com, any ACME-compatible CA.
Integration with public CAs including GlobalSign, GoDaddy, ZeroSSL. Venafi integration for certificate management.
External CA integration allows teams to manage both internal and public certificates from a single platform, reducing tool sprawl.
Certificate Templates & Profiles
Certificate Templates define policies and constraints for issued certificates: CN patterns, SANs, TTL limits, key usage, extended key usage. Certificate Profiles specify issuing CA, template, and enrollment method per group of end-entities.
PKI Issuer supports per-issuer constraints including allowed domains, key types, algorithms, and key usage settings. No separate template/profile abstraction layer that decouples policy from issuer configuration for reusable, policy-driven issuance across multiple CAs.
Templates and profiles enforce structured, policy-driven certificate issuance — ensuring compliance and consistency without per-request manual configuration.
Enrollment Methods
API, ACME (automated certificate management), EST (Enrollment over Secure Transport) for device and workload enrollment.
API-based enrollment, ACME server deployed on Gateway with External Account Binding (EAB) support. No EST support.
EST support enables secure enrollment for IoT devices, network equipment, and workloads that cannot use ACME, expanding PKI coverage across diverse infrastructure.
Certificate Syncs
Push certificates to AWS Certificate Manager, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, Chef, and more.
Certificate storage in platform. No native push sync to cloud certificate services.
Certificate sync automates distribution to cloud services, reducing manual steps in certificate deployment workflows.
Infrastructure Integrations
Kubernetes cert-manager PKI Issuer for automated TLS delivery. Infisical Agent for non-K8s workloads. Certbot integration for Nginx, Apache, Tomcat, JBoss/WildFly. Windows Server ACME enrollment.
Gateway-based ACME server. Certificate delivery tied to Akeyless Gateway deployment.
Broad infrastructure integrations (cert-manager, web servers, Windows) enable certificate automation across diverse environments, not just Kubernetes.
Certificate Alerts
Configurable expiration alerts and webhook notifications for certificate lifecycle events.
Expiration event notifications configurable per certificate issuer.
Expiration alerts help prevent outages caused by overlooked certificate renewals.
Certificate Discovery
Automatically scan network infrastructure — IP ranges, CIDR blocks, and domains — across TLS ports to discover deployed certificates. Schedule recurring scans. Supports scanning through Gateway for private networks.
Certificate discovery for both private (internal network) and public (domain-based) certificates. Discovered certificates can be imported into the platform. Discovery capabilities integrated into the CLM module.
Both platforms offer certificate discovery capabilities. Infisical provides granular scanning across IP ranges, CIDR blocks, and domains with scheduled recurring scans and Gateway support for private networks — helping eliminate blind spots and prevent surprise expirations.
PAM Capabilities
Built-in PAM with session recording for database queries, SSH, RDP, and K8s access. Credential rotation. Full audit trails. Available in both cloud and self-hosted deployments, including air-gapped environments.
Secure Remote Access (SRA) provides SSH, RDP, database, kubectl, and web access through a browser-based portal. Session recording and JIT access. SRA is a separately licensed add-on and SaaS-only.
Both platforms offer PAM capabilities. Infisical includes PAM in the core platform with self-hosted support. Akeyless SRA requires additional licensing and SaaS connectivity.
Session Recording
All session activity recorded automatically when users connect through Infisical Gateway. Recordings stored centrally with searchable playback across database queries, SSH, RDP, and K8s sessions.
Session recording for SSH, RDP, and database sessions. RDP recordings require export to external storage (S3/Azure Blob/local). SSH transcripts require filesystem export for log forwarding.
Centralized, searchable session recording reduces operational overhead for compliance and forensics. Exporting recordings to external storage adds complexity and potential gaps.
Gateway / Private Network Connectivity
Lightweight, single binary deployed with a single CLI command (infisical gateway). Outbound-only SSH reverse tunnels — no inbound firewall rules required. Works for all platform features: dynamic secrets, rotation, LDAP, PKI, and PAM.
Stateless Gateway deployed via Docker or Kubernetes. Heavier deployment with multiple components (web-sra, ssh-sra, web-dispatcher, web-workers). Primarily tied to SRA/PAM functionality.
Infisical’s Gateway is a single binary serving all platform features with zero inbound firewall changes. Akeyless Gateway requires multiple components and is primarily focused on SRA, adding deployment complexity.
Secret Scanning
Built-in scanning for 140+ secret types across Git repos and infrastructure. Fast remediation and reduced blast radius of leaks.
IDE credential detection plugin for VS Code and Cursor that scans for exposed credentials in code. No broader scanning across Git repositories, CI/CD pipelines, or infrastructure for secret sprawl detection.
Infisical scans across Git repos and infrastructure for 140+ secret types with fast remediation workflows, providing broader coverage than IDE-only detection and a unified approach to preventing secret sprawl without additional tooling.
Encryption
AES-256-GCM encryption at rest. FIPS 140-3 compliant. Full data sovereignty through self-hosting — secrets never leave your infrastructure.
Patented Distributed Fragments Cryptography (DFC). FIPS 140-2 Level 3 HSM-backed. Zero-knowledge architecture where encryption key fragments are distributed across multiple clouds.
Both use strong encryption. Akeyless’s DFC ensures even the vendor cannot access customer secrets. Infisical achieves equivalent data sovereignty through self-hosting with FIPS 140-3 compliance.
KMS / BYOK
Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) with AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault, GCP Cloud KMS, or custom HSMs. You retain full visibility and revocation capabilities. Infisical never stores or sees your root keys.
Customer Fragment stored in customer’s environment as part of DFC. HSM integration for fragment storage. Encryption-as-a-Service.
Both support external key management. Infisical provides straightforward BYOK with major cloud KMS providers and full root key control. Akeyless uses its DFC fragment model.
KMIP
Acts as KMIP server, enabling integration with KMIP-compliant clients (legacy HSMs, databases, enterprise tools) with no custom adapter required.
Built-in KMIP server on Gateway supporting key lifecycle management. Documented integrations with MongoDB Enterprise, vSphere, and other KMIP-compatible clients. KMIP keys managed alongside other Akeyless key types.
Both platforms provide KMIP server capabilities for integration with enterprise tools and legacy infrastructure that rely on the standard key management protocol.
Compliance
SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR, FIPS 140-3.
Equivalent compliance certifications
Equivalent compliance certifications across both platforms, meeting major enterprise regulatory requirements.
AI Agent Security
Agentic Sentinel: MCP (Model Context Protocol) permission management for users and AI agents. Control what tools and resources AI agents can access with policy-based governance. SPIFFE/SPIRE integration for workload identity.
SecretlessAI: JIT secrets provisioning for AI agents and MCP servers. SPIFFE/SPIRE integration for workload identity. AI Insights for monitoring.
As AI agents proliferate in enterprise environments, controlling their access to secrets and resources becomes critical. Both platforms are building solutions for this emerging need.
Deployment Options
Cloud-hosted (Infisical Cloud — shared or dedicated instance), self-hosted (Helm, Docker Compose, Linux packages), on-prem/air-gapped.
SaaS-only. No self-hosted option. Stateless gateways deployed in customer networks.
Storage Backend
PostgreSQL — battle-tested, horizontally scalable, and already familiar to most ops teams. Works with RDS, Cloud SQL. Seamless integration with existing enterprise monitoring, backups, and access control.
Akeyless-managed cloud infrastructure. No customer-managed storage backend. Data encrypted with DFC and stored in Akeyless’s multi-region cloud.
Data Sovereignty
Full control. Self-host in any region, any cloud, or on-premises. Secrets never leave your infrastructure.
Data resides in Akeyless’s cloud regions. Customer Fragment provides cryptographic control but data storage is vendor-managed.
High Availability
Multiple stateless instances behind load balancer with shared PostgreSQL. Standard, well-understood patterns.
Built-in SaaS HA with 99.99% uptime SLA. Multi-region by default. Gateway provides local cache for fallback.
Air-Gapped Support
Full support with Gateway for connecting to isolated resources. Self-hosted deployment works entirely behind your firewall.
Gateways can operate in private networks but require connectivity to Akeyless SaaS control plane. Not suitable for fully air-gapped environments.
Operational Model
Stateless by design (except Postgres persistence layer). Upgrades, backups, and configuration streamlined via environment variables, Helm charts, and Terraform.
Opaque: upgrades, backups, and DR managed by Akeyless. No direct control or visibility into infrastructure operations. Gateway updates via container images.
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Why Infisical?
Full transparency and control. Open-source codebase your security team can audit, with self-hosting on any infrastructure. No dependency on a closed-source, SaaS-only vendor.
Developer experience that drives adoption. An intuitive dashboard, first-party SDKs, 35+ secret syncs, and single-command CLI injection make it easy for teams to do the right thing — reducing secrets sprawl across the organization.
Built-in governance, no assembly required. Approval workflows, change request reviews, access requests with auto-expiration, and native Slack/Teams integration — all out of the box without ServiceNow or custom engineering.
Enterprise-proven with full deployment flexibility. Trusted by Fortune 500 organizations across finance, healthcare, aerospace, and technology — deployed in cloud, on-prem, and air-gapped environments.
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