Infisical vs. Keyfactor
Looking for a Keyfactor alternative? Infisical automates certificate management in one place, without three products to deploy and connect.
The Keyfactor way
Consoles, servers, alerts, tickets, and upgrades across three products.
- AnyCA Gateway portal
- Expiration alert: api.example.com: Expires in 14 days. No renewal handler on this alert.
- orchestrator host
- Patch SQL Server for Keyfactor Command: Needs a maintenance window
- EJBCA admin
- AnyCA Gateway update available: Upgrade it, then re-test the EJBCA connection.
- orch-dc-01: Not seen for 3 days
- Configure a renewal handler for expiration alerts
- Keyfactor Command
- Keyfactor upgrade window: 02:00 to 06:00
- Sam, platform team: Did the F5 cert renew? The browser says it expires soon.
The Infisical way
One platform to automate certificate discovery, issuance, renewal, and syncs.
What's the difference between Infisical and Keyfactor?
Infisical manages the full certificate lifecycle of any certificate on your infrastructure and lets you stand up your own CA hierarchy. Doing the same with Keyfactor requires implementing, maintaining, and integrating three different products.
Evaluate
Infisical- Try the free tier to test-drive an internal CA, ACME, and the certificate dashboard
- Use the open-source version to audit and test the code
Keyfactor- Lengthy sales process
- Quote and professional services before you start
- Can't audit all the code
Deploy/integrate
Infisical- Use managed cloud, or self-host on Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, AWS ECS, or Google GKE
- One gateway to reach private networks
Keyfactor- Stand up three products for different use cases and wire them together
- Install orchestrators and a CA connector on your network
- Requires Microsoft SQL Server to self-host
Migrate/onboard
Infisical- Connect CAs you already issue from or create a new hierarchy in minutes
- Automatically discover every certificate on your network
- Set up syncs wherever they're needed
Keyfactor- Spend four months deploying with five staff¹
- Buy professional services on top of the license
Control access
Infisical- Sign in with whatever SSO you already use
- Set clear rules for visibility and access control
Keyfactor- No native SAML: Sign in through Active Directory or OIDC
Operate
Infisical- Keep one platform and gateway up to date
- Certificates renew automatically via API, SCEP, ACME, or EST
Keyfactor- Patch Keyfactor Command, EJBCA, the ACME and SCEP servers, the orchestrators, and the CA connector
- Budget 2.5 full-time staff to run it¹
Automate
Infisical- Get an email, Slack, PagerDuty, or webhook alert before anything expires
- Certificates land on consuming services with no agent to install
Keyfactor- Manually wire up renewal alerts
- Build a renewal workflow before an alert can lead to a renewal
- Add an orchestrator extension for every kind of target
Scale
Infisical- Sign code with approvals, without buying another product
- Add secrets, privileged access, or KMS on the same platform when you need them
Keyfactor- Buy Signum for code signing
- Bring in another vendor for secrets management or other security infrastructure
Infisical vs. Keyfactor at a glance
Both Infisical and Keyfactor are capable certificate lifecycle management solutions. The biggest difference is in operational and deployment complexity.
| Feature |  | Keyfactor |
|---|---|---|
| Open sourceWhether the source code is public and auditable for your team. | MIT-licensed core your team can audit | Proprietary, closed to review |
| Self-hostingRunning the product in your dedicated cloud or on-premises infrastructure. | Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, AWS ECS, or Google GKE, on PostgreSQL and Redis | Requires Microsoft SQL Server |
| Managed cloudA version the vendor hosts and operates for you. | US and EU regions. One gateway where it has to reach a private network | Hosted, but you install and patch orchestrators and a CA connector |
| Products neededHow many separate products it takes to cover the full certificate lifecycle and CA hierarchy. | Infisical Certificate Management | Three products to deploy and connect: Keyfactor Command for lifecycle, EJBCA for private CAs, and Signum for code signing |
| Components to runWhat your team needs to deploy and maintain. | One platform, plus a gateway for private networks | Command, EJBCA, separate ACME and SCEP servers, orchestrators, a CA connector, the AnyCA Gateway, and Signum, each one more thing to deploy and keep current |
| Product scopeWhat Infisical and Keyfactor cover beyond certificate management. | Certificates, secrets, privileged access, and KMS on one platform | Certificates and code signing. Secrets need another vendor |
| Private CA hierarchy | Built in, with HSM-backed keys | Needs EJBCA unless you already run a CA |
| External and public CAs | Public and private certificates in one inventory, from DigiCert, Sectigo, Let's Encrypt, AD CS, Venafi, and more | Through AnyCA, a separate component with its own database |
| Code signing | Built in, with signing approvals and signtool, jarsigner, and cosign support | Signum or SignServer, separate products to buy and connect |
| ACMEA protocol for tools like certbot and cert-manager to request and renew certificates. | A separate ACME server with its own database, deployed on IIS or Kubernetes | |
| ESTA protocol common in IoT and networking that helps devices and servers enroll for certificates. | Only through EJBCA | |
| SCEPA legacy enrollment protocol used by device management tools like Microsoft Intune and Jamf. | A separate SCEP server on IIS, or EJBCA's | |
| APIRequesting certificates from your own code or scripts. | ||
| Certificate discoveryScanning your networks to find certificates in use, including ones you didn't know about. | Scans IP ranges and domains, public or private | Needs separate universal orchestrators |
| InventoryA central list of every certificate, where it's used, and when it expires. | ||
| Automatic renewalAutomatically replacing certificates before they expire. | Via syncs, agents, or ACME clients | Only for orchestrator-managed stores, through an alert workflow you set up |
| Expiry alertsNotifications before a certificate expires to renew them in time. | Slack, PagerDuty, email, or webhooks | Email, or custom PowerShell workflows |
| Certificate syncsInstalling certificates on load balancers, servers, and cloud services that use them. | Pushed to 13+ destinations with no agent on the target | Separate orchestrator extension for each target type |
| Access controlRules for who can see things or make changes. | ||
| SAML SSOSigning in through an identity provider like Okta or Microsoft Entra ID. | No native SAML. Active Directory or OIDC sign-in only | |
| Audit logsA record of who did what for security reviews and compliance. | ||
| Pricing modelWhat the price is based on. | Quote-based subscription or free tier | Quote-based subscription plus professional services |
| Free tierWhat you can use without paying. | An internal CA, ACME, and the certificate dashboard | |
Frequently asked questions
Everything you need to know. Can't find an answer? Talk to our team.
Yes. Infisical issues certificates from its own CAs or from any public and private CA you already use. It discovers certs on your network, renews them, syncs them to where they are served, and handles code signing. Keyfactor requires three different products (Command, EJBCA, and Signum) to do the same.
Infisical's core is open source under the MIT license, and Infisical can be self-hosted. Infisical covers private CAs, ACME, EST, and SCEP enrollment, discovery, renewal, and certificate syncs. Keyfactor Command is proprietary, and Keyfactor describes EJBCA Community Edition (the open source version of its private CA product) as not intended for production use.²
You need EJBCA to issue private certificates from Keyfactor Command. Keyfactor Command also works with another CA you already run, such as Microsoft AD CS. Command manages certificates but doesn't issue them. Infisical has its own private CAs built in, which means it can issue and manage certificates in the same place.
Yes, but only through a separate Keyfactor ACME server that runs on IIS or Kubernetes with its own database. Infisical's ACME server is built into the platform, alongside EST and SCEP, which means it requires no separate infrastructure beyond a gateway deployed once on your infrastructure.
In a Forrester study Keyfactor commissioned, the composite customer took about four months to deploy Command with five staff, then needed about two and a half full-time staff to run it.¹ Infisical runs as one platform with no separate enrollment servers to install.
Yes. Self-hosted Command needs Microsoft SQL Server, plus Windows Server and IIS unless you run it on Kubernetes. Hosted Command needs Universal Orchestrators near your targets and a CA connector to reach on-premises CAs. Whether cloud- or self-hosted, any team using Keyfactor installs, patches, and monitors Keyfactor software. Infisical Cloud needs only one gateway to reach a private network.
Connect the CAs you issue from today, run discovery to build your inventory, then move enrollment and syncs one application at a time. Certificates you already track can be imported as PEM or PKCS#12.
How to migrate from Keyfactor to Infisical
Most teams move one application at a time, so both systems run side by side until the last workload moves.
- 01
Connect your CAs
Connect the public and private CAs you issue from today or have your existing root sign an Infisical intermediate CA.
- 02
Build the inventory
Discover certificates across your networks and import the certificates Keyfactor tracks.
- 03
Move enrollment and delivery
Point ACME, EST, and SCEP clients at Infisical and replace orchestrator jobs with certificate syncs.
- 04
Retire Keyfactor
Once everything runs through Infisical, decommission Keyfactor.
Our team can help you plan and run the migration.
Start managing certificates, then add secrets, privileged access, KMS, or agent access.
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