Akeyless vs Infisical (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Akeyless if

• Fits if one platform should hold both employee passwords and machine secrets
• Makes sense if you need SSO sign-in and audit trails on a vault

Look elsewhere if

• Not for you if you want a personal password manager, as it is built for companies
• Tight if you have more than 3 users or 50 passwords on the free plan
• Watch out: Enterprise pricing is not published and depends on user counts
• Watch out: going over a purchased user quota is invoiced at the end of the 12-month contract
• Skip it if you need desktop or phone apps, as only web and an extension are listed

Pick Infisical if

• Fits if you are a developer team moving off shared .env files
• Makes sense if you sync secrets to CI and cloud services

Look elsewhere if

• Pricey if you have many pipelines, since every machine identity is billed like a person
• Tight if you outgrow 5 identities, 3 environments or 10 syncs on the free plan
• Watch out: dynamic secrets and custom roles start at Advanced, $40 per identity
• Watch out: SCIM, LDAP, approvals and self-hosting sit under Enterprise, quoted by sales
• Skip it if you want phone apps, as none are listed

Akeyless

• Enterprise pricing is not published; it is quoted per contract and depends on user counts.
• The password manager is one product in a larger platform built for companies, not for individual consumers.
• The free plan is capped at 3 users and 50 stored passwords, with audit logs kept for 3 days.
• Overage beyond a purchased user quota is invoiced at the end of the 12-month contract.

Infisical

• Pricing counts every human and machine identity, so CI pipelines and services add to the bill.
• Free is limited to 5 identities, 3 environments and 10 secret syncs.
• Dynamic secrets, custom roles and SOC 2 Type II start at Advanced; SCIM, LDAP and approvals need Enterprise.
• Self-hosting is listed under Enterprise, with pricing quoted by sales.

Akeyless

Passwords, passkeys and secrets together

Stores passwords, passkeys, static secrets, rotated secrets and dynamic secrets in one vault, with central password generation policies.

Rotated and dynamic secrets

Credentials can change on a schedule or on demand, or expire after use, to cut down on long-lived shared passwords.

Controlled sharing

Share credentials with employees, contractors and third parties through role- and attribute-based access, with time limits.

Identity provider sign-in

Signs users in through SAML, OIDC, Google, GitHub and other identity providers, and enforces MFA through them.

Item-level audit logs

Tracks access to each credential and can stream logs to SIEM and compliance tools; the free plan keeps audit logs for 3 days.

Personal and corporate separation

Employees keep personal credentials apart from business-owned ones, which security teams can govern.

Infisical

Secrets by environment

Secrets live in projects with folders and environments; Free allows 3 environments, Pro 6 per project and Advanced 12.

Secret syncs and integrations

Pushes secrets to GitHub, Vercel, AWS and Kubernetes, with 100+ integrations listed; syncs are capped at 10, 25 or 50 by plan.

Rotation and dynamic secrets

Rotates credentials on a schedule from Pro, and issues short-lived on-demand secrets from Advanced.

Access control and SSO

Role-based permissions from Pro, SAML single sign-on from Pro, custom roles and SSO enforcement from Advanced.

Certificates and privileged access

Separate products cover private certificate authorities and session-recorded privileged access; each has its own plans on the pricing page.

Secret sharing

Share a secret by an expiring link limited by time or views instead of pasting it into chat or email.

Akeyless

• Free$0

  Password Manager limits listed: 3 users, 50 passwords (static secrets), unlimited roles and groups, 3 days of audit logs.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Contract priced by users, with limits up to 100K passwords or custom. Sold through sales.

Infisical

• Free$0

  Up to 5 identities with unlimited projects, 100+ integrations, secret sharing, secret references and 2FA.

• Pro$20

  per identity / month, billed annually ($23 billed monthly)

  Adds access controls, secret rotation, SAML SSO, secret versioning, point-in-time recovery and 30-day audit logs.

• Advanced$40

  per identity / month, billed annually ($46 billed monthly)

  Adds dynamic secrets, custom roles, SSO and MFA enforcement, SOC 2 Type II and 90-day audit logs.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Adds approval workflows, LDAP, SCIM, a 99.99% SLA, SIEM log streaming, and self-hosting or dedicated infrastructure.

Akeyless

No public discounts listed.

Infisical

• Annual discount

  Save 13% with annual billing

  The pricing page shows $20 per identity per month billed annually against $23 billed monthly on Pro, and $40 against $46 on Advanced.