Akeyless review (2026): is the free plan enough?
Workforce password manager inside a secrets platform
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Akeyless report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 13, 2026
Best for company passwords inside a secrets platform
Akeyless sells a workforce password manager as one part of a larger secrets platform. The free plan covers 3 users and 50 stored passwords, Enterprise pricing is quoted per contract, and it is built for companies rather than individuals.
Who Akeyless is for
- 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
Who Akeyless is not for
- 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
Why Akeyless gets a 2.2
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- CValue for moneyEnterprise is custom and unpublished, and the free plan is small, so there is no price to place against the category.
- CFree plan and trialFree is 3 users and 50 stored passwords, with audit logs kept for 3 days. You will hit that with a team.
- CFeaturesPasswords, passkeys, secrets, rotation, sharing, SSO and audit logs. It is part of a larger platform for companies.
- CEase of useNo store rating on record and you set up SSO and sharing rules first.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb and a browser extension with SAML, OIDC, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure and HashiCorp Vault. No desktop or phone apps.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Akeyless's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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Akeyless's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 9 of the 49 other password managers we grade, and level with 8.
It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 16 of 49) and worst on features (C, above 0).
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 50 password managers we grade, cut by the letter each got. Akeyless’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 3 of 49, level with 20
- CFree plan and trialAbove 6 of 49, level with 20
- CFeaturesAbove 0 of 49, level with 31
- CEase of useAbove 9 of 49, level with 21
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 16 of 49, level with 25
Keep Akeyless, or make your own?
Keep it
To replace Akeyless you would be making a password vault, the last thing anyone should make for themselves. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one.
That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 32 of the 49 other password managers grade higher.
What you could not
- A password vault, the last thing anyone should make for themselves.
- Passkeys, which rest on security you cannot improvise.
- It plugs into other products, SAML, OIDC and Google among them.
- What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: single sign-on, audit logs and roles and permissions.
What this rests on. Akeyless’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Akeyless?
Akeyless is an identity security platform for secrets management, key management and privileged access, and it sells a password manager for workforce credentials as one of its products. The password manager holds passwords, passkeys and shared credentials, and adds rotated and dynamic secrets, role-based sharing, SSO sign-in and audit logs.
Worth knowing
- 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.
Key features
- 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.
Akeyless pricing
As of Nov 13, 2026, Akeyless has a free plan.
- Starts at
- Not published
- Free plan
- Free plan for the Password Manager: 3 users and 50 stored passwords, with password sharing and a personal folder.
- Free trial
- None listed
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Password Manager limits listed: 3 users, 50 passwords (static secrets), unlimited roles and groups, 3 days of audit logs. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Contract priced by users, with limits up to 100K passwords or custom. Sold through sales. |
Read from akeyless.io on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Akeyless before you buy.
Works with
- SAML
- OIDC
- GitHub
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Azure
- HashiCorp Vault
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Common questions
Does Akeyless have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 13, 2026. Akeyless is listed for Web.
Does Akeyless have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 13, 2026. Akeyless is listed for Web.
Is Akeyless open source?
Akeyless is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 13, 2026.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026.