# Akeyless review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Workforce password manager inside a secrets platform Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. 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. - **Category:** Password Managers - **Made by:** Akeyless - **Website:** https://www.akeyless.io - **Runs on:** Web, Browser extension - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want a personal password manager, as it is built for companies. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Akeyless has a free plan. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **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 https://www.akeyless.io/pricing/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Akeyless before buying. ## 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. ## Good for - Security teams that want one platform for employee passwords and machine secrets - Companies that need SSO sign-in and audit trails on a password vault - Organizations moving off a traditional password manager ## 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. 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. - **Value for money: C.** Enterprise is custom and unpublished, and the free plan is small, so there is no price to place against the category. - **Free plan and trial: C.** Free is 3 users and 50 stored passwords, with audit logs kept for 3 days. You will hit that with a team. - **Features: C.** Passwords, passkeys, secrets, rotation, sharing, SSO and audit logs. It is part of a larger platform for companies. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record and you set up SSO and sharing rules first. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web and a browser extension with SAML, OIDC, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure and HashiCorp Vault. No desktop or phone apps. These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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. ## Where it stands among password managers - 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). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/password-managers ## Keep it, 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. - You could not: A password vault, the last thing anyone should make for themselves. - You could not: Passkeys, which rest on security you cannot improvise. - You could not: It plugs into other products, SAML, OIDC and Google among them. - You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: single sign-on, audit logs and roles and permissions. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with SAML, OIDC, Google, GitHub, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, HashiCorp Vault **Tags:** Password manager, Passkeys ## Alternatives - [HashiCorp Vault](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hashicorp-vault): Secrets and encryption management for infrastructure teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/akeyless-vs-hashicorp-vault) - [Infisical](https://toolgpa.com/tools/infisical): Secrets, certificate and privileged access platform for developers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/akeyless-vs-infisical) - [Delinea Secret Server](https://toolgpa.com/tools/delinea-secret-server): Enterprise vault for privileged accounts and secrets. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/akeyless-vs-delinea-secret-server) - [Passbolt](https://toolgpa.com/tools/passbolt): Open-source password manager for teams, self-hosted or cloud. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/akeyless-vs-passbolt) - [Keeper](https://toolgpa.com/tools/keeper): Password manager with personal, family and business plans. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/akeyless-vs-keeper) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.akeyless.io/pricing/ - https://www.akeyless.io/password-management/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/akeyless Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).