Envshed vs Keyway

Envshed is a cloud secrets manager for small engineering teams, with a CLI that works across monorepos. It manages secrets and environments, supports per-user overrides, warns about expirations, allows project duplication and keeps an audit trail. For pnpm or npm workspaces, the CLI can detect workspaces and retrieve secrets from the repository root. Listed integrations include GitHub Actions, Docker, a Node.js SDK, a CLI for any shell and Coolify; a REST API supports languages including Python, Go and Rust. Secret values are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM, traffic uses TLS 1.3, and encryption keys are held separately from encrypted data. Envshed offers role-based access control and an immutable audit trail, including records of secret reads and changes. The maker says it is not a zero-knowledge vault: a small on-call group with production credentials could technically decrypt a secret value. Data is stored in one region on US-based cloud infrastructure. Self-hosting is unavailable, and the service is not yet SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certified. The Developer plan is free forever for up to two members and three projects; Team is $5/user/month and Business is $9/user/month.

Keyway is an open-source secrets manager that injects environment variables into a running process instead of storing them in a project.env file. Its `keyway run` command makes secrets available while that process runs; they disappear when it stops. Keyway says AI agents reading files from disk cannot see secrets injected this way. Access follows GitHub repository permissions, so removing a person’s repository access also revokes their Keyway access.

Secrets use AES-256-GCM encryption with a unique random IV for each secret. An isolated crypto service holds the encryption key, which Keyway says does not touch its API server or database; connections among the CLI, API, crypto service, and database use TLS 1.3. An audit trail records who accessed which secrets, when, and from where. Documented provider workflows cover Vercel, Netlify, and Railway. CLI binaries are listed for macOS, Linux, and Windows, and the full stack can be self-hosted with Docker Compose. The Free plan includes unlimited public repositories, one private repository, three environments per repository, two provider integrations, and unlimited collaborators. Paid plans are Pro at €9 a month, Team at €19 a month, and Business at €39 a month.