Infisical vs Keyway

Infisical is an identity security platform for managing application secrets, certificates, and privileged access across cloud, on-prem, and AI infrastructure. Secrets Management centralizes credentials for syncing, rotation, and auditing across environments and workloads, with role-based access scoped by environment, path, and identity. Secrets can be rotated on a schedule or issued as short-lived credentials. Certificate Management handles private certificate authorities and automates certificate issuance, renewal, and revocation. Privileged Access provides short-lived identity-based sessions with auditing, while Agent Proxy keeps real secrets at the proxy and gives agents placeholders, with requests logged. Infisical lists integrations including AWS, Azure Key Vault, GitHub, GitLab, Datadog, OpenAI, and PostgreSQL. It can be used as Infisical Cloud or self-hosted. A free plan is available; paid plans start at $20 a month billed annually. The free certificate plan is limited to 10 active certificates, up to 5 SANs per certificate, and no wildcard SANs.

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.