Infisical vs PX Secrets

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.

PX Secrets is a free, open-source secrets manager that stores an encrypted vault on the user’s machine. SOPS and AGE encrypt the vault on disk, while the project says the private AGE key is read directly by SOPS rather than handled by PX Secrets. A dark web interface offers search and service grouping, with an optional native desktop window through pywebview. The CLI lists services and retrieves named secrets for scripts. A local API supports runtime retrieval by scripts and AI agents, and the application can run headlessly as a background service. Docker deployment and CI/CD use are documented. The project states that it makes no network calls and collects no telemetry, analytics, usage tracking, or crash reports. Clipboard copies clear after 30 seconds, and temporary plaintext files are deleted after encryption. Linux and macOS are supported; Windows may work but is untested. Requirements include Python 3.9+, SOPS, and AGE. The software is licensed under AGPL-3.0.