Infisical vs Secrets Manager

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.

Secrets Manager is a free, open-source, self-hosted system for storing application secrets in encrypted form, managing them through a web interface, and injecting them into processes with a command-line tool. Users organize secrets by organization, project, and environment, import.env files, edit or reveal values, keep versions, roll back, and soft-delete entries. The `secrets run` command supplies environment secrets to a child process and its descendants without creating a.env file. Documented workflows cover Node.js, Python, npm, and Next.js; CI or deployment can use an API URL, token, and environment ID. User and service-account grants can be scoped to projects or environments, and revealing values requires explicit permission. AES-256-GCM envelope encryption uses a separate data key per value, while plaintext values are not stored in the database. Audit events include secret reveals, and values are withheld if audit writing fails. Docker Compose starts PostgreSQL, Redis, backend, and frontend; local Kubernetes manifests are also provided. A user-generated master key is mandatory and lost keys make secrets unrecoverable. The repository is MIT licensed.