Secrets Manager vs Vibr8Vault
Secrets Manager
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| Figure | Secrets Manager | Vibr8Vault |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | — |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 0 |
| Spec score · Secrets Management Tools | 8.3 (#7) | 6.8 (#32) |
| Audit | The system records audit events including secret reveals, and documents that secret values are not returned if the required audit write fails. | Secret access, token operations, and admin actions are logged with a timestamp, actor, path, and result. |
| Encryption | The backend uses AES-256-GCM envelope encryption with a random data key per secret value, and the documentation says plaintext secret values are never stored in the database. | The site lists AES-256-GCM encryption with per-secret keys and Shamir's Secret Sharing for master-key protection. |
| Platforms | The CLI documentation includes Windows PowerShell and macOS/Linux usage; the product also provides a browser UI and API. | The product page says it works on Linux, macOS, and Windows. |
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In their own words
Secrets Manager
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.
Vibr8Vault
Vibr8Vault has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.