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Best HashiCorp Vault (HCP) alternatives (2026)
7 alternatives to HashiCorp Vault (HCP) in secrets management, ranked by entry price. HashiCorp Vault (HCP) starts at $0/mo. Every figure links to the public page it was captured from — the vendor's own wherever the vendor publishes the number, otherwise the named public source — with the date we captured it.
Key takeaways
- Free alternatives: Akeyless, Doppler, Infisical, Google Cloud Secret Manager.
- Closest by price: Akeyless ($0/mo), Doppler ($0/mo), Infisical ($0/mo).
HashiCorp Vault (HCP) alternatives compared
| # | Alternative | Entry price | Free | HIPAA | Best for | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Akeyless | $0/mo | Yes | — | Organizations requiring zero-knowledge architecture where the vendor never sees plaintext secrets | akeyless.io |
| 2 | Doppler | $0/mo | Yes | — | Developer teams deploying to Vercel, Heroku, or cloud platforms | doppler.com |
| 3 | Infisical | $0/mo | Yes | — | Developer teams wanting open-source secrets management with cloud or self-hosted options | infisical.com |
| 4 | 1Password (Secrets Automation) | $10.99/mo | No | — | Organizations combining employee password management with CI/CD secrets in one tool | 1password.com |
| 5 | AWS Secrets Manager | not priced monthly | No | Yes | AWS-native workloads requiring minimal operational overhead | aws.amazon.com |
| 6 | Azure Key Vault | not priced monthly | No | Yes | Azure-native workloads requiring HSM-protected keys without on-prem HSM hardware | azure.microsoft.com |
| 7 | Google Cloud Secret Manager | not priced monthly | Yes | Yes | GCP-native workloads requiring simple pay-per-use secrets storage | cloud.google.com |
Data current through 2026-09-09. Compare any two directly on the Secrets Management index.