Best Secrets Management · FREE
Best free Secrets Management (2026)
5 secrets management that offer a genuine free plan, ranked by entry price. 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
- Cheapest: Akeyless at $0/mo.
- Qualifying: Akeyless, Doppler, HashiCorp Vault (HCP), Infisical, Google Cloud Secret Manager.
- Data current through: 2026-11-01. STALE marks a row whose price we have not re-checked at its source in over 30 days; a vendor with no published price is marked when any of its plans is. 3 of 5 rows below are marked.
Comparison
| # | Secrets Management | Entry price | Free | HIPAA | SOC 2 | Best for | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Akeyless STALE · 2026-09-27 | $0/mo | Yes | — | Yes | Organizations requiring zero-knowledge architecture where the vendor never sees plaintext secrets | akeyless.io |
| 2 | Doppler | $0/user/mo | Yes | — | Yes | Developer teams deploying to Vercel, Heroku, or cloud platforms | doppler.com |
| 3 | HashiCorp Vault (HCP) STALE · 2026-09-03 | $0/mo | Yes | — | Yes | Large enterprises requiring self-hosted secrets infrastructure with full control | developer.hashicorp.com |
| 4 | Infisical | $0/mo | Yes | — | — | Developer teams wanting open-source secrets management with cloud or self-hosted options | infisical.com |
| 5 | Google Cloud Secret Manager STALE · 2026-09-27 | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | GCP-native workloads requiring simple pay-per-use secrets storage | cloud.google.com |