Best Secrets Management · HIPAA
Best Secrets Management for HIPAA (2026)
3 secrets management that state HIPAA support (a signed BAA), 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
- Qualifying: AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, 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. Every row below is marked — we flag rather than silently retain.
Comparison
| # | Secrets Management | Entry price | Free | HIPAA | SOC 2 | Best for | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AWS Secrets Manager STALE · 2026-09-03 | — | No | Yes | Yes | AWS-native workloads requiring minimal operational overhead | aws.amazon.com |
| 2 | Azure Key Vault STALE · 2026-09-05 | — | No | Yes | Yes | Azure-native workloads requiring HSM-protected keys without on-prem HSM hardware | azure.microsoft.com |
| 3 | Google Cloud Secret Manager STALE · 2026-09-27 | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | GCP-native workloads requiring simple pay-per-use secrets storage | cloud.google.com |