Envshed is aimed at indie developers, early-stage teams of up to about 50 engineers and open-source maintainers managing shared infrastructure.
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Best Secrets Management Tools 2026
Facts read 29 Sep 2026 – 15 Oct 2026
Credentials and other sensitive values are part of many development and deployment workflows, so compare how each tool handles access and delivery. Compared on audit logs, secret rotation, CI/CD injection, deployment model, and Kubernetes integration, these entries also let you weigh dynamic secrets and pricing details, including free-plan availability, free secret limits, and paid-from cost. Delinea Identity Threat Protection and R4 are among the tools shown, alongside BeyondTrust Remote Support and Infisical. Consider which integrations and controls matter in your environment, and whether the available deployment and plan options fit the way your team manages secrets.
The standings: top 10
| Name | In a line | Record score | Price from | Try it free | Runs on | Facts read |
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| 01 Envshed | Envshed is aimed at indie developers, early-stage teams of up to about 50 engineers and open-source maintainers managing shared infrastructure. | 5.8 | $5 a month | Free plan | Web, Windows, Mac, Linux | 15 Oct 2026 |
| 02 Infisical | Infisical suits organizations that need to manage application credentials, certificates or privileged access across infrastructure. | 5.7 | $2 a month | Free plan | Web, Windows, Linux, API | 29 Sep 2026 |
| 03 secr | The Free plan is described for solo developers and small side projects. | 5.6 | $6 a month | Free plan | Web, Windows, Mac, Linux | 9 Oct 2026 |
| 04 Doppler | 5.5 | $8 a month | Free plan | Web, Windows, Mac, Linux | 29 Sep 2026 | |
| 05 dotenvx | dotenvx is aimed at software developers and teams managing application secrets, including workflows involving coding agents. | 5.5 | $5 a month | Free plan | Windows, Mac, Linux, Self-hosted | 4 Oct 2026 |
| 06 Phase | 5.5 | $10 a month, billed yearly | Free plan | Web, Windows, Mac, Linux | 30 Sep 2026 | |
| 07 Keyway | Keyway suits developers or teams that want to inject secrets into processes and manage access through GitHub repository permissions. | 5.4 | €9 a month | Free plan | Web, Windows, Mac, Linux | 3 Oct 2026 |
| 08 KeyEnv | 5.3 | $40 a year | Free plan | Web, Mac, Linux, API | 2 Oct 2026 | |
| 09 SikkerKey | 5.3 | $29 a month | Free plan | Web, Windows, Mac, Linux | 30 Sep 2026 | |
| 10 OpenBao | It suits organizations self-hosting credentials, encryption keys, and certificates across supported operating systems. | 5.0 | Free plan | Free plan | Web, Windows, Mac, Linux | 9 Oct 2026 |
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Infisical
Infisical suits organizations that need to manage application credentials, certificates or privileged access across infrastructure.
WebWindowsLinux+2 Record5.7 Visit
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secr
The Free plan is described for solo developers and small side projects.
WebWindowsMac+3 Record5.6 Visit
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Doppler
WebWindowsMac+4 Record5.5 Visit
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dotenvx
dotenvx is aimed at software developers and teams managing application secrets, including workflows involving coding agents.
WindowsMacLinux+1 Record5.5 Visit
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Keyway
WebWindowsMac+3 €9 a month Record5.4 Visit Keyway suits developers or teams that want to inject secrets into processes and manage access through GitHub repository permissions.
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OpenBao
WebWindowsMac+3 Free plan Record5.0 Visit It suits organizations self-hosting credentials, encryption keys, and certificates across supported operating systems.
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PX Secrets
WebWindowsMac+3 Free plan Record5.0 Visit PX Secrets is aimed at developers, AI builders, homelabbers, and sysadmins who want a self-hosted secrets vault.
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R4
AndroidiPhone & iPadWeb+5 Free plan Record5.0 Visit R4 suits teams managing licenses and secrets for people and agent runtimes, especially those needing local decryption, API access, and audit-ready events.
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Secrets Manager
WebWindowsMac+3 Free plan Record5.0 Visit It suits developers and teams wanting free, self-hosted secret storage with CLI injection, access controls and audit records.
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AWS Secrets Manager
WebAPI Free plan Record4.6 Visit AWS Secrets Manager suits IT and security administrators and developers managing application credentials and other secrets.
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Teller
WindowsMacLinux Free plan Record4.6 Visit Teller suits developers and teams managing secrets across app development, testing, and builds.
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Secret Management
WebAPI Free plan Record4.5 Visit This service suits application and cloud teams that need centrally managed credentials, rotation, access controls, and auditing.
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VMware Secrets Manager
LinuxAPISelf-hosted Free plan Record4.5 Visit VSecM suits teams operating Kubernetes workloads that need to store and deliver secrets through supported integrations.
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CyberArk Secrets Manager
WebWindowsMac+3 — Record4.2 Visit It is designed for security teams managing nonhuman credentials, as well as applications, containers, CI/CD pipelines, and workloads that use them.
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OpenStack Barbican
LinuxAPISelf-hosted Free plan Record4.2 Visit Barbican suits OpenStack operators who need to provision and manage secrets through an API and configure software or hardware-backed stores.
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