Infisical vs HashiCorp Vault
Secrets management the way it should be
The number one replacement for HashiCorp Vault.
Vault is powerful, but complex. Dev teams spend months onboarding, building custom workflows, managing YAML changes, and creating UIs just to make it usable.
Infisical gives you a full secrets platform out of the box: self-service, Git-friendly, and ready for your dev workflow.
Secrets management the way it should be
Infisical secures over 500 million secrets every day
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500M+
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Stop working around your security tools
Vault users
sound like this:
Legacy solutions slow you down, have high costs, and leave gaps. Infisical replaces it all with a single platform.
Why it matters
Credential sprawl, expired certificates, and manual access workflows are slowing down your shipping velocity.
They're even creating blind spots you can't see until something breaks. And the longer you wait, the worse it gets.
Why now
Developers are finding workarounds to avoid using them, and the security gaps they leave behind keep growing.
Modern infrastructure has moved on. Legacy secrets management tools were built decades ago, and most have since been acquired by large, slow-moving vendors.
It worked for them.
It’ll work for you.
Our secret sauce? We’re open source.
Infisical is the only open-source, all-in-one identity security platform that bundles secrets, certificates, and privileged access in a single developer-first product. Unlike Vault, which gives you building blocks to assemble yourself, Infisical is ready to go.
Everything your security stack needs. Nothing you have to build yourself.
Infisical is what
Vault users have
been looking for:
Infisical is a ready-to-go solution with workflows, UI, and automation built in, running on Postgres instead of proprietary Raft. No certification required, no custom orchestration to build.
Velocity & adoption
Eliminates credential management friction
Out-of-the-box integrations, intuitive UI, and built-in workflows
Day-one value with no custom tooling, onboarding, or certifications
Developers don’t need workarounds that create security gaps
All-in-one
Secrets, certificates, privileged access, AI agent security, and KMS in one platform
Consolidates vendors, reduces TCO, removes custom orchestration
Ready-to-go with no building blocks required
Developers don’t need workarounds that create security gaps.
Open source & flexible
Try-before-you-buy with full transparency
Deploy on shared cloud, dedicated cloud, or fully self-hosted anywhere
Powered by Postgres replication; simple architecture reduces operational overhead
Developers don’t need workarounds that create security gaps.
Fast time-to-value & support
Onboarding measured in days, not months
Import your existing secrets and get value from day one
Responsive, helpful support
Developers don’t need workarounds that create security gaps.
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Infisical secures over 500 million secrets every day
Infisical is the last secrets management platform you'll ever set up
Open-source. Developer-first. Built for how you work.
Give your team a single place to manage secrets across every environment, pipeline, and integration. Right out of the box from day one.
Infisical is the last secrets management platform you'll ever
set up
Open-source. Developer-first. Built for how you work.
Give your team a single place to manage secrets across every environment, pipeline, and integration. Right out of the box from day one.
Ready to get your secrets
under control?
One platform for secrets, certificates, and privileged access ready to go right from the start. Security infrastructure that works the way it always should have.
Ready to get your secrets under control?
No custom tooling
No months of onboarding
No dedicated team to maintain it
No custom tooling
No months of onboarding
No dedicated team to maintain it
Vault users
sound like this:
Go from:
Secrets scattered across .env files, internal tools, and spreadsheets
No visibility into who has access to what secret, or when it was last rotated
Developers hardcoding credentials because the alternative is too painful
Security tooling your team routes around
Juggling multiple vendors stitched together with custom work
Months of onboarding and dedicated teams just to maintain your tools
To:
Every secret centralized, versioned, and auditable in one place
Fine-grained access controls and full audit trails, out of the box
A secrets manager developers actually reach for
Built-in approval workflows replacing email chains and YAML files
One platform for secrets, certificates, and privileged access
Day-one value, no certification required
It worked for them.
It’ll work for you.
Hugging Face eliminated .env files and established a single source of truth for secrets across their entire infrastructure
HeyGen scaled secrets management as their engineering team tripled in six months, with automated deployments and just-in-time access
Lucid freed a bottlenecked team of eight and saved 12–20 hours a month with self-service secrets management
WRITER consolidated secrets from five disconnected tools into one platform, making enterprise security reviews easier to pass and regulated deals faster to close
Traba cut time spent on secrets management by 95%, getting set up in hours and automating what used to be done manually
Airbyte replaced their homegrown secrets tool with Infisical, boosting security posture while increasing engineering efficiency
Hugging Face eliminated .env files and established a single source of truth for secrets across their entire infrastructure
HeyGen scaled secrets management as their engineering team tripled in six months, with automated deployments and just-in-time access
Lucid freed a bottlenecked team of eight and saved 12–20 hours a month with self-service secrets management
Traba cut time spent on secrets management by 95%, getting set up in hours and automating what used to be done manually
Airbyte replaced their homegrown secrets tool with Infisical, boosting security posture while increasing engineering efficiency
WRITER consolidated secrets from five disconnected tools into one platform, making enterprise security reviews easier to pass and regulated deals faster to close
It worked for them.
It’ll work for you.
