What is Akeyless used for?

Akeyless is a cloud-delivered secrets management and machine identity platform for applications and pipelines, extended to cover AI agents and human privileged access. It is a good fit for removing hardcoded secrets from CI/CD pipelines and keeping credentials out of AI agents.

Is Akeyless open source?

No. Akeyless is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Akeyless include Infisical and OpenBao.

What are some alternatives to Akeyless?

Akeyless competes with Doppler, AWS Secrets Manager and Azure Key Vault. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Akeyless alternatives.

Akeyless: features, pricing and alternatives

About Akeyless

Akeyless is a commercial SaaS platform for managing secrets and the identities of machines, AI agents and people. Its design relies on zero-knowledge cryptography, and it is aimed at engineering and security teams that want to move away from long-lived static credentials scattered across code, pipelines and cloud accounts.

On the machine side it covers secrets management with a push toward secretless access, governance across multiple vaults in any cloud, and certificate lifecycle management that automates issuance and renewal. For AI agents it adds SecretlessAI to keep credentials out of agents, runtime authority to govern their actions and discovery of agents. For people it offers modern privileged access with just-in-time access, plus a password manager and multi-cloud key management with post-quantum options.

Akeyless is proprietary and delivered as a hosted service, with integrations, a product tour, documentation and a trust center on its site. Visitors can start free, request a demo or review a pricing page, and industry pages address finance, technology, retail and manufacturing.

Key features

Secrets management with secretless access
Governance across multiple vaults and clouds
Certificate issuance and renewal automation
Just-in-time privileged access
Controls for AI agent credentials
Multi-cloud key management

Good fit for

→Removing hardcoded secrets from CI/CD pipelines
→Keeping credentials out of AI agents

Tags: secrets-management; machine-identity; security; pam; certificates; kms; saas

Akeyless: questions and answers

What is Akeyless used for?: Akeyless is a cloud-delivered secrets management and machine identity platform for applications and pipelines, extended to cover AI agents and human privileged access. It is a good fit for removing hardcoded secrets from CI/CD pipelines and keeping credentials out of AI agents.
Is Akeyless free?: Yes. Akeyless has a free plan.
Is Akeyless open source?: No. Akeyless is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Akeyless include Infisical and OpenBao.
What are some alternatives to Akeyless?: Akeyless competes with Doppler, AWS Secrets Manager and Azure Key Vault. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Akeyless alternatives.