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Akeyless: Enterprise Secrets Management Without the Vault Hassle

Cut complexity, slash costs, and centralize secrets management across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Migrate from HashiCorp Vault when you’re ready. Govern what stays.

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A Better Way to Manage Your Secrets

Your team should be securing secrets, not managing the infrastructure around them.

Simplify Operations

Leave behind the infrastructure and day-to-day effort of managing Vault clusters, upgrades, replication, and availability.

Reduce TCO

Cut licensing, infrastructure, and administration costs with enterprise secrets management delivered as SaaS.

Modernize Without Disruption

Centralize governance across vaults today, and migrate with no downtime when you’re ready.

Vault Wasn’t Built for Modern Secrets Management

Secrets now span cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD, SaaS, applications, and multiple vaults, while AI agents add a new wave of machine identities that need access. For legacy tools like Vault, that translates into mounting complexity and spiraling costs. The friction also pushes developers to use workarounds that can create security gaps.

Modern secrets management should centralize governance, simplify access, and support short-lived, identity-based credentials across modern environments and AI agents.

Gartner

Modernize “toward identity-driven access, central governance, and minimal reliance on long-lived secrets using vaults as supporting infrastructure, not the foundation.”

Gartner®, Innovation Insights: Secrets Management, Steve Wessels, Paul Mezzera, Michael Kelley, 8 April 2026

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Why Enterprises Choose Akeyless Over HashiCorp Vault

Easy to Deploy and Manage

Akeyless combines SaaS simplicity and scalability with the security and control required for enterprise secrets management. Automate rotation, manage dynamic and static secrets, and enforce policy across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

No Vault clusters to operate, replication to manage, or upgrades and supporting infrastructure to maintain.

Keep Secrets Secure and Under Your Control

Akeyless protects secrets with a Zero-Knowledge architecture powered by patented Distributed Fragments Cryptography™. Key material is distributed and never assembled, even during use, so the complete key is never exposed. A fragment stays in your environment, keeping cryptographic control in your hands.

All of this happens behind the scenes, for vault-level protection with far less complexity.

Reduce Reliance on Static Secrets

Akeyless helps replace long-lived credentials with dynamic, short-lived access issued only when needed and automatically expired after use. Authenticate workloads using native identities across cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and other modern environments, while still supporting the static secrets your existing applications rely on.

Fewer persistent credentials mean fewer secrets to steal, leak, rotate, and manage.

Multi-Vault Governance

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Centralize Governance

Gain consistent visibility, policy, and audit across Vault, cloud-native secrets managers, Kubernetes, and other secret stores.

Standardize Control

Apply common access policies and governance across vaults while secrets remain where they are.

Migrate When Ready

Move workloads to Akeyless with no downtime, retiring Vault infrastructure as you transition.

Akeyless vs. HashiCorp Vault: A Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature
Akeyless
HashiCorp Vault
Product Approach
SaaS-first platform with automation, governance, and enterprise controls built in
Infrastructure-heavy vault model that requires more setup and ongoing management
Ease of Adoption
Fast deployment with intuitive administration
More complex to deploy, configure, and operate
Scaling
SaaS architecture with lightweight Gateways that expand easily across environments
Scaling relies on additional clusters, replication, and infrastructure planning
Automated Rotation
Built-in rotation across databases, cloud services, SaaS, and other targets
More setup and configuration required across engines and targets
Security Architecture
Zero-Knowledge architecture with patented DFC™; complete keys are never assembled
Centralized vault architecture built around master-key protection
Multi-Vault Governance
Centralized visibility, policy, and governance across HashiCorp Vault and other secret stores
Governance remains centered on Vault environments
Operational Overhead
No Vault clusters, replication infrastructure, or platform upgrades to manage
Ongoing cluster, replication, upgrade, and infrastructure management
TCO
SaaS model designed to reduce infrastructure and operational costs
Licensing plus infrastructure, engineering, and maintenance costs

Supporting a Broad Ecosystem of Integrations

Auditing and Compliance

Akeyless vault with FedRAMP, ISO, AICPA SOC, PCI DSS and FIPS 140-3 compliance badges

Quantum-Safe,Zero-Knowledge Security

Patented Distributed Fragments Cryptography™ and hybrid post-quantum encryption keep secrets and data secure.

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