Compare 4 free secrets management tools, free tiers, and developer deals. 1 we have not been able to confirm in the last 180 days. We could not confirm today's terms for 2 of them: on 1 the page we cite did not answer, and on 1 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why.
What this name holds: Vaults an application reads its own credentials from at run time, not vaults a person logs into.
3 other names here answer “who is allowed in, and where are the secrets kept”, and each holds a different list: Auth (31), Password Managers (7), Security (54).
We track 4 secrets management services with a free tier we hold as current. This category has been mostly stable — only 1 pricing change recorded across all vendors.
| Vendor | Tier | Description | Read / catalogue date |
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| Doppler | Free | Secrets management — free for 3 users, $8 a month per additional user (Doppler: "AI agents and non-human identities ride free"). 10 projects, 4 environments per project, 3 days of activity logs. CLI, SDKs, and integrations includedOur read on 2026-10-25 found the page different from the terms we hold, and we hold no confirmation of the terms we publish. | 2026-10-25 / 2026-08-13 |
| Infisical | Free | Free tier includes 5 identities, unlimited projects, 100+ integrations, Secret Sharing, Secret References and Imports, Secret Overrides, 2FA. | 2026-11-08 |
| HashiCorp Vault | Community / HCP Free | Self-hosted free (BSL 1.1 license). HCP Vault Secrets cloud free tier: 25 apps, 25 static secrets, 5 versions, 5 syncsWe could not read the page we cite for this offer when we last looked, on 2026-11-08, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-04-05 · tried 2026-11-08, no read |
| Google Secret Manager | Always Free | Always Free: 6 active secret versions, 10K access operations/month, 3 rotation notifications/month. Centralized secrets storage with IAM-based access control
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2026-11-06 |