Compare 4 free secrets management tools, free tiers, and developer deals. 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. Nothing on record contradicts our terms for Infisical, Google Secret Manager.

Free Secrets Management Tools

4 free tiers and developer deals. Catalogue dates here run to 2026-09-24.

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 (30), 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
Doppler Free Secrets management — up to 3 users, 10 projects, 4 environments per project. CLI, SDKs, and integrations includedOur read on 2026-09-18 found the page different from the terms we hold, and we hold no confirmation of the terms we publish. 2026-09-18 / 2026-08-13
Infisical Free Free tier includes 5 identities, unlimited projects, 100+ integrations, Secret Sharing, Secret References and Imports, Secret Overrides, 2FA. 2026-09-24
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 2026-09-26, so we cannot confirm these terms today. 2026-04-05 · tried 2026-09-26, 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 2026-09-20

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best free secrets management service?
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 4 Secrets Management services in our catalogue, listed in the table above with each one's tier, published terms and the read and catalogue dates we hold. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
How many free secrets management tools are there?
We track 4 secrets management services with free tiers on AgentDeals. These range from generous always-free tiers to limited trial periods. Of the 4 Secrets Management entries we hold, 1 carries terms a read confirmed in the last 90 days.
How stable are secrets management free tiers?
1 pricing change has been recorded across secrets management vendors. Check our Stability Dashboard for per-vendor details.
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