Security & Compliance
Secrets Management
Tools for storing, managing, rotating, and distributing application secrets, certificates, keys, and privileged credentials.
Best Secrets Management tools by public signals
These picks are computed from scored public evidence. Use the openness column in the ranking to separate OSI-approved, source-available, open-core, proprietary, and unverified-license tools.
Use Case Rankings
Ordered by ToolVitals score, health, shipping, confidence, and then adoption as a tie-breaker.
| # | Tool | Health | Shipping | Openness | Stars | Score | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Infisical Infisical is the open-source platform for secrets, certificates, and privileged access management. | 93 | 100 | OSI-approved OSS | 27.3k | 97 | Active |
| 02 | OneCLI Open-source credential vault for AI agents. | 91 | 100 | OSI-approved OSS | 2.3k | 96 | Active |
| 03 | Phase Application secrets and configuration management for developers. | 90 | 95 | OSI-approved OSS | 868 | 94 | Active |
| 04 | SecretZero Git-native secrets-as-code platform. | 81 | 84 | OSI-approved OSS | 6 | 87 | Active |
| 05 | OpenBao Operator Kubernetes operator for managing OpenBao clusters and secrets infrastructure. | 80 | 90 | OSI-approved OSS | 17 | 86 | Active |
| 06 | lopper measure dependency waste and attack surface before it ships | 76 | 89 | OSI-approved OSS | 2 | 84 | Active |
| 07 | Relic Encrypted secrets manager for sharing sensitive data. | 76 | 67 | OSI-approved OSS | 174 | 79 | Active |
| 08 | Zexio ZMS High-performance secrets management system. | 56 | 51 | License unknown | 0 | 66 | Warning |
| 09 | Arcan Open-source secrets management platform. | 44 | 24 | OSI-approved OSS | 0 | 50 | Critical |
| 10 | EnvSecrets Open-source, end-to-end encrypted CLI-first management of your environment secrets. | 31 | 0 | OSI-approved OSS | 96 | 33 | Critical |
| 11 | Envie Self-hostable secrets manager and .env replacement. | 28 | 0 | OSI-approved OSS | 127 | 28 | Critical |