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Secrets management · November 2026 Edition

AWS Secrets Manager vs Akeyless

Zero of fourteen models named AWS Secrets Manager first on the direct prompt; zero named Akeyless. AWS Secrets Manager was named by fourteen of the fourteen models and Akeyless by thirteen and AWS Secrets Manager carries 69 labels and Akeyless 34, so the shares are not directly comparable.

AWS Secrets Manager

accepted challenger

Named in five categories this edition.

Akeyless

accepted challenger

Named in four categories this edition.

First-choice share6%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate14%6%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#4#6A position in a field of 12; printed, not drawn.
Labels6934A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, AWS Secrets Manager reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.HashiCorp Vault was named alongside these two in eleven of the fourteen direct answers. HashiCorp Vault vs AWS Secrets Manager · HashiCorp Vault vs Akeyless · Doppler vs AWS Secrets Manager

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the secrets management page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
AWS Secrets ManagerFirst choices, of fourteen modelsAkeyless
Direct001 against Akeyless
Paraphrase30
Comparative01
Budget-constrained004 against AWS Secrets Manager
Scale-constrained012 against AWS Secrets Manager
Negative104 against AWS Secrets Manager · 1 against Akeyless
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the November 2026 Edition, AWS Secrets Manager and Akeyless were named in the same answer eighty-eight times, of the 244 answers naming AWS Secrets Manager and the 150 naming Akeyless. In those answers Akeyless took the first choice seven times and AWS Secrets Manager zero.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where AWS Secrets Manager and Akeyless stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.20
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
AWS Secrets Manager Akeyless first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, AWS Secrets Manager on the left and Akeyless on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where AWS Secrets Manager and Akeyless stood in it.

Neither was the first choice, one was named

13 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choice alternatives: AWS Secrets Manager, Doppler, HashiCorp Vault
GPT-5.4 miniHashiCorp Vault alternatives: AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault
Gemini 3.5 FlashDoppler, Infisical alternatives: AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, Google Secret Manager
Perplexity SonarInfisical alternatives: AWS Secrets Manager, Akeyless, Doppler
Grok 4.20HashiCorp Vault alternatives: AWS Secrets Manager, Akeyless, Passwork
Mistral SmallHashiCorp Vault alternatives: AWS Secrets Manager, Akeyless, Azure Key Vault, CyberArk Conjur
DeepSeek V4 FlashDoppler, Infisical alternatives: AWS Secrets Manager, Akeyless, HashiCorp Vault
Llama 4 MaverickDoppler alternatives: Akeyless, HashiCorp Vault
Qwen 3.7 FlashHashiCorp Vault alternatives: AWS Secrets Manager, Akeyless, Azure Key Vault, Infisical
GLM 4.7 FlashXHashiCorp Vault alternatives: AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, Doppler, Google Secret Manager, Infisical
MiniMax M2.5HashiCorp Vault alternatives: AWS Secrets Manager, Akeyless, Azure Key Vault, CyberArk Conjur, Doppler
GPT-6 LunaDoppler alternatives: AWS Secrets Manager, Infisical
Muse Glimmer 30BDoppler alternatives: AWS Secrets Manager, Akeyless, HashiCorp Vault

Neither was named

1 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
Kimi K2Doppler alternatives: 1Password, HashiCorp Vault, Infisical

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
AWS Secrets Manager leads by seven points.
AWS Secrets Manager9%#3 of 11
Akeyless1%#7 of 11
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
AWS Secrets Manager leads by four points.
AWS Secrets Manager6%#4 of 12
Akeyless2%#6 of 12
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
The order flips: Akeyless leads at enterprise.
Akeyless8%#2 of 12
AWS Secrets Manager2%#5 of 12
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about AWS Secrets Manager

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Five of six in this category shown.

“Not recommended for small teams due to vendor lock-in and complexity.” Mistral Small · negative prompt · hard negative
“AWS Secrets Manager (costs add up)” Kimi K2 · budget prompt · hard negative
“Integrate HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, or Azure Key Vault instead of native Kubernetes secrets.” Muse Glimmer 30B · negative prompt · first choice
“Start with AWS Secrets Manager or Azure Key Vault if you're cloud-native” Claude Haiku 4.5 · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“If you're AWS-heavy, choose AWS Secrets Manager.” GPT-6 Luna · paraphrase prompt · first choice

What the models said about Akeyless

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Five of five in this category shown.

“Other niche or less-mature tools (e.g., Infisical, Doppler, Akeyless as Vault alternatives ... Newer tools may have smaller communities” Grok 4.20 · negative prompt · soft negative
“they're generally better when your governance needs are less complex” GPT-5.4 mini · direct prompt · soft negative
“Multi-cloud enterprise with dynamic credentials: HashiCorp Vault or Akeyless.” Perplexity Sonar · comparative prompt · first choice
“If you're cloud-agnostic or hybrid, evaluate HCP Vault or Akeyless.” Kimi K2 · scale prompt · first choice
“Akeyless is a true cloud-native secrets management platform, eliminating the complexity of hosting and maintaining vaults” Claude Haiku 4.5 · comparative prompt · alternative
Also compared
HashiCorp Vault vs AWS Secrets ManagerHashiCorp Vault vs AkeylessDoppler vs AWS Secrets ManagerDoppler vs AkeylessInfisical vs AWS Secrets ManagerInfisical vs AkeylessAWS Secrets Manager vs Azure Key VaultAWS Secrets Manager vs Google Secret ManagerAzure Key Vault vs AkeylessAkeyless vs Google Secret ManagerAll twenty-one head-to-head pages and the full secrets standing

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.