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Secrets management · November 2026 Edition

Infisical vs Akeyless

Three of fourteen models named Infisical first on the direct prompt; zero named Akeyless. Infisical was named by thirteen of the fourteen models and Akeyless by thirteen and Infisical carries 46 labels and Akeyless 34, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Infisical

accepted challenger

Named in five categories this edition.

Akeyless

accepted challenger

Named in four categories this edition.

First-choice share23%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate2%6%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#3#6A position in a field of 12; printed, not drawn.
Labels4634A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Infisical reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.AWS Secrets Manager was named alongside these two in twelve of the fourteen direct answers. HashiCorp Vault vs Infisical · HashiCorp Vault vs Akeyless · Doppler vs Infisical

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.
InfisicalFirst choices, of fourteen modelsAkeyless
Direct301 against Akeyless
Paraphrase00
Comparative01
Budget-constrained90
Scale-constrained01
Negative001 against Infisical · 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, Infisical and Akeyless were named in the same answer sixty-eight times, of the 196 answers naming Infisical and the 150 naming Akeyless. In those answers Akeyless took the first choice five times and Infisical ten.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Infisical 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
Infisical Akeyless first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Infisical on the left and Akeyless on the right.

The direct prompt

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

Infisical first, Akeyless an alternative

3 of 14 modelsAkeyless was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
Gemini 3.5 FlashDoppler, Infisical alternatives: AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, Google Secret Manager
Perplexity SonarInfisical alternatives: AWS Secrets Manager, Akeyless, Doppler
DeepSeek V4 FlashDoppler, Infisical alternatives: AWS Secrets Manager, Akeyless, HashiCorp Vault

Neither was the first choice, one was named

9 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Grok 4.20HashiCorp Vault alternatives: AWS Secrets Manager, Akeyless, Passwork
Mistral SmallHashiCorp Vault alternatives: AWS Secrets Manager, Akeyless, Azure Key Vault, CyberArk Conjur
Llama 4 MaverickDoppler alternatives: Akeyless, HashiCorp Vault
Qwen 3.7 FlashHashiCorp Vault alternatives: AWS Secrets Manager, Akeyless, Azure Key Vault, Infisical
Kimi K2Doppler alternatives: 1Password, HashiCorp 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

2 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
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

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
Infisical leads by twenty-five points.
Infisical27%#2 of 11
Akeyless1%#7 of 11
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Infisical leads by twenty-one points.
Infisical23%#3 of 12
Akeyless2%#6 of 12
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
The order flips: Akeyless leads at enterprise.
Akeyless8%#2 of 12
Infisical4%#4 of 12
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Infisical

Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Four 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
“Start with Infisical (Cloud) or Doppler. They are designed to lower the cognitive load for small teams.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · budget prompt · first choice
“Infisical (open-source self-hosted edition) is often the best choice for a company with a limited budget.” Grok 4.20 · budget prompt · first choice
“The best secrets management tool for a company with a limited budget is Infisical, which offers a free tier” Llama 4 Maverick · budget 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 InfisicalHashiCorp Vault vs AkeylessDoppler vs InfisicalDoppler vs AkeylessInfisical vs AWS Secrets ManagerInfisical vs Azure Key VaultInfisical vs Google Secret ManagerAWS Secrets Manager vs AkeylessAzure 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.