# Akeyless alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 408 of the 504 answers in the 2 categories where Akeyless holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/akeyless/alternatives

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- Doppler: 54
- Sectigo Certificate Manager: 52
- HashiCorp Vault: 35
- Infisical: 34
- Keyfactor Command: 25
- AppViewX CERT+: 20

## Secrets management

**Small business**: 75 of 84 answers did not name Akeyless (Akeyless is #7 of 11 at 1%).

- Doppler: first choice in 39 of those 75
- Infisical: first choice in 25 of those 75
- AWS Secrets Manager: first choice in 6 of those 75
- 1Password: first choice in 5 of those 75
- Azure Key Vault: first choice in 4 of those 75
- Google Secret Manager: first choice in 4 of those 75
- Bitwarden Secrets Manager: first choice in 1 of those 75
- HashiCorp Vault: first choice in 1 of those 75

**Mid-market**: 56 of 84 answers did not name Akeyless (Akeyless is #6 of 12 at 2%).

- Doppler: first choice in 13 of those 56
- HashiCorp Vault: first choice in 12 of those 56
- Infisical: first choice in 8 of those 56
- AWS Secrets Manager: first choice in 4 of those 56
- Azure Key Vault: first choice in 2 of those 56
- Google Secret Manager: first choice in 1 of those 56
- SOPS: first choice in 1 of those 56
- Secret Manager: first choice in 1 of those 56

**Enterprise**: 45 of 84 answers did not name Akeyless (Akeyless is #2 of 12 at 8%).

- HashiCorp Vault: first choice in 22 of those 45
- Bitwarden Secrets Manager: first choice in 2 of those 45
- Doppler: first choice in 2 of those 45
- 1Password: first choice in 1 of those 45
- AWS Secrets Manager: first choice in 1 of those 45
- Infisical: first choice in 1 of those 45

## Certificate lifecycle management

**Small business**: 75 of 84 answers did not name Akeyless (Akeyless is #13 of 19 at 0%).

- Sectigo Certificate Manager: first choice in 28 of those 75
- ZeroSSL: first choice in 6 of those 75
- ManageEngine Key Manager Plus: first choice in 5 of those 75
- Smallstep Certificate Manager: first choice in 5 of those 75
- AWS Certificate Manager: first choice in 4 of those 75
- DigiCert CertCentral: first choice in 4 of those 75
- Cloudflare SSL/TLS: first choice in 3 of those 75
- DigiCert ONE: first choice in 3 of those 75

**Mid-market**: 76 of 84 answers did not name Akeyless (Akeyless is #10 of 15 at 0%).

- Sectigo Certificate Manager: first choice in 21 of those 76
- Keyfactor Command: first choice in 7 of those 76
- AppViewX CERT+: first choice in 6 of those 76
- ManageEngine Key Manager Plus: first choice in 5 of those 76
- Venafi TLS Protect: first choice in 4 of those 76
- CertKit: first choice in 3 of those 76
- CyberArk Certificate Manager: first choice in 2 of those 76
- Keyfactor: first choice in 2 of those 76

**Enterprise**: 81 of 84 answers did not name Akeyless (Akeyless is #10 of 12 at 0%).

- Keyfactor Command: first choice in 18 of those 81
- AppViewX CERT+: first choice in 14 of those 81
- Venafi TLS Protect: first choice in 13 of those 81
- CyberArk Certificate Manager: first choice in 5 of those 81
- Keyfactor: first choice in 5 of those 81
- DigiCert Trust Lifecycle Manager: first choice in 3 of those 81
- Sectigo Certificate Manager: first choice in 3 of those 81
- Garantir: first choice in 2 of those 81

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