Akeyless Platform

What is Akeyless?

Akeyless is an identity security platform for security and platform teams that need to manage secrets, access and credentials for machines, AI agents and human users. The vendor delivers it as SaaS, with an optional hybrid model that adds on-premises gateways and zero-knowledge encryption.

Key features of Akeyless

• Secrets Management: stores and rotates static, dynamic and rotated secrets for applications and pipelines.
• Multi-Vault Governance: connects to external vaults such as HashiCorp Vault for central governance.
• Certificate Lifecycle Management: issues and tracks certificates, with CA integration.
• Encryption and Multi-Cloud KMS: key management across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, which the vendor markets as quantum-resilient.
• Modern PAM: just-in-time privileged access for human users.
• Password Manager: a password manager with a browser extension.
• AI agent identity: SecretlessAI and agent runtime controls that keep secrets away from AI agents.

How Akeyless works

Workloads and users authenticate to Akeyless using cloud identities such as AWS IAM, Azure AD and GCP IAM, then retrieve or are issued short-lived credentials. Gateways connect Akeyless to targets like cloud secret managers and Kubernetes. Pricing units map to the products used, and metered items include clients, certificates, transactions and connectors.

Who uses Akeyless?

Akeyless is used by DevOps, platform and security teams, particularly those running multi-cloud and Kubernetes environments or consolidating several vaults. The vendor lists FedRAMP, ISO 27001, FIPS 140-3 validation, SOC 2, CSA STAR Level 1, PCI DSS, GDPR and DORA compliance.

Akeyless pricing

Akeyless offers a free tier and custom enterprise pricing without published dollar prices. The free tier includes, for example, 5 clients and 500 static secrets in Secrets Management, 5 managed certificates, 1,000 encryption transactions per day and 3 Password Manager users. It excludes features such as SAML, OIDC and LDAP authentication, HSM integration and KMIP. Enterprise limits are custom and quoted through the vendor.

Akeyless integrations

The vendor names AWS Secret Manager, Azure Key Vault, GCP Secret Manager, Kubernetes Secrets and HashiCorp Vault as connector targets, and AWS IAM, Azure AD and GCP IAM for workload authentication. It also lists integration categories including CI/CD, code management, configuration management, identity providers and infrastructure automation.

Akeyless alternatives

Cloudflare, CrowdStrike and Wiz are broader security platforms that cover network, endpoint and cloud posture rather than secrets management. SonarQube focuses on code quality and security analysis. The closest direct comparison named by the vendor's own content is HashiCorp Vault, which Akeyless positions itself against as a SaaS option.