Secrets Management Pricing Comparison
12 tools compared. Updated March 2026.
Pricing sources:All pricing aggregated from official pricing pages. Most per-user prices assume annual billing. Monthly billing is typically 20-30% more. Pricing changes frequently. Always verify with the vendor. Last checked March 2026.
Cheapest per-seat
Keeper at $3.75/user/mo
Cheapest overall
GCP Secret Manager ~$3/mo
Best free option
Vault or Infisical (self-host)
Most expensive (per-seat)
Doppler at $525/mo for 25 users
Per-User Pricing
Predictable monthly cost. Scales linearly with team size.
Free if you self-host
Free tierSelf-hosted unlimited
25-person team$450/mo
EnterpriseCustom
CloudSelf-hostedOSS
Free for up to 3 users
Free tierUp to 3 users, unlimited secrets
25-person team$525/mo
EnterpriseCustom
Cloud
Free tierNo
25-person team$200/mo
EnterpriseCustom
Cloud
Free tierPersonal vault
25-person team$100/mo
Enterprise$6/user/month
CloudSelf-hostedOSS
$2/user/mo Starter plan (max 10 users)
Free tierNo
25-person team$94/mo
EnterpriseCustom
Cloud
Usage-Based Pricing
Pay for secrets stored or API calls made. Cheap at low volume, unpredictable at scale.
Cheapest if you have few secrets
Free tierNo
25-person team~$20/mo
EnterprisePay-as-you-go
Cloud
Pennies at low volume
Free tierNo
25-person team~$5/mo
EnterprisePay-as-you-go
Cloud
Cheapest for small teams
Free tier6 free versions + 10k access ops/mo
25-person team~$3/mo
EnterprisePay-as-you-go
Cloud
Free / Open Source
No license cost. You run and manage the infrastructure yourself.
Industry standard
Free tierFull OSS version
25-person team$0 + infra
EnterpriseHCP from $0.03/hr
CloudSelf-hostedOSS
Free tierCommunity edition
25-person team$0 + infra
EnterpriseContact sales
CloudSelf-hostedOSS
Enterprise / Custom Pricing
Annual licenses or contact-sales pricing.
Free tierCommunity edition
25-person teamContact sales
EnterpriseContact sales
Cloud
Traditional enterprise PAM
Free tierNo
25-person teamContact sales
EnterpriseContact sales
CloudSelf-hosted
Pricing FAQs
HashiCorp Vault (open source), Infisical (self-hosted), CyberArk Conjur (Community), and Doppler (free for up to 3 users) all have free options. Cloud provider services like GCP Secret Manager also have small free tiers. However, "free" usually means self-managed. You handle the infrastructure, upgrades, and availability.
Per-user SaaS pricing ranges from $3.75/user/month (Keeper Business, billed annually) to $21/user/month (Doppler Team). Infisical is $18/user/month, 1Password Business at $7.99/user/month, and Bitwarden at $4/user/month. Most tools require annual billing for advertised rates. Cloud provider services like AWS Secrets Manager use per-secret pricing instead ($0.40/secret/month), which can be cheaper or more expensive depending on your usage pattern.
It depends on scale. For small teams with a few dozen secrets, cloud-native services (AWS, Azure, GCP) are very cheap, often under $20/month. But costs scale with usage, and at hundreds of secrets with frequent rotation, a flat per-user tool like Doppler or Infisical can be more predictable and cheaper.
API call charges (AWS charges $0.05 per 10k API calls), HSM-backed key costs (Azure charges premium for HSM keys), support tiers (enterprise support often costs extra), and infrastructure costs for self-hosted tools (Vault needs compute, storage, HA setup). Always calculate total cost of ownership, not just license price.