Infisical

Open-source secrets, certificates and privileged access for developers

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Websiteinfisical.com
CategorySecurity
PricingFreemium
Card requiredNo
Open sourceYes
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ABOUT

What is Infisical?

Infisical is an open-source security platform for managing application secrets, certificates and privileged access across cloud and self-hosted infrastructure. It provides projects, environments, machine identities, secret syncs, rotation and access controls through a developer-friendly UI, CLI and API. The cloud Free plan is generous for individuals, while advanced identity, audit and access features are reserved for paid plans or the enterprise self-hosted offering.

BEFORE YOU SIGN UP

What you should know

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Open core with self-hostingThe public repository is MIT licensed except for the enterprise directory, and Infisical documents self-hosting through Docker, Kubernetes and other deployment options.
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Good developer experienceProjects, environments, a CLI, SDKs and secret syncs make it practical to replace scattered environment files across local development and deployment workflows.
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Free identities are cappedThe Free plan supports up to 5 identities. Pro currently starts at $18 per identity per month; the open-source secrets manager can also be self-hosted for free.
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Enterprise code is licensedThe repository is not uniformly MIT licensed: its README says the ee directory contains premium enterprise features that require an Infisical license.

COMMUNITY

From the forums

Reddit users commonly praise Infisical's developer experience, self-hosting option and ability to keep secrets out of repositories and container files. Several discussions also treat it as a promising alternative to Vault or cloud-native secret stores because of its open-source core and cloud-neutral workflow. The main caution is maturity: some threads question production readiness, test coverage and feature completeness compared with older tools, so critical deployments still deserve their own operational review.

— Community sentiment

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FAQ

Questions, answered.

Is Infisical open source?＋

The main Infisical repository is available under the MIT license, except for the ee directory, which contains premium enterprise features requiring an Infisical license.

What does Infisical's free plan include?＋

The Free plan supports up to 5 identities and can be used in Cloud or self-hosted. The open-source secrets manager remains available at no license cost.

Can I self-host Infisical?＋

Yes. Infisical documents self-hosted deployments with Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP and other options. Paid cloud trials also do not require a credit card.