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🩺 Vitals
- 🟢 Last active: 2026-11-04
- 📦 Latest release: v0.167.6 (2026-11-03)
- 🐞 Open issues: 881
- 🌟 Stars: 30.3k
What do these metrics mean?
- Last active: when code was last pushed, as of our last check. The dot is green when that was recent, grey otherwise. A long gap can mean a tool is finished and stable, not only unmaintained.
- Latest release: the most recent stable version the maintainers published as a release on the forge. Some healthy projects publish only tags, or publish their versions elsewhere.
- Open issues: unresolved reports and requests. A high number is normal for a popular project and is not a warning on its own.
- Stars: how many people bookmarked the project on its forge. A rough popularity signal, not a measure of quality.
🏗️ Profile
- Official: infisical.com
- Source: github.com/Infisical/infisical
- License: MIT (core; paid edition under its own terms)
- Deployment: Docker Container | Kubernetes (K8s) | Native System (Binary/Linux)
- Jurisdiction: United States 🇺🇸 (Infisical Inc.)
- Compliance (SaaS): Infisical Cloud security and compliance page
- Compliance (Self-Hosted): Self-Hosted (User Managed)
- Complexity: Moderate (3/5) - Three services: the Infisical server, which serves the web app and the API from one image, PostgreSQL, and Redis, which it requires as a persistent store
- Maintenance: Moderate (3/5) - A release about every week, with schema migrations that run on upgrade; both PostgreSQL and Redis need persistence and backups
- User Management: Moderate (3/5) - Built-in organization and project roles, Google, GitHub and GitLab sign-in, TLS through the Helm chart's bundled ingress in the free build; SAML, OIDC, LDAP, SCIM, custom roles and audit logs need a paid edition
What the scores mean: Reading the Scores
1. The Executive Summary
What is it? Infisical is a secrets management platform that teams use to store secrets and certificates and sync them to their applications and infrastructure. The server encrypts secrets at rest with keys it holds; nothing is end-to-end encrypted. A paid edition adds privileged access management, AI agents' access included, point-in-time recovery, dynamic secrets, a root key held in a hardware security module, a FIPS mode and gateways into private networks.
The Strategic Verdict:
- 🔴 For teams that need an audit trail or single sign-on: Caution. Its audit logs, SAML, OIDC and SCIM need a paid edition, and its usage reports carry users' email addresses by default (User Management, The Compliance Shift).
- 🟢 For teams moving their secrets off Doppler: Strong Buy. An importer brings over Doppler's key/value secrets, and the core carries no license fee (Cost of Ownership).
2. Cost of Ownership
| Cost Component | Infisical (Self-Hosted) |
|---|---|
| Pricing Model | No license fee for the core; paid edition for some features |
| Adoption | Importer for Doppler (key/value secrets) |
| Operations | Single VM, several services (Infisical, PostgreSQL, Redis), grows with secret operations; plus your team's time to run it (Maintenance, in the Profile) |
| Support | From the vendor: Infisical Cloud, a managed service, and paid support for self-hosted installs (enterprise support); elsewhere, a paid service provider |
| Exit | Per-environment export (Infisical CLI: .env, JSON) |
What each row covers: Total Cost of Ownership
3. Risk Assessment
- Jurisdiction: Infisical Inc., the project's vendor, is registered in the United States, under US law. The vendor runs Infisical Cloud, a hosted service where your data can live; its hosts include a party domiciled in or controlled from the US. Data in Infisical Cloud is within reach of the US CLOUD Act wherever it is stored, since its operator is based in the US. A self-hosted install sends usage data to PostHog Inc. in the United States unless the operator switches it off. US law can compel the recipient to hand over that usage data.
- The Compliance Shift: Its usage reports identify each user who signs in by email address, so personal data leaves the install unless the operator switches telemetry off. Self-hosting moves the security and compliance duties of running the software to the operator (the operator's compliance checklist). Any audit of Infisical Cloud (such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001) covers the vendor's own systems, never your install.
- License Risk: Infisical is under MIT, an OSI-approved permissive license (what it allows and requires). MIT lets anyone, the vendor included, release modified versions under other terms, closed ones too. The default install image also carries enterprise-licensed code, allowed in production only with a subscription.
4. Market Landscape
🏢 Proprietary Incumbents
- Doppler: Doppler manages a team's secrets, such as API keys and passwords, across its environments.
Data held by: Doppler Technologies, Inc., United States 🇺🇸, subject to the US CLOUD Act for the data it holds, wherever it is stored. A self-managed install keeps the data with the customer.
Why teams leave: Its privacy notice lets advertising and analytics partners collect users' activity in its app.
Exit: Secrets download per config through the API or CLI (JSON, ENV or YAML), partial export (activity logs past the plan's retention) - HashiCorp Vault: Vault stores secrets, such as credentials and encryption keys, and controls who can read them.
Data held by: International Business Machines Corporation, United States 🇺🇸, subject to the US CLOUD Act for the data it holds, wherever it is stored. A self-managed install keeps the data with the customer.
Why teams leave: Its licensed self-managed installs report licence use and product usage to IBM by default.
Exit: Secrets and policies read one at a time through the API (JSON), partial export (private keys generated inside Vault)
🤝 Open-Source Alternatives
- OpenBao: Linux Foundation-governed secrets management with zero enterprise tax and dynamic credentials, without HashiCorp's BSL lock-in.