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Akeyless Secrets Management vs Pulumi Enterprise comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Akeyless Secrets Management
Ranking in Secrets Management Tools
6th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Password Managers (11th), AI Security (15th)
Pulumi Enterprise
Ranking in Secrets Management Tools
4th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
AI Infrastructure (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Secrets Management Tools category, the mindshare of Akeyless Secrets Management is 2.3%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Pulumi Enterprise is 0.6%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Secrets Management Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Pulumi Enterprise0.6%
Akeyless Secrets Management2.3%
Other97.1%
Secrets Management Tools
 

Featured Reviews

DeepakReddy - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr.Devops engineer at Scaler
Centralized secret management has improved multi-cloud security and automated key rotation
I sometimes feel that there are documentation gaps in Akeyless Secrets Management. The documentation could be more detailed for advanced integrations and troubleshooting. Some organizations feel that there is a trust concern because the secrets are stored in Akeyless Secrets Management and it is not open-sourced. It is completely closed-source. If something goes wrong or someone hacks Akeyless Secrets Management, there is a huge drawback. These are concerns my organization and many other organizations are facing. The UI/UX could be better on the homepage and many other pages. Pricing transparency should also be improved. The pricing should include discounted pricing for regular customers or regular enterprise customers.
Shrenik Jobanputra - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps engineer at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees
Infrastructure as code has streamlined AWS deployments and now automates secure resource management
We had an issue once with Pulumi Enterprise versioning where one of the versions didn't work for us. I had to downgrade the Pulumi Enterprise version to make things work. I suggest ensuring that the higher versions of Pulumi Enterprise always work without issues. When the Pulumi Enterprise seminars and webinars happen, they're always dedicated to other time zones. Having a time zone for Australia Perth time would be nice because all the seminars are always at 2:00 a.m. in the morning for me at Perth or maybe after 5:00 p.m. or before 8:00 a.m. would be ideal. I enjoy attending the Pulumi Enterprise seminars, but they're just at odd times.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Akeyless Secrets Management is actually a nice tool because it also integrates zero-knowledge security and it is a JIT access which replaces the standing privileges and hardcoded credentials with identity-based ephemeral secrets generated exclusively at runtime, which is really amazing for us."
"I would recommend others to use Akeyless Secrets Management; it is a brilliant security platform, very easy to use, and does exactly what it says it should."
"Akeyless Secrets Management has positively impacted our organization because it has improved security through simpler credential rotation policies."
"Akeyless Secrets Management stands out because it combines SaaS simplicity with a Zero-Knowledge cryptographic design, reducing operational overhead without fully sacrificing control."
"Akeyless Secrets Management has positively impacted my organization as it helped store our secrets in a right way, in a proper controlled way where you can view, update, and at the same time, it helps in updating the passwords very effectively in the cloud running environment."
"Akeyless Secrets Management is a very good tool, and I have not used a better one than it."
"Pulumi Enterprise is a very complete tool and it helps us a lot in our day-to-day work."
"If you have a complex infrastructure or a big team, start using Pulumi Enterprise without any second thought."
"Pulumi Enterprise is way better than Terraform in my opinion because it has a declarative syntax that Terraform does not have, which is really valuable."
"<p>Pulumi Enterprise has made our infrastructure deployment more efficient.</p>"
"<p>Pulumi Enterprise positively impacts my organization as it enables us to manage stacks across different environments.</p>"
"Pulumi Enterprise is a great tool for infrastructure as code deployments, and you can do it with any programming language, so it's quite useful."
"Pulumi Enterprise has had a positive impact on my organization in terms of agility, standardization, and governance in the infrastructure-as-code area."
"Pulumi Enterprise has allowed us to be much more confident in the code changes that we are actually deploying and releasing, and, as an example, we're now unit testing all of our Pulumi Enterprise infrastructure as part of the CI pipeline, so we know quite confidently that the change is actually going to be successful before it's been deployed, which has been hugely beneficial for us."
 

Cons

"Akeyless Secrets Management could be improved in several areas. The initial setup was quite difficult for me."
"Akeyless Secrets Management platform could be improved with a more beginner-friendly interface."
"As a global organization, Akeyless Secrets Management needs to gain trust."
"Some organizations feel that there is a trust concern because the secrets are stored in Akeyless Secrets Management and it is not open-sourced."
"Pulumi Enterprise can be improved by providing much better support rather than relying solely on AI."
"We had an issue once with Pulumi Enterprise versioning where one of the versions didn't work for us. I had to downgrade the Pulumi Enterprise version to make things work."
"Additionally, I think the modules part is a bit weak."
"<p>There should be more investment in building a stronger community around Pulumi Enterprise, as the Pulumi Enterprise community is not that strong compared to its capabilities.</p>"
"<p>I have not seen any specific outcome or benefit that I have measured so far, such as saving time, reducing errors, or helping my team in a measurable way.</p>"
"In the past year, I remember instances when Cloud Code searched for documentation from Pulumi and usually returned a non-existent parameter, which caused me to spend a lot of time finding and removing the incorrect parameter."
"I think debugging can sometimes be less intuitive; for example, because you're executing actual code to produce infrastructure, there's a mental gap between the code I'm writing, the Pulumi Enterprise engine, the desired state that we're after once the code actually executes, the provider, for example, in this case Azure, and the cloud resource."
"<p>Additionally, I sometimes struggle to see what we are paying for; we use Enterprise, but does the money justify what you are being offered when you have Terraform for free which offers a majority of the features already?</p>"
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
University
10%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Retailer
8%
Retailer
14%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Construction Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise6
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise5
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Akeyless Secrets Management?
Akeyless Secrets Management can be improved by focusing on strategic areas of product enhancements to elevate it from a robust operational tool to a frictionless enterprise standard product. Develo...
What is your primary use case for Akeyless Secrets Management?
The main use case for Akeyless Secrets Management is centralized access control, which is one key aspect that I am looking forward to, but it is still in the gray area. Mostly, we are looking forwa...
What advice do you have for others considering Akeyless Secrets Management?
Akeyless Secrets Management has strong capabilities in risk management and revenue optimization, and it is a great tool worth considering. Currently, the adoption is in the early stage, and there a...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pulumi Enterprise?
Pulumi Enterprise&#39;s pricing, setup costs, and licensing are not high. There is a cost, but there is also the open-source option which works very well.
What needs improvement with Pulumi Enterprise?
For improvement, I feel there can be other things. Sometimes I feel that the state and the stacks get large eventually and sometimes they give the output in a very long format and it is difficult t...
What is your primary use case for Pulumi Enterprise?
We use Pulumi Enterprise with the Python runtime to provision our Azure platform. The client was using Azure platform to create or manage the resources. We started providing them solutions with Pul...
 

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