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Akeyless Secrets Management vs SolarWinds Passportal comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Akeyless Secrets Management
Ranking in Enterprise Password Managers
12th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Secrets Management Tools (6th), AI Security (15th)
SolarWinds Passportal
Ranking in Enterprise Password Managers
27th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Enterprise Password Managers category, the mindshare of Akeyless Secrets Management is 1.7%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SolarWinds Passportal is 1.1%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Enterprise Password Managers Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Akeyless Secrets Management1.7%
SolarWinds Passportal1.1%
Other97.2%
Enterprise Password Managers
 

Featured Reviews

Aditya Sasmal - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Centralized secrets have improved risk control but governance and documentation still need work
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. Development must prioritize maturity in release governance, user interface intuitiveness, and developer documentation. Addressing these areas will directly reduce friction and accelerate enterprise-wide adoption. More documentation should be included in the governance and quality assurance aspects because properly organized documents create a significant impact on the product. Akeyless Secrets Management could improve its zero-knowledge cryptography capabilities, as the documentation is still lacking. The use of distributed fragments cryptography can be enhanced by splitting encryption key fragments between Valmet's local gateways and Akeyless Secrets Management cloud. This would ensure that the cloud providers maintain mathematically inaccessible telemetry to third parties, presenting a significant improvement in zero-knowledge cryptography.
it_user1719516 - PeerSpot reviewer
Remote Network Support Analyst Level 2 at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
With its extension, I can quickly access login information without opening a new browser window
Passportal's stability is okay. However, it goes down a little too often for me to recommend it to somebody else. I can only remember one or two outages with IT Glue. With Passportal, it gets frustrating when you need to reset a password for a client, and you have to put their global admin address in there because what you're doing requires admin privileges. But you can't get in there because Passportal isn't working, and the password might be a 48-character password. If it's down for five minutes, 10 minutes, 20 minutes — that's too long. It's a real inconvenience. It doesn't happen all the time, but I've been at this job two months, and it's probably happened three or four times. I don't like this. I'm used to having it right at my fingertips. I need access now. With the influx of tickets coming in and time management, it needs to be like that.

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 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 stands out because it combines SaaS simplicity with a Zero-Knowledge cryptographic design, reducing operational overhead without fully sacrificing control."
"Akeyless Secrets Management is a very good tool, and I have not used a better one than it."
"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 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."
"Akeyless Secrets Management has positively impacted our organization because it has improved security through simpler credential rotation policies."
"I like Passportal's extensions; you can click the particular company you want and go through all the passwords and usernames associated with that company or the specific webpage you're on or their server or whatever, which is a whole lot faster because I don't have to open up a new browser or use my bookmark or anything like that."
"Passportal is very stable."
"Passportal has the advantage of also being a document management system."
 

Cons

"Akeyless Secrets Management could be improved in several areas. The initial setup was quite difficult for me."
"Some organizations feel that there is a trust concern because the secrets are stored in Akeyless Secrets Management and it is not open-sourced."
"As a global organization, Akeyless Secrets Management needs to gain trust."
"Akeyless Secrets Management platform could be improved with a more beginner-friendly interface."
"In the future, I would like the ability to have diagrams, such as those created by Visio, available directly in Passportal."
"Passportal's stability is okay. However, it goes down a little too often for me to recommend it to somebody else."
 

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"We pay the license fee monthly and the price is reasonable."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
13%
University
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Retailer
8%
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Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise6
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Akeyless Secrets Management?
Akeyless Secrets Management could be improved in several areas. The initial setup was quite difficult for me. The documentation and tutorials must include end-to-end examples for Kubernetes and CI/...
What is your primary use case for Akeyless Secrets Management?
Akeyless Secrets Management is used to store secrets such as database credentials and TransUnion certificates for the production environment. For example, a team stores PostgreSQL usernames and pas...
What advice do you have for others considering Akeyless Secrets Management?
The advice that I would personally give regarding Akeyless Secrets Management is that before adopting any secrets management platform, you should define what your security and compliance requiremen...
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