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Akeyless Secrets Management vs Cyera comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Akeyless Secrets Management
Ranking in AI Security
18th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
4.3
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Password Managers (14th), Secrets Management Tools (5th)
Cyera
Ranking in AI Security
11th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) (9th), Data Governance (23rd), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (9th), AI Data Analysis (15th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the AI Security category, the mindshare of Akeyless Secrets Management is 0.5%. The mindshare of Cyera is 1.4%, down from 10.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AI Security Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Cyera1.4%
Akeyless Secrets Management0.5%
Other98.1%
AI Security
 

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.
reviewer2795301 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President, Compliance at a manufacturing company with 1-10 employees
Data discovery has accelerated and now drives faster classification and compliance mapping
The best features Cyera offers include agentless discovery and sampling as well as AI ML-based classifications. I find myself relying on the sampling the most, which makes everything really fast, but also the auto-classification and ML-based functionalities. The main thing that stands out to me and my team about the features is the speed of integration and how fast it does the discovery on the data. Once it discovers the data, it also maps it back to a ton of compliance frameworks and best practices that I can use to operationalize. Cyera has positively impacted my organization by allowing me to identify the highest risk areas but also provide better classification of data, which then leads to better data pillar maturity. Cyera has accomplished all three outcomes: saving time, reducing risk, and improving compliance scores, as the speed at which it discovers data was significantly faster.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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 a very good tool, and I have not used a better one than it."
"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."
"Cyera has positively impacted my organization by allowing me to identify the highest risk areas but also provide better classification of data, which then leads to better data pillar maturity."
"The data discovery, data classification, and CSPM features are most valuable."
"I like how they model the data. They find data in different places that we didn't know, and they can give us a good idea if it's sensitive or not. They understand whether or not something is in the right region because, with the cloud posture management tool, we could see certain things in the infrastructure, but the way they dig into the data is what we like."
"Cyera has an inbuilt set of policies implemented towards data security, especially cohering with Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)."
 

Cons

"Akeyless Secrets Management platform could be improved with a more beginner-friendly interface."
"Some organizations feel that there is a trust concern because the secrets are stored in Akeyless Secrets Management and it is not open-sourced."
"The licensing initially was tricky because it is based on storage as well as user count."
"They need to add a few things in the UI from an enterprise perspective. It's more along the lines of being able to self-service, have integrations, build alerts, and things like that. Outside of that, they work with us on the API and getting alerts into our SIEM and things like that. There's always a way to do something, and they're always available, which is nice."
"As a startup company, there is a long way for them to go in terms of scalability."
"There is room for improvement in making Cyera more user-friendly. Some parts were difficult to navigate, especially for those new to the IT industry."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Compared to the competitors, they are very reasonable."
"I don't know how much exactly it costs, but I know that it's a yearly thing. It's something that will cost money for any company because they're storing all this information. They're doing all this machine learning, and there are a lot of services on their backend that they got to pay for. I'm sure it gets translated back to the customers unless you have everything completely on-prem. If you're not doing much in the cloud, then I could see how it'd be cheaper, but if you have anything that's cloud-hosted and does all the work for you, there's going to be a cost associated with it."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Pharma/Biotech Company
10%
Construction Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Healthcare Company
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Akeyless Secrets Management?
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 th...
What is your primary use case for Akeyless Secrets Management?
The main use case is to manage our secrets, to secure machine credentials, API keys, certificates or tokens, and SSH credentials and encryption keys. All of these are secured in hybrid and multi-cl...
What advice do you have for others considering Akeyless Secrets Management?
The advice I will give to anyone looking into using Akeyless Secrets Management is to first evaluate what tool you need according to your organization's needs. Understand your organization's need a...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cyera ?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Cyera was that the licensing initially was tricky because it is based on storage as well as user count. I use Cyera to actually identify ho...
What needs improvement with Cyera ?
I think the area for improvement in Cyera is probably around integration, particularly with other platforms and third-party tools. For example, I see some integration areas with leading DLP solutio...
What is your primary use case for Cyera ?
My main use case for Cyera includes data visibility, data tagging, data classification, AI assessments, and policy governance, risk, and compliance policy. For data classification, I import structu...
 

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Sample Customers

Cimpress
Cyera's customers include the Chicago Board of Options Exchange (Cboe), Granicus, Takeda, LifeLabs, United Talent Agency, ACV Auctions, and Armis
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