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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
5.5
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Password Managers (12th), 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 October 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 stands out because it combines SaaS simplicity with a Zero-Knowledge cryptographic design, reducing operational overhead without fully sacrificing control."
"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 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 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 has positively impacted our organization because it has improved security through simpler credential rotation policies."
"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."
"Pulumi Enterprise has impacted my organization positively as it is a modern infrastructure as code tool that helps us manage resources efficiently and reduce delivery time."
"Pulumi Enterprise increases efficiency and reliability by providing seamless automation processes and tools while considering security and making secure infrastructure easy."
"Pulumi Enterprise is a very complete tool and it helps us a lot in our day-to-day work."
"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."
"If you have a complex infrastructure or a big team, start using Pulumi Enterprise without any second thought."
"Pulumi Enterprise has impacted my organization positively because before Pulumi, we did not have any real infrastructure as code, and having multiple environments and AWS accounts that we needed to manage was difficult."
"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."
 

Cons

"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."
"Akeyless Secrets Management platform could be improved with a more beginner-friendly interface."
"Akeyless Secrets Management could be improved in several areas. The initial setup was quite difficult for me."
"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."
"Pulumi Enterprise can be improved by providing much better support rather than relying solely on AI."
"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."
"Pulumi Enterprise has some issues worth mentioning. The stacks can grow and the execution time appears to grow exponentially when the number of resources increases."
"Additionally, I think the modules part is a bit weak."
"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?"
"Pulumi Enterprise's scalability is limited as it is not particularly scalable. You should keep the project relatively small to avoid simultaneous Pulumi runs."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
University
11%
Retailer
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Construction Company
14%
Retailer
14%
Consumer Goods Company
9%
 

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 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...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Pulumi Enterprise?
My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing was very good for the team we had. For the team size, it suited us perfectly.
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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