
Infisical
Open source secret management platform
The Lens
By Erik Loyd, SaaS CEO and former COO/CFO of an AWS Premier Partner.
Updated Oct 2026
Infisical replaces the .env file that gets passed around in Slack: one central store for API keys, database passwords and tokens, scoped per environment, with a CLI that injects secrets into your process and syncs that push them to GitHub, Vercel and AWS. The core is MIT and free to self-host. It now also covers certificates, privileged access and a credential proxy for AI agents.
Self-hosting is Docker plus Postgres plus Redis, and Redis is not a throwaway cache: it holds the job queue for rotations and syncs, so back it up like the database. Store the ENCRYPTION_KEY off that box.
Cloud Free gives you 5 identities and 3 environments, with no access controls, SSO or audit logs. Pro is $20 per identity per month billed annually ($23 monthly); Advanced is $40 ($46) for dynamic secrets and custom roles. Self-hosted SSO needs a license key from sales (no public price). Solo and small teams: free. Medium: Pro. Large: Enterprise.
The catch: an identity is any human or machine. Every CI pipeline and service that pulls a secret is billable, and the 5 free identities vanish once you upgrade. Count your machines before comparing this to HashiCorp Vault or Doppler.
Free vs Self-Hosted vs Paid
open coreFree: Infisical Cloud Free is $0 forever: 5 identities (humans and machines combined), unlimited projects, 3 environments, 10 secret syncs, 100+ integrations, secret sharing, references and overrides, 2FA. No access controls (RBAC), no SAML SSO, no audit log retention, no secret versioning or point-in-time recovery, no secret rotation. Everything outside the repo's ee/ directories is MIT.
Self-hosted: Docker, Docker Compose (Infisical + PostgreSQL + Redis), Helm, a Linux package, or reference setups on AWS and GCP. PostgreSQL is the only supported database and Redis is a required, persistent datastore (job queue and locks), so both need backups. Infisical's own small-deployment guidance is 2+ containers at 2 cores / 4 GB each, plus Postgres at 2 vCPU / 8 GB RAM / 100 GB disk. Code under ee/ is under the Infisical Enterprise license: free for development and testing, but production use needs a paid license key set as LICENSE_KEY. Self-hosted pricing is not published; Infisical says it differs from Cloud and to contact sales. If a license expires, the instance keeps running with EE features disabled.
Paid: Pro is $20/identity/month billed annually or $23 billed monthly: unlimited identities, access controls, secret rotation (marked "Public DBs only"), SAML SSO, 30-day audit logs, secret versioning, point-in-time recovery, 6 environments per project, 25 syncs. Advanced is $40/identity/month annually or $46 monthly: dynamic secrets, custom roles, SSO and MFA enforcement, temporary access, gateways to private networks, 90-day audit logs, 12 environments per project, 50 syncs. Enterprise is custom and billed annually: approval workflows, LDAP, SCIM, user groups, audit log streaming, 99.99% SLA, HSM support, self-hosting or dedicated infrastructure. Pro and Advanced have a 14-day trial. Pricing is per product (Secrets Management, Certificate Management, Privileged Access, Agent Vault).
Free up to 5 identities on Cloud. Past that, Pro is $20 per identity per month annually ($23 monthly), and every CI runner and service account counts as an identity.
What to do by team size
- Solo
- free; Cloud Free or a self-hosted instance both work
- Small team
- free until you pass 5 identities, humans and machines combined
- Medium team
- Pro at $20/identity/month annually; count machine identities first
- Large team
- Enterprise for SCIM, LDAP, approval workflows and self-hosted licensing
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MIT core; ee/ directories are proprietary and need a paid license key in production.
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