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Infisical

Open source secret management platform

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The Lens

By Erik Loyd, SaaS CEO and former COO/CFO of an AWS Premier Partner.

Updated Aug 2026

Infisical holds the secrets your apps need at runtime: API keys, database passwords, tokens. Instead of a .env file getting passed around in Slack, you get a central store with per-environment scoping, a CLI that injects secrets straight into your process, and integrations that push them into GitHub Actions, Vercel, or Kubernetes.

Self-hosting means Docker, Postgres, and Redis, plus a real plan for backing up the encryption keys, because losing those means losing every secret you have. It is worth being precise about what "open source" covers: everything outside the ee/ directory is MIT, and ee/ holds the enterprise pieces under a separate commercial license. Self-hosting the free build does not hand you the gated features.

The cloud free tier caps at five identities and three environments, with no SSO, no RBAC, no audit logs, and no secret rotation. Pro is $20 per identity per month on annual billing, $23 monthly. Advanced is $40 and adds dynamic secrets and MFA enforcement. Solo developers and small teams fit inside the free tier or self-host comfortably. Cross five people or need an audit trail and the math moves quickly: ten identities on Pro is $200 a month.

The catch is that per-identity pricing counts machine identities, not just humans. Every CI runner and every service that pulls a secret is billable. Count those before you compare this to HashiCorp Vault or Doppler, because that number is what actually decides it.

Free vs Self-Hosted vs Paid

open core

What's Free

The core is MIT licensed and self-hostable: secret storage, environments, the CLI, the integrations, the web UI. Everything under the repository's ee/ directory is licensed separately and is not covered by the MIT grant, which is where the enterprise-only functionality lives.

Infisical Cloud Free

  • 5 identities (humans and machines combined)
  • Unlimited projects, 3 environments
  • 10 secret syncs, 100+ integrations
  • No SSO/SAML, no RBAC, no audit logs, no secret rotation, no dynamic secrets

Paid Tiers

  • Pro: $20/identity/mo annual, $23 monthly. Unlimited identities, RBAC, SSO (SAML), secret rotation, 30-day audit log retention, 6 environments per project.
  • Advanced: $40/identity/mo annual, $46 monthly. Dynamic secrets, custom roles, SSO and MFA enforcement, 90-day audit retention, temporary access grants, higher rate limits.
  • Enterprise: custom. Approval workflows, LDAP and SCIM, user groups, 99.99% SLA, dedicated or self-hosted infrastructure.

Self-Hosting Cost

Docker plus Postgres plus Redis. A $20-40/mo VPS runs it for a small team. The hidden cost is key management: back up the encryption keys somewhere that is not the same box, and test the restore.

The Math

Per-identity billing counts service accounts and CI runners. A five-person team with a dozen machine identities is 17 billable identities, not 5. On Pro that is $340/mo, which is well past the point where self-hosting and handling your own SSO story deserves a serious look.

vs Alternatives

HashiCorp Vault is free and open source but a considerably heavier operational commitment. Doppler is cloud-only with no self-hosted path. AWS Secrets Manager is $0.40 per secret per month and only makes sense if you are already all-in on AWS.

MIT core you can self-host, but the free cloud tier stops at 5 identities with no SSO or audit logs. Pro is $20 per identity per month, and machine identities count toward it.

What to do by team size

Solo
free; the cloud free tier or a self-hosted instance both work
Small team
free until you pass 5 identities, then self-host or budget $20/identity
Medium team
Pro or self-hosted; count your CI runners before you compare the two
Large team
Advanced or Enterprise for dynamic secrets, SCIM, and audit retention
Self-hosting ops:moderate
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