Infisical Has a Free Secrets Management Platform — Replace .env Files With Encrypted Vaults

Infisical Replaces .env Files With Encrypted Secret Vaults

A developer at a startup I know pushed a .env file to GitHub. AWS keys got scraped in 4 minutes. $12,000 in crypto mining charges overnight. Infisical prevents this.

What Infisical Does

Infisical is an open-source secret management platform:

• Secret storage — encrypted vault for API keys, tokens, credentials
• Environment sync — dev, staging, prod secrets separated
• SDK injection — secrets injected at runtime, never in code
• Rotation — automatic secret rotation for databases and APIs
• Audit logs — who accessed which secret, when
• Integrations — GitHub Actions, Vercel, AWS, K8s, Docker

Quick Start

# Install CLI
brew install infisical/get-cli/infisical

# Login
infisical login

# Pull secrets for current project
infisical init
infisical run -- npm start
# All secrets injected as env vars!

SDK Usage

import { InfisicalClient } from "@infisical/sdk";

const client = new InfisicalClient({
  siteUrl: "https://app.infisical.com",
  auth: { universalAuth: {
    clientId: process.env.INFISICAL_CLIENT_ID,
    clientSecret: process.env.INFISICAL_CLIENT_SECRET,
  }}
});

const secret = await client.getSecret({
  environment: "prod",
  projectId: "your-project-id",
  secretName: "DATABASE_URL",
});

Free Tier

Feature	Free	Pro ($6/user/mo)
Projects	Unlimited	Unlimited
Environments	Unlimited	Unlimited
Members	5	Unlimited
Secret versions	10	Unlimited
Audit logs	1 day	1 year
SSO	❌	✅

Why Infisical Over Vault

1. Developer UX — beautiful dashboard vs Vault CLI complexity
2. 5-minute setup — vs hours configuring Vault
3. Native integrations — Vercel, GitHub Actions, K8s built-in
4. Free tier — vs Vault Enterprise for features like rotation
5. Open source — MIT license, self-host anywhere

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