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Secrets management: August 2026
The August 2026 standings for “What should I use for secrets management?”. This month is still being finalized, so the numbers here update until it freezes. See the current standings.
AI share of voice · August 2026
60 sampled answers · 4 models
- 1HashiCorp Vaultnew78.3%Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · Gem—
- 2AWS Secrets Managernew73.3%Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · Gem—
- 3Dopplernew58.3%Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · Gem—
- 41Passwordnew58.3%Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6—
- 5Google Secret Managernew56.7%Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6—
- 6Infisicalnew46.7%Claude Haiku 4.5 · Claude Opus 4.8 · Claude Sonnet 4.6 · Gem—
Share of voice weights each compared model equally: it is the average, across the models, of how often each one named the tool in its own answers, so a model probed more than another can't skew it. Model chips list which AI models named it this month; the pulse is the sentiment of that month's developer mentions across Hacker News, Reddit, GitHub, Stack Overflow, Bluesky and more.
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HashiCorp Vault appears in 78.3% of AI answers about secrets management, named by 4 of 4 models.
The 3 prompts behind these standings
- ›What should I use for secrets management? (recommendation)
- ›What are the best HashiCorp Vault alternatives? (alternatives)
- ›Which secrets manager is best for a small team? (recommendation)
Each prompt is sampled several times per model per probe because answers vary run to run; 60 answers across 1 probe runs fed this month.