Akeyless vs HashiCorp Vault
Zero of fourteen models named Akeyless first on the direct prompt; zero named HashiCorp Vault. Akeyless was named by eleven of the fourteen models and HashiCorp Vault by fourteen and Akeyless carries 28 labels and HashiCorp Vault 40, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in three categories this edition.
Named in five categories this edition.
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the non-human identity management page.
By framing
AkeylessFirst choices, of fourteen modelsHashiCorp Vault
Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, Akeyless and HashiCorp Vault were named in the same answer 124 times, of the 166 answers naming Akeyless and the 403 naming HashiCorp Vault. In those answers HashiCorp Vault took the first choice thirty-nine times and Akeyless eleven.
Every model, every framing
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
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| Claude Haiku 4.5 | | | | |||
| GPT-5.4 mini | | | | |||
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | | | | | ||
| Perplexity Sonar | | |||||
| Grok 4.1 Fast | | | | |||
| Mistral Small | | |||||
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | | | | | ||
| Llama 4 Maverick | ||||||
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | | | | | | |
| Kimi K2 | | | | | | |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | | | ||||
| MiniMax M2.5 | | | | |||
| GPT-6 Luna | | | ||||
| Muse Glimmer 30B | | | | | |
Akeyless HashiCorp Vault first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Akeyless on the left and HashiCorp Vault on the right.The direct prompt
Neither was the first choice, one was named
6 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Neither was named
8 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.
By buyer segment
HashiCorp Vault6%#4 of 17Akeyless4%#5 of 17Akeyless7%#4 of 16HashiCorp Vault7%#5 of 16HashiCorp Vault8%#3 of 15Akeyless4%#5 of 15What the models said about Akeyless
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Four of five in this category shown.
“Akeyless is noted as "Approaches NHI security from the credential layer, so estate-wide NHI discovery, ownership attribution, and posture governance are" limited.” Muse Glimmer 30B · negative prompt · soft negative
“Positioned as a secrets-management-first platform for NHIs, so it is strongest when you want centralized secret and key management at scale.” Perplexity Sonar · comparative prompt · first choice
“Akeyless is a strong starting point if you want a single platform focused on machine identities, secrets, and service accounts” GPT-5.4 mini · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“start with Akeyless or Delinea Secret Server Cloud” Kimi K2 · paraphrase prompt · first choice
What the models said about HashiCorp Vault
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Two of two in this category shown.
“Pure secrets managers (HashiCorp Vault alone): Don't solve the full NHI governance problem” Kimi K2 · direct prompt · hard negative
“HashiCorp Vault (open-source Community Edition) stands out as the best non-human identity management (NHIAM) platform for a company with a limited budget.” Grok 4.1 Fast · budget prompt · first choice
Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.