Vault VS Ory Kratos

Compare Vault vs Ory Kratos and see what are their differences.

Vault

A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management (by hashicorp)

Ory Kratos

Next-gen identity server replacing your Auth0, Okta, Firebase with hardened security and PassKeys, SMS, OIDC, Social Sign In, MFA, FIDO, TOTP and OTP, WebAuthn, passwordless and much more. Golang, headless, API-first. Available as a worry-free SaaS with the fairest pricing on the market! (by ory)
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Vault Ory Kratos
160 41
29,610 10,547
0.8% 2.7%
10.0 9.6
7 days ago 6 days ago
Go Go
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Apache License 2.0
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Vault

Posts with mentions or reviews of Vault. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-19.

Ory Kratos

Posts with mentions or reviews of Ory Kratos. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-22.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Vault and Ory Kratos you can also consider the following projects:

Keycloak - Open Source Identity and Access Management For Modern Applications and Services

sealed-secrets - A Kubernetes controller and tool for one-way encrypted Secrets

SuperTokens Community - Open source alternative to Auth0 / Firebase Auth / AWS Cognito

sops - Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets

zitadel - ZITADEL - The best of Auth0 and Keycloak combined. Built for the serverless era.

etcd - Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system

Ory Hydra - OpenID Certified™ OpenID Connect and OAuth Provider written in Go - cloud native, security-first, open source API security for your infrastructure. SDKs for any language. Works with Hardware Security Modules. Compatible with MITREid.

OPA (Open Policy Agent) - Open Policy Agent (OPA) is an open source, general-purpose policy engine.

Ory Keto - Open Source (Go) implementation of "Zanzibar: Google's Consistent, Global Authorization System". Ships gRPC, REST APIs, newSQL, and an easy and granular permission language. Supports ACL, RBAC, and other access models.

bitwarden_rs - Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs [Moved to: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden]