Keyshade vs OpenBao
Keyshade and OpenBao are both secrets management software. Keyshade is open source under MIT, with 768 GitHub stars. OpenBao is open source under MPL-2.0, with 8.8k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Keyshade when
- A small team wants a Doppler-style secrets manager they can self-host.
- Pick OpenBao when
- You need Vault-style secrets management but want to avoid HashiCorp's BSL license.
Side by side
A secret and configuration management service with public-key encryption, environments, projects and real-time updates pushed to apps, available hosted or self-hosted.
A community fork of HashiCorp Vault under the Linux Foundation that stores and issues secrets, certificates and encryption keys with fine-grained access policies.
Small team and young community.
Running a secrets server well (unsealing, HA, backups) takes real operational care.
Usable
Production-ready
Self-hosted server, cloud service and command line
Self-hosted server and command line
TypeScript, NestJS, Next.js, PostgreSQL and Redis
Go and PostgreSQL
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Open source, MPL-2.0 (weak copyleft)
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
You can use it inside a product you sell; changes you make to its own files must be shared.
768 GitHub stars
8.8k GitHub stars
Established: started 2 years ago, latest release v2.49.0.
Established: started 3 years ago, latest release v2.7.2.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.