# Infisical vs Pulumi ESC (slim)

> Infisical scores 83.7 (A) on agent readiness against Pulumi ESC's 71.1 (BB), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Pulumi ESC leads on payments & pricing. Both do secrets store. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Infisical scores 83.7 (A) on agent readiness against Pulumi ESC's 71.1 (BB), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Pulumi ESC leads on payments & pricing. Both do secrets store.

- Infisical: A 83.7, rank #2 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/infisical.min.md
- Pulumi ESC: BB 71.1, rank #120 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pulumi-esc.min.md
- Infisical, good for Teams that want an open-source secrets manager they can self-host, and for coding agents run under Agent Vault so they call APIs without ever holding a token. Ahead on Reliability, 100 against 60; Schema & documentation, 87 against 82; Agent ergonomics, 91 against 75; Security & auth, 91 against 79; Maintenance & community, 90 against 82; Transparency & trust, 83 against 65. Also Runs on your own machine; Open source.
- Pulumi ESC, good for Teams already on Pulumi, or anyone who wants one place that composes static secrets, other vaults and short-lived cloud credentials, and agents that need to start with no signup. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 55 against 30. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Infisical | Pulumi ESC |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 100 | 60 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 87 | 82 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 91 | 75 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 91 | 79 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 55 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 90 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 83 | 65 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Infisical | Pulumi ESC |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Infisical | Pulumi Corporation |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.infisical.com/api` | `https://api.pulumi.com` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Licence | MIT (core), proprietary under ee/ | Proprietary service under Pulumi's Terms & Conditions. The Pulumi CLI, the ESC evaluator and the ESC SDKs are Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 10 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-23 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-09-15 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 28k stars, 305k npm/wk, 391k PyPI/wk | 21k npm/wk, 54k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.8/5 (8) | none |