Use Case

Encryption & Secrets Management

Keys, certificates, and secrets across environments.

8 providers 70 APIs 7 declared variants

Protecting data at rest and in transit — key management, certificate lifecycle, tokenization, and centrally issued secrets that applications fetch instead of hard-coding.

8 API providers on the APIs.io network offer encryption & secrets management. The highest-rated are Amazon KMS, Azure Key Vault, Mastercard, IOTA, Amazon CloudHSM.

Providers

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Strong 4 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Amazon KMSAWS Key Management Service (KMS) is a managed service that makes it easy to create and control the cryptogr...1 API62.5Azure Key VaultAzure Key Vault is a cloud service for securely storing and accessing secrets, keys, and certificates. It h...1 API61.8MastercardMastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry, providing APIs for payment processing, ...37 APIs56.7IOTAIOTA is an open-source distributed ledger technology built to bring real-world applications on-chain. It is...2 APIs55.2
Developing 2 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Amazon CloudHSMAWS CloudHSM is a cloud-based hardware security module (HSM) that enables you to manage cryptographic keys ...1 API41.1HashiCorp VaultHashiCorp Vault is an open source tool for securely storing and accessing secrets. A secret is anything you...9 APIs40.9
Thin 2 Limited public surface area
CieloCielo is one of the largest Brazilian card acquirers and a publicly traded company (B3:CIEL3), originally f...13 APIs33.1BeyondTrustBeyondTrust is a cybersecurity company specializing in privileged access management (PAM) and vulnerability...6 APIs30.7

What Providers Actually Declared

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Card tokenization and digital wallet provisioningData EncryptionData at Rest EncryptionDevOps Secrets ManagementKubernetes Secrets ManagementReal-World Asset TokenizationRecurring Payments and Tokenization

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