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Pock vs Infisical
Infisical is an open-source secrets management platform you can self-host, with a wide surface: integrations, secret scanning, and infrastructure tooling. Its trust model leans on transparency of code: you can read and run it yourself. Pock leans on transparency of cryptography: secrets are encrypted on your device with post-quantum X-Wing, and every public key and web release is committed to an append-only Merkle log, so even our own server can't cheat quietly. Both are legitimate answers to "why should I trust you?"; they just optimize for different deployments.
as of July 2026 - check vendor sites for current details
| Capability | Pock | Infisical |
|---|---|---|
| Zero-knowledge E2EE | Yes - secrets encrypted on-device; server stores only ciphertext | Platform features (integrations, scanning) are generally built around server-side access to secrets |
| Post-quantum cryptography | Yes - X-Wing hybrid (X25519 + ML-KEM-768) | — |
| Key transparency & verifiable releases | Yes - append-only Merkle log anyone can audit | — |
| Open source / self-hosting | No - managed, edge-native on Cloudflare (crypto is verifiable from the client side) | Yes - open-source core you can self-host |
| Secret scanning & platform breadth | Focused scope: vault, sharing, teams, chat, CLI | Broad - secret scanning and a growing platform surface (e.g. PKI tooling) |
| Integrations | CLI- and shell-first; the server can't inject plaintext into third parties by design | Many native integrations with clouds, CI/CD, and orchestrators |
| CLI | One static binary - login, run, share, vault | Yes - CLI with secret injection |
| Secure one-off sharing | Yes - two-channel encrypted links, expiry, burn-after-read | Secret sharing features exist; see vendor docs for the current model |
| E2EE team chat | Yes | — |
| Free personal tier | Yes | Free self-hosted option (open source); see vendor pricing for cloud |
"—" means not offered or not publicly advertised as of July 2026, to our knowledge.
Choose Infisical if
- ›You need to self-host today, on your infrastructure, under your policies.
- ›Open-source code you can audit and fork is a hard requirement.
- ›You want one platform to also cover secret scanning and broader infrastructure tooling.
Choose Pock if
- ›You want zero-knowledge as the default, not a mode: the server never holds keys or plaintext.
- ›You'd rather verify than operate: no cluster to run, and cryptographic proofs (key transparency, signed releases) instead of trusting a deployment.
- ›You want post-quantum encryption plus encrypted sharing and E2EE chat in the same tool.
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