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No paid hosted, team, pro, or enterprise plan is currently published.
Pricing
Free open-source software for local agent security
Automic Vault currently publishes one public plan: free open-source software for macOS, distributed under the Apache License 2.0.
Last updated: June 1, 2026
Automic Vault costs $0. It is not a hosted SaaS vault, paid team plan, or enterprise secret manager. Developers can download the macOS app, inspect the public GitHub source, and use the local secrets, package, scanner, trace, and approval-gate features without billing.
Plan summary
The public plan has no billing.
Automic Vault is local security software for AI coding agents. It is not a hosted enterprise secrets service.
Apache 2.0
The repository license governs the software.
macOS
The product focuses on the local Mac where coding agents use developer tools.
Public GitHub
Releases, issues, and source are available through the Automic Vault repository.
Included
Local controls for the tool layer.
| Capability | Included in the free release |
|---|---|
| Secrets | Local keychain-backed storage and approved injection into trusted tools. |
| Approvals | Runtime gates for commands that can reveal credentials or mutate infrastructure. |
| Packages | Controlled package roots and package intelligence for agent-used tools. |
| Tracing | Static shell installer tracing through av trace. |
Why free
The product is local infrastructure, not another hosted vault bill.
Automic Vault runs on the developer Mac because that is where agents can read files, invoke CLIs, and mutate local package state. The free release focuses on closing those local hazards before they become transcript leaks or unreviewed tool actions.
No central secret source to replace
Keep using your existing password manager or cloud secret system. Vault protects the local execution point where tools ask for credentials.
Review the code path
The security boundary is easier to trust when the installer, CLI behavior, and package hardening logic can be inspected in public.
Protect the developer workstation
The Mac that runs agents is now part of the security perimeter. Pricing stays simple while that local boundary is still being established.
No paid plan is published
If hosted team services ship later, this page should change. Today the public macOS release has no billing step.
Pricing FAQ
What the free release covers.
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Automic Vault currently costs $0 and is distributed as free open-source macOS software under the Apache License 2.0.
It is not a hosted team vault. It is a local tool boundary for package installs, credential injection, scanners, and command approvals.
Teams can still use 1Password, HashiCorp Vault, AWS, GitHub, and npm. Automic Vault controls when local tools receive those credentials.
Provenance
Maintained by Max Howell, creator of Homebrew.
The public project links product source, license, issue tracking, and security disclosure paths so developers can verify what is running on their Mac.
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