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CertKit vs. enterprise CLM platforms
Certificate automation without the sales call to see what it costs.
CertKit does what the enterprise CLM platforms do: discover, issue, renew, deploy, and monitor server certificates. Whether the quote on your desk is from AppViewX, Keyfactor, DigiCert, or Sectigo, CertKit delivers the automation without the enterprise price tag, the procurement cycle, or the professional-services engagement to get it running.
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Enterprise CLM, without the enterprise problems
- Transparent, public pricing. Real numbers on the pricing page. No "contact sales" to find out what it costs.
- Running in minutes, not months. Connect a one-time CNAME and go. No professional-services rollout to stand it up.
- No DNS API credentials. Delegated validation through a single CNAME. Your credentials stay with you.
- Deploys to what you already run. Nginx, Apache, IIS, HAProxy, F5, Palo Alto, Citrix, Fortinet, and more, without ACME on every server.
- Centralized, not per-server. One dashboard for every certificate across your infrastructure.
- Direct engineering access. Every paid plan includes access to the team that builds CertKit.
How CertKit compares
The enterprise CLM platforms are capable products. They are also built, sold, and priced for organizations with a dedicated PKI team. Most IT teams need the automation, not the overhead.
| CertKit | Enterprise CLM platforms | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Public, on the website | Contact sales |
| Time to running | Minutes. One CNAME record | Weeks to months, often with professional services |
| Contract | Self-serve | Negotiated enterprise agreement |
| Certificate authority | Any ACME CA: Let's Encrypt, Sectigo, DigiCert, and more | Often tied to the vendor's own CA |
| Existing certificates | Nothing to migrate. Domains reissue fresh on day one | Imported and onboarded, often as a project |
| Built for | IT teams and MSPs | Dedicated PKI and security teams |
Venafi TLS Protect (now CyberArk Certificate Manager)
Venafi is the definitional enterprise machine-identity platform. Since CyberArk acquired it in 2024, it has been folded into the CyberArk identity security suite as CyberArk Certificate Manager. It is deep, broad, and built for Fortune-scale PKI operations, with deployment and pricing to match. If you have that team and that budget, it is a strong choice. If you need certificates discovered, renewed, deployed, and verified without standing up a program around it, that is the job CertKit was built for.
Keyfactor Command
Keyfactor Command combines certificate lifecycle management with Keyfactor's own PKI offerings, including the open-source EJBCA certificate authority. It is a strong fit for enterprises running private PKI at scale, and it is sold that way: sales-led, quoted per deployment. If your problem is public TLS certificates on servers and appliances, not a PKI program, CertKit does that job without the platform around it.
DigiCert Trust Lifecycle Manager
DigiCert Trust Lifecycle Manager is part of DigiCert ONE, an enterprise platform spanning DigiCert's trust services. It is CA-owned: the management layer and the certificate business come from the same vendor. CertKit manages the lifecycle independently of who issues your certificates, and supports DigiCert as an ACME issuer, so you can keep buying DigiCert certificates and automate them here.
Sectigo Certificate Manager
Sectigo Certificate Manager is built by a certificate authority, and it works best when Sectigo is your CA. It is really two products. SCM Pro has published pricing, and looks cheaper than CertKit. But it's locked to Sectigo, and doesn't automate deployments at all. SCM Enterprise actually handles deployment, but it comes with the same enterprise price tag.
CertKit is vendor agnostic. It supports Sectigo as an ACME issuer alongside Let's Encrypt and others, so you can keep buying Sectigo certificates, automate their deployment, and switch CAs later without replacing your management platform.
AppViewX
AppViewX AVX ONE is a broad machine-identity platform: certificate lifecycle management plus PKI-as-a-service, SSH, and code signing. It is sold to large enterprises through a sales-led procurement cycle, with no public pricing. If what you need is certificate automation, CertKit covers the certificate lifecycle end to end, with a price on the pricing page.
Where an enterprise platform is the right call
These platforms exist for a reason, and pretending otherwise helps no one. An enterprise CLM earns its price when:
- You issue certificates to people and workstations. User certificates, 802.1X, smart cards, SCEP and EST enrollment. CertKit manages server certificates. Device and user enrollment is what Active Directory Certificate Services and the platforms built around it are for.
- Machine identity is the program, not the task. SSH keys, code signing, and secrets governance alongside TLS, owned by a team that runs it full time.
- Compliance dictates the platform. Some regulated environments require on-premise certificate management with formal vendor programs around it.
If that is your world, buy the platform. If your problem is the certificates on your servers and appliances expiring, CertKit does that job for a fraction of the cost and none of the rollout.
Keep your certificate authority
CertKit issues nothing itself. It drives the CA you choose over ACME, so the certificates are the same ones you buy today. Keep DigiCert or Sectigo as your issuer and automate them here, or move to free Let's Encrypt certificates once renewal is automated. Switching CAs is a setting, not a migration.
Let's Encrypt
Free
Google Trust Services
Free
ZeroSSL
Free tier
Sectigo
Commercial
DigiCert
Commercial
GoDaddy
Commercial
There is nothing to import, either. Point your domains at CertKit and it reissues fresh certificates through your CA, so adopting it is a CNAME record, not an onboarding project.
The full lifecycle, from one account
CertKit discovers certificates through Certificate Transparency logs, issues and renews them centrally over ACME with delegated DNS validation, deploys each renewal to servers and appliances with the CertKit Agent, and then verifies the new certificate is actually being served. Every stage of certificate lifecycle management, without the platform around it.
Coming from the other direction?
If the alternative on your desk is not a platform quote but a free ACME client and some scripts, that comparison has its own tradeoffs.
CertKit makes what many companies struggle with much easier to manage while at the same time providing great value compared to the traditional vendors in the space.
Ben Story, Managed Services Director, RedEye Network Solutions
Pricing
Professional
$99/mo
For busy IT with no time to babysit certificates.
Business
$399/mo
For businesses with diverse IT infrastructure.
Enterprise
Contact
For corporations with complex PKI needs.
Every paid plan starts with a free 90-day trial, no credit card required. Resellers, MSPs, and system integrators can enable co-branded multi-tenant environments with volume discounts.
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